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Apr 29, 2010 · As mentioned above (section 2.2.), Buchanan advocates a moralized conception of legitimacy, according to which entities are legitimate if they are morally justified to wield political power. Specifically, political legitimacy requires that a minimal standard of justice is met.
- Authority
1. Legitimate Authority, de facto Authority and Political...
- Arendt, Hannah
The legitimacy of political institutions is dependent on the...
- Political Obligation
Margaret Gilbert has recently challenged this moralized...
- Locke, John: Political Philosophy
John Locke (1632–1704) is among the most influential...
- Hobbes, Thomas: Moral and Political Philosophy
Political legitimacy depends not on how a government came to...
- Feminist Political Philosophy
Audra Simpson’s Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across...
- Public Reason
Some political philosophers, for example, argue that...
- Public Justification
Political Liberalism features public justification as this...
- Authority
Two theses are defended. First, to the extent that proponents of political realism wish to hold onto a normative conception of political legitimacy, refuting wholesale the ethics first premise leads to a deadlock, since it throws the baby out with the bathwater by closing the normative space upon which their account of political legitimacy relies.
- Eva Erman, Niklas Möller
- 2015
Sep 22, 2009 · Despite these, there exists a common ground for understanding: the idea of legitimacy concerns first and foremost the right to govern. Legitimacy is the recognition of the right to govern. In this regard, it tries to offer a solution to a fundamental political problem, which consists in justifying simultaneously political power and obedience ...
Apr 13, 2013 · political legitimacy: from political moralism to political realism Before we begin our analysis of moralist and realist accounts of political legitimacy, we should first say a few words about what political legitimacy is. It is commonly described as a virtue of political arrangements or institutions and the decisions (policies, laws) made ...
Apr 17, 2024 · I approach the question in several steps. First, in section 1.2, I start from the uncontroversial idea that political legitimacy has to do with the justification of political power. This might sound innocuous, but it has some non-trivial implications—in particular, political legitimacy is not limited to coercion or the state.
An additional question is whether legitimate political authority is understood to entail political obligations or not. Most people probably think it does. But some think that the moral obligation to obey political authority can be separated from an account of legitimate authority, or at least that such obligations arise only if further conditions hold.
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Feb 10, 2014 · Biographies. Matt Sleat, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. His current research focuses on realist political thought and the challenges that it poses to liberal theory. His book, Liberal Realism, was published by Manchester University Press in 2013, and his other publications on this ...
