Overview
- Addresses the prominent problem of state legitimacy and unites contributions of sociologists, political scientists and philosophers
- Provides an interdisciplinary perspective leading to a better understanding of the difficulties to legitimize a state especially in contemporary pluralistic societies
- Presents and combine innovative ideas to improve both moral and rational accounts of state legitimacy as well as inventive alternatives to ensure the stability of states; hence, the volume brings together and shows the interconnections of three major aspects of state legitimacy normally discussed separately
- The main contributions are followed by short commentaries, thus providing a critical appraisal perspective on the proposed ideas
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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State Legitimacy and the Role of Morality
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How Necessary is Morality to Legitimize a State?
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Which Role can Rationality Play for State Legitimacy?
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How to Ensure the Stability of a Legitimate State?
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Legitimization without Morality?
Editors: Jörg Kühnelt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8576-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8575-8Published: 08 August 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7917-6Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8576-5Published: 08 July 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 208
Topics: Philosophy, general, Ethics, Political Philosophy