Legitimacy In Global Governance

Author : Jonas Tallberg,Karin Bäckstrand,Jan Aart Scholte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192561602

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Legitimacy in Global Governance by Jonas Tallberg,Karin Bäckstrand,Jan Aart Scholte Pdf

Legitimacy is central for the capacity of global governance institutions to address problems such as climate change, trade protectionism, and human rights abuses. However, despite legitimacy's importance for global governance, its workings remain poorly understood. That is the core concern of this volume: to develop an agenda for systematic and comparative research on legitimacy in global governance. In complementary fashion, the chapters address different aspects of the overarching question: whether, why, how, and with what consequences global governance institutions gain, sustain, and lose legitimacy? The volume makes four specific contributions. First, it argues for a sociological approach to legitimacy, centered on perceptions of legitimate global governance among affected audiences. Second, it moves beyond the traditional focus on states as the principal audience for legitimacy in global governance and considers a full spectrum of actors from governments to citizens. Third, it advocates a comparative approach to the study of legitimacy in global governance, and suggests strategies for comparison across institutions, issue areas, countries, societal groups, and time. Fourth, the volume offers the most comprehensive treatment so far of the sociological legitimacy of global governance, covering three broad analytical themes: (1) sources of legitimacy, (2) processes of legitimation and delegitimation, and (3) consequences of legitimacy.

Author : T. Cadman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230306462

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Quality and Legitimacy of Global Governance by T. Cadman Pdf

As the international community struggles with major issues such as deforestation, it is increasingly turning to sustainable development and market-based mechanisms to tackle environmental problems. Focusing on forestry, this book investigates the legitimacy of global forums and evaluates the quality of global governance in the current era.

Author : Gonca Oguz Gok,Hakan Mehmetcik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000461954

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The Crises of Legitimacy in Global Governance by Gonca Oguz Gok,Hakan Mehmetcik Pdf

Examining the interplay between the domestic, regional and global aspects of the crisis of legitimacy of global governance, this book theoretically questions and empirically analyses the "crises of legitimacy" in global governance with respect to various mechanisms, actors, and issues. It expertly sheds lights on contemporary legitimacy contestations and crises by analysing conceptual, theoretical and empirical aspects of the legitimacy in global governance. The specific issues and case studies collected in this volume survey the evolving nature of legitimacy and legitimization processes in global governance with historical, and theoretical analysis. Perspectives on specific actors and issues provide vital insights for understanding several commonalities and differences of legitimacy crises faced at various global governance mechanisms. Improving the understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of current global governance bodies by showing several legitimacy contestations and crises at global and regional level, this book will be of great interest to scholars of international relations, globalization, international Political Economy, regionalism, and general global governance studies.

Author : Sören Hilbrich
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031541254

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On Legitimacy in Global Governance by Sören Hilbrich Pdf

Author : Steven Slaughter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429619304

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The Power of the G20 by Steven Slaughter Pdf

Can the power of the G20 be legitimate? This book examines the politics surrounding the G20’s efforts to act effectively and legitimately and the problems and challenges involved in this activity. Developing a critical constructivist conceptualisation of the G20, the book considers holistically and practically the ways that the G20 develops various forms of power and influence and acts as an apex form of global governance that seeks to be an overall coordinating forum to address global problems. Assessing how debates about the legitimacy of the G20 shaped its operation, Slaughter argues that the G20’s power can be legitimate despite a range of considerable challenges and limits. The book also explores what measures the G20 could take to be more legitimate in the future. Offering a direct and accessible consideration of the politics of legitimacy with respect to the G20, this book will be of interest to those attempting to understand and analyse the G20 as well as to scholars of IR theory, global political economy, global policy, diplomacy and globalisation.

Author : Magdalena Bexell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317566632

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Global Governance, Legitimacy and Legitimation by Magdalena Bexell Pdf

Rules set by global governance organizations affect communities across the world. Such organizations increasingly seek to obtain legitimacy in the eyes of groups beyond their member state elites. This book advances scholarly debate on the politics of legitimacy and legitimation in global governance. It brings together researchers from different subfields of International Relations in order to highlight trends and contradictions in the contemporary politics of legitimacy across areas of sustainable development, humanitarian relief, responsible investment, sustainable fisheries and labour standards. The chapters explore legitimation efforts by various forms of global governance bodies, such as intergovernmental organizations, public–private partnerships and fully private bodies. The book demonstrates that different governance forms beyond the nation state share deep legitimacy challenges and engage in continuous legitimation attempts. Questions on the audiences of such legitimation attempts are particularly pivotal in understanding the politics of legitimacy. Audiences are not predetermined but constituted through interaction between legitimation efforts and the reactions to those of targeted and other groups, mirroring broader global power relations. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Author : Michael Zürn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192551801

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A Theory of Global Governance by Michael Zürn Pdf

This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a normative and institutional structure dominated by hierarchies and power inequalities and therefore inherently creates contestation, resistance, and distributional struggles. Within an ambitious and systematic new conceptual framework, the theory makes four key contributions. Firstly, it reconstructs global governance as a political system which builds on normative principles and reflexive authorities. Second, it identifies the central legitimation problems of the global governance system with a constitutionalist setting in mind. Third, it explains the rise of state and societal contestation by identifying key endogenous dynamics and probing the causal mechanisms that produced them. Finally, it identifies the conditions under which struggles in the global governance system lead to decline or deepening. Rich with propositions, insights, and evidence, the book promises to be the most important and comprehensive theoretical argument about world politics of the 21st century.

