International Organizations, Legitimacy, and Legitimation

Zaum, Dominik

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“…Strategies may include the withdrawal of material resources and/or exit from an institution. A more subtle strategy is for actors to engage in legitimation/deligitimation, where actors seek or grant legitimacy to one institution while actively challenging the credibility and/or procedures of another (see Bexell 2014;Zaum 2013).…”

Section: Canada's Post-global Food Crisis Approach: Leadership or Formentioning

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Canada at the G8 and UN Committee on World Food Security: forum-shifting in global food security governance

Margulis

2015

Canadian Foreign Policy Journal

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Following the 2007-2008 Global Food Crisis, the Government of Canada doubled its aid spending on food security and made fighting world food insecurity a key foreign policy objective. The Government of Canada positioned itself for, and claims to enjoy, global leadership in global food security governance. This article examines the Government of Canada's behavior at two leading institutions for global food security governance, the Group of Eight (G8) and the United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS). I argue that the government has engaged in a forum-shifting strategy between these two institutions that has enhanced its reputation among a small group of peer states at the G8 but diminished its reputation and influence at the CFS. With the CFS emerging as a key institution for agenda-setting, norm-building and rule-making in global food security governance, Canada's marginal influence and peripheral status at this body undermines the government's claims of global leadership

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Section: Canada's Post-global Food Crisis Approach: Leadership or Formentioning

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Canada at the G8 and UN Committee on World Food Security: forum-shifting in global food security governance

Margulis

2015

Canadian Foreign Policy Journal

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“…Those attempts can be conceptualized as legitimation strategies, defined as 'the use of public and recognized reasons to justify a claim to an issue', embedded in multiple social and cultural institutions that set the broader frames of a legitimation process (Goddard, 2006, p. 40). Such legitimation strategies can go in many directions, as outlined by Dominik Zaum (2013). The main strategies of legitimation occur 'from above', 'from below' and 'horizontally'.…”

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“…In the case of international organizations, legitimation from below can take place through consent and acceptance of the rules of the organization on the part of states in their everyday practices. Legitimation can also be practised by those outside a hierarchical governing relationship, through 'horizontally based' legitimation, by actors not directly targeted by a legitimacy claim-for instance, influential NGOs, in the case of international organizations (Zaum, 2013).…”

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“…In the global realm, however, there is no identifiable 'global public' corresponding to that of the citizens of a state. This poses challenges both for institutions exercising legitimation efforts and for their scholarly analysis (Zaum, 2013). Strong normative contestation among groups within the community renders the establishment of legitimacy criteria difficult, if even possible, and subject to continuous struggle (Symons, 2011;Bernstein, 2011;Halliday et al, 2010).…”

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Global Governance, Legitimacy and (De)Legitimation

Bexell

2014

Globalizations

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“…First, systems of authority and their representatives attempt to establish and cultivate the belief in their legitimacy (Barker 2001;Claude 1966). Consequently, IO representatives and government actors seek to justify their organizations in the media (Zaum 2013). Second, those subject to IO authority put forward their normative demands in exchange for compliance.…”

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Elite legitimation and delegitimation of international organizations in the media: Patterns and explanations

Schmidtke

2018

Rev Int Organ

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Legitimacy communication in the media reveals when elites become attentive to international organizations' (IOs) legitimacy and whether they support or question their legitimacy. The intensity and tone of this communication results in communicative support or legitimacy pressures on IOs. Extant research gives few insights into the scope and nature of elite legitimacy communication and the factors that shape it. This article offers a comparative and longitudinal analysis of the patterns of elite communication in the media. It maps and explains variation in the intensity and tone of legitimacy communication based on a quantitative content analysis of roughly 6500 legitimacy evaluations of the EU, the G8, and the UN in the quality press of four established democracies. A multinomial logistic regression analysis yields three key results. First, in contrast to conventional expectations, there is no clear shift from low intensity and positive tone to high intensity and negative tone. Second, communication intensity is considerably higher for powerful IOs. Third, political events, including security crises and institutional reform, are important drivers of the ebbs and flows of western elites' communicative support and pressure on major IOs.

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International Organizations, Legitimacy, and Legitimation

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Canada at the G8 and UN Committee on World Food Security: forum-shifting in global food security governance

Canada at the G8 and UN Committee on World Food Security: forum-shifting in global food security governance

Global Governance, Legitimacy and (De)Legitimation

Elite legitimation and delegitimation of international organizations in the media: Patterns and explanations

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