Buchanan and Keohane's pluralist account holds that legitimacy requires minimal democratic accountability, transparency, and internal checks against self-interested institutional behavior.

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Buchanan and Keohane(as the authors of a theory about institutional legitimacy): Two political theorists (James Buchanan and Robert Keohane) who developed ideas about how international institutions should be organized and held responsible to the public.
Democratic accountability(as one requirement for legitimacy): The requirement that people in power must answer to the public for their decisions and can be held responsible or even removed if they act wrongly.
Internal checks against self-interested institutional behavior(as one requirement for legitimacy): Built-in rules or oversight within an organization designed to stop people in power from using their position mainly for personal gain rather than the public good.
Legitimacy(as what the argument is discussing whether democracy or autocracy can possess): The quality of being rightfully in power; when people accept that a government has the right to rule.

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