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Author : Vatro Murvar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Legitimacy of governments
ISBN : OCLC:1091007734
Author : Vatro Murvar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135032227
The stature of Max Weber (1864-1920) as an interdisciplinary, historical-comparative social scientist has grown steadily. But in view of Professor Murvar, his work has been misinterpreted with remarkable frequency. The aim of this book is to put right certain misconceptions and misinterpretations of Max Weber's intellectual and scientific legacy. This book challenges assumptions about various aspects of Weber's work; the issues of modernization, evolutionary theories, world systems, growth of liberty, typologies of power structures and legitimacies, among others. As well as presenting precise criticism and appreciation of the way Weber's work has been handled by his successors, this book also details the specific advancement he himself made within the theory of liberty, legitimacy and power. There is special emphasis on how much Weber's work in these core areas has survived the test of time. This book was first published in 1985.
Author : Vatro Murvar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Legitimacy of governments
ISBN : 0415402107
Author : Lawrence Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Liberty
ISBN : 1139986325
Proposes a novel, sophisticated and realistic account of freedom as power through political representation.
Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Liberty
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024786071
Author : Arthur Isak Applbaum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674241930
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 : Lawrence Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107062962
A novel, sophisticated and realistic account of freedom as power through political representation.
Author : John RAWLS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674042605
Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.
Author : Gary Gerstle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691178219
How the conflict between federal and state power has shaped American history American governance is burdened by a paradox. On the one hand, Americans don't want "big government" meddling in their lives; on the other hand, they have repeatedly enlisted governmental help to impose their views regarding marriage, abortion, religion, and schooling on their neighbors. These contradictory stances on the role of public power have paralyzed policymaking and generated rancorous disputes about government’s legitimate scope. How did we reach this political impasse? Historian Gary Gerstle, looking at two hundred years of U.S. history, argues that the roots of the current crisis lie in two contrasting theories of power that the Framers inscribed in the Constitution. One theory shaped the federal government, setting limits on its power in order to protect personal liberty. Another theory molded the states, authorizing them to go to extraordinary lengths, even to the point of violating individual rights, to advance the "good and welfare of the commonwealth." The Framers believed these theories could coexist comfortably, but conflict between the two has largely defined American history. Gerstle shows how national political leaders improvised brilliantly to stretch the power of the federal government beyond where it was meant to go—but at the cost of giving private interests and state governments too much sway over public policy. The states could be innovative, too. More impressive was their staying power. Only in the 1960s did the federal government, impelled by the Cold War and civil rights movement, definitively assert its primacy. But as the power of the central state expanded, its constitutional authority did not keep pace. Conservatives rebelled, making the battle over government’s proper dominion the defining issue of our time. From the Revolution to the Tea Party, and the Bill of Rights to the national security state, Liberty and Coercion is a revelatory account of the making and unmaking of government in America.
Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231527538
This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. Yet in modern democratic society a plurality of incompatible and irreconcilable doctrines—religious, philosophical, and moral—coexist within the framework of democratic institutions. Recognizing this as a permanent condition of democracy, Rawls asks how a stable and just society of free and equal citizens can live in concord when divided by reasonable but incompatible doctrines? This edition includes the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," which outlines Rawls' plans to revise Political Liberalism, which were cut short by his death. "An extraordinary well-reasoned commentary on A Theory of Justice...a decisive turn towards political philosophy." —Times Literary Supplement
Author : A. John Simmons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521793653
This book contains essays by A. John Simmons, perhaps the most innovative and creative of today's political philosophers.
Author : Baogang Guo
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461633129
This book examines the new equity-enhancing politics in China in the context of Chinese traditional cognitive patterns of political legitimacy and its implication for Chinese political development in the near future. Based on an analysis of the new governing philosophy, the generation of political elite, and a new set of public policies, the book reaffirms the emergence of a new Chinese polity that infuses one-party rule with limited electoral and deliberative democracies. Unlike many scholars who perceive the contemporary Chinese history as a constant search for democracy, this book takes a very different approach. It asserts that the enduring question in political development in China today is no different from what was sought after throughout Chinese history, namely, the constant search for political legitimacy. Even though the quest for democracy is instrumental to that end, it may not ultimately lead to the embrace of a full-fledged liberal democracy. The new politics is not only a rationalization of the efficiency-based development, but also a major paradigm shift in China's developmental strategy.
Author : Matthias Brinkmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198901143
What justifies political power? Most philosophers argue that consent or democracy are important, in other words, it matters how power is exercised. But this book argues that outcomes primarily matter to justifying power.
Author : Philip Pettit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107005112
A novel, republican theory of the point of democracy, providing a model of the institutions that republican democracy would require.
Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674266568
This book consists of two parts: “The Law of Peoples,” a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993, and the essay “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited,” first published in 1997. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than fifty years of reflection on liberalism and on some of the most pressing problems of our times by John Rawls. “The Law of Peoples” extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the general principles that can and should be accepted by both liberal and non-liberal societies as the standard for regulating their behavior toward one another. In particular, it draws a crucial distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy. It explores the terms under which such a society may appropriately wage war against an “outlaw society” and discusses the moral grounds for rendering assistance to non-liberal societies burdened by unfavorable political and economic conditions. “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited” explains why the constraints of public reason, a concept first discussed in Political Liberalism (1993), are ones that holders of both religious and non-religious comprehensive views can reasonably endorse. It is Rawls’s most detailed account of how a modern constitutional democracy, based on a liberal political conception, could and would be viewed as legitimate by reasonable citizens who on religious, philosophical, or moral grounds do not themselves accept a liberal comprehensive doctrine—such as that of Kant, or Mill, or Rawls’s own “Justice as Fairness,” presented in A Theory of Justice (1971).