The Right To Rule

Author : Arthur Isak Applbaum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Arianne Chernock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108484848

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The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women by Arianne Chernock Pdf

Reveals Queen Victoria as a ruler who captivated feminist activists - with profound consequences for nineteenth-century culture and politics.

Author : Gordon K. Oeste
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567557186

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Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and the Right to Rule by Gordon K. Oeste Pdf

This book explores the portrayal of the rise, reign, and demise of Abimelech in Judges 9 and asks about whose interests this portrayal may have served. The negative depiction of Abimelech's kingship in this chapter, coupled with Gideon's rejection of kingship in Judges 8:22-23, has led interpreters to view the passage as anti-monarchic. This perspective clashes with the pro-monarchic stance of Judges 17-21. However, while the portrayal of Abimelech's kingship is negative, it may yet have served as a legitimation strategy for the monarchy. In support, this study examines Judges 9 through three methodological lenses: a narrative analysis, a rhetorical analysis and a social scientific analysis. In addition, anthropological data on early and developing states shows that such states attempt to prevent fissioning (the tendency inherent within political systems to break up and form other similar units) by subverting local leaders, groups, and institutions, and so legitimate the centralization of power. When read in this light, Judges 9 supports monarchic interests by seeking to subvert localized rule and alliances in favor of a centralized polity.

Author : Bruce Gilley
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231511256

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The Right to Rule by Bruce Gilley Pdf

Popular perceptions of a state's legitimacy are inextricably bound to its ability to rule. Vast military and material reserves cannot counter the power of a citizen's belief, and the more widespread the crisis of a state's legitimacy, the greater the threat to its stability. Even such established democracies as France and India are losing their moral claims over society, while such highly illiberal states as China and Iran enjoy strong showings of public support. Through a remarkable fusion of empirical research and theory, Bruce Gilley makes clear the link between political consent and political rule. Fixing a definition of legitimacy that is both general and particular, he is able to study the role of legitimacy as it has been maintained and lost in a diverse selection of societies. He begins by detailing the origins of state legitimacy and the methods governments have used to wield it best. He then considers the habits of less successful states, exploring how the process works across different styles of government. Gilley's unique approach merges a broad study of legitimacy and performance in seventy-two states with a detailed empirical analysis of the mechanisms of legitimation. The results are tested on a case study of Uganda, a country that, after 1986, began to recover from decades of civil war. Considering a range of explanations of other domestic and international phenomena as well, Gilley ultimately argues that, because of its evident real-world importance, legitimacy should occupy a central place in political analysis.

Author : Reinhard Bendix
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520040902

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Kings Or People by Reinhard Bendix Pdf

"It is difficult to decide which is the more impressive: the authority and control with which Mr. Bendix writes of the traditions, the institutions, and the technological and social developments of cultures as diverse as the British, French, German, Russian, and Japanese, or the skill with which he weaves his separate stories into a persuasive scenario of the modern revolution. A remarkable achievement."--Gordon A. Craig, Stanford University ""Kings or People" is equal to the grandeur of its subject: the political origins of the modern world. With Barrington Moore's "Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy" and Immanuels Wallerstein's "The Modern World System" which it matches in boldness, while differing radically in perspective, it is one of the truly powerful ventures in comparative historical sociology to have appeared in recent years."--Clifford Geertz "A brilliant achievement that will be equally fascinating for the general reader, the student, and the specialized scholar."--Henry W. Ehrmann

Author : John Sage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Episcopacy
ISBN : HARVARD:AH4EAW

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The Works of the Right Rev. John Sage, a Bishop of the Church in Scotland by John Sage Pdf

Author : Milena Sterio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780415668187

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The Right to Self-determination Under International Law by Milena Sterio Pdf

Presents the legal cases for self-determination in East Timor, Kosovo, Chechnya, Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia) and in South Sudan.

Author : Jackney Sneeb
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412247955

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There's No Government Like No Government by Jackney Sneeb Pdf

There's No Government Like No Government celebrates the belief in the human spirit unmolested by state-worship. It extols the value of individual judgment, based on perceptions, experience, and reason, and in the process derisively mocks the mindless blind faith in the inherent righteousness of the law. It excoriates the belief that politicians ought to have, or even could have, the ability to alter morality simply by scribbling some words on a piece of paper. It offers a systematic approach to debunking the myth of the state using a logical analysis of the concept of "government," in tandem with extracts of debates between the defenders of liberty and various authoritarians. The sheep themselves reveal the bogus nature of the supposed authority of all rulers, be they elected democratically or chosen otherwise, in their downright insane descriptions of "government." Variously described as "General Motors," or "a group of people we elect to guarantee our rights," or the agency that "doesn't have to be morally correct - that's why it is government," the insane belief deserves to be smashed, and this book is dedicated to doing exactly that. Keep it on your coffee table, in plain sight for all the state-worshipping control freaks to see, to be used as your answer when asked, "Who did you vote for?"

