Political Alienation And Legitimacy

Author : Mabroka Al-Werfalli
Publisher : Garnet Publishing Ltd
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780863724442

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Political Alienation in Libya by Mabroka Al-Werfalli Pdf

How are legitimacy and alienation related? When citizens withdraw their loyalty from their political regime and leaders, they highlight their alienation. The link between legitimacy and alienation is that the regime's claim of legitimacy is in question when a state of political alienation prevails. This book examines the extent and effects of political alienation in Libya. It provides an insight into the political mindset of the Libyan people, leading up to the 2011 protests and the resulting civil war. Using a variety of measures, the book highlights links between legitimacy and alienation and underlines certain types of political behavior commonly associated with political alienation, drawing attention to various causes of indifference and violent behavior associated with political alienation in Libyan society. The book's findings reveal that alienation has led to wide-spread political apathy - as well as low or non-existent levels of political participation - among Libyans. Every year, the percentage of eligible Libyans involved in political activities has declined. The Basic Popular Congresses (BPCs), which work as an essential vehicle for political participation within the Libyan political regime, have been treated as immature institutions by the revolutionary leadership, who have remained, in the eyes of the people, the only actor of note. As a result, these trends are being increasingly interpreted as signs of the gradual exhaustion of a model for which there is no clear alternative in sight.

Author : David C. Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351499262

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Political Alienation and Political Behavior by David C. Schwartz Pdf

Why do people adopt attitudes of political alienation--attitudes of estrangement from, or lack of identification with, the political system? Why do some politically alienated people react to their alienation by engaging in revolutionary behavior, while others similarly alienated--become reformers or ritualists, and still others simply drop out of political activity?In Political Alienation and Political Behavior, David C. Schwartz attempts to answer these questions, challenging accepted theories of social status and economic difficulties and developing a completely new, three variable psychological theories to explain alienation. Based on observations of threat from value conflict, perceived personal inefficacy, and perceived systemic inefficacy, the theory includes a process model for predicting political behavior.The book is organized into a definition and discussion of the concept of political alienation, including reviews and critiques of relevant scholarly and popular literature; a theoretical explanation of the causes and consequences of alienation; presentation of data; research reports testing the author's explanation of political alienation; tests of a process model explaining the consequences of alienation; and a summary of the major findings of the research, indicating some of the directions that future research might profitably take.Fascinating reading for social scientists, this well-written book will be important to teachers and students concerned with U.S. politics and more generally with the relationship of economic, social, and psychological forces manifested in political behavior.

Author : Mattei Dogan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429718236

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Comparing Pluralist Democracies by Mattei Dogan Pdf

This book is an outcome of the international conference held in July 1985 at Berlin. It discusses the issues related to the legitimacy of the political regime. The book also discusses crises of legitimacy in democracy focusing on the current crisis of the welfare state.

Author : Edward N. Muller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Legitimacy of governments
ISBN : IND:39000006009315

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Political Stability and the Habit of Legitimacy by Edward N. Muller Pdf

Author : Mabroka A. Bobaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1424997666

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Political Alienation and Legitimacy by Mabroka A. Bobaker Pdf

Author : John A. Booth,Mitchell A. Seligson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139475594

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The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America by John A. Booth,Mitchell A. Seligson Pdf

Political scientists have worried about declining levels of citizens' support for their regimes (legitimacy), but have failed to empirically link this decline to the survival or breakdown of democracy. This apparent paradox is the 'legitimacy puzzle', which this book addresses by examining political legitimacy's structure, sources, and effects. With exhaustive empirical analysis of high-quality survey data from eight Latin American nations, it confirms that legitimacy exists as multiple, distinct dimensions. It finds that one's position in society, education, knowledge, information, and experiences shape legitimacy norms. Contrary to expectations, however, citizens who are unhappy with their government's performance do not drop out of politics or resort mainly to destabilizing protest. Rather, the disaffected citizens of these Latin American democracies participate at high rates in conventional politics and in such alternative arenas as communal improvement and civil society. And despite regime performance problems, citizen support for democracy remains high.

Author : Cristina Lafont
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198848189

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Democracy Without Shortcuts by Cristina Lafont Pdf

This book articulates a participatory conception of deliberative democracy that takes the democratic ideal of self-government seriously. It aims to improve citizens' democratic control and vindicate the value of citizens' participation against conceptions that threaten to undermine it. The book critically analyzes deep pluralist, epistocratic, and lottocratic conceptions of democracy. Their defenders propose various institutional ''shortcuts'' to help solve problems of democratic governance such as overcoming disagreements, citizens' political ignorance, or poor-quality deliberation. However, all these shortcut proposals require citizens to blindly defer to actors over whose decisions they cannot exercise control. Implementing such proposals would therefore undermine democracy. Moreover, it seems naive to assume that a community can reach better outcomes 'faster' if it bypasses the beliefs and attitudes of its citizens. Unfortunately, there are no 'shortcuts' to make a community better than its members. The only road to better outcomes is the long, participatory road that is taken when citizens forge a collective will by changing one another's hearts and minds. However difficult the process of justifying political decisions to one another may be, skipping it cannot get us any closer to the democratic ideal. Starting from this conviction, the book defends a conception of democracy ''without shortcuts''. This conception sheds new light on long-standing debates about the proper scope of public reason, the role of religion in politics, and the democratic legitimacy of judicial review. It also proposes new ways to unleash the democratic potential of institutional innovations such as deliberative minipublics.

