Public buy-in (legitimation) is not the objective of stakeholder participation; however, it can be a by-product of good design which suits the context and effectively uses citizen input to improve decision making.
At a time when violent racism has been exposed as a systematic part of law enforcement, at a time when the legitimation of hatred in public discourse has become an accepted part of national presidential politics, it seems more than a little naive to tell incoming frosh that "civility and mutual respect are vital to all of us".
Revamping our political landscape in the name of democracy requires, I believe, four critical changes: the legitimation of campaign finance regulation, authority for public financing to reduce the impact of disparate fund-raising among candidates, the constitutionalization of federal voting rights, and legal protection against gross gerrymandering.
He is an artist, he believes in human rights - and he is legitimately in love with the soprano!' Legitimation matters to Domingo.
This paper uses a combination of institutional theory and Habermas' legitimation theory to explain social and environmental reporting at a Ghanaian public sector organisation, the Volta River Authority (VRA).
Although we can arrive at a state in which some social arrangement is publicly justified by an explicit course of reasoning leading to the legitimation of that state, this is not intrinsic to the more general idea of public justification, as we will see later.
That leaves something like the legitimation of the Kosovo intervention, pithily described as "illegal but legitimate".
These include the legitimation of a field, fostering innovation, establishing standards of quality and serving multiple publics (from the neighborhood to professional field to the museum-going world. And it must do all of this within the tight restrictions of New York City real estate.
It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find his later interests in problems of legitimation and communication foreshadowed in this lucid study of the origins, nature, and evolution of public opinion in democratic societies.
