Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World

ISBN-13: 9780674983465 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 304 str.

Arthur Isak Applbaum

Opis

What makes a government legitimate? Arthur Isak Applbaum rigorously argues that the greatest threat to democracies today is not loss of basic rights or despotism. It is the tyranny of unreason: domination of citizens by incoherent, inconstant, incontinent rulers. A government that cannot govern itself cannot legitimately govern others.