The asymmetry between domestic and global legitimacy

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2023)
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Abstract

There are two bodies of literature, one offering theories of the legitimacy of domestic institutions like states, another offering theories of the legitimacy of international institutions like the IMF. Accounts of domestic legitimacy stress the importance of democratic procedure, while few to no theorists make democracy a necessary condition for the legitimacy of international institutions. In this paper, I ask whether this asymmetry can be defended. Is there a unified higher-order theory which can explain why legitimacy requires democracy in the domestic context, but not in the international context? I argue that no proceduralist higher-order theory succeeds, and that we need to look for other solutions.

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Matthias Brinkmann
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München