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

05-01-2019 | Introduction

The legitimacy and legitimation of international organizations: introduction and framework

Authors: Jonas Tallberg, Michael Zürn

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

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Abstract

While legitimacy dynamics are paramount in global governance, they have been insufficiently recognized, conceptualized, and explained in standard accounts of international cooperation. This special issue aims to advance the empirical study of legitimacy and legitimation in global governance. It engages with the question of when, how, and why international organizations (IOs) gain, sustain, and lose legitimacy in world politics. In this introduction, we first conceptualize legitimacy as the belief that an IO’s authority is appropriately exercised, and legitimation and delegitimation as processes of justification and contestation intended to shape such beliefs. We then discuss sources of variation in legitimation processes and legitimacy beliefs, with a particular focus on the authority, procedures, and performances of IOs. Finally, we describe the methods used to empirically study legitimacy and legitimation, preview the articles of the special issue, and chart next steps for this research agenda.
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Footnotes
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Our conceptualization of procedure has analytical affinities with input legitimacy (Scharpf 1999) and throughput legitimacy (Schmidt 2013). Likewise, our conceptualization of performance has analytical affinities with output legitimacy (Scharpf 1999) and pragmatic legitimacy (Suchman 1995). We consider the distinction between procedure and performance as more clear-cut than these alternatives. In order to avoid conceptual overlap between authority and procedure, we consider decision rules an element of authority (pooling), while procedure captures the process by which decisions are reached, for instance, in terms of participation, deliberation, and legality.
 
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This conceptualization is based on an understanding of democracy that considers different distributive outcomes as compatible with the democratic process as long as the necessary resources needed for participation are provided to all (see Dahl 1989; Habermas 1996).
 
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Metadata
Title
The legitimacy and legitimation of international organizations: introduction and framework
Authors
Jonas Tallberg
Michael Zürn
Publication date
05-01-2019
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/s11558-018-9330-7

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