Policy Legitimacy Science And Political Authority

Author : Michael Heazle,John Kane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317420026

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Policy Legitimacy, Science and Political Authority by Michael Heazle,John Kane Pdf

Voters expect their elected representatives to pursue good policy and presume this will be securely founded on the best available knowledge. Yet when representatives emphasize their reliance on expert knowledge, they seem to defer to people whose authority derives, not politically from the sovereign people, but from the presumed objective status of their disciplinary bases. This book examines the tensions between political authority and expert authority in the formation of public policy in liberal democracies. It aims to illustrate and better understand the nature of these tensions rather than to argue specific ways of resolving them. The various chapters explore the complexity of interaction between the two forms of authority in different policy domains in order to identify both common elements and differences. The policy domains covered include: climate geoengineering discourses; environmental health; biotechnology; nuclear power; whaling; economic management; and the use of force. This volume will appeal to researchers and to convenors of post-graduate courses in the fields of policy studies, foreign policy decision-making, political science, environmental studies, democratic system studies, and science policy studies.

Author : Andrea A. Lippi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1035319551

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Legitimacy and Legitimation of Political Authorities by Andrea A. Lippi Pdf

Bridging the gap between traditional and contemporary research, Andrea Lippi's Legitimacy and Legitimation of Political Authorities presents a comprehensive and systematic analysis of both legitimacy and legitimation as two theoretical concepts, focusing on their respective roles in political systems today. Through its use of empirical evidence and in-depth consideration of the pressing issues on today's political agenda, this book adeptly navigates the political authority crisis, highlighting how the recognition and validity attributed to institutions is significantly in decline. Chapters explore this loss of credibility and trust, and how institutions are seeking to nurture their accreditation through new sources. Lippi incisively illustrates the relationship between statics and dynamics, as well as that between legitimacy and legitimation, and proposes a typology of the latter to be used in empirical research. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this timely book will be a vital read for researchers, academics and students in public policy, international politics, public administration and management, and regulation and governance. Policymakers will similarly benefit from the applied nature of the text.

Author : Cara E. Rabe-Hemp,Nancy S. Lind
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787560482

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Political Authority, Social Control and Public Policy by Cara E. Rabe-Hemp,Nancy S. Lind Pdf

This edited collection examines the intersections of social control, political authority and public policy, providing an insight into the key elements needed to understand the role of governance in establishing and maintaining social control through law and public policy making.

Author : Sanjay Pulipaka,Krishnan Srinivasan,James Mayall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000867794

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Power, Legitimacy, and World Order by Sanjay Pulipaka,Krishnan Srinivasan,James Mayall Pdf

This book reflects on the reasons for the decline of international cooperation in world politics and studies ways to restore legitimacy in the international order. It engages with the concept of legitimacy in international relations theories and practices to examine the discussions around power shifts, the decline of liberalism, demands for inclusive international architectures, and challenges to multilateralism, as well as established norms by leaders and nationalisms. It studies the impact of the post-COVID-19 world order on the nature of power in the international system and changes in normative concerns of security. The volume also interrogates political legitimacy through an area studies lens by examining the concept of legitimacy separately in the USA, Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa. An important and timely text featuring contributions from eminent scholars, this book will be of use to students and researchers of modern history, political science, and international relations. It will also be of interest to think tanks and policy-making bodies concerned with international affairs and foreign policy.

Author : Steven Bernstein,William D. Coleman
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774859042

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Unsettled Legitimacy by Steven Bernstein,William D. Coleman Pdf

Globalization has challenged taken-for-granted relationships of rule in local, regional, national, and international settings. This unsettling of legitimacy raises questions. Under what conditions do individuals and communities accept globalized decision making as legitimate? And what political practices do individuals and collectivities under globalization use to exercise autonomy? To answer these questions, the contributors to Unsettled Legitimacy explore the disruptions and reconfigurations of political authority that accompany globalization. Arguing that we live in an era in which political legitimacy at multiple scales of authority is under strain, they show that globalization has also created demands for regulation, security, and the protection of rights and expressions of individual and collective autonomy within and across multiple political and geographic spaces. Instead of offering simplistic arguments for or against global governance, enhanced democracy, or economic integration, the contributors provide a sophisticated examination of the complexities of legitimacy and autonomy in a globalizing world.

Author : David Beetham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Legitimacy of governments
ISBN : 0333375394

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The Legitimation of Power by David Beetham Pdf

David Beetham's book explores the legitimation of power both as an issue in political and social science theory and in relation to the legitimacy of contemporary political systems including its breakdown in revolution. 'An admirable text which is far reaching in its scope and extraordinary in the clarity with which it covers a wide range of material... One xan have nothing but the highest regard for this volume.' - David Held, Times Higher Education Supplement;'Beetham has produced a study bound to revolutionize sociological thinking and teaching... Seminal and profoundly original... Beetham's book should become the obligitory reading for every teacher and practitioner of social science.' - Zygmunt Bauman, Sociology

Author : David Beetham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000176466

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The Legitimation of Power by David Beetham Pdf

Political theory has undergone a remarkable development in recent years. A systematic study of legitimacy within social science, the book starts as a critique of Weber and examines the link betwen a social-scientific approach and the various philosophical traditions of theorizing about legitimacy.

