legitimacy and democracy in order to identify which aspects of democratic legitimacy of global economic governance can be …This paper discusses the potential contribution of parliamentary institutions and networks to the democratization of … (PNoWB) as two examples of such transnational parliamentarization. Drawing on the theory of deliberative democracy the paper …

a chain of legitimacy does not appear to be sufficient to justify transnational democracy. Starting from this diagnosis …, the paper introduces an alternative conception of transnational legitimacy. In this conception, the layer of legitimacy … provided by the chain of legitimation is complemented by a layer of legitimacy that is provided by political practices at the …

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 …

literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …