legitimacy. We argue that this development can be accounted for by a mechanism we call "authority-legitimation mechanism". We …

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

Power, rule, and legitimacy have always been core concerns of political science. In the 1970s, when governability … appeared to be problematic, legitimacy was discussed both in the context of policy research and by critics of the capitalist … state. More recently interest turned to governance beyond the nation-state. The legitimacy of transnational (i.e., European …

global administration, giving legitimacy to global governance. In this way, global administrative law evolves into a small … constitutionalism and how the concept of legitimacy is recast in relation to global governance. I first point out that originally …, however, global administrative law faces the challenges of legality and legitimacy. Turning away from state consent, global …