With the growing fragmentation of western societies and disillusionment with the political process, the question of legitimacy has become one of the key issues of contemporary politics and is examined in this volume in depth for the first time. Drawing on ethnographic material from the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, and Africa, anthropologists and legal scholars investigate the morally diversified definitions of legitimacy that co-exist in any one society. Aware of the tensions between state morality and community morality, they offer reflections on the relationship between agency - individual…mehr
With the growing fragmentation of western societies and disillusionment with the political process, the question of legitimacy has become one of the key issues of contemporary politics and is examined in this volume in depth for the first time. Drawing on ethnographic material from the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, and Africa, anthropologists and legal scholars investigate the morally diversified definitions of legitimacy that co-exist in any one society. Aware of the tensions between state morality and community morality, they offer reflections on the relationship between agency - individual and collective - and the legal and political systems. In a situation in which politics has only too often degenerated into vacuous rhetoric, this volume demonstrates how critical the relationship between trust and legitimacy is for the authoritative exercise of power in democratic societies.
Italo Pardo is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent.
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Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: Morals of Legitimacy: Interplay between responsibility,authority and trust Italo Pardo Chapter 2. The 'Crises of Corruption' and 'The Idea of India': A Worm's-Eye View Jonathan Parry Chapter 3. The Cherries of the Mayor: Degrees of Morality and Responsibility in Local Italian Administration Giuliana B. Prato Chapter 4. When Power Lacks Legitimacy: Relations of Politics and Law to Society in Italy Italo Pardo Chapter 5. Vigilantism, State Jurisdiction and Community Morality: Control of Crime and 'Undesirable' Behaviour When the State 'Fails' Ray Abrahams Chapter 6. Statist Imperatives and Ethical Dilemmas in the Representation of Missing Persons in Cyprus Paul Sant Cassia Chapter 7. Magnified Features: the Underdevelopment of Law and Legitimation Peter Fitzpatrick Chapter 8. A Quiet Life: Right or Duty? John Fitzpatrick Chapter 9. The Cases that were not to be: Explaining the Dearth of Case-Law on Freedom of Religion at Strasbourg Marie-Bénédicte Dembour Chapter 10. Unconventional Moralities, Tolerance and Containment in Urban Japan Tom Gill Notes on Contributors Index
Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: Morals of Legitimacy: Interplay between responsibility,authority and trust Italo Pardo Chapter 2. The 'Crises of Corruption' and 'The Idea of India': A Worm's-Eye View Jonathan Parry Chapter 3. The Cherries of the Mayor: Degrees of Morality and Responsibility in Local Italian Administration Giuliana B. Prato Chapter 4. When Power Lacks Legitimacy: Relations of Politics and Law to Society in Italy Italo Pardo Chapter 5. Vigilantism, State Jurisdiction and Community Morality: Control of Crime and 'Undesirable' Behaviour When the State 'Fails' Ray Abrahams Chapter 6. Statist Imperatives and Ethical Dilemmas in the Representation of Missing Persons in Cyprus Paul Sant Cassia Chapter 7. Magnified Features: the Underdevelopment of Law and Legitimation Peter Fitzpatrick Chapter 8. A Quiet Life: Right or Duty? John Fitzpatrick Chapter 9. The Cases that were not to be: Explaining the Dearth of Case-Law on Freedom of Religion at Strasbourg Marie-Bénédicte Dembour Chapter 10. Unconventional Moralities, Tolerance and Containment in Urban Japan Tom Gill Notes on Contributors Index
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