Legitimacy [electronic resource] : the right to rule in a wanton world

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자료유형	e-Book
서명/저자사항	Legitimacy: [electronic resource]: the right to rule in a wanton world / Arthur Isak Applbaum.
개인저자	Applbaum, Arthur Isak, 1957- author.
발행사항	Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019.
형태사항	1 online resource.
ISBN	9780674241923 0674241924 9780674241930 0674241932 9780674241947 0674241940
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index
내용주기	Legitimacy in a bastard kingdom -- Legitimacy without the duty to obey -- Legitimacy without the duty to obey -- All foundings are forced -- Forcing a people to be free -- The three tyrannies -- Despotism -- Wantonism
요약	What makes a government legitimate? The dominant view is that our public officials have the right to rule us, even if they are unfit or unfair, as long as they gain power through procedures based on our consent. In Legitimacy, Arthur Applbaum argues that adherence to procedure is not enough, that legitimacy must also depend on the substance of laws, policies, and practices. Applbaum holds that a government cannot be legitimate unless it upholds three principles. These are: 1. liberty, necessary to protect against barbarism, 2. equality, to protect against despotism and to help the vulnerable, and 3. agency, according to which authorities treat citizens as competent, independent agents and, within limits, respect the mandate that citizens have given them. Today, Applbaum writes, the greatest risk to our democracies is the violation of the third principle, as wanton leaders threaten to act in an unconstrained, incoherent, and inconsistent manner that undermines respect for others as moral agents. Working out the extended implications of his principles, Applbaum shows that legitimacy also requires respect for counter-majoritarian institutions and practices such as judicial review, independent administrative agencies, and civil disobedience.--
해제	Provided by publisher
일반주제명	Legitimacy of governments. Government accountability. Political leadership. Political ethics. Despotism.
분류기호(DDC)	320.011
언어	영어
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