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Explains why and when democratic authorization is not necessary for political authorities (in particular supra-national, global governance institutions) to be legitimate.

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Explains why we don't need a global democracy but can have non-democratically authorized global political authorities to help us solve global collective action problems.

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This page is a summary of: Political Legitimacy Without a (Claim-) Right to Rule, Res Publica, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11158-015-9267-0.
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