This research examines the rise and spread of alternative medicine in the U.S. health care field. Alternative medicine includes a variety of treatment therapies (e.g., acupuncture, therapeutic touch, acupressure, etc.) whose underlying principles rest uneasily with those of dominant mainstream...

Analyses of European governance usually put the member states in the foreground, placing the citizens in the background. This article brings explanations of EU legitimacy down to the level of individuals. A method is suggested that combines explanations based on individual interests and a...

Carl Schmitt developed the concept of the ‘federation of states’ (Bund) in order to characterise intermediate constitutional systems which are integrated beyond the level of a confederation (Staatenbund) without, however, acquiring the level of integration of an actual federal state...

This paper provides an economic analysis of the competition effects of UEFA's financial fair play regulations. It concludes that the restrictive effects of the break-even rule cannot be justified by a legitimate objective defense (according to European competition policy) because significant...

This article explores the issue of sovereignty of States in the context of legitimacy of international law. Sovereign statehood is today increasingly challenged. The article examines if an essential incompatibility exists between international law conceived as a true, that is, legitimized,...

International development agencies invest heavily in institution building in fragile states, including expensive interventions to support democratic elections. Yet little evidence exists on whether elections enhance the domestic legitimacy of governments. Using the random assignment of an...

The global health community continues to look to the World Health Organization (WHO) to solve current global health governance (GHG) problems. But today's WHO is a compromised institution. On a theoretical level, WHO lacks a substantive justice oriented conception of international institutional...

It is nearly ten years that the EU’s antitrust enforcement has been decentralised by Regulation 1/2003. This paper is a small contribution taking stock of how this process has fared. After setting out a position on the discussion of two oft used benchmarks for assessing competition agencies...

As corporations increasingly dominate our economic, social, and political lives, and as shareholders vie for greater influence over business policies, can a new “discourse theory” of the firm guide the evolution of corporate law better than current theories primarily focused on shareholder...

This paper adapts just war theory into a framework for assessing the morality of states’ legislative responses to their international obligations to counter terrorism. The jus ad bellum principle is adapted to provide for its application as a framework to assess the moral legitimacy of...