legitimacy and democracy in order to identify which aspects of democratic legitimacy of global economic governance can be …This paper discusses the potential contribution of parliamentary institutions and networks to the democratization of … (PNoWB) as two examples of such transnational parliamentarization. Drawing on the theory of deliberative democracy the paper …

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 …

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 …

come to be seen as a prerequisite for the democratic legitimacy of the European Union. The paper conceptualizes the …