[governance] Principles

[Koven Ronald]

French political discourse makes a very clear distinction between "legitimacy" and "legality."


"Legality" is seen as merely formal. Something that is legal may not be legitimate.


"Legitimacy" is seen as having moral authority. But something that is legitimate may not be legal.


Thus, right wingers opposed to the Popular Front government in the 1930s claimed that it represented the "apparent country" as opposed to the "real country," in other words that the government was legal but not legitimate.


Rony Koven



-----Original Message-----
From: Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
To: governance <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
Sent: Tue, Oct 2, 2012 9:46 am
Subject: Re: [governance] Principles


Matthias Kettemann <matthias.kettemann at uni-graz.at>:

> Now, what does this mean for the Internet Governance debate? We need
> to identify the best process of how to convey legitimacy. This
> process, as has been pointed out, is multistakeholderism. But
> multistakeholderism is not a form of participatory democracy; it is a
> new form of conveying legitimacy in post-democratic trans-national
> constellations. 

Hi Matthias

Could you explain the precise meaning of "legitimacy" in this context?

Greetings,
Norbert


 
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