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The democratic legitimacy hierarchy. The scales to determine authorities's legitimacy in democratic states [PDF]

open access: yesEastern Journal of European Studies, 2022
The distortion in states' hierarchies causes discussions of legitimacy in inter-institutional and internal relations. The reason of this is the parts of hierarchy that aren't organized according to democratic legitimacy.
Metehan DOGAN
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DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PROBLEMS OF DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY

open access: yesAntropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2014
The purpose. The article presents deep analyzes of legitimacy and the basics of the process of legitimization in democratic societies. The subject of article is to provide an understanding of deliberative democracy as the answer to the discussion about ...
M. S. Zakharchenko
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(Re)defining Conflicts: Democratic Legitimacy in Socially Sensitive Court Cases

open access: yesUtrecht Law Review, 2023
Socially sensitive court cases are often discussed within the framework of democratic legitimacy. According to critics, problems of democratic legitimacy would not only manifest themselves empirically (a lack of societal acceptance), but also normatively
Sophie Koning
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Conflict, Constituent Power and Institutional Legitimacy in the Canadian Oil Sands

open access: yesUtrecht Law Review, 2023
Much has been written about the loss of trust and issues concerning ‘social license to operate’ (SLO) in relation to the Canadian oil sands, raising questions about whether there is a crisis of legitimacy.
Asmaa Khadim
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Democratic Legitimacy of Governments: From Theory to Practice [PDF]

open access: yesحقوق بشر, 2022
In traditional international law,"Effective Authority" has been the applicable criterion in recognizing the legitimacy of governments and their recognition by other states.
Sattar Azizi
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Public reason and reliability democracy [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo, 2020
The article starts with a sketch of Prijić Samaržija’s hybrid theory. After that, it provides an overview of the virtue epistemology theory, to which she attributes a relevant influence on her own position, as well as that of reliability ...
Baccarini Elvio
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A Theoretical Model of How Digital Platforms for Public Consultation Can Leverage Deliberation to Boost Democratic Legitimacy

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2021
The declining legitimacy of public institutions imperils modern democratic systems, yet deliberative remedies to this problem have not undergone systematic testing.
John Gastil
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Dethroning democratic legitimacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The chapter considers the contributions made by democratic legitimacy and social justice to the question of what may permissibly be enforced. According to the conventional view, democratic decisions forfeit their claim to permissible enforceability only when they are gravely unjust.
Stemplowska, Z, Swift, A
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A Citizen-Centered Theory

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2020
Because our collective needs for state coercion will steadily increase with greater human interdependence, we must take far more seriously the need to justify that coercion to the coerced.
Jane Mansbridge
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Assessing the legitimacy of the EU

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Political Studies, 2011
The Lisbon Treaty could not meet the demands of many as regards the issue of the EU's legitimacy and democratic governance. By analyzing the literature on the legitimacy of the EU, the article shows why the EU has to fulfill the legitimacy criteria of ...
Direnç Kanol
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