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Allen Buchanan and Robert O.Keohane The Legitimacy of Global Governance
Institutions Ethics and International Affairs, 20.4 (2006):
405-437. The journal
Ethics and International Affairs and publisher Blackwell have kindly provided free access
to this article at: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1747-7093.2006.00043.x Abstract We articulate a global public standard for the normative
legitimacy of global governance institutions. This standard can provide the
basis for principled criticism of global governance institutions and guide
reform efforts in circumstances in which people disagree deeply about the
demands of global justice and the role that global governance institutions
should play in meeting them. We stake out a middle ground between an
increasingly discredited conception of legitimacy that conflates legitimacy
with international legality understood as state consent, on the one hand, and
the unrealistic view that legitimacy for these institutions requires the same
democratic standards that are now applied to states, on the other. |