Author : Richard Gunther,P. Nikiforos Diamandouros,Hans-Jürgen Puhle
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801849829

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The Politics of Democratic Consolidation by Richard Gunther,P. Nikiforos Diamandouros,Hans-Jürgen Puhle Pdf

With democracy on the rise worldwide, questions about "transition" are rapidly being replaced by questions about "consolidation." How can leaders provide for a stable democracy once a nation has made its initial commitment to the rule of law and to popularly edledted government? In The Politics of Democratic Consolidation, a distinguished group of internationally recognized scholars focus on four nations of Southern Europe—Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece—which have successfully consolidated their democratic regimes. Contributors: P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, Richard Gunther, Hans-Jürgen Puhle, Edward Malefakis, Juan J. Linz, Alfred Stepan, Felipe Agüero, Geoffrey Pridham, Sidney Tarrow, Leonardo Morlino, José R. Montero, Gianfranco Pasquino, and Philippe C. Schmitter.

Author : Murray Burton Levin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : UVA:X000859559

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The Alienated Voter by Murray Burton Levin Pdf

Author : D. Marsh,T. O ́Toole,S. Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230625631

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Young People and Politics in the UK by D. Marsh,T. O ́Toole,S. Jones Pdf

This book examines how young people understand and live politics, using innovative research methods. It treats age, class, gender and ethnicity as political 'lived experiences'. It concludes that young people are alienated, rather than apathetic, and that their interests and concerns are rarely addressed within mainstream political institutions.

Author : Anna Stilz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198833536

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Territorial Sovereignty by Anna Stilz Pdf

Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration offers a qualified defense of a territorial states-system. It argues that three core values-occupancy, basic justice, and collective self-determination-are served by an international system made up of self-governing, spatially defined political units. The defense is qualified because the book does not actually justify all the sovereignty rights states currently claim, and that are recognized in international law. Instead, the book proposes important changes to states' sovereign prerogatives, particularly with respect to internal autonomy for political minorities, immigration, and natural resources. Part I of the book argues for a right of occupancy, holding that a legitimate function of the international system is to specify and protect people's preinstitutional claims to specific geographical places. Part II turns to the question of how a state might acquire legitimate jurisdiction over a population of occupants. It argues that the state will have a right to rule a population and its territory if it satisfies conditions of basic justice and also facilitates its people's collective self-determination. Finally, Parts III and IV of this book argue that the exclusionary sovereignty rights to control over borders and natural resources that can plausibly be justified on the basis of the three core values are more limited than has traditionally been thought. Oxford Political Theory presents the best new work in contemporary 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 will contain works of outstanding quality with no restriction as to approach or subject matter. Series Editors: Will Kymlicka and David Miller.

Author : Jack Knight,Melissa Schwartzberg
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479888696

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Political Legitimacy by Jack Knight,Melissa Schwartzberg Pdf

Essays on the political, legal, and philosophical dimensions of political legitimacy Scholars, journalists, and politicians today worry that the world’s democracies are facing a crisis of legitimacy. Although there are key challenges facing democracy—including concerns about electoral interference, adherence to the rule of law, and the freedom of the press—it is not clear that these difficulties threaten political legitimacy. Such ambiguity derives in part from the contested nature of the concept of legitimacy, and from disagreements over how to measure it. This volume reflects the cutting edge of responses to these perennial questions, drawing, in the distinctive NOMOS fashion, from political science, philosophy, and law. Contributors address fundamental philosophical questions such as the nature of public reasons of authority, as well as urgent concerns about contemporary democracy, including whether “animus” matters for the legitimacy of President Trump’s travel ban, barring entry for nationals from six Muslim-majority nations, and the effect of fundamental transitions within the moral economy, such as the decline of labor unions. Featuring twelve essays from leading scholars, Political Legitimacy is an important and timely addition to the NOMOS series.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264083882

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Conflict and Fragility The State's Legitimacy in Fragile Situations Unpacking Complexity by OECD Pdf

State legitimacy matters because it transforms power into authority and provides the basis for rule by consent, rather than by coercion. In fragile situations, a lack of legitimacy undermines constructive relations between the state and society, and ...

Author : Mariano Torcal,José Ramón Montero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134297122

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Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies by Mariano Torcal,José Ramón Montero Pdf

Citizens of many democracies are becoming more critical of basic political institutions and detached and disaffected from politics in general. This is a new comparative analysis of this trend that focuses on major democracies throughout Latin America, Asia and Central Europe. It brings together leading scholars to address three key areas of the current debate: the conceptual discussion surrounding political disaffection the factors causing voters to turn away from politics the actual consequences for democracy This is a highly relevant topic as representative democracies are coming to face new developments. It deals with the reasons and consequences of the so called ‘democratic deficit’ in a systematic way that enables the reader to develop a well-rounded sense of the area and its main debates. This book is an invaluable resource for all students of political science, sociology, cultural studies and comparative politics.

Author : Barbara Casciarri,Mohamed A. Babiker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004362185

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Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan by Barbara Casciarri,Mohamed A. Babiker Pdf

Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan analyses the hybridity of law systems and the plurality of legal practices in rural and urban contexts of contemporary Sudan, shedding light on the complex relation between Islam and society.