Author : Beatriz Pérez de las Heras
Publisher : Springer
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319413815

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Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union and Global Governance by Beatriz Pérez de las Heras Pdf

This book addresses one of the most relevant challenges to the sustainability of the European Union (EU) as a political project: the deficit of citizens’ support. It identifies missing elements of popular legitimacy and makes proposals for their formal inclusion in a future Treaty reform, while assessing the contribution that the EU may make to global governance by expanding a credible democratic model to other international actors. The contributors offer perspectives from law, political science, and sociology, and the 15 case studies of different aspects of the incipient European demos provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of these pertinent questions. The edited volume provides a truly interdisciplinary study of the citizens’ role in the European political landscape that can serve as a basis for further analyses of the EU’s democratic legitimacy. It will be of use to legal scholars and political scientists interested in the EU’s democratic system, institutional setup and external relations.

Author : Magdalena Bexell,Kristina Jönsson,Anders Uhlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780192668738

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Legitimation and Delegitimation in Global Governance by Magdalena Bexell,Kristina Jönsson,Anders Uhlin Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The legitimacy of global governance institutions is both contested and defended in contemporary global politics. Legitimation and Delegitimation in Global Governance explores processes of legitimation and delegitimation of such institutions. How, why, and with what impact on audiences, are global governance institutions legitimated and delegitimated? The book develops a comprehensive theoretical framework for studying processes of (de)legitimation in governance beyond the state. It provides broad comparative analyses to uncover previously unexplored patterns of (de)legitimation processes. A diverse set of global and regional governmental and nongovernmental institutions in different policy fields are included. Variation across these institutions is explained with reference to institutional set-up, policy field characteristics, and broader social structures, as well as to the qualities of agents of (de)legitimation. The approach builds on a mixed-methods research design that uses quantitative and qualitative new empirical data. Three main interlinked elements of processes of legitimation and delegitimation are at the center of the analysis: the varied practices employed by different agents that may boost or challenge the legitimacy of institutions; the normative justifications that these agents draw on when engaging in legitimation and delegitimation practices; and the different audiences that may be impacted by legitimation and delegitimation. This results in a dynamic interplay between legitimation and delegitimation in contestation over the legitimacy of GGIs.

Author : Christer Jönsson,Jonas Tallberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230283220

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Transnational Actors in Global Governance by Christer Jönsson,Jonas Tallberg Pdf

The nature of global governance is changing, as are the standards by which we judge its legitimacy. We are witnessing a gradual and partial shift from inter-state co-operation to more complex forms of governance, involving participation by transnational actors, such as NGOs, party associations, philanthropic foundations and corporations.

Author : Brynn Vaughan
Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781839473913

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Global Governance Legitimacy & Legimations by Brynn Vaughan Pdf

Author : Helmut Breitmeier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351886840

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The Legitimacy of International Regimes by Helmut Breitmeier Pdf

How legitimate are outcomes, outputs and impacts of global environmental regimes? Can non-state actors contribute to improve the output- and input-oriented legitimacy of global environmental governance? Helmut Breitmeier responds to these questions, balancing the volume with both theoretical and empirical chapters. The theoretical and conceptual chapters illustrate the relevance and meaning of legitimacy as well as the impact of non-state actors on environmental governance. They also describe various methodological issues involved with the coding of 23 environmental regimes. The empirical chapters are based on the findings of the International Regimes Database (IRD). They explore whether problem-solving in international regimes is effective and equitable and the influence of a regime's contribution to how states comply with international norms. These chapters also analyze whether non-state actors can improve the output- and input-oriented legitimacy of global governance systems.

Author : A. Hurrelmann,S. Schneider,J. Steffek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230598393

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Legitimacy in an Age of Global Politics by A. Hurrelmann,S. Schneider,J. Steffek Pdf

In spite of the lack of plausible alternatives to liberal democracy, the age of globalization has ushered in serious challenges to the democratic legitimacy of the nation state. The contributors in this collection explore the frontiers of normative and empirical legitimacy research, drawing upon a range of key conceptual and methodological issues.

Author : Michael Zürn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192551818

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A Theory of Global Governance by Michael Zürn Pdf

This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a normative and institutional structure dominated by hierarchies and power inequalities and therefore inherently creates contestation, resistance, and distributional struggles. Within an ambitious and systematic new conceptual framework, the theory makes four key contributions. Firstly, it reconstructs global governance as a political system which builds on normative principles and reflexive authorities. Second, it identifies the central legitimation problems of the global governance system with a constitutionalist setting in mind. Third, it explains the rise of state and societal contestation by identifying key endogenous dynamics and probing the causal mechanisms that produced them. Finally, it identifies the conditions under which struggles in the global governance system lead to decline or deepening. Rich with propositions, insights, and evidence, the book promises to be the most important and comprehensive theoretical argument about world politics of the 21st century.

Author : Jonathan GS Koppell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226450964

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World Rule by Jonathan GS Koppell Pdf

Dilemmas from climate change to financial meltdowns make it clear that global interconnectedness is the norm in the twenty-first century. As a result, global governance organizations (GGOs)—from the World Trade Organization to the Forest Stewardship Council—have taken on prominent roles in the management of international affairs. These GGOs create and promulgate rules to address a host of pressing problems. But as World Rule reveals, they struggle to meet two challenges: building authority despite limited ability to impose sanctions and maintaining legitimacy while satisfying the demands of key constituencies whose support is essential to a global rulemaking regime. Through a novel empirical study of twenty-five GGOs, Jonathan GS Koppell provides a clearer picture of the compromises within and the competition among these influential institutions by focusing attention on their organizational design. Analyzing four aspects of GGO organization in depth—representation and administration, the rulemaking process, adherence and enforcement, and interest group participation—Koppell describes variation systemically, identifies patterns, and offers explanations that link GGO design to the fundamental challenge of accountability in global governance.