With further emancipation of once subdued or marginalized stakeholders, a growing number megaprojects face increasingly significant social resistance. Asymmetries support for the projects emerge, rooted in different perceptions legitimacy across stakeholder groups. In this paper, we ask how these diverging develop stakeholders cross-border megaprojects. We conduct multi-site ethnography at one ...

Background: To achieve the ambition of the energy transition in the built environment, Dutch local governments try to motivate citizens to participate as communities in policy processes. There is a general expectation that such an interactive approach will foster a more rational policy output and will create stronger support from citizens towards policy outcomes. The emphasis put on this output...

Building on the tradition of research in organizational ecology and institutional theory, this article extends our understanding of how legitimacy contributes to the creation of new organizational populations. Ecologists have observed that both legitimacy and competition operate through density-dependent processes to affect patterns of organizational foundings. Drawing on Aldrich and Fiol (1994...

Social psychologists (e.g., Tyler 1990) have argued that an authority’s use of fair procedures can improve compliance by enhancing the authority’s legitimacy. However, previous efforts to assess this effect empirically are confounded because procedures that enhance legitimacy also alter subjects’ perceptions of the authority’s efficacy in sanctioning noncompliance. We evaluate the procedural le...

Legitimacy is widely invoked as a condition, cause, and outcome of other social phenomena, yet measuring legitimacy persistent challenge. In this article, I synthesize existing approaches to conceptualizing across the sciences identify agreed upon definitional properties. then build on these points consensus develop generalizable approach operationalization. implies specific relationships among...

Legitimacy is always considered an important concept among basic topics of political science; since it has been already posed as the prerequisite of acceptability for exercising of power in the societies through history. Accordingly, all of the political philosophies made efforts to establish an intellectual apparatus that enforces the fundamentals of governance, dealt to some extent with the i...

Actors working in global health often portray it as an enterprise grounded in principled concerns, advanced by individuals and organizations who draw on scientific evidence to pursue health equity. This portrait is incomplete. It is also a field of power relations-a social arena in which actors claim and draw on expertise and moral authority to gain influence and pursue career, organizational a...

AIMS The paper aims to contribute to our understanding of the policy process in health promotion by addressing the following questions: What are the characteristics of the policy process in health promotion? How do policy entrepreneurs influence project implementation? METHODS This is a qualitative study with an explorative case study design that uses three different data sources: qualitative...