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Morals of Legitimacy : Between Agency and the System / ed. by Italo Pardo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Directions in Anthropology ; 12Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2001]Copyright date: 2001Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781800733916
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320/.01/1 21
LOC classification:
  • JC328.2
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Morals of Legitimacy: Interplay between Responsibility, Authority and Trust -- Chapter 2 THE ‘CRISIS OF CORRUPTION’ AND ‘THE IDEA OF INDIA’: A Worm’s Eye View -- Chapter 3 THE CHERRIES OF THE MAYOR: Degrees of Morality and Responsibility in Local Italian Administration -- Chapter 4 WHEN POWER LACKS LEGITIMACY: Relations of Politics and Law to Society in Italy -- Chapter 5 VIGILANTISM, STATE JURISDICTION AND COMMUNITY MORALITY: Control of Crime and ‘Undesirable’ Behaviour when the State ‘Fails -- Chapter 6 STATIST IMPERATIVES AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN THE REPRESENTATION OF MISSING PERSONS IN CYPRUS -- Chapter 7 MAGNIFIED FEATURES: The Underdevelopment of Law and Legitimation -- Chapter 8 A QUIET LIFE: Right or Duty? -- Chapter 9 THE CASES THAT WERE NOT TO BE: Explaining the Dearth of Case-Law on Freedom of Religion at Strasbourg -- Chapter 10 UNCONVENTIONAL MORALITIES, TOLERANCE AND CONTAINMENT IN URBAN JAPAN -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Morals of Legitimacy: Interplay between Responsibility, Authority and Trust -- Chapter 2 THE ‘CRISIS OF CORRUPTION’ AND ‘THE IDEA OF INDIA’: A Worm’s Eye View -- Chapter 3 THE CHERRIES OF THE MAYOR: Degrees of Morality and Responsibility in Local Italian Administration -- Chapter 4 WHEN POWER LACKS LEGITIMACY: Relations of Politics and Law to Society in Italy -- Chapter 5 VIGILANTISM, STATE JURISDICTION AND COMMUNITY MORALITY: Control of Crime and ‘Undesirable’ Behaviour when the State ‘Fails -- Chapter 6 STATIST IMPERATIVES AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN THE REPRESENTATION OF MISSING PERSONS IN CYPRUS -- Chapter 7 MAGNIFIED FEATURES: The Underdevelopment of Law and Legitimation -- Chapter 8 A QUIET LIFE: Right or Duty? -- Chapter 9 THE CASES THAT WERE NOT TO BE: Explaining the Dearth of Case-Law on Freedom of Religion at Strasbourg -- Chapter 10 UNCONVENTIONAL MORALITIES, TOLERANCE AND CONTAINMENT IN URBAN JAPAN -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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