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Legitimacy

Author : Arthur Isak Applbaum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674241932
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Legitimacy written by Arthur Isak Applbaum and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At an unsettled time for liberal democracy, with global eruptions of authoritarian and arbitrary rule, here is one of the first full-fledged philosophical accounts of what makes governments legitimate. What makes a government legitimate? The dominant view is that public officials have the right to rule us, even if they are unfair or unfit, as long as they gain power through procedures traceable to the consent of the governed. In this rigorous and timely study, Arthur Isak Applbaum argues that adherence to procedure is not enough: even a properly chosen government does not rule legitimately if it fails to protect basic rights, to treat its citizens as political equals, or to act coherently. How are we to reconcile every person’s entitlement to freedom with the necessity of coercive law? Applbaum’s answer is that a government legitimately governs its citizens only if the government is a free group agent constituted by free citizens. To be a such a group agent, a government must uphold three principles. The liberty principle, requiring that the basic rights of citizens be secured, is necessary to protect against inhumanity, a tyranny in practice. The equality principle, requiring that citizens have equal say in selecting who governs, is necessary to protect against despotism, a tyranny in title. The agency principle, requiring that a government’s actions reflect its decisions and its decisions reflect its reasons, is necessary to protect against wantonism, a tyranny of unreason. Today, Applbaum writes, the greatest threat to the established democracies is neither inhumanity nor despotism but wantonism, the domination of citizens by incoherent, inconstant, and incontinent rulers. A government that cannot govern itself cannot legitimately govern others.

Legitimacy

Author : Italo Pardo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319962388
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Legitimacy written by Italo Pardo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global in scope, this original and thought-provoking collection applies new theory on legitimacy and legitimation to urban life. An informed reflection on this comparatively new topic in anthropology in relation to morality, action, law, politics and governance is both timely and innovative, especially as worldwide discontent among ordinary people grows. The ethnographically-based analyses offered here range from banking to neighbourhoods, from poverty to political action at the grassroots. They recognize the growing gap between the rulers and the ruled with particular attention to the morality of what is right as opposed to what is legal. This book is a unique contribution to social theory, fostering discussion across the many boundaries of anthropological and sociological studies.

Morals of Legitimacy

Author : Italo Pardo
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800733917
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Morals of Legitimacy written by Italo Pardo and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growing fragmentation of western societies and disillusionment with the political process, the question of legitimacy has become one of the key issues of contemporary politics and is examined in this volume in depth for the first time. Drawing on ethnographic material from the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, and Africa, anthropologists and legal scholars investigate the morally diversified definitions of legitimacy that co-exist in any one society. Aware of the tensions between state morality and community morality, they offer reflections on the relationship between agency - individual and collective - and the legal and political systems. In a situation in which politics has only too often degenerated into vacuous rhetoric, this volume demonstrates how critical the relationship between trust and legitimacy is for the authoritative exercise of power in democratic societies.

Legitimacy and Power Politics

Author : Mlada Bukovansky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691146705
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Legitimacy and Power Politics written by Mlada Bukovansky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty. It analyzes the impact of Enlightenment discourse on politics in eighteenth-century Europe and the United States, showing how that discourse facilitated new authority struggles in Old Regime Europe, shaped the American and French Revolutions, and influenced the relationships between the revolutionary regimes and the international system. The interaction between traditional and democratic ideas of legitimacy transformed the international system by the early nineteenth century, when people began to take for granted the desirability of equality, individual rights, and restraint of power. Using an interpretive, historically sensitive approach to international relations, the author considers the complex interplay between elite discourses about political legitimacy and strategic power struggles within and among states. She shows how culture, power, and interests interacted to produce a crucial yet poorly understood case of international change. The book not only shows the limits of liberal and realist theories of international relations, but also demonstrates how aspects of these theories can be integrated with insights derived from a constructivist perspective that takes culture and legitimacy seriously. The author finds that cultural contests over the terms of political legitimacy constitute one of the central mechanisms by which the character of sovereignty is transformed in the international system--a conclusion as true today as it was in the eighteenth century.

