Political legitimacy / edited by Jack Knight and Melissa Schwartzberg.
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 tha...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : New York University Press, [2019] ©2019. |
| Series: | Nomos ;
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| Summary: | 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--back cover. |
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| Item Description: | "This volume of NOMOS ... emerged from papers and commentaries given at the annual meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division, in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 1-2, 2017." |
| Physical Description: | xii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479888696 1479888699 |
| FOLIO Link: | View instance in FOLIO |