Paradoxes of Legitimacy in Mass Democracies
The issue of establishing political legitimacy is a complicated one in political philosophy. Strengthening legitimacy is an essential task for modern democracies. The danger of underestimating the threat to the state posed by an illegitimate government becomes obvious in the context of the second ha...
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Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Faculty of Arts, Department of Political Science
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| description | The issue of establishing political legitimacy is a complicated one in political philosophy. Strengthening legitimacy is an essential task for modern democracies. The danger of underestimating the threat to the state posed by an illegitimate government becomes obvious in the context of the second half of the twentieth century. The article reveals some essential aspects of the functioning of legitimacy in modern mass democracies. The authors analyze the concept of “legitimacy”, referring to the main interpretations, and demonstrate how the distinction between the normative and descriptive concepts of political legitimacy helps us better understand legitimacy. The primary purpose is to find an approach to answering the question: What degree and form of political participation in the framework of representative democracy will satisfy the condition of legitimacy in modern regimes? |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d876dcf02f6c488c9d76d03440816cc22022-12-22T00:33:52ZcesJan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Faculty of Arts, Department of Political ScienceCentral European Journal of Politics2464-479X2021-12-0172314710.24132/cejop_2021_7Paradoxes of Legitimacy in Mass DemocraciesAlina Z. Ananieva0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2639-7256Zinaida I. Rozhkova1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4408-3103Department of History of Social and Political Thought, Faculty of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, RussiaDepartment of History of Political Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RussiaThe issue of establishing political legitimacy is a complicated one in political philosophy. Strengthening legitimacy is an essential task for modern democracies. The danger of underestimating the threat to the state posed by an illegitimate government becomes obvious in the context of the second half of the twentieth century. The article reveals some essential aspects of the functioning of legitimacy in modern mass democracies. The authors analyze the concept of “legitimacy”, referring to the main interpretations, and demonstrate how the distinction between the normative and descriptive concepts of political legitimacy helps us better understand legitimacy. The primary purpose is to find an approach to answering the question: What degree and form of political participation in the framework of representative democracy will satisfy the condition of legitimacy in modern regimes?http://www.cejop.cz/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2021_Vol-07_No-02_Art-03_Ananieva-Rozhkova.pdfpolitical legitimacypolitical philosophydemocracyconsentnormative conceptdescriptive conceptpolitical regime |
| spellingShingle | Alina Z. Ananieva Zinaida I. Rozhkova Paradoxes of Legitimacy in Mass Democracies Central European Journal of Politics political legitimacy political philosophy democracy consent normative concept descriptive concept political regime |
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| topic | political legitimacy political philosophy democracy consent normative concept descriptive concept political regime |
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