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Governance and Democratic Legitimacy: Transnational, European, and Multi-Level-Issues. London: 200–227. Wood, D. J. (1991): Corporate Social Performance Revisited. In: Academy of Management Review, 16: 691–718. Wulfson, M. (2001): The Ethics of Corporate Social Responsibility and Philanthropic Ventures. In: Journal of Business Ethics, 29: 135–145. Young, I. M. (2003): From Guilt to Solidarity. Sweatshops and Political Responsibility. In: Dissent, 50(2): 39–44. Young, I. M. (2004): Responsibility and Global Labor Justice.

Nanz and Steffek (2004) suggest that the shrinking power of the political system is – at least partly – compensated by a politicization of civil Organizational Legitimacy as Deliberation 33 society itself. This phenomenon has also been described as a “globalization from below” (Beck 2000: 68). Civic political emancipation does not only affect the dynamic between civil society and the state. Under the “postnational condition” (Habermas 2001), even the link between civil society and the economy is politicized.

Habermas 1998b: 248). However, in recent years, liberal concepts of vote-aggregation and bargaining have come under the pressure of societal pluralization. Pluralization, understood as the threefold process of individualization, the devaluation of tradition and the globalization of society as it was explained above, results in a loss of traditional certainties. The fragmentation of cultural homogeneity provokes “the intrusion of reflection into life histories and cultural traditions” (Habermas 1996: 97) thereby leading to a growing awareness of civic autonomy and selfdetermination.

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