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 …

and function of justice-oriented reasoning in the EU legal discourse by deconstructing it from a perspective of legitimacy … justice (AFSJ). I argue that, despite the complicated relationship between the notions of justice and legitimacy, this linkage …. In examining these questions I start by investigating the justice and legitimacy symbiosis in the framework of the …

-standing fears about an absence of democratic legitimacy. In particular, the paper reflects on the democratic credentials of the EU …

This paper seeks to explain how courts in new and vulnerable democracies acquire legitimacy and thus become credible … Benin (CCB), demonstrating that governmental appointment policies have had an important impact on the court’s legitimacy …

national parliament cannot, without undermining its own legitimacy, allow the results of a constitutional referendum to be …

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 …

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 …