Seit dem Stinnes-Legien-Abkommen (1918) wurden die Tarifautonomie von Arbeitgeberverbänden und Gewerkschaften in Deutschland und ihre Legitimität immer wieder politisch diskutiert oder sogar infrage gestellt. Die Zweckmäßigkeit der Tarifautonomie ist also einer fortwährenden...

This paper discusses the concept of authority in global governance by unpacking the components that characterize its various notions. These components are the triadic relationship between power, legitimacy, and the reference to public interests, and how they are embedded in the constellation...

Rebuilding state legitimacy is a thorny challenge in the aftermath of civil wars. The international community has stepped in to support post-conflict states in rebuilding state capacity, sometimes replacing governments in providing public goods. Most notably, research shows that UN peacekeepers...

Tanzania received significant global attention for its COVID-19 response during the first year of the pandemic. It did not share pandemic statistics, require masks, implement lockdowns, or close borders; it questioned testing and vaccine efficacy; and it emphasized traditional medicines as a...

This research examines the relationship between droughts, city-level conflict, and local governance in Europe from 900 to 1800 C.E. I use data on local drought intensity recorded at an annual frequency, combined with information on city-level conflict, to show that droughts are robustly...

This essay calls for experts’ opinions, ideas, and proposals on fundamental concepts of Intellectual Property Currency in international macroeconomics. The notions may include global reserve assets, a solution to the monetary trilemma, and asymmetric monetary adjustment with managed floating...

Building on a World Bank regional study in Africa aiming at measuring social contracts concepts and within the framework of reflecting on future donor interventions, this paper applies social contracts measurement and complements with qualitative assessments in Somalia. This paper uses the...

The COVID-19 pandemic undesirably affected the hospitality industry, and therefore, preventive measures have been advocated as crucial when revitalizing or rejuvenating the industry. This study investigated the interplay of predicting role of COVID-19 preventive measures, perceived brand...

Allegations of voter fraud accompany many real-world elections. How does electoral malpractice affect the acceptance of elected institutions? Using an online experiment in which people distribute income according to majority-elected rules, we show that those who experience vote buying or voter...

In contemporary democracies, global capitalism exerts a significant influence over how state power is exercised, raising questions about where political power resides in global politics. This question is important, since our specific considerations about justifiability of political power, i.e....

On 10 March 2020, the Bolivian government identified two COVID-19 cases in Bolivians returning from Italy. The national government responded swiftly and sent the country into one of the world's strictest lockdowns on 22 March 2020. However, low state capacity and low government legitimacy...

Seit dem Stinnes-Legien-Abkommen (1918) wurden die Tarifautonomie von Arbeitgeberverbänden und Gewerkschaften in Deutschland und ihre Legitimität immer wieder politisch diskutiert oder sogar infrage gestellt. Die Zweckmäßigkeit der Tarifautonomie ist also einer fortwährenden...

Digitalisation lays the groundwork for the emergence of novel business models taking advantage of modern technologies. Simultaneously, the new business models face an array of legitimacy challenges. This paper proposes an integrated framework for studying legitimacy challenges through the lens...

This article explores the structure, management and institutional design of commissions in Australia and unpacks how these institutions operate within the Australian political landscape. Part 1 looks at the structure of Australian electoral commissions and how they maintain structural...

This study aims to examine the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the financial performance of Vietnamese listed companies from 2012 to 2017. The study uses Fixed effects model and System Generalized Method of Moments to estimate models. The study contributes by analyzing the...

This paper discusses the concept of authority in global governance by unpacking the components that characterize its various notions. These components are the triadic relationship between power, legitimacy, and the reference to public interests, and how they are embedded in the constellation...

This study examines how Dr Markus Braun, CEO of Wirecard, constructed legitimation when faced with allegations from financial news reporters. It contributes to research into the legitimation strategies deployed by CEOs to construct a certain truth, justify corporate values and reassure...

Based on the unique corporate ownership structure in China, we document that although firms tend to release corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports to convey that they are acting in the broader interests of society, those with inherently higher legitimacy (local government-owned firms) are...

In diesem Beitrag geht es um die Effekte des Fehlens und die Möglichkeit des Entstehens einer normativ anspruchsvollen politischen Öffentlichkeit, welche weitreichend sind. So lässt sich die gegenwärtige Krise der Global Governance und des globalen politischen Systems auf das Fehlen einer...

Foreign aid, the altruistic act of sovereign fund transfer, is thought to be a panacea for economic prosperity, along with a myriad of other socio-economic benefits, in developing and underdeveloped economies. The historical narrative of foreign aid as an indispensable tool for economic...

Security is one of the widest and open-ended concepts. Each discipline focuses only on its particular aspects. Global constitutionalism recognizes security as a public aim that justifies interference with constitutional freedoms. At the same time security is a basis for broad discretion of...

Capital controls – measures taken to regulate the outflow or inflow of capital – are employed by governments to maintain financial stability and prevent or mitigate the effects of economic crises. For many decades capital controls were out of favour among economists and policymakers. Of...

A global trend towards the criminalisation of cartel activity can be detected at present. What was once primarily a US phenomenon has become an international one, with countries as diverse as Israel, Brazil, and Australia pursuing a policy of cartel criminalization. The existence of criminal...