04300nam a22005175i 4500 978-3-031-54125-4 DE-He213 20251030111719.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240313s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031541254 978-3-031-54125-4 10.1007/978-3-031-54125-4 doi B65 HPS bicssc PHI019000 bisacsh QDTS thema Hilbrich, Sören. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 72945 On Legitimacy in Global Governance [electronic resource] : Concept, Criteria, and Application / by Sören Hilbrich. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XI, 222 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Legitimacy in Global Governance -- 2. Subject and Concept of Legitimacy -- 3. Legitimacy, Justice and Democracy -- 4. The All-Affected Principle -- 5. Towards a Standard of Legitimacy for Global Governance Institutions -- Part 2: The G20 -- 6. Nature and Functions of the G20 -- 7. The Legitimacy of the G20 -- 8. Conclusions. “Sören Hilbrich’s work on legitimacy and global governance is original, illuminating and very thorough in its discussion of the question of the nature of legitimacy for international institutions. I am especially impressed with the in-depth discussion of the legitimacy of the G20.” —Thomas Christiano, University of Arizona “Sören Hilbrich develops a conception of legitimacy as the right to function, which is applicable to all political institutions. The implication of this conceptually rich discussion is that we should not be too ambitious in our legitimacy standards for Global Governance institutions. This study is a remarkable achievement and is a must for those interested in International Political Theory.” —Michael Zürn, WZB Berlin Social Science Center Global governance has a major impact on the lives of people around the world. However, traditional theories of legitimacy were usually developed for states and are not suitable for the diversity of global governance institutions that exist today. This book first develops a normative concept of legitimacy that is applicable to all political institutions. According to this concept, to regard an institution as legitimate means ascribing it the right to exercise its function in political practice. Secondly, the book discusses how the use of this concept opens up new perspectives in the debate on legitimacy criteria for global governance institutions. In this context, the book analyses the relationship of legitimacy to the values of justice and democracy and discusses the role of feasibility constraints and the all-affected principle in legitimacy judgements. The concept of legitimacy as the right to function opens up the conceptual space to accommodate the insight that legitimacy criteria are not the same for all global governance institutions, but depend on their function and context. Thirdly, the book applies the developed theoretical framework to a specific global governance institution, the G20. Sören Hilbrich is a researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability in Bonn, Germany. Political science Philosophy. 57588 Social sciences Philosophy. 60803 Political science. 58714 Political Philosophy. 66964 Social Philosophy. 66963 Political Theory. 70609 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031541247 Printed edition: 9783031541261 Printed edition: 9783031541278 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54125-4 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 58294 58294