Jean-Marc Coicaud

Legitimacy and Politics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recently corruption, extremism and public distrust have raised questions over political legitimacy. In this book, Coicaud examines these issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9780521782616
• ISBN-10: 0521782619
• Artikelnr.: 35023424

Autorenporträt

Jean-Marc Coicaud is Senior Academic Officer on the Peace and Governance Program of the United Nations University (Tokyo).

Inhaltsangabe

1. What is political legitimacy?
2. Controversies around political legitimacy
3. Modernity, rationality of the social sciences and legitimacy
4. Social sciences, historicity and truth
5. Study of politics, relation to history and de jure judgment
6. Community experience, dynamic of possibilities and political legitimacy.