Democratic Legitimacy

Author : Pierre Rosanvallon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838746
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Democratic Legitimacy written by Pierre Rosanvallon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But in Democratic Legitimacy, Pierre Rosanvallon, one of today's leading political thinkers, argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. He makes the case that the sources of democratic legitimacy have shifted and multiplied over the past thirty years and that we need to comprehend and make better use of these new sources of legitimacy in order to strengthen our political self-belief and commitment to democracy. Drawing on examples from France and the United States, Rosanvallon notes that there has been a major expansion of independent commissions, NGOs, regulatory authorities, and watchdogs in recent decades. At the same time, constitutional courts have become more willing and able to challenge legislatures. These institutional developments, which serve the democratic values of impartiality and reflexivity, have been accompanied by a new attentiveness to what Rosanvallon calls the value of proximity, as governing structures have sought to find new spaces for minorities, the particular, and the local. To improve our democracies, we need to use these new sources of legitimacy more effectively and we need to incorporate them into our accounts of democratic government. An original contribution to the vigorous international debate about democratic authority and legitimacy, this promises to be one of Rosanvallon's most important books.

Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court

Author : Richard H. Fallon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674975812
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court written by Richard H. Fallon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legitimacy and judicial authority -- Constitutional meaning : original public meaning -- Constitutional meaning : varieties of history that matter -- Law in the Supreme Court : jurisprudential foundations -- Constitutional constraints -- Constitutional theory and its relation to constitutional practice -- Sociological, legal, and moral legitimacy : today and tomorrow

The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

Author : Hans Blumenberg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262521055
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Legitimacy of the Modern Age written by Hans Blumenberg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1985-10-21 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an internal logic that ultimately expresses human choices and is legitimized by human self-assertion, by man's responsibility for his own fate.

Seeking Legitimacy

Author : Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110842564X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Seeking Legitimacy written by Aili Mari Tripp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study based on extensive fieldwork, and an original database of gender-based reforms in the Middle East and North Africa, Aili Mari Tripp analyzes why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia adopted more extensive women's rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts.

The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy

Author : Pedro T. Magalhães
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351654004
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy written by Pedro T. Magalhães and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T. Magalhães shows that present-day elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse and often complicated ways, an intellectual debt to the interwar era, German-speaking, scholarly and political controversies on the problem(s) of modern democracy. A discussion of Weber’s ambivalent diagnosis of modernity and his elitist views on democracy, as they were elaborated especially in the 1910s, sets the groundwork for the study. Against that backdrop, Schmitt’s interwar political thought is interpreted as a form of neo-authoritarian populism, whereas Kelsen evinces robust, though not entirely unproblematic, pluralist consequences. In the conclusion, the author draws on Claude Lefort’s concept of indeterminacy to sketch a potentially more fruitful way than can be gleaned from the interwar German discussions of conceiving the nexus between the elitist, populist and pluralist faces of modern democracy. The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy will be of interest to political theorists, political philosophers, intellectual historians, theoretically oriented political scientists, and legal scholars working in the subfields of constitutional law and legal theory. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315157566, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Will and Political Legitimacy

Author : Patrick Riley
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781583484241
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Will and Political Legitimacy written by Patrick Riley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of representative government is the question: "What makes government and its agents legitimate authorities?" The notion of consent, of a social contract between the citizen and his government, is central to this problem. That contract allows the government to rule over the citizen and to exact obedience from him in return for certain protections and goods he needs.

The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes

Author : Andreas Føllesdal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107470706
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes written by Andreas Føllesdal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past sixty years have seen an expansion of international human rights conventions and supervisory organs, not least in Europe. While these international legal instruments have enlarged their mandate, they have also faced opposition and criticism from political actors at the state level, even in well-functioning democracies. Against the backdrop of such contestations, this book brings together prominent scholars in law, political philosophy and international relations in order to address the legitimacy of international human rights regimes as a theoretically challenging and politically salient case of international authority. It provides a unique and thorough overview of the legitimacy problems involved in the global governance of human rights.

