Legitimacy is regarded as one critical aspect of biodiversity management and nature conservation arrangements. Multi …-level governance is claimed to pose several challenges to legitimacy. The aim of this paper is to review some legitimacy challenges in … these challenges. Four legitimacy criteria - legal compatibility, accountability, representation and inclusion, and …

majority rule at the European level. In order to ensure democratic legitimacy, however, majoritarian legislation would have to …

lacks democratic legitimacy on the national and the European level. Assuming that complete integration in a democratic …

. On the contrary, the Chinese government has been able to generate legitimacy by tolerating certain forms of …

various notions. These components are the triadic relationship between power, legitimacy, and the reference to public …

In this article I discuss output legitimacy as a category of normative analysis of international organizations (IOs). I … first take issue with the widespread view that output legitimacy is just a synonym for organizational effectiveness or … efficiency, and unrelated to democracy. Against this view, I argue that output legitimacy has an important democratic dimension …

a strong effect on CSR expansion when the legitimacy of CSR is low. However, when the practice has achieved substantial …