Justice, Legitimacy, and Diversity : Political Authority Between Realism and Moralism

ISBN-13: 9780415597296 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 176 str.

Emanuela Ceva;Enzo Rossi

Opis

How should the issue of the quality of democracies be addressed whether one assigned priority to the justice or legitimacy of democratic institutions? Addressing these and other topical questions, this book offers a theoretical angle from which to consider a number of pressing social and political issues.This book was previously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Justice, Legitimacy and Diversity  Emanuela Ceva and Enzo Rossi  2. Justification, choice and promise: three devices of the consent tradition in a diverse society  Gerald Gaus  3. Political legitimacy, justice and consent  John Horton  4. Justice, legitimacy and (normative) authority for political realists  Enzo Rossi  5. Just politics  Glen Newey  6. Beyond legitimacy. Can proceduralism say anything relevant about justice?  Emanuela Ceva  7. Equal respect, equal competence and democratic legitimacy  Valeria Ottonelli  8. Democratic legitimacy, legal expressivism, and religious establishment  Simon Căbulea May  9. Global justification and local legitimation  Sebastiano Maffettone

O autorze

Emanuela Ceva is Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Pavia. She has published on themes of procedural justice, pluralism and respect for dissenting minorities and she is completing a monograph on value conflicts in politics. Enzo Rossi is Senior Research Fellow in Social Philosophy at the University of Wales, Newport. His published work focuses mainly on the theoretical foundations of liberal democracy, with particular attention to problems of legitimacy and realism. He is completing a book on the liberal political tradition.