OUVRAGE : T. Sommerer, H. Agné, F. Zelli, B. Bes, Global Legitimacy Crises: Decline and Revival in Multilateral Governance

Thomas SOMMERER, Hans AGNÉ, Fariborz ZELLI, Bart BES

Global Legitimacy Crises addresses the consequences of legitimacy in global governance, in particular asking: when and how do legitimacy crises affect international organizations and their capacity to rule. The book starts with a new conceptualization of legitimacy crisis that looks at public challenges from a variety of actors. Based on this conceptualization, it applies a mixed-methods approach to identify and examine legitimacy crises, starting with a quantitative analysis of mass media data on challenges of a sample of 32 IOs. It shows that some, but not all organizations have experienced legitimacy crises, spread over several decades from 1985 to 2020.