The democratic legitimacy hierarchy. The scales to determine authorities’ legitimacy in democratic states
Eastern Journal of European Studies, cilt.13, sa.2, ss.140-159, 2022 (ESCI)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 13 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2022
- Doi Numarası: 10.47743/ejes-2022-0207
- Dergi Adı: Eastern Journal of European Studies
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.140-159
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The distortion in states’ hierarchies causes discussions of legitimacy in interinstitutional and internal relations. The reason of this is the parts of hierarchy that
aren’t organized according to democratic legitimacy. The purpose of this study is to
explain what the democratic legitimacy hierarchy is, how to establish and protect it.
Through various visuals, it is specified who should be at the levels of hierarchy, and
methods are proposed on how to renew the system if there are people who shouldn’t
be in those levels. Solution proposals are presented on how to prevent the crimes of
authority encroachment that can be experienced in inter-level relations following
the placement of legitimate people to the levels. Emphasizing that the main form of
democracy is direct democracy, stating that implementation of democratic
legitimacy hierarchy system is the first step to reach it, tips on how to progress to
reach it in the next stages are given.