Research Catalog

Title

Legitimacy in global governance : sources, processes, and consequences / edited by Jonas Tallberg, Karin Bäckstrand, and Jan Aart Scholte.

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• Tallberg, Jonas
• Backstrand, Karin
• Scholte, Jan Aart

Description

xv, 253 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

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? 0The 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 for0comparison 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.

Subject

• International organization
• World politics
• Internationale Politik
• Legitimität

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-245) and index.

Contents

Introduction: legitimacy in global governance / Jonas Tallberg, Karin Bäckstrand, and Jan Aart Scholte -- Legitimacy in global governance research: how normative or sociological should it be? / Hans Agné -- Individual sources of legitimacy beliefs: theory and data / Lisa M. Dellmuth -- Theorizing the institutional sources of global governance legitimacy / Jan Aart Scholte and Jonas Tallberg -- Social structure and global governance legitimacy / Jan Aart Scholte -- Legitimation and delegitimation in global governance: discursive, institutional, and behavioral practices / Karin Bäckstrand and Fredrik Söderbaum -- Audiences of (de)legitimation in global governance / Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson -- Civil society protest and the (de)legitimation of global governance institutions / Catia Gregoratti and Anders Uhlin -- Consequences of legitimacy in global governance / Thomas Sommerer and Hans Agné -- Effects of legitimacy crises in complex global governance / Fariborz Zelli -- Challenges in the empirical study of global governance legitimacy / Steven Bernstein -- Bringing power and markets in / Diana Tussie.

Call Number

JFE 19-2770

ISBN

• 0198826877
• 9780198826873

OCLC

1023548634

Title

Legitimacy in global governance : sources, processes, and consequences / edited by Jonas Tallberg, Karin Bäckstrand, and Jan Aart Scholte.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-245) and index.

Added Author

Tallberg, Jonas, editor.

Backstrand, Karin, editor.

Scholte, Jan Aart, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-2770