The Clash Of Legitimacies

Author : Andrea Gamberini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192557602
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clash of Legitimacies written by Andrea Gamberini and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clash of Legitimacies makes an innovative contribution to the history of the state-building process in late medieval Lombardy (during the 13th to 15th centuries), by illuminating myriad conflicts attending the legitimacy of power and authority at different levels of society. Through the analysis of the rhetorical forms and linguistic repertoires deployed by the many protagonists (not only the prince, but also the cities, communities, peasants, and political factions) to express their own ideals of shared political life, this volume reveals the depth of the conflicts in which opposing political actors were not only inspired by competing material interests - as in the traditional interpretation to be found in previous historiography - but also often were guided by differing concepts of authority. From this comes a largely new image of the late medieval and early Renaissance state, one without a monopoly of force - as has been shown in many studies since the 1970s - and one that did not even have the monopoly of legitimacy. The limitations of attempts by governors to present the political principles that inspired their acts as shared and universally recognized are revealed by a historical analysis firmly intent on investigating the existence, in particular territorial or social ambits, of other political cultures which based obedience to authority on different, and frequently original, ideals.

Author : Paul M. Sniderman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300069815
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clash of Rights written by Paul M. Sniderman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do citizens in pluralist democracies disagree collectively about the very values they agree on individually? This provocative book highlights the inescapable conflicts of rights and values at the heart of democratic politics. Based on interviews with thousands of citizens and political decision makers, the book focuses on modern Canadian politics, investigating why a country so fortunate in its history and circumstances is on the brink of dissolution. Taking advantage of new techniques of computer-assisted interviewing, the authors explore the politics of a wide array of issues, from freedom of expression to public funding of religious schools to government wiretapping to antihate legislation, analyzing not only why citizens take the positions they do but also how easily they can be talked out of them. In the process, the authors challenge a number of commonly held assumptions about democratic politics. They show, for example, that political elites do not constitute a special bulwark protecting civil liberties; that arguments over political rights are as deeply driven by commitment to the master values of democratic politics as by failure to understand them; and that consensus on the rights of groups is inherently more fragile than on the rights of individuals.

Author : Fabienne Peter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113431924X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Legitimacy written by Fabienne Peter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a systematic treatment of democratic legitimacy, interpreted as a distinct normative concept. It defends the view that democratic legitimacy requires that decisions are made in a process that is politically and epistemically fair.

Author : Mlada Bukovansky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691146705
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legitimacy and Power Politics written by Mlada Bukovansky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty. It analyzes the impact of Enlightenment discourse on politics in eighteenth-century Europe and the United States, showing how that discourse facilitated new authority struggles in Old Regime Europe, shaped the American and French Revolutions, and influenced the relationships between the revolutionary regimes and the international system. The interaction between traditional and democratic ideas of legitimacy transformed the international system by the early nineteenth century, when people began to take for granted the desirability of equality, individual rights, and restraint of power. Using an interpretive, historically sensitive approach to international relations, the author considers the complex interplay between elite discourses about political legitimacy and strategic power struggles within and among states. She shows how culture, power, and interests interacted to produce a crucial yet poorly understood case of international change. The book not only shows the limits of liberal and realist theories of international relations, but also demonstrates how aspects of these theories can be integrated with insights derived from a constructivist perspective that takes culture and legitimacy seriously. The author finds that cultural contests over the terms of political legitimacy constitute one of the central mechanisms by which the character of sovereignty is transformed in the international system--a conclusion as true today as it was in the eighteenth century.

Author : Anthony Reid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134057083
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia written by Anthony Reid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy. Even in Asia, where such ideas have always been marginal, radical groups are taking the view that scriptural authority requires either Islamic rule (Dar-ul-Islam) or a state of war with the essentially illegitimate authority of non-Muslims or secularists. This book places the debate in a specifically Asian context. It draws attention to Asia (east of Afghanistan), as not only the home of the majority of the world’s Muslims but also Islam’s historic laboratory in dealing with religious pluralism. In Asia, pluralism is not simply a contemporary development of secular democracies, but a long-tested pattern based on both principle and pragmatism. For many centuries, Muslims in Asia have argued about the legitimacy of non-Islamic government over Muslims, and the legitimacy of non-Muslim peoples, polities and rights under Islamic governance. This book analyses such debates and the ways they have been reconciled, in South and Southeast Asia, up to the present. The evidence presented here suggests that Muslims have adapted flexibly and creatively to the pluralism with which they have lived, and are likely to continue to do so.

Author : Richard Falk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199781575
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs written by Richard Falk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Legality and legitimacy in global affairs edited by Richard Falk, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Vesselin Popovski, brings together analyses of controversial events in international politics from top experts in field ; combines approaches to involvement between nations from across the social science disciplines ; approaches contemporary international relations from a philosophical, ethical, and legal standpoint" --

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134057091
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rudolph C. Barnes Jr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136302492
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Legitimacy written by Rudolph C. Barnes Jr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the challenges faced by the US military in responding to "operations other than war" in the post-Cold War era, Rudolph Barnes makes a plea for the US government to address the "organizational bias for combat" and "narrow traditionalist view of military professionalism" within the Pentagon, which, he argues, are serious obstacles to developing an effective capabiilty for operations other than war. He draws on examples from Vietnam to the mismanagement of US military involvement in Somalia.

Author : Lawrence Rosen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000640132
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legitimacy in Crisis written by Lawrence Rosen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a case study approach to explore the crisis of legitimacy in American political culture. The question of legitimacy resides at the heart of any political system. However, understanding why an individual should recognize another’s power over them is not solely limited to the analytically political but is deeply embedded in the larger cultural context of any society. Through a series of ethnographic case studies focused on the United States – from those involving the rhetoric of presidential prophecy and abuse of power to the dispute over a local sewerage authority’s reach and a case of classroom blasphemy – the book aims to demonstrate both a ground-up approach to the problem of legitimacy and to capture some of the common cultural features that bond the examples together. The book will, therefore, be of interest to scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science, and socio-legal studies.

Author : Catherine Warrick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351922696
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law in the Service of Legitimacy written by Catherine Warrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using gender and law in the political system of Jordan as a means of investigating broader issues surrounding the relationship between culture and political legitimacy, this volume offers an in-depth treatment of the laws that define, limit and expand women's rights. Arguing that gender issues aren't simply a 'special topic' in politics, but an indicator and symbol of the character of the political system as a whole, the significance of the politics of legitimacy as played out in issues of gender and law is not only about the content of policies and competition of interests, but about the power to determine the nature of the political system itself.