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 …

era to instigate democratization globally. However, despite long-term external pressure through sanctions imposed by the … enjoy strong claims to legitimacy and have only limited linkages to the sanction sender. …