Patterns of Legitimation in Hybrid Transnational Regimes: The Controversy Surrounding the Lex Sportiva

Abstract: This article addresses concerns that the growth in global governance may be bringing with it a decline in the significance of democratic sources of political legitimacy. One approach in evaluating such concerns is to ask whether the respective patterns of legitimation for private and public authority differ or whether they refer to a similar set of normative standards. Private transnational governance regimes provide useful contexts in which to assess the presumed democratic erosion. They seem, almost of themselves, to make the case for such a decline: in them regulatory authority is exercised by non-state actors who, by their very nature, lack the kind of authorization afforded by the democratic procedures that legitimize state-based regulation; in addition, they are intrinsically linked to the notion of politics as a form of problem-solving rather than as the exercise of power. Given these characteristics, when governance arrangements of this kind are subjected to criticism, one

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Language
Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Politics and Governance ; 5 (2017) 1 ; 63-74

Classification
Politik

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2017

DOI
10.17645/pag.v5i1.835
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-55277-3
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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