Sources of Legitimacy in Global Governance
Abstract
This article explores how, in the quest for new global order, global governance might acquire greater sociological legitimacy. What are the sources of legitimacy in global governance? In other words, what conditions generate confidence and trust in global-scale authorities? To explore this question, the article first elaborates on the general concept of legitimacy as it relates to global regulation. Thereafter the discussion considers, under three main headings, a broad range of possible drivers of legitimacy beliefs vis-à-vis global governance. First, some of these sources are institutional, relating to features of the global regulatory organisations, such as their procedural inputs and their performance outputs. Second, other sources of legitimacy are individual, relating to the characteristics of the subjects of global governance, such as their identity orientations and their levels of social trust. Third, further sources of legitimacy in global governance are societal, relating to the general ordering patterns of world politics, such as prevailing norms, capitalism, and a hegemonic state. The article concludes by urging that researchers break from past habits of treating institutional, individual and societal sources of legitimacy separately and in isolation from each other. Instead, legitimacy in global governance can be more fully understood – and more effectively promoted in practice – if one examines these various forces together, and in terms of their mutual constitution.
About the Author
J. A. Scholte
University of Sussex,
University of Gothenburg,
Centre for Global Cooperation Research University of Duisburg-Essen
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
DPhil; Professor of Peace and Development, School of Global Studies; Co-Director
Brighton BN1 9RH, United Kingdom
Box 700, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
Schifferstraße 44, 47059 Duisburg, Germany
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Supporting agencies: The ideas in this article have developed largely through my participation since 2016 in the Legitimacy in Global Governance (LegGov) programme, with generous funding from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Grant M15-0048:1). The arguments presented here draw upon (although also extend and in some respects deviate from) earlier collective LegGov work, particularly in Jonas Tallberg, Karin Bäckstrand and Jan Aart Scholte (eds), Legitimacy in Global Governance: Sources, Processes, and Consequences (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). My thanks to LegGov colleagues and two anonymous reviewers for their very helpful feedback on earlier drafts of the article.
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