[PDF] The Legitimacy Of Modern Democracy eBook

Author : Pedro T. Magalhães
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351654004

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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

Author : Pedro T. Magalhães
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
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ISBN : 9780367644536

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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

Author : Ethan Woodard
Publisher :
Page : 1051 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2015
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"This thesis is primarily an introduction to the concept and function of narrative political legitimacy within democracies. Narrative legitimacy, the theory that legitimacy is determined by a people's belief in stories which provide authority, has been explored in other disciplines, particularly sociology, but has yet to be adopted by theorists of Political Science. In fact, there is ample evidence to suggest that such a theory would be consistent with political writings from across the Modern Age. To demonstrate this, five diverse intellectual figures and some of their most celebrated work are analyzed to provide context for a narrative legitimacy. This context is then used to frame a discussion of how narrative legitimacy may be applied to the study of specific nations and governments. Finally, an empirical study is conducted to determine if narrative constructs like "trust" or "confidence" can impact participation in a democratic government. The results show that though these narrative concepts indicate as to the possibility of strong relationship, it cannot be empirically proven without further study."

Author : Anthony Harold Birch
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 041522604X

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Anthony Birch's highly successful and widely used text is now available in an updated 2nd edition. Taking into account the considerable developments in the field since the last edition was published, it continues to provide students with an authoritative and accessible exploration of the principle concepts and theories of modern democracy.

Author : Jack Knight
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1479888699

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Essays on the political, legal, and philosophical dimensions of political legitimacy Scholars, journalists, and politicians today worry that the world’s democracies are facing a crisis of legitimacy. Although there are key challenges facing democracy—including concerns about electoral interference, adherence to the rule of law, and the freedom of the press—it is not clear that these difficulties threaten political legitimacy. Such ambiguity derives in part from the contested nature of the concept of legitimacy, and from disagreements over how to measure it. This volume reflects the cutting edge of responses to these perennial questions, drawing, in the distinctive NOMOS fashion, from political science, philosophy, and law. Contributors address fundamental philosophical questions such as the nature of public reasons of authority, as well as urgent concerns about contemporary democracy, including whether “animus” matters for the legitimacy of President Trump’s travel ban, barring entry for nationals from six Muslim-majority nations, and the effect of fundamental transitions within the moral economy, such as the decline of labor unions. Featuring twelve essays from leading scholars, Political Legitimacy is an important and timely addition to the NOMOS series.

Author : Jefferey M. Sellers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108427782

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Explores ways to make democracy work better, with particular focus on the integral role of local institutions.

Author : Wojciech Sadurski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 0192559044

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Traditionally, legitimacy has been associated exclusively with states. But are states actually legitimate? And in light of the legalization of international norms why should discussions of legitimacy focus only on the nation-state? The essays in this collection examine the nature of legitimacy, the legitimacy of the state, and the legitimacy of supranational institutions. The collection begins by asking: What sort of problem is legitimacy? Part I considers competing theories, in particular the work of John Rawls. Part II looks at the legitimacy of state apparatus, its institutions, officials, and the rule of law, and the future of state sovereignty. Part III expands the scope of legitimacy beyond the state to supranational institutions and international law. Written by theorists of considerable standing, the essays in this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of law, politics, and philosophy looking for ways of approaching the problem of how extra-territorial affairs affect a state's written and unwritten agreements with its citizens in a world where laws and norms with legal effect are increasingly made beyond the state.

Author : Pierre Rosanvallon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400838746

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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.

Author : John H. Schaar
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 11,80 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412827485

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This analysis of the concept of authority in Western society constitutes a central work in political sociology and a fundamental critique of the process of modernization. Schaar proposes that legitimate authority is declining in the modern state. Law and order, in a very real sense, is the basic political issue of our time -- one that conservatives have understood with greater clarity than their liberal adversaries. Schaar sees what were once authoritative institutions and ideas yielding to technological and bureaucratic orders. The later brings physical comfort and a sense of collective power, but does not provide political liberty or moral autonomy. As a result, he argues, all modern states exhibiting this transformation of authority into technology are well advanced along the path of a crisis of legitimacy.