TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosanvallon,Pierre
AU  - Goldhammer,Arthur
TI  - Democratic Legitimacy: Impartiality, Reflexivity, Proximity 
SN  - 9780691149486
AV  - JC423 .R6169513 2017
U1  - 321.8 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Legitimacy of governments
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Western democracy
KW  - administration
KW  - administrative-executive power
KW  - appropriation
KW  - bureaucracies
KW  - bureaucracy
KW  - care
KW  - citizens
KW  - civic life
KW  - constitution
KW  - constitutional courts
KW  - constitutional judges
KW  - constitutional oversight
KW  - constitutional review
KW  - constitutional thought
KW  - corporatism
KW  - countermajoritarian difficulty
KW  - democracy
KW  - democratic authority
KW  - democratic ideals
KW  - democratic impartiality
KW  - democratic institution
KW  - democratic institutions
KW  - democratic legitimacy
KW  - democratic systems
KW  - derivative legitimacy
KW  - direct relations
KW  - dual legitimacy
KW  - elections
KW  - electoral legitimation
KW  - electoral politics
KW  - executive functions
KW  - flexible relations
KW  - general interest
KW  - generality
KW  - government initiatives
KW  - government intervention
KW  - government
KW  - identification
KW  - identity politics
KW  - immediate democracy
KW  - impartiality
KW  - independent authorities
KW  - independent commissions
KW  - indirect democracy
KW  - informal relations
KW  - interactive democracy
KW  - judicial power
KW  - judicial powers
KW  - legitimacy
KW  - majority rule
KW  - modern individualistic states
KW  - multiplication
KW  - new democratic institutions
KW  - numerical unanimity
KW  - oversight function
KW  - participatory democracy
KW  - particularity
KW  - pluralization
KW  - political community
KW  - political investment
KW  - political leaders
KW  - political legitimacy
KW  - political obligation
KW  - political representatives
KW  - presence
KW  - proximity
KW  - rational administration
KW  - reflexive democracy
KW  - reflexivity
KW  - regulatory function
KW  - representation
KW  - social existence
KW  - social expectations
KW  - social gaze
KW  - substantive unanimity
KW  - unanimity
KW  - unelected judges
KW  - unpolitical democracy
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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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