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The dynamics of legitimation - Why the study of political legitimacy needs more realism
Gaus, Daniel - RECON - 2011
The paper suggests a practice turn in the analysis of political legitimacy. Current social science research on … political legitimacy suffers twofold. First, it shows an undue (silent) impact of an ethics-first perspective. Second, empirical … approaches to political legitimacy mostly focus on societal constellations of citizens’ beliefs. The dynamic character of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644125
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Martha Nussbaum’s Outcome-Oriented Theory of Justice: Philosophical Comments
Holst, Cathrine - RECON - 2010
critical points of the first four parts relate to European studies discussions on legitimacy in general and to RECON …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784835
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Recognition and political theory: Paradoxes and conceptual challenges of the politics of recognition
Hitzel-Cassagnes, Tanja; -Bruns, Rainer Schmalz - RECON - 2009
Both in moral philosophy more generally and in political philosophy and theory (including constitutional theory) more specifically we have been witnessing a paradigmatic challenge of the conceptual foundations of moral constructivism and political liberalism. Although building on rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469694
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Assessing democratic legitimacy from a deliberative perspective: An analytical framework for evaluating the EU’s second pillar decision-making system
Stie, Anne Elizabeth - RECON - 2007
In this article, I outline an analytical framework allowing for an assessment of the democratic legitimacy of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040519
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In Search of the European Public Sphere: Between Normative Overstrech and Empirical Disenchantment
Trenz, Hans-Jörg - RECON - 2008
which should be used to assess the legitimacy of European integration. In descriptive terms, the European public sphere is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040525
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The European democratic challenge
Menéndez, Agustín José - RECON - 2007
In this paper, I explore in a systematic manner the different components of the democratic legitimacy of the Union from … constitutional traditions of the member states, which lend democratic legitimacy to the whole European legal order. On the other hand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040531
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Explicating social action: arguing or bargaining
Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - RECON - 2009
Jon Elster has a clear view of the role of norms and impartiality in collective decision making processes, but does not ascribe to them the power to explain action. Hence, the paradox: If it is only public reasons that can justify outcomes, how can private desires be the causes of the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087425