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This article is part of a special section in the May 2023 issue of International Affairs on ‘Legitimizing international organizations’, guest-edited by Tobias Lenz and Fredrik Söderbaum. Author names are ordered alphabetically; each author contributed equally to the article. Previous versions of this article were presented at the International Relations Section (virtual) of the conference of the German Political Science Association in October 2020, the virtual workshop ‘(Self-)legitimation of international organizations in disruptive times’ in December 2020, the International Studies Association annual convention in April 2021, the European Consortium of Political Research virtual joint sessions in May 2021, the annual convention of the German Political Science Association in September 2021 (virtual), and the workshop ‘Linking IO authority and overlap: theoretical perspectives and empirical considerations’ in May 2022 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. We thank the participants at these events, and especially Magdalena Bexell, Christina Davis, Anna Geis, Alex Grigorescu, Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, Philip Liste, Dan Maliniak, Wolfgang Minatti, Michal Parízek, Christian Rauh, Fredrik Söderbaum and Kate Weaver for useful feedback. We are indebted to Swantje Schirmer and Niklas Krösche who contributed enormously to the core concepts and data presented in this article. Tobias Lenz gratefully acknowledges funding from the Leibniz Association (grant number J31/2017).

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