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1 online resource (xi, 232 pages) |
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Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Political Legitimacy and its Grounds -- 1. Political Legitimacy -- 1.1 What Makes Political Decisions Legitimate? -- 1.2 The Normative Concern with Political Legitimacy -- 1.3 The Meta-normative Perspective -- 2. The Political Will -- 2.1 Will-Based Conceptions of Political Legitimacy -- 2.2 Equal Political Authoritativeness -- 2.3 The Arbitrariness Objection -- 3. Political Factualism -- 3.1 Fact-Based Conceptions of Political Legitimacy -- 3.2 Making the Right Decisions -- 3.3 The Accessibility Objection |
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4. Political Cognitivism -- 4.1 Belief-Based Conceptions of Political Legitimacy -- 4.2 Cognitive Political Authority -- 4.3 The Epistemic Underdetermination Objection -- 5. A Hybrid Account of the Grounds of Legitimacy -- 5.1 Going Hybrid -- 5.2 Epistemic Constraints on the Political Will -- 5.3 Responding to Epistemic Underdetermination -- Part II. An Epistemic Theory of Political Justification -- 6. Political Deliberation -- 6.1 Justificationism about Political Legitimacy -- 6.2 Political Justification and Political Deliberation -- 6.3 Well-Ordered Political Deliberation |
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7. Epistemic Norms of Political Deliberation -- 7.1 Epistemic Accountability in Political Deliberation -- 7.2 The Justified Belief Norm -- 7.3 Procedural Epistemic Norms -- 8. Political Deference -- 8.1 What Is Political Deference? -- 8.2 When Is Political Deference Required? -- 8.3 The Limits of Political Deference -- 9. Responding to Political Disagreements -- 9.1 Political Disagreements -- 9.2 Political Disagreements and Political Justification -- 9.3 Why Democracy? -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Political decisions have the potential to greatly impact our lives. Think of decisions in relation to abortion or climate change, for example. This makes political legitimacy an important normative concern. But what makes political decisions legitimate? Are they legitimate in virtue of having support from the citizens? This is what democratic conceptions of political legitimacy maintain. And they are right to highlight that legitimate political decision-making must respect disagreements among the citizens. But what if democratic decisions fail to track what there is most reason to do? For example, what if a democratically elected government fails to take measures necessary to protect its population from threats related to climate change? In this book, I defend a hybrid conception of political legitimacy. I argue that political legitimacy doesn't just depend on respect for the political will. It also depends on responding to evidence for what there is most reason to do |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Legitimacy of governments.
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Legitimacy of governments -- Philosophy
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Legitimacy of governments
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Politics & government.
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Politics and Government.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191983580 |
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0191983586 |
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0198872402 |
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9780198872405 |
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