Justification and Legitimacy

Author : A. John Simmons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521793650
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Justification and Legitimacy written by A. John Simmons and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains essays by A. John Simmons, perhaps the most innovative and creative of today's political philosophers.

Democratic Legitimacy

Author : Fabienne Peter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113431924X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Democratic Legitimacy written by Fabienne Peter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a systematic treatment of democratic legitimacy, interpreted as a distinct normative concept. It defends the view that democratic legitimacy requires that decisions are made in a process that is politically and epistemically fair.

The Legitimation of Power

Author : David Beetham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333375396
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (753 download)

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Download or read book The Legitimation of Power written by David Beetham and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Beetham's book explores the legitimation of power both as an issue in political and social science theory and in relation to the legitimacy of contemporary political systems including its breakdown in revolution. 'An admirable text which is far reaching in its scope and extraordinary in the clarity with which it covers a wide range of material... One xan have nothing but the highest regard for this volume.' - David Held, Times Higher Education Supplement;'Beetham has produced a study bound to revolutionize sociological thinking and teaching... Seminal and profoundly original... Beetham's book should become the obligitory reading for every teacher and practitioner of social science.' - Zygmunt Bauman, Sociology

Legitimacy, Justice and Public International Law

Author : Lukas H. Meyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521199492
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Legitimacy, Justice and Public International Law written by Lukas H. Meyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most chapters in this volume were first presented at a symposium held at the University of Bern in December 2006"--Page ix.

Managing Corporate Legitimacy

Author : Dorothée Baumann-Pauly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351277189
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Managing Corporate Legitimacy written by Dorothée Baumann-Pauly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The failure of many governments to provide basic rights for their citizens has given rise to the expectation that globally operating corporations should step in and fill governance gaps, for example in the area of human rights. Today, many large multinational corporations claim to conduct business in a socially responsible manner, yet no tools exist to assess whether and to what degree they have indeed systematically revised their business practices to take on these new responsibilities. Managing Corporate Legitimacy addresses these research gaps by clarifying the role of the corporation as a private actor in global governance at conceptual and empirical levels; by contributing to our theoretical understanding of CC as a new phenomenon in globalization; and by furthering the development of appropriate approaches to CC in practice through its toolkit. The tool structures the implementation process in five learning stages (defensive, compliance, managerial, strategic and civil). The final civil stage describes political corporate behaviour. The author includes an empirical assessment of five Swiss multinationals in this book which reveals that most companies – even those with relatively long-standing and mature policies on social and environmental issues – have only just started to learn how to become corporate citizens. The book therefore concludes with a discussion of an issue-specific extension of the assessment tool and presents methods for setting priorities in the approach to corporate citizenship that may also facilitate corporate engagement with stakeholders. The tools developed in this book provide practical and detailed guidance for implementing and embedding CC and managing corporate legitimacy. It will be essential reading for practitioners looking for ways to legitimize their engagement with societal issues and for academics considering how we can better measure the engagement of business with CC.

Bush v. Gore

Author : Bruce Ackerman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127006
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Bush v. Gore written by Bruce Ackerman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divdivThe Supreme Court’s intervention in the 2000 election will shape American law and democracy long after George W. Bush has left the White House. This vitally important book brings together a broad range of preeminent legal scholars who address the larger questions raised by the Supreme Court’s actions. Did the Court’s decision violate the rule of law? Did it inaugurate an era of super-politicized jurisprudence? How should Bush v. Gore change the terms of debate over the next round of Supreme Court appointments? The contributors—Bruce Ackerman, Jack Balkin, Guido Calabresi, Steven Calabresi, Owen Fiss, Charles Fried, Robert Post, Margaret Jane Radin, Jeffrey Rosen, Jed Rubenfeld, Cass Sunstein, Laurence Tribe, and Mark Tushnet—represent a broad political spectrum. Their reactions to the case are varied and surprising, filled with sparkling argument and spirited debate. This is a must-read book for thoughtful Americans everywhere. /DIV/DIV