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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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Celebrity, Democracy, and Epistemic Power [PDF]
, 2019 What, if anything, is problematic about the involvement of celebrities in democratic politics? While a number of theorists have criticized celebrity involvement in politics (Meyer 2002; Mills 1957; Postman 1987) none so far have examined this issue using
Archer, Alfred +3 more
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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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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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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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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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Citizen Engagement for Social and Technological Innovation in Sustainable Energy Systems
Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This study underscores the potential of citizen participation in the energy transition by providing insights to foster citizen‐driven innovation. An analysis of energy communities, one of the most dynamic innovations in the energy sector, reveals that these models can be citizen‐led initiatives regarding their operational and organizational structure ...
Ana Belén Cristóbal +3 more
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Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2018 This study analyses the extent to which the recent economic crisis influences the political attitudes that are fundamental to legitimacy of a democratic system of government.
Pasquale Colloca
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen +2 more
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The European Public(s) and its Problems [PDF]
, 2015 I present three versions –Grimm, Offe and Streeck—of a general argument that is often used to establish that the EU-institutions meets a legitimacy-disabling condition, the so called “no demos” argument (II), embedding them in the context of the ...
Mueller, Axel
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