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    Partisan Complicity in Democratic Backsliding.Fabio Wolkenstein - 2020 - Global Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric 12 (2):117-140.
    Recent developments in Hungary and Poland have made democratic backsliding a major issue of concern within the European Union. This article focuses on the secondary agents that facilitate democratic backsliding in Hungary and Poland: the European People’s Party, which has continually protected the Hungarian Fidesz government from EU sanctions, and the Hungarian ruling party Fidesz, which repeatedly promised to block any EU-level sanctions against Poland in the Council. The article analyses these agents’ behaviour as an instance (...)
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    What is democratic backsliding?Fabio Wolkenstein - 2023 - Constellations 30 (3):261-275.
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    The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath: On Judicially-Led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding.Rivka Weill - 2020 - The Law and Ethics of Human Rights 14 (2):227-272.
    There is renewed scholarly interest in studying the dynamics of constitutional revolutions and the explanations for the rise of constitutional courts around the world. At the same time, there is growing discussion of democratic backsliding and concern that democracies are exhibiting extremism, weakening of opposition forces and constitutional courts, and violations of civil and political rights that are pertinent to vibrant democracies. Scholars try to study both phenomena and understand the relationship between them. Israel is an important case (...)
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    Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding.Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski, Xie Libin, Haig Patapan, Gábor Halmai, Acar Kutay, Petra Guasti & William E. Scheuerman - 2023 - Contemporary Political Theory 22 (3):406-437.
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    Rights Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Democratic Backsliding and Human Rights in Hungary.Gábor Halmai - 2020 - Law and Ethics of Human Rights 14 (1):97-123.
    The Article discusses the democratic backsliding after 2010 in Hungary, and how it affected the state of human rights in the country, a Member State of the European Union. The main argument of the Article is that paradoxically the non-legitimate 1989 constitution provided full-fledged protection of fundamental rights, while the procedurally legitimate 2011 constitution-making resulted in curtailment of rights and their constitutional guarantees. The Article first describes the democratic transition that occurred in 1989–1990 as a rights revolution (...)
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    The Need for an EU Expulsion Mechanism: Democratic Backsliding and the Failure of Article 7.Tom Theuns - 2022 - Res Publica 28 (4):693-713.
    What should the EU do about the fact that some Member States are backsliding on their commitments to democracy, supposedly a fundamental value of the EU? The Treaty provisions under Article 7 TEU are widely criticized for being ineffective in preventing such developments. Are they legitimate? I argue that the ultimate sanction of Article 7 TEU falls into a performative contradiction, which undermines its ability to coherently defend fundamental values. Instead, expulsion from the EU is the appropriate, coherent and (...)
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    Containing Populism at the Cost of Democracy? Political vs. Economic Responses to Democratic Backsliding in the EU.Tom Theuns - 2020 - Global Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric 12 (2):141-160.
    This paper critically engages the legal and political framework for responding to democracy and rule of law backsliding in the EU. I develop a new and original critique of Article 7 TEU based on it being democratically illegitimate and normatively incoherent qua itself in conflict with EU fundamental values. Other more incremental and scaleable responses are desirable, and the paper moves on to assess the legitimacy of economic sanctions such as tying access to EU funds to performance on (...) and rule of law indicators or imposing fines on backsliding states. I hold such sanctions to be a priori legitimate, and argue that in some cases economic sanctions are even normatively required, given that EU material support of backsliding member states can amount to material complicity in their backsliding. However, an economic conditionality mechanism would need to be designed to minimize unjust and counterproductive effects. One way to pursue this could be to complement sanctions against the backsliding government with investment for prodemocratic actors in that state. (shrink)
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    The Machinery of International Law and Democratic Backsliding: The Problem of Term Limits.Tom Ginsburg - 2020 - Law and Ethics of Human Rights 14 (1):1-18.
    Our era is one of democratic backsliding. International courts and institutions have provided some bulwark against this trend, but we are now witnessing leaders seeking to use international law to extend their power. Courts in several countries have relied on international human rights norms to facilitate term limit extensions by leaders seeking to retain power beyond what is constitutionally allowed. This Article documents these cases and calls for a more robust and substantive international law of democracy-protection.
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    Should we be afraid? Liberal democracy, democratic backsliding, and contemporary populism.Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen - 2020 - Contemporary Political Theory 19 (S3):161-168.
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    Correction to: Carl Schmitt and Democratic Backsliding.Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski, Xie Libin, Haig Patapan, Gábor Halmai, Acar Kutay, Petra Guasti & William E. Scheuerman - forthcoming - Contemporary Political Theory:1-3.
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    The Pragmatics of Democratic “Front-Sliding”.Tom Ginsburg & Aziz Z. Huq - 2022 - Ethics and International Affairs 36 (4):437-453.
