The Global Legitimacy Game

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Gorillas, Ants, Elephants, Canaries

   • Alison Van Rooy

   Pages 1-4

3. The Civil Society Thing: Who, What, Why, Where, How?

   • Alison Van Rooy

   Pages 5-32

4. Activism’s Bumper Decade

   • Alison Van Rooy

   Pages 33-61

5. The Legitimacy Game: The Representation Rules

   • Alison Van Rooy

   Pages 62-76

6. The Legitimacy Game: The Other Rules

   • Alison Van Rooy

   Pages 77-102

7. The Legitimacy Game: The Hidden Rules

   • Alison Van Rooy

   Pages 103-126

8. The Crisis of Global Governance and a Compromise Solution

   • Alison Van Rooy

   Pages 127-160

9. Back Matter

   Pages 161-194

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There is a heated debate underway on the legitimacy of global activists, a war of words (and sometimes stones and teargas) that is rarely examined from top to bottom. This latest book by Canadian commentator Van Rooy scrutinizes the new legitimacy rules, arguing that they have real impact on how our world is governed. In dissecting representation, rights, experience, expertise, moral authority and other evolving rules of legitimation, Van Rooy points to her own proposals for global supplementary democracy.

• Civil society
• crisis
• democracy
• global governance
• globalization
• Governance
• war

'a well structured examination of the ways in which the 'legitimacy' debate is unfolding. The book has a logical and expository structure, the arguments are tightly managed in clear, jargon-free language, and they are backed by solid examples and quotes. [...] excellent and strategically useful volume.' - Development In Practice

'Clear, concise, and well-written...Overall, this is an excellent book and well worth reading.' - Hall Gardner, The European Legacy

ALISON VAN ROOY'S research on civil society includes Nongovernmental Voices in Multilateral Organizations (an ongoing series at The North-South Institute), the Canadian Development Report 1999: Civil Society and Global Change (1999); and Civil Society and the Aid Industry (1998). She is currently on leave from the Canadian International Development Agency.

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