Author : Jack Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1479869201

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Political Legitimacy by Jack Knight Pdf

Author : Arthur Isak Applbaum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674241930

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Legitimacy by Arthur Isak Applbaum Pdf

At an unsettled time for liberal democracy, with global eruptions of authoritarian and arbitrary rule, here is one of the first full-fledged philosophical accounts of what makes governments legitimate. What makes a government legitimate? The dominant view is that public officials have the right to rule us, even if they are unfair or unfit, as long as they gain power through procedures traceable to the consent of the governed. In this rigorous and timely study, Arthur Isak Applbaum argues that adherence to procedure is not enough: even a properly chosen government does not rule legitimately if it fails to protect basic rights, to treat its citizens as political equals, or to act coherently. How are we to reconcile every person’s entitlement to freedom with the necessity of coercive law? Applbaum’s answer is that a government legitimately governs its citizens only if the government is a free group agent constituted by free citizens. To be a such a group agent, a government must uphold three principles. The liberty principle, requiring that the basic rights of citizens be secured, is necessary to protect against inhumanity, a tyranny in practice. The equality principle, requiring that citizens have equal say in selecting who governs, is necessary to protect against despotism, a tyranny in title. The agency principle, requiring that a government’s actions reflect its decisions and its decisions reflect its reasons, is necessary to protect against wantonism, a tyranny of unreason. Today, Applbaum writes, the greatest threat to the established democracies is neither inhumanity nor despotism but wantonism, the domination of citizens by incoherent, inconstant, and incontinent rulers. A government that cannot govern itself cannot legitimately govern others.

Author : Lynn T. White
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812569349

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Legitimacy by Lynn T. White Pdf

This book documents the bases for a new view of legitimacy in general and in various parts of Asia, including China, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. The authors see legitimacy anywhere as always partial, rather than total, and somewhat measurable.

Author : A. Hurrelmann,S. Schneider,J. Steffek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230598393

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Legitimacy in an Age of Global Politics by A. Hurrelmann,S. Schneider,J. Steffek Pdf

In spite of the lack of plausible alternatives to liberal democracy, the age of globalization has ushered in serious challenges to the democratic legitimacy of the nation state. The contributors in this collection explore the frontiers of normative and empirical legitimacy research, drawing upon a range of key conceptual and methodological issues.

Author : Allen E. Buchanan
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199297986

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Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-determination by Allen E. Buchanan Pdf

This book articulates a systematic vision of an international legal system grounded in the commitment to justice for all persons. It provides a probing exploration of the moral issues involved in disputes about secession, ethno-national conflict, 'the right of self-determination of peoples,'human rights, and the legitimacy of the international legal system itself. Buchanan advances vigorous criticisms of the central dogmas of international relations and international law, arguing that the international legal system should make justice, not simply peace, among states a primary goal, andrejecting the view that it is permissible for a state to conduct its foreign policies exclusively according to what is in the 'the national interest'. He also shows that the only alternatives are not rigid adherence to existing international law or lawless chaos in which the world's one superpowerpursues its own interests without constraints. This book not only criticizes the existing international legal order, but also offers morally defensible and practicable principles for reforming it. Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination will find a broad readership in political science,international law, and political philosophy. Oxford Political Theory presents the best new work in political theory. It is intended to be broad in scope, including original contributions to political philosophy and also work in applied political theory. The series contains works of outstanding quality with no restrictions as to approach orsubject matter. Series Editors: Will Kymlicka, David Miller, and Alan Ryan

Author : Michael Zürn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192551801

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A Theory of Global Governance by Michael Zürn Pdf

This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a normative and institutional structure dominated by hierarchies and power inequalities and therefore inherently creates contestation, resistance, and distributional struggles. Within an ambitious and systematic new conceptual framework, the theory makes four key contributions. Firstly, it reconstructs global governance as a political system which builds on normative principles and reflexive authorities. Second, it identifies the central legitimation problems of the global governance system with a constitutionalist setting in mind. Third, it explains the rise of state and societal contestation by identifying key endogenous dynamics and probing the causal mechanisms that produced them. Finally, it identifies the conditions under which struggles in the global governance system lead to decline or deepening. Rich with propositions, insights, and evidence, the book promises to be the most important and comprehensive theoretical argument about world politics of the 21st century.

Author : Carolien van Ham,Jacques Thomassen,Kees Aarts,Rudy Andeweg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192512437

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Myth and Reality of the Legitimacy Crisis by Carolien van Ham,Jacques Thomassen,Kees Aarts,Rudy Andeweg Pdf

Theories about the decline of legitimacy or a legitimacy crisis are as old as democracy itself. Yet, representative democracy still exists, and the empirical evidence for a secular decline of political support in established democracies is limited, questionable, or absent. This lack of conclusive evidence calls into question existing explanatory theories of legitimacy decline. How valid are theories of modernization, globalization, media malaise, social capital, and party decline, if the predicted outcome (i.e. secular decline of political support) does not occur? And which (new) explanations can account for the empirical variation in political support in established democracies? This book systematically evaluates the empirical evidence for legitimacy decline in established democracies, the explanatory power of theories of legitimacy decline, and promises new routes in investigating and assessing political legitimacy. In doing so, the book provides a broad and thorough reflection on the state of the art of legitimacy research, and outlines a new research agenda on legitimacy.

Author : David Miller
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191577864

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Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by David Miller Pdf

This book introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy. It starts by explaining why the subject is important and how it tackles basic ethical questions such as 'how should we live together in society?' It looks at political authority, the reasons why we need politics at all, the limitations of politics, and whether there are areas of life that shouldn't be governed by politics. It explores the connections between political authority and justice, a constant theme in political philosophy, and the ways in which social justice can be used to regulate rather than destroy a market economy. David Miller discusses why nations are the natural units of government and whether the rise of multiculturalism and transnational co-operation will change this: will we ever see the formation of a world government? ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.