    How does a democracy that has survived a close brush with authoritarianism start to recreate conditions of meaningful democratic political competition? What steps are to be taken, and in what order? Certain lessons can be gleaned from comparative experience with the challenges of “front-sliding”—that is, the process of rebuilding the necessary political, legal, epistemic, and sociological components of democracy. This essay maps out those challenges, examines the distinctive and difficult question of punishing individuals who have been drivers of (...) backsliding, and reflects on how to sequence different elements of front-sliding. (shrink)
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    Illiberal Measures in Backsliding Democracies: Differences and Similarities between Recent Developments in Israel, Hungary, and Poland.Yuval Shany & Mordechai Kremnitzer - 2020 - Law and Ethics of Human Rights 14 (1):125-152.
    Around the world, many liberal democracies are facing in recent years serious challenges and threats emanating inter alia from the rise of political populism. Such challenges and threats are feeding an almost existential discourse about the crisis of democracy, and recent legal and political developments in Israel aimed at weakening the power of the Supreme Court and other rule of law institutions have also been described in such terms. This Article primarily intends to explore the relevance of the discourse surrounding (...)
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    Ethics and Affect in Resistance to Democratic Regressions.Fabio Wolkenstein - 2023 - Analyse & Kritik 45 (1):85-109.
    In recent times, it has become increasingly common that elected parties and leaders systematically undermine democracy and the rule of law. This phenomenon is often framed with the term democratic backsliding or democratic regression. This article deals with the relatively little-studied topic of resistance to democratic regressions. Chief amongst the things it discusses is the rather central ethical issue of whether resisters may themselves, in their attempts to prevent a further erosion of democracy, transgress democratic (...)
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    What militant democrats and technocrats share.Anthoula Malkopoulou - 2023 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 26 (4):437-460.
    In their efforts to prevent democratic backsliding, militant democrats have traditionally been sympathetic to technocratic arrangements. Does this sympathy imply a logical congruence? Comparing theories of militant democracy and epistemic technocracy (aka epistocracy), I discover a common approach to basic aspects of representative democracy. Both theories see voters as fallible or ignorant instead of capable political agents; and they both understand political parties to be channels of state rule rather than democratic expression. This shared suspicion of grassroots (...)
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    Wealth, Political Inequality, and Resilience: Revisiting the Democratic Argument for Limitarianism.Alexandru Volacu - forthcoming - Res Publica:1-19.
    In this paper I aim to provide a novel account of the Democratic Argument for limitarianism. I first claim that the standard version of this argument is questionable due to its reliance on a problematic central premise, namely that excessive wealth damages democracy because of its detrimental impact on political equality. Subsequently, I relocate the fundamental democratic worry in regard to excessive wealth in the process of backsliding, and more specifically in the relation between excessive wealth and (...)
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    Thailand's Missed Opportunity for Democratic Consolidation.Amy Freedman - 2006 - Japanese Journal of Political Science 7 (2):175-193.
    The year 1997 was critical for Thailand. A severe economic crisis hit in July calling into question years of economic growth and increasing prosperity. A few months later Thailand adopted a new Constitution that aimed at reforming the political system, and at making corruption and vote buying less prevalent. While this article shows that the economic turmoil was a prime catalyst for political change, it was not as simple as saying that public outcry over the economic crisis forced conservative parliamentarians (...)
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    Democracy and human nature: a layered system analysis.Carl Auerbach - 2023 - Journal of Critical Realism 22 (5):882-903.
    This paper addresses a question posed by the increase of democratic backsliding: whether democracy itself is compatible with human nature. It analyses democracy as a layered system consisting of three levels: the political/institutional, the social/interactional and the psychological/intrapsychic. At each level it uses evolutionary theory to describes features of a ‘light side’ of human nature that makes democracy possible, and of a ‘dark side’ of human nature that leads to democratic backsliding. At the political/institutional level these (...)
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    Ryan K. Balot.Democratic Athensi - 2009 - In Stephen Salkever (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 271.
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  19. The Week in Europe is frequently concerned with health issues. One of these appeared in July: The European Commission and the World Health Organization have agreed a strategic.Democratic Party - 2004 - Nursing Ethics 11 (6).
     
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  20. Mark Halstead.Democratic Societies - 1995 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 29 (2-3):257.
     
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    Recent Dissertations.Democratic Citizenship - 2006 - The Owl of Minerva 37 (2):237-238.
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    The Global Liberal Arts Challenge.Jonathan Becker - 2022 - Ethics and International Affairs 36 (3):283-301.
