Legitimacy: The State and Beyond Wojciech 1st Edition Sadurski (Editor)

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198825269
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198825265
• Author(s): Wojciech Sadurski, Michael Sevel, Kevin Walton 

This collection brings together leading scholars of jurisprudence and political theory to probe the question of ‘legitimacy’. It offers compelling discussions that interrogate the nature of legitimacy, how legitimacy is intertwined with notions of statehood, and how it reaches beyond the state into supranational institutions and international law.

Table contents:

Part I. Theory of Legitimacy
I. The Control Theory of Legitimacy
II. Legitimate Political Authority and Expertise
III. Another Voluntarism: John Rawls on Political Legitimacy
Part II. Legitimacy of the State
IV. The Future of State Sovereignty
V. The Legitimacy of Whom?
VI. The Rule of Law and State Legitimacy
VII. The Nation State’s Legitimation in Post-National Society: A Social Systems Perspective of Values in Legality and Power
Part III. Legitimacy beyond the State
VIII. Conceptions of Public Reason in the Supranational Sphere and Legitimacy beyond Borders
IX. Who’s Afraid of Suprastate Constitutional Theory? Two Reasons to be Sceptical of the Sceptics
X. Perfectionist Liberalism and the Legitimacy of International Law
XI. Legitimacy Criticisms of International Courts: Not Only Fuzzy Rhetoric?
Index

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