Author : André De Guillaume
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1741147069

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How to Rule the World by André De Guillaume Pdf

Simple, direct and delightfully unprincipled, this is the essential book for the briefcase, handbag or knapsack of any aspiring world leader.

Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 2193 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845407810

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Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings Collection by Michael Oakeshott Pdf

A collection of 6 volumes of Oakeshott's work: Notebooks, 1922-86, Early Political Writings 1925-30, The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence, Vocabulary of a Modern European State, Lectures in the History of Political Thought, and What is History?

Author : Robert E. Goodin,Robert Edward Goodin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199547944

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Innovating Democracy by Robert E. Goodin,Robert Edward Goodin Pdf

In recent years democratic theory has taken a deliberative turn. Instead of merely casting the occasional ballot, deliberative democrats want citizens to reason together. They embrace 'talk as a decision procedure'. But of course thousands or millions of people cannot realistically talk to one another all at once. When putting their theories into practice, deliberative democrats therefore tend to focus on 'mini-publics', usually of a couple dozen to a couple hundred people. The central question then is how to connect micro-deliberations in mini-publics to the political decision-making processes of the larger society. In Innovating Democracy, Robert Goodin surveys these new deliberative mechanisms, asking how they work and what we can properly expect of them. Much though they have to offer, they cannot deliver all that deliberative democrats hope. Talk, Goodin concludes, is good as discovery procedure but not as a decision procedure. His slogan is, 'First talk, then vote'. Micro-deliberative mechanisms should supplement, not supplant, representative democracy. Goodin goes on to show how to adapt our thinking about those familiar institutions to take full advantage of deliberative inputs. That involves rethinking who should get a say, how we hold people accountable, how we sequence deliberative moments and what the roles of parties and legislatures can be in that. Revisioning macro-democratic processes in light of the processes and promise of micro-deliberation, Innovating Democracy provides an integrated perspective on democratic theory and practice after the deliberative turn.

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780143193234

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The Rule of Three: Fight for Power by Eric Walters Pdf

In a world gone dark, life goes on for Adam and his fortified neighborhood of Eden Mills—even if the extreme steps taken by his battle-hardened mentor Herb, his police chief mom, and the other leaders in the name of security and survival are increasingly wrenching and questionable. But with renewed determination, Adam will follow Herb’s lead: he’ll do what it takes, he’ll make sense of having had to defeat the enemy in such awful ways. All that matters is that their suburban home is safe again—in a blackened world that still feels like a place worth living in. So when the next threat, more deadly and dangerous for being so unexpected, comes from within the walls, Adam isn’t ready for it. And soon the very person in whom this sixteen-year-old has placed all his hopes will pay the price, because of Adam’s mistakes, and mistaken trust.

Author : Randall P. Peerenboom
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415326125

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Asian Discourses of Rule of Law by Randall P. Peerenboom Pdf

Rule of law, one of the pillars of the modern world, has emerged in Western liberal democracies. This book considers how rule of law is viewed and implemented in the different cultural, economic and political context of Asia.

Author : Ana S. Iltis,Douglas MacKay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 937 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190947750

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The Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics by Ana S. Iltis,Douglas MacKay Pdf

The development of new pharmaceutical products and behavioral interventions aimed at improving people's health, as well as research that assesses the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of public policies, such as policies designed to improve children's education or reduce poverty, depends on research conducted with human participants. It is imperative that research with human subjects is conducted in accordance with sound ethical principles and regulatory requirements. Featuring 45 original essays by leading research ethicists, The Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics offers a critical overview of the ethics of human subjects research within multiple disciplines and fields, including biomedicine, public health, psychiatry, sociology, political science, and public policy.

Author : DAVID. WALL SOBEL (STEVEN.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198909460

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Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 10 by DAVID. WALL SOBEL (STEVEN.) Pdf

This is the tenth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The series aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in the vibrant field of political philosophy and its closely related subfields, including jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory.