Schmidt, V. orcid.org/0000-0001-7764-0610 and Wood, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-2972 (2019) Conceptualizing throughput legitimacy: Procedural mechanisms of accountability, transparency, inclusiveness and openness in EU governance. Public Administration, 97 (4). pp. 727-740. ISSN 0033-3298
Abstract
This symposium demonstrates the potential for throughput legitimacy as a concept for shedding empirical light on the strengths and weaknesses of multi-level governance, as well as challenging the concept theoretically. This article introduces the symposium by conceptualizing throughput legitimacy as an ‘umbrella concept’, encompassing a constellation of normative criteria not necessarily empirically interrelated. It argues that in order to interrogate multi-level governance processes in all their complexity, it makes sense for us to develop normative standards that are not naïve about the empirical realities of how power is exercised within multi-level governance, or how it may interact with legitimacy. We argue that while throughput legitimacy has its normative limits, it can be substantively useful for these purposes. While being no replacement for input and output legitimacy, throughput legitimacy offers distinctive normative criteria—accountability, transparency, inclusiveness and openness—and points towards substantive institutional reforms.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Authors. Public Administration published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ES/L010925/1 ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ES/S00730X/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 07 Nov 2023 16:48 |
Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2023 16:48 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/padm.12615 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:205018 |