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Doubts About 'Democratic Legitimacy' [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 The idea of 'democratic legitimacy' is central to the Eric Heinze's book Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship. This contribution considers Heinze's elaboration of both terms in this expression, but especially his ideas about legitimacy. Commentary on Heinze segues into wider reflections on the case for democracy and, in particular, on the ...
Gardner, John
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Democratic legitimacy: Is there a legitimacy crisis in contemporary politics? [PDF]
Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 2013 Against the background of a renewed debate about democratic legitimacy, this essay discusses its conceptualization, its development over time and space, as well as its driving forces. The conceptual discussion leads to a typology of four distinct bases of democratic legitimacy.
KRIESI, Hanspeter
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On New Beginnings and Democratic Legitimacy
Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2013 This paper sets out to discuss the enigma of revolutionary new political beginnings of constitutional orders. The problem is that when a political community is constituted, the act of constituting per definition is unconstitutional or extra-legal.
Signe Larsen
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Reciprocity and the State: A Liberal Theory of Legitimacy [PDF]
, 2012 Under which circumstances is the state morally allowed to enact and uphold laws by the use of force against its citizens? This is the problem of legitimacy. In this thesis I develop and defend a theory of legitimacy based on reciprocity.
Ekstrand, David
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
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Epistemic theories of democracy, constitutionalism and the procedural legitimacy of fundamental rights [PDF]
, 2013 The overall aim of this thesis is to assess the legitimacy of constitutional laws and bills of rights within the framework of procedural epistemic democracy. The thesis is divided into three sections.
Allard-Tremblay, Yann
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Assessing the legitimacy of the EU
Interdisciplinary Political Studies, 2011 The Lisbon Treaty could not meet the demands of many as regards the issue of the EU's legitimacy and democratic governance. By analyzing the literature on the legitimacy of the EU, the article shows why the EU has to fulfill the legitimacy criteria of ...
Direnç Kanol
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Symbolic-Cognitive Proceduralism: A Model of Deliberative Legitimacy
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2015 Burkhalter et al.’s (2002) self-reinforcing model of democratic deliberation is well established, but lacks an account of legitimacy, which is a key element of most democratic-deliberative theories.
John Gastil, Robert C. Richards
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Norwegian police law, crime prevention and its (need for more) democratic legitimacy
Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2022 The article questions the democratic legitimacy of parts of contemporary Norwegian police law. The analysis focuses on the historical background of the Police Act, the lack of precise regulation of the police’s competences in general and lack of precise ...
John Reidar Nilsen
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Silva Fennica, 2011 The study explores perceived democratic legitimacy of forest-related decision-making processes in the Finnish print media discourse. The data consists of the readersâ letters in four journals (n = 530), and the comments given during the preparation of ...
Rantala, Tapio
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