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

Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …

legitimacy. We propose a modification of Bernard Williams' theory of liberal legitimacy, and use it to make sense of the widely … a 'legitimation story': an account of what plausibly sustains belief in legitimacy. This is, however, not a purely …

legitimacy. It considers the experience of NGOs in three such contexts - Sri Lanka, Nepal and the Occupied Palestinian … Territories (OPT). The paper argues that existing accounts of NGO legitimacy are unhelpful for understanding the dynamic and …

introduced in order to enhance regime legitimacy but suggests that they may spur democratization by the rise of accountability as … a conditioning factor of this legitimacy and by electoral 'habituation' as a transition to full democratic commitment …

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 …