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Democratic legitimacy [[electronic resource] ] : impartiality, reflexivity, proximity / / Pierre Rosanvallon ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer



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Autore: Rosanvallon Pierre <1948-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Democratic legitimacy [[electronic resource] ] : impartiality, reflexivity, proximity / / Pierre Rosanvallon ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011
Edizione: Core Textbook
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 p.)
Disciplina: 321.8
Soggetto topico: Democracy
Legitimacy of governments
Soggetto non controllato: Western democracy
administration
administrative-executive power
appropriation
bureaucracies
bureaucracy
care
citizens
civic life
constitution
constitutional courts
constitutional judges
constitutional oversight
constitutional review
constitutional thought
corporatism
countermajoritarian difficulty
democracy
democratic authority
democratic ideals
democratic impartiality
democratic institution
democratic institutions
democratic legitimacy
democratic systems
derivative legitimacy
direct relations
dual legitimacy
elections
electoral legitimation
electoral politics
executive functions
flexible relations
general interest
generality
government initiatives
government intervention
government
identification
identity politics
immediate democracy
impartiality
independent authorities
independent commissions
indirect democracy
informal relations
interactive democracy
judicial power
judicial powers
legitimacy
majority rule
modern individualistic states
multiplication
new democratic institutions
numerical unanimity
oversight function
participatory democracy
particularity
pluralization
political community
political investment
political leaders
political legitimacy
political obligation
political representatives
presence
proximity
rational administration
reflexive democracy
reflexivity
regulatory function
representation
social existence
social expectations
social gaze
substantive unanimity
unanimity
unelected judges
unpolitical democracy
Altri autori: GoldhammerArthur  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Dual legitimacy -- pt. 2. The legitimacy of impartiality -- pt. 3. Relexive legitimacy -- pt. 4. The legitimacy of proximity.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Democratic legitimacy  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-10031-2
9786613100313
1-4008-3874-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790047603321
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