Legitimacy in Global Governance Sources, Processes, and Consequences

by Tallberg, Jonas; Backstrand, Karin; Scholte, Jan Aart

• ISBN13: 9780191865817
• ISBN10: 0191865818
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2018-08-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Jonas Tallberg is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University. His research interests are global governance and European Union politics. He currently directs the research program 'Legitimacy in Global Governance' (LegGov), funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Previous publications include The Opening Up of International Organizations: Transnational Access in Global Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2013, co-authored) and Leadership and Negotiation in the European Union (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His articles have appeared in journals such as International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, British Journal of Political Science, and European Journal of International Relations.


Karin Backstrand is a Professor in Environmental Social Science at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. Her research revolves around global environmental politics. Karin's work appears in journals such Global Environmental Politics and European Journal of International Relations. She is co-editor of The Research Handbook on Climate Governance (with Eva Lovbrand, Edward Elgar, 2015), Rethinking the Green State: Environmental Governance towards Climate and Sustainability Transition (with Annica Kronsell, Routledge, 2015) and a special issue in Environmental Politics titled 'Non-state actors in the new landscape of climate cooperation' (with Jonathan Kuyper, Bjorn-Ola Linner and Eva Lovbrand, 2017).


Jan Aart Scholte is Professor of Peace and Development in the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg, as well as co-director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Previous publications include Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Building Global Democracy? Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance (editor, Cambridge University Press, 2011). He is a former lead editor of the journal Global Governance.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction
1. Introduction: Legitimacy in Global Governance, Jonas Tallberg, Karin Backstrand, and Jan Aart Scholte
2. Legitimacy in Global Governance Research: How Normative or Sociological Should It Be?, Hans Agne
II. I. Sources of Legitimacy
3. Individual Sources of Legitimacy Beliefs: Theory and Data, Lisa M. Dellmuth
4. Theorizing the Institutional Sources of Global Governance Legitimacy, Jan Aart Scholte and Jonas Tallberg
5. Social Structure and Global Governance Legitimacy, Jan Aart Scholte
III. Processes of Legitimation and Delegitimation
6. Legitimation and Delegitimation in Global Governance: Discursive, Institutional, and Behavioral Practices, Karin Backstrand and Fredrik Soderbaum
7. Audiences of (De)legitimation in Global Governance, Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jonsson
8. Civil Society Protest and the (De)legitimation of Global Governance Institutions, Catia Gregoratti and Anders Uhlin
IV. Consequences of Legitimacy
9. Consequences of Legitimacy in Global Governance, Thomas Sommerer and Hans Agne
10. Effects of Legitimacy Crises in Complex Global Governance, Fariborz Zelli
V. Commentaries
11. Challenges in the Empirical Study of Global Governance Legitimacy, Steven Bernstein
12. Bringing Power and Markets In, Diana Tussie