argues that in the EU's multi-level system, the legitimacy of the European level of governance is systematically influenced … by the legitimacy of the EU Member States. Insights into such legitimacy relationships - and different logics of their … institutional design can actually affect the citizens' empirical legitimacy evaluations of the EU, since these are often …

During recent years, civil society legitimacy has generated a growing interest in scholarly research. The present … to start assessing civil society legitimacy empirically. It does so by using the non-proliferation regime as a field of … - MPI, IPPNW, WILPF, and the Friedenswerkstatt - are analysed. The results give a fairly good score for CSO legitimacy, but …

legitimacy and democracy in order to identify which aspects of democratic legitimacy of global economic governance can be …

a chain of legitimacy does not appear to be sufficient to justify transnational democracy. Starting from this diagnosis …, the paper introduces an alternative conception of transnational legitimacy. In this conception, the layer of legitimacy … provided by the chain of legitimation is complemented by a layer of legitimacy that is provided by political practices at the …

Drawing on theories of legitimacy and democratic deficits in international politics this paper provides an actor …-centered relational approach of mapping legitimacy-flows within the transnational policy network of the Bologna Process for a European … Higher Education Area. It is shown that legitimacy (either in the form of symbolical or institutional capital conveyed in …

they differ in other aspects of legitimacy, such as transparency or inclusion of beneficiaries. There are no systematic …

The legitimacy of international institutions is a contested issue both in terms of concept formation and empirical … legitimacy that includes self-justification of rulers on the one hand, and legitimacy beliefs of the ruled on the other hand. By … taking a top-down perspective, our conceptual section explores an underdeveloped aspect in the field of legitimacy research …

In this working paper, we treat legitimacy and legitimation as interactive, discursive and relational concepts …: Legitimacy is socially constructed in the public spheres of (democratic) political regimes, that is, in discursive exchanges of … political elites and citizens about the acceptability of these regimes. Legitimacy claims and assessments establish a link …