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All Male Panels? Representation and Democratic Legitimacy
American Journal of Political Science, 2018 What does women’s presence in political decision-making bodies signal to citizens? Do these signals differ based on the body’s policy decisions? And do women and men respond to women’s presence similarly? Though scholars have demonstrated the substantive
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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.
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Essay on legitimacy and democracy [PDF]
Izzivi Prihodnosti, 2017 Purpose and Originality: The aim of the paper is to deeply analyze a concept of legitimacy. Based on the classical works of Lipset and Habermas, the paper discusses conditions, efficiency, and presumptions on which a modern democratic political system ...
Patricia Kaplanova
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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 ...
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Fake news, French Law and democratic legitimacy: lessons for the United Kingdom?
Journal of Media Law, 2019 The United Kingdom is currently examining far-reaching regulatory proposals designed to address the online transmission of harmful content, including disinformation. Of particular interest, therefore, is French Law no. 2018–1202 on the ‘fight against the
Rachael Craufurd Smith
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Does Democratic Legitimacy Have a Boundary Problem? Not if You’re a Realist
Političke PerspektiveAbizadeh has argued that when democratic theory defines the people who comprise a demos, the character of that theory is self-referential because the democratic principle of legitimacy invokes the same people over whom democratic rule is exercised.
Jan Rodin
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Democratic legitimacy of the supranational power
Estudios de Deusto, 2014 This article analyzes critically the different doctrinal justification of the legitimacy of the supranational power, using the EU as the reference example. The aim of this paper is to establish to what extent each one of the models respect the democratic
Miryam Rodríguez-Izquierdo Serrano
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Political Legitimacy in the Democratic View: The Case of Climate Services
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2020 Wendy S. Parker and I have advanced an inductive-risk approach to the provision of climate information that relies on the contextual values of information users.
Greg Lusk
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Measuring democratic legitimacy within regional organizations - a member states’ perspective
Frontiers in Political ScienceSince the 1990s, the number and international authority of regional organizations (ROs) have increased significantly. Former national decisions are increasingly being taken at the regional level, affecting governance in (democratically constituted ...
Andrea Zeller
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Does Regulating Hate Speech Undermine Democratic Legitimacy? A Cautious ‘No’
Res Publica, 2019 This paper critiques the version of the argument that the regulation of hateful speech by the state undermines its democratic legitimacy made by Ronald Dworkin and James Weinstein (hereafter the Legitimacy Argument).
A. Reid
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