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Title:
Democratic legitimacy : impartiality, reflexivity, proximity
Author:
Rosanvallon, Pierre, 1948-
ISBN:
9781400838745
Uniform Title:
Légitimité démocratique. English
Publication Information:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 235 pages)
Abstract:
It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But in Democratic Legitimacy, Pierre Rosanvallon, one of today's leading political thinkers, argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. He makes the case that the sources of democratic legitimacy have shifted and multiplied over the past thirty years and that we need to comprehend and make better use of these new sources of legitimacy in order to strengthen our political self-belief and commitment to democracy. Drawing o.
Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7stdcCopies:
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