Terry MacDonald

Democracy versus Security as Standards of Political Legitimacy: The Case of National Policy on Irregular Migrant Arrivals

Patti Tamara Lenard, Terry Macdonald

Journal article  |  2021  |  PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS

Democratic citizens confront a range of problems framed as security issues, in policy areas such as counterterrorism and migration..

Towards a 'pluralist' world order: creative agency and legitimacy in global institutions

Terry Macdonald, Kate Macdonald

Journal article  |  2020  |  European Journal of International Relations

This article addresses the question of how we should understand the normative grounds of legitimacy in global governance instituti..

Sovereignty, democracy, and global political legitimacy

T MacDonald

Book Chapter  |  2018

This chapter argues that the normative theories of democracy invoked in debates about global democracy construe the institutional ..

Liquid authority and political legitimacy in transnational governance

Kate Macdonald, Terry Macdonald

Journal article  |  2017  |  INTERNATIONAL THEORY

In this article we investigate the institutional mechanisms required for 'liquid' forms of authority in transnational governance t..

Democratizing Global 'Bodies Politic': Collective Agency, Political Legitimacy, and the Democratic Boundary Problem

Terry MacDonald

Journal article  |  2017  |  Global justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric

This article outlines a new approach to answering the foundational question in democratic theory of how the boundaries of democrat..

Institutional facts and principles of global political legitimacy

Terry Macdonald

Journal article  |  2016  |  JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL THEORY

How should the content and justification of action-guiding normative ‘principles’ in political life be responsive to social ‘facts..

Global political justice

T MACDONALD

Book Chapter  |  2016

Introduction to special issue: Real-world justice and international migration

Adrian Little, Terry Macdonald

Journal article  |  2015  |  European Journal of Political theory

In this article, we introduce the project developed in this special issue: a search for principles of ‘real-world’ justice in inte..

Political legitimacy in international border governance institutions

Terry Macdonald

Journal article  |  2015  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL THEORY

In this article, I address the question: what kind of normative principles should regulate the governance processes through which ..

Antipower, Agency, and the Republican Case for Global Institutional Pluralism

Terry Macdonald

Book Chapter  |  2015