Fostering Neighborhood Democracy: Legitimacy and Accountability within Loosely Coupled Systems

Political Legitimacy and Democracy

The stability and functioning of any kind of political regime—including democratic or representative ones—relies on the combination of the capacity of rulers and government officials to use coercion and the development of political legitimacy. Political legitimacy can be described as people's recognition and acceptance of the validity of the rules of their entire political system and the decisi...

Legitimacy and American Democracy

Internet NGOs: Legitimacy and Accountability

As the power and influence of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in international debates on social and moral matters increases, questions concerning their legitimacy and accountability become all the more challenging. Some starting points are given for a defensible account of the legitimacy and accountability of internationally operating NGOs. Special attention is given to the use of new inf...

Educational Organizations as Loosely Coupled Systems

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Performance Analysis in Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems

A great deal of work is currently underway to develop infrastructure for supporting a looselycoupled computational model over the Internet. This is based on the standardization of Web Services interfaces and protocols to allow application-to-application communication and interoperability using XML messaging[1]. An example of an existing Web Service is the Google search API for programmatic acce...