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The Review of International Organizations
Published in: The Review of International Organizations 4/2019

05-12-2018 | Comment

Legitimacy and contestation in global governance: Revisiting the folk theory of international institutions

Author: Ian Hurd

Published in: The Review of International Organizations | Issue 4/2019

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Whether international institutions are seen as legitimate or not is important to whether they are able to exercise authority. An institution that is seen as legitimate finds it easier to gain acquiescence with its rules and decisions and so relies less on outright coercion. From the point of view of the organization therefore legitimacy is a useful property worth cultivating, defending, and deploying. Most studies of legitimacy in International Relations take the perspective of the ruling institution. In this article turn the tables and consider global legitimacy with an eye on political controversy and opposition: how do legitimacy studies look if we begin by assuming a gap between what the people want and what rulers want? …
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Footnotes
1
The UN Security Council, for instance, sometimes has such power, as perhaps do international financial institutions or other agencies that can withhold resources as leverage over member-states.
 
2
On legitimacy and international courts see Alter et al. 2018. On bureaucracy see Johnson and Urpelainen 2014. On legal orders in a diverse perspective see Halliday and Shaffer 2015.
 
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Metadata
Title
Legitimacy and contestation in global governance: Revisiting the folk theory of international institutions
Author
Ian Hurd
Publication date
05-12-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
The Review of International Organizations / Issue 4/2019
Print ISSN: 1559-7431
Electronic ISSN: 1559-744X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-018-9338-z

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