Democracy's Deep Roots

Schneider, Steffen; Hurrelmann, Achim; Krell-Laluhová, Zuzana; Nullmeier, Frank; Wiesner, Achim

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“…19 It is concerned with the social recognition of international institutions by those subjected to their rule or, to be more precise, 'with the extent and the (re)production of the kind of regime support that goes by the name of legitimacy'. 20 This research assumes an observer perspective, analysing the legitimacy claims and beliefs of rulers and subjects, as well as practices and strategies that underpin the attribution or withdrawal of legitimacy as social facts. 21 Here, rule is considered to be legitimate 'if its subjects believe it to be so'.…”

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The quest for legitimacy in world politics – international institutions’ legitimation strategies

Gronau¹,

Schmidtke²

2015

Rev. Int. Stud.

117

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The article presents a top-down approach to the study of the empirical legitimacy of international institutions. It starts from the observation that international institutions’ representatives are engaged in various strategies aimed at cultivating generalised support. The article asserts that such strategies should be taken into account to gain deeper insights into the legitimation process of international institutions. To systematise these legitimation efforts and facilitate their empirical analysis, the article introduces the concept of legitimation strategies, which are defined as goal-oriented activities employed to establish and maintain a reliable basis of diffuse support. An analytical differentiation between three types of legitimation strategies is introduced depending on the addressees of legitimation strategies, that is, member state governments, international institutions’ staff, and the wider public. The applicability of the concept and the relevance of legitimation strategies for international institutions’ communication, behaviour, and institutional design is demonstrated by an empirical analysis of the G8’s and the IMF’s reaction to legitimation crises in the recent past of both institutions. In addition, the case studies suggest that a balanced set of legitimation strategies that takes into account the legitimacy concerns of all three constituencies is more likely to be successful in improving legitimacy perceptions.

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Section: Legitimacy and International Institutionsmentioning

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The quest for legitimacy in world politics – international institutions’ legitimation strategies

Gronau¹,

Schmidtke²

2015

Rev. Int. Stud.

117

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“…Consequently, we assume an agency perspective toward legitimacy. In so doing, we evaluate the evolving social attribution of legitimacy to Aadhaar and UIDAI rather than either's capacity to meet contextually determined criteria (Schneider et al, 2010).…”

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“…Legitimacy attribution, in turn, has been linked to the quality of outcomes an institution delivers, the extent to which the public can participate in decision-making, and the quality of decision-making processes (Schmidt, 2013). Actors can signal legitimacy attribution by complying with an organization's policies or by vocalizing support for the organization or its principles (Schneider et al, 2010).…”

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“…While much previous work has focused on the normative criteria which contribute to legitimacy attribution (Reus-Smit, 2007;Schneider et al, 2010), there are analytical dangers in examining legitimation processes in the absence of actors' cost-benefit calculations (Hurd, 2019). For instance, scholars may fail to recognize that, in attributing legitimacy to an institution, actors create and/or preserve the material benefits those institutions provide.…”

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Measuring political legitimacy with Twitter: Insights from India’s Aadhaar program

Mahrenbach

2021

New Media & Society

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As emerging powers forge ahead with big data initiatives, questions arise regarding the implications of these programs for governance in the Global South more broadly. One understudied aspect deals with how actors attribute legitimacy to governments’ big data activities. We explore actors’ agency in one crucial case: the world’s largest demographic and biometric data program, India’s Aadhaar. Analyzing roughly 250,000 tweets collected in the first 10 years of Aadhaar’s operation, we find that both normative acceptance and cost–benefit calculations are crucial for legitimacy attribution. This finding challenges mainstream theoretical approaches, which prioritize normative factors and often fail to examine how normative and material factors interact during legitimacy attribution. In addition, our study demonstrates a new, mixed-methods approach to measuring legitimacy attribution using Twitter data, which overcomes traditional challenges. As such, we underline the viability of Twitter data as a tool for social measurement.

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Deconstructing the “Methodological Paradox”

Volkmer

2012

The Handbook of Global Media Research

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Democracy's Deep Roots

Cited by 18 publications

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The quest for legitimacy in world politics – international institutions’ legitimation strategies

The quest for legitimacy in world politics – international institutions’ legitimation strategies

Measuring political legitimacy with Twitter: Insights from India’s Aadhaar program

Deconstructing the “Methodological Paradox”

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