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Democratic Legitimacy : Impartiality, Reflexivity, Proximity / Pierre Rosanvallon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: Core TextbookDescription: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691149486
  • 9781400838745
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.8 23
LOC classification:
  • JC423 .R6169513 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. The Decentering of Democracies -- Part one. Dual Legitimacy -- Chapter one. The Legitimacy of Establishment -- Chapter two. The Legitimacy of Identification with Generality -- Chapter three. The Great Transformation -- Part two. The Legitimacy of Impartiality -- Chapter four. Independent Authorities: History and Problems -- Chapter five. The Democracy of Impartiality -- Chapter six. Is Impartiality Politics? -- Part three. Reflexive Legitimacy -- Chapter seven. Reflexive Democracy -- Chapter eight. The Institutions of Reflexivity -- Chapter nine. On the Importance of Not Being Elected -- Part four. The Legitimacy of Proximity -- Chapter ten. Attention to Particularity -- Chapter eleven. The Politics of Presence -- Chapter twelve. Interactive Democracy -- Conclusion. The Democracy of Appropriation -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. The Decentering of Democracies -- Part one. Dual Legitimacy -- Chapter one. The Legitimacy of Establishment -- Chapter two. The Legitimacy of Identification with Generality -- Chapter three. The Great Transformation -- Part two. The Legitimacy of Impartiality -- Chapter four. Independent Authorities: History and Problems -- Chapter five. The Democracy of Impartiality -- Chapter six. Is Impartiality Politics? -- Part three. Reflexive Legitimacy -- Chapter seven. Reflexive Democracy -- Chapter eight. The Institutions of Reflexivity -- Chapter nine. On the Importance of Not Being Elected -- Part four. The Legitimacy of Proximity -- Chapter ten. Attention to Particularity -- Chapter eleven. The Politics of Presence -- Chapter twelve. Interactive Democracy -- Conclusion. The Democracy of Appropriation -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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