Morals of Legitimacy

Between Agency and the System
Herausgeber: Pardo, Italo

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781571817853
• ISBN-10: 1571817859
• Artikelnr.: 38433691

Autorenporträt

Italo Pardo is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent.

Inhaltsangabe

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