Contested Legitimacy

There is a growing demand to change the institutions and constitutional design as response to the impact of the electorate or other recently emerging movements supported mostly from various street protest actions or citizens rallies. Despite of how it may be difficult to bring about any general typo...

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Main Author: Jana RESCHOVÁ
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Scoala Nationala de Studii Politice si Administrative - Facultatea de Stiinte Politice 2019-12-01
Series:Perspective Politice
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Online Access:http://perspective.politice.ro/index.php/ppol/article/view/14/5
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Summary:There is a growing demand to change the institutions and constitutional design as response to the impact of the electorate or other recently emerging movements supported mostly from various street protest actions or citizens rallies. Despite of how it may be difficult to bring about any general typology of diverse motivations, forms of manifestation and outcomes they lead to, I am inclined to believe, that their objective is to challenge the institutions. The institutions are thought to fail because they cannot fully deliver legitimacy. In other words, public pronouncement of discontent over policies is easily transferred to the common disapproval of the established institutions. And the institutions that are becoming an easy target of all the malaises, even though they had been established through free and fair elections, are becoming handy victims as a result of peace-building negotiations.
ISSN:1841-6098
2065-8907