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  1. Applying Different Concepts and Conceptions of Legitimacy to the International Level: Service, Free Group Agents, and Autonomy.Antoinette Scherz - 2023 - Moral Philosophy and Politics (1):63-85.
    International institutions are facing increasing criticism of the legitimacy of their authority. But what does it mean for an international institution to be legitimate? Arthur Applbaum’s latest book provides a convincing new concept of legitimacy, namely, the power-liability view, and a new normative conception, the free group agent account. However, it is not clear how they can be applied to the international level. First, this paper examines how different concepts of legitimacy can be applied to international institutions. Second, it assesses (...)
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  • Global Constitutionalism and Legitimate International Authority.Gürkan Çapar - 2024 - Jus Cogens 6 (3):223-243.
    The transformation of international law has provoked a burgeoning literature on various conceptual and normative questions, such as the nature and legitimacy of international authorities. Constitutional and international scholars have so far been attracted to domestic normative theories such as constitutionalism, democratic legitimacy, and the rule of law. This attraction often comes at the expense of a more fundamental and prior question: How best to carry out this normative investigation and which normative theory to put into use in assessing the (...)
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  • An Instrumentalist Theory of Political Legitimacy.Matthias Brinkmann - 2024 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    What justifies political power? Most philosophers argue that consent or democracy are important, in other words, it matters how power is exercised. But this book argues that outcomes primarily matter to justifying power.
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