This paper develops a comprehensive multidimensional legitimacy model that provides a generic framework for exploring legitimacy in institutions – including the legitimacy of rules, codes, collective activities and organisations themselves. Through the use of 10 dimensions, covering concerns...

Purpose To use a behavioral measure of legitimacy to study how differences in negotiating style and status affect the legitimacy of persons in high-power network positions. Predictions include (1) that powerful network actors who negotiate using a pro-group style will maintain legitimacy better...

Diese wirtschaftsethische Reflexion geht angesichts einer sehr lautschrillen öffentlichen Debatte der Frage nach, ob ein profitabler Weltkonzern wie Siemens Betriebsstandorte in strukturschwachen Regionen Ostdeutschlands schließen darf. Dem die Öffentlichkeit dominierenden Wahrnehmungsmuster...

Despite its importance, legitimacy remains notoriously difficult to measure. I posit conditions under which legitimacy can be distinguished from other forms of political suasion and control, then develop two lab-in-the-field experiments to isolate those conditions in Liberia, one of the...

Evidence suggests society still does not view whistleblowers as wholly legitimate – despite legal protections now offered in some jurisdictions, such as the United States. Drawing on a discourse analysis, (i.e., an examination of statements), we investigate the well-publicized stories of seven...

This qualitative case study of one German suburban high school classroom in the Midwestern United States examines how learners of German negotiate their linguistic legitimacy, which is defined as discursively constructed acceptance or validation for their language use. Specifically, it...

Despite the strong political rhetoric against taxpayer-funded bailouts, in reality the government will always intervene when the distributional effects of a pre-determined loss allocation regime are deemed to be unacceptable. A number of commentators have argued for the development of a...

Based on Social Identity Theory (SIT), this paper analyzes whether state employees (in-group) have higher state legitimacy beliefs than employees working in the private sector (out-group). Using the fifth and the sixth waves of the World Values Survey and using a legitimacy measure that is based...

The process of agencification does not constitute per se an innovation within the EU legal order. It embodies, in many occasions, the transition from national schemes of administration to more centralised, politically neutral agencies that allow for a higher level of expertise at the Union level...

The immediate tasks in 2002 in Afghanistan were to stabilise the country and build a legitimate and functioning state, and a viable economy. Despite some significant progress in building state institutions and infrastructure as well as expanding public services, Afghanistan remains fragile and...