Folgen ihrer Politik zu vermeiden. Eine Auswertung von Protestereignissen in China zeigt, dass es der chinesischen Führung …Unconventional participation is by no means regime-threatening per se, not even in an au-thoritarian regime like China …. On the contrary, the Chinese government has been able to generate legitimacy by tolerating certain forms of …

China's rivalry for recognition with Taiwan is examined, and several chapters analyse Chinese communities in the Pacific … Zealand, the United States and China analyse key dimensions of the changing relationship between China and the Pacific Islands … and explore the strategic, economic and diplomatic implications for regional actors. The China Alternative includes …

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 …

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 …