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Explicating social action: arguing or bargaining
Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - RECON - 2009
Jon Elster has a clear view of the role of norms and impartiality in collective decision making processes, but does not ascribe to them the power to explain action. Hence, the paradox: If it is only public reasons that can justify outcomes, how can private desires be the causes of the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087425
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The dynamics of legitimation - Why the study of political legitimacy needs more realism
Gaus, Daniel - RECON - 2011
The paper suggests a practice turn in the analysis of political legitimacy. Current social science research on … political legitimacy suffers twofold. First, it shows an undue (silent) impact of an ethics-first perspective. Second, empirical … approaches to political legitimacy mostly focus on societal constellations of citizens’ beliefs. The dynamic character of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644125
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Adversary or ‘depoliticized’ institution? Democratizing the Constitutional Convention
Hüller, Thorsten - RECON - 2007
legitimacy-trap. An elected convention would probably be more democratic, because such an institution would be more public as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040501
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Assessing democratic legitimacy from a deliberative perspective: An analytical framework for evaluating the EU’s second pillar decision-making system
Stie, Anne Elizabeth - RECON - 2007
In this article, I outline an analytical framework allowing for an assessment of the democratic legitimacy of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040519
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On Political Representation: Myths and Challenges
Johannes Pollak, Jozef Bátora, Monika Mokre, Emmanuel … - RECON - 2009
In this paper we critically reassess the standard account of political representation, in order to question the mythical foundation of its premises and explain why it can no longer serve as an adequate explanatory framework in the modern political context. We argue that representation was not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040530