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Democratic legitimacy in global platform governance

open access: yesTelecommunications Policy, 2021
The goal of this paper is to propose a democratic legitimacy framework for evaluating platform-goverance proposals, and in doing so clarify terms of debate in this area, allowing for more nuanced policy assessments.
Blayne Haggart, Clara Iglesias Keller
exaly   +2 more sources

Partisan science and the democratic legitimacy ideal

open access: yesSynthÈse, 2023
The democratic legitimacy ideal requires value judgments in science to be legitimised by democratic procedures in order for them to reflect the public interest or democratic aims. Such a view has been explicitly defended by Intemann (2015) and Schroeder (
Hannah Hilligardt
exaly   +2 more sources

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
doaj   +2 more sources

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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Crowdsourcing Crisis Management and Democratic Legitimacy

open access: yesDigital Government: Research and Practice, 2022
In situations of crisis, governments must make decisions under a great uncertainty, complexity, urgency, high social pressure, and great scarcity of resources. We need to maximize the quality of decisions and ensure that we find practical and effective solutions for our problems. The stakes are simply too high.
J. Martí
openaire   +2 more sources

The democratic legitimacy of public participation in planning: Contrasting optimistic, critical, and agnostic understandings

open access: yesPlanning Theory, 2020
How does public participation in planning and environmental governance engender democratic legitimacy? Drawing a distinction between the optimistic and critical participation literature, I argue that both these strands of research have tended to neglect ...
Sherif Zakhour
exaly   +2 more sources

Deciding the demos: three conceptions of democratic legitimacy

open access: yesCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2019
The prevailing view is that democratic procedures are unable to confer democratic legitimacy to decisions about democratic procedures. This paper examines this claim in detail and uses referendums on the inclusion of previously disenfranchised groups in ...
Ludvig Beckman
exaly   +2 more sources

Artificial intelligence and democratic legitimacy. The problem of publicity in public authority

open access: yesAi & Society, 2022
Machine learning algorithms (ML) are increasingly used to support decision-making in the exercise of public authority. Here, we argue that an important consideration has been overlooked in previous discussions: whether the use of ML undermines the ...
L. Beckman   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

(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
doaj   +1 more source

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