-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 … biodiversity governance from different EU countries. The results show that several of the legitimacy challenges in multilevel …

legitimacy is explored, distinguishing between governance as effective implementation, governance as a complement of democratic … legitimacy and governance as an alternative to democratic legitimacy. When compared against the original design of the Economic …This paper explores how legitimate are the new governance mechanisms adopted in the context of the Economic and …