    The democratic backsliding that has accelerated across the globe over the past decade has included a rollback of liberal arts and sciences (LAS) as a system of university education. This essay explores the origins and goals of the global LAS education reform movement. I argue that while the movement is under threat largely due to its principled value of educating democratic citizens, it still has powerful potential and global impact; in part because LAS education is primarily an (...)
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  23. Needed: A Modest Proposal.We Trust‘Democratic Deliberation - forthcoming - Hastings Center Report.
     
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  24. Bruce Anderson,“Discovery” in Legal Decision-Making. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, 170 pp. ISBN 0-7923-2981-9, $105.00 (Hb). Rudolf Arnheim, The Split and the Structure. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1996, 184 pp.(indexed). ISBN 0-520-20478-6, $14.95 (Pb). [REVIEW]Democratic Peace - 1997 - Journal of Value Inquiry 31:583-587.
     
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  25. Marţian iovan.Reflections On Christian, Democratic Doctrine & Social Action - 2009 - Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 8 (23):159-165.
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  26. Subiect index.Communtari Communitarianism & Democrats Democracy - 2010 - In Otfried Höffe (ed.), Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics". Brill. pp. 89--1.
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    Proclamation on the Current State of Political Affairs (1947).China Democratic League - 2001 - In Stephen C. Angle & Marina Svensson (eds.), Chinese Human Rights Reader. M. E. Sharpe.
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    A Philosophy for Liberal Democracy.Geoffrey Thomas & Liberal Democrats Britain) - 1993
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    Democrazia Social. Intervista a Daniele Chieffi.Francesco Testini - 2019 - Biblioteca Della Libertà - Brief 2:11-20.
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  30. What science can do for democracy: a complexity science approach.Tina Eliassi-Rad, Henry Farrell, David Garcia, Stephan Lewandowsky, Patricia Palacios, Don Ross, Didier Sornette, Karim Thébault & Karoline Wiesner - 2020 - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 7.
    Political scientists have conventionally assumed that achieving democracy is a one-way ratchet. Only very recently has the question of “democratic backsliding” attracted any research attention. We argue that democratic instability is best understood with tools from complexity science. The explanatory power of complexity science arises from several features of complex systems. Their relevance in the context of democracy is discussed. Several policy recommendations are offered to help stabilize current systems of representative democracy.
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    Critical Friendship After the Pandemic.Joelle M. Abi-Rached - 2023 - Foucault Studies 35:170-191.
    Are critique and the “art of governing” antithetical? The aim of this article is to examine this tension that was laid bare by the Covid-19 pandemic by introducing “critical friendship” as a conceptual framework for a constructive interdisciplinary engagement with science in a post-pandemic era. It does so by drawing on several works and insights: (i) Michel Foucault’s notion of “critical attitude” as well as his assessment of philosophy as providing a “diagnosis of the present;” (ii) Bruno Latour and colleagues’ (...)
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    Unity through Division: Political Islam, Representation and Democracy in Indonesia.Diego Fossati - 2024 - Cambridge University Press.
    Indonesia, like many other countries around the world, is currently experiencing the process of democratic backsliding, marked by a toxic mix of religious sectarianism, polarization, and executive overreach. Despite this trend, Indonesians have become more, rather than less, satisfied with their country's democratic practice. What accounts for this puzzle? Unity Through Division examines an overlooked aspect of democracy in Indonesia: political representation. In this country, an ideological cleavage between pluralism and Islamism has long characterized political competition. This (...)
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    What science can do for democracy – A complexity science approach.T. Eliassi-rad, H. Farrell, Stephan da GarciaLewandowsky, Patricia Palacios, Don A. Ross, Didier Sornette, Karim P. Y. Thebault & Karoline Wiesner - 2020 - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 7.
    Political scientists have conventionally assumed that achieving democracy is a one-way ratchet. Only very recently has the question of ‘democratic backsliding’ attracted any research attention. We argue that democratic instability is best understood with tools from complexity science. The explanatory power of complexity science arises from several features of complex systems. Their relevance in the context of democracy is discussed. Several policy recommen- dations are offered to help stabilize current systems of representative democracy.
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    The “Era of the City” as an Emerging Challenge to Liberal Constitutional Democracy.Ran Hirschl - 2022 - Ethics and International Affairs 36 (4):455-473.
    Extensive urbanization is one of the most significant demographic and geopolitical phenomena of our time. Yet, with few exceptions, constitutional theory has failed to turn its attention to this crucial trend. In particular, the burgeoning constitutional literature aimed at addressing phenomena such as democratic backsliding, constitutional retrogression, and populist threats to judicial independence and the rule of law has failed to respond to the significance of place as an emerging cleavage in contemporary politics. An alarming disconnect has emerged (...)
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    Constituting India.Madhav Khosla - 2022 - Jus Cogens 4