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Generating democratic legitimacy through disruptive deliberative innovation

open access: yes, 2014
Democratic deliberation is claimed to improve the legitimacy of democratic decision making. However, deliberation's beneficial effects do not come about easily.
Caluwaerts, Didier   +2 more
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Democratic performance of parties and legitimacy in Europe

open access: yes, 2014
This article analyses the development of legitimacy across 20 European democracies (1990-2010). The claim is that the democratic performance of parties affects levels of legitimacy.
Hans Keman, Keman, H.
core   +1 more source

Can Credit Rating Changes Affect Corporate Carbon Emissions? Some Evidence From the S&P 500

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using panel data on US S&P 500 firms from 2012 to 2024, this study examines how credit rating changes affect corporate carbon performance. Drawing on the resource‐based view and prospect theory, we show that credit rating downgrades lead to a statistically and economically significant deterioration in emission reduction scores.
Michal Wojewodzki   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local civic participation can help reinforce the legitimacy of the democratic system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Does citizen involvement with politics and local issues influence the way that citizens view their democratic institutions? According to Carolina Johnson, the answer is yes, with new research showing that getting involved in a local level helps to ...
Johnson, Carolina
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Prosumers and Sustainable Market Governance: Development of the Community‐Oriented Marketing Approach Scale

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research develops and empirically validates the Community‐Oriented Marketing Approach (COMA), a 20‐item multidimensional scale designed to measure prosumer perceptions within participatory market systems. COMA conceptualizes prosumers as active co‐value creators and institutional agents, driving sustainable market governance.
Alpaslan Kelleci, Oguzhan Essiz
wiley   +1 more source

The legal status of NGOs in international governance and its relevance for the legitimacy of international organizations [PDF]

open access: yes
This working paper introduces the concept of legal personality of non-state actors as an indicator of the democratic legitimacy of international organizations (IOs).
Kissling, Claudia
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The Adoption of Sufficiency Practices in Sustainability‐Oriented Businesses: A Mixed‐Methods Study of Enablers, Challenges, and Benefits

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sufficiency is increasingly seen as a necessary complement to efficiency and circularity strategies to help prevent the transgression of planetary boundaries. However, empirical evidence on their broader relevance in business remains limited.
Maike Gossen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

When legitimacy becomes the object of politics: the politicization of political support in European democracies

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
Democratic legitimacy is essential for democratic stability, as democracies rely on citizen support to survive. However, perceived legitimacy gaps can also be an important catalyst for change and potential democratic renewal, begging the question when ...
Carolien van Ham, Erika van Elsas
doaj   +1 more source

Voices From the Coast: Stakeholder Participation and Perception on Creating a Marine Protected Area

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores participatory processes in the context of marine conservation, with a specific focus on recent initiatives undertaken by the Apulia region in Italy to establish a new Marine Protected Area (MPA). Employing a qualitative cross‐sectional methodology, the study investigates how local communities perceive and engage with the ...
Giampiero Palazzo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

More than policy neutral: Justifying the power of science-policy interfaces through legitimacy

open access: yesEarth System Governance
Science-policy interfaces are influential institutions that support policymakers in addressing complex environmental challenges. However, the power that SPIs wield in this capacity has been largely overlooked by the existing literature, which has ...
Niklas Wagner, Simo Sarkki, Thomas Dietz
doaj   +1 more source

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