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Decentralization of irrigation management is claimed to improve performance by enhancing legitimacy and, thus …, increasing cooperation. We test this hypothesis by collecting information about water users’ legitimacy perceptions and assessing … that legitimacy perceptions differ between communities and between water users association members and non-members but that …
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A conception of legitimacy is at the core of normative theories of democracy. Many different conceptions of legitimacy … legitimacy that can be identified in contemporary democratic theory. The taxonomy covers both aggregative and deliberative … democracy. I then argue for a conception of democratic legitimacy that takes the epistemic dimension of public deliberation …
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The aim of this paper is to present the impact of the different electoral systems used for the European Parliament on the later functioning of the EP and on the way that it represents the European citizens. Will the homogenization of the electoral system at an European level have as a result a...
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There has always been a dispute regarding the nature of the European institutions, especially between the federalists and the intergovernmentalists or the intergovernmentalists and the supranationalists. One of the institutions that can be subject of such a debate is the Court of Justice of the...
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The Justice Court is one of the most important EU institutions. This institution has the last word regarding the juridical norms and treaties. More then that, the Court is one of the most visible institutions which can confer trust in the European project or can attract the consent on the EU...
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This paper’s aim is to analyze the democratic deficit of the European Union. This study will not examine the structure and the functioning of the European institutions, but the way that the three major institutions (the European Parliament, the European Commission, the EU’s Council) interact...
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(VF)Les organisations réagissent parfois aux pressions institutionnelles en découplant leurs structures formelles de leurs activités réelles. Ce phénomène de découplage est en fait un phénomène complexe qui masque des motivations diverses et des comportements encore peu étudiés. En...
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range of host market institutional pressures and to build legitimacy in foreign markets. Normative institutional legitimacy … further indicated that IJV-derived legitimacy is central to market entry and development objectives. Finally, contrary to …
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The base of the pyramid proposition holds that transnational corporations (TNCs) can profitably serve the needs of the poor at the base of the global economic pyramid. This article explores the ethical dimensions of business ventures targeting the 2.6billion moderate and extremely poor (MEP) at...
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the development of actions to modify organizational legitimacy. We examine the relationship between the degree of … organizational goals implementation and pragmatic legitimacy. Study has been developed on the European Area of Higher Education. We … positive relationship between the degree of organizational goals implementation and their pragmatic legitimacy. …
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