Terry MacDonald

The Political Philosophy of Refuge

Terry Macdonald

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES

This growing focus on refugees’ political rights raises complex normative questions about political agency, membership, and legiti..

Refugees, Democracy and the Law: Political Rights at the Margins of the State

Terry Macdonald

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES

NGOs as Agents of Global Justice: Cosmopolitan Activism for Political Realists

Terry Macdonald, Kate Macdonald

Journal article  |  2022  |  ETHICS & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Several decades of scholarship on international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have established their important role in lead..

Reviving democracy: Creating pathways out of legitimacy crises

Terry Macdonald

Journal article  |  2021  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL THEORY

Over the last several years, democratic citizens and theorists have been grappling with an upsurge in political commentary on the ..

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..

Creating legitimacy in a pluralist world order

Terry MacDonald

Media  |  2021

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 ..

Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Political Legitimacy

Terry Macdonald

Book Chapter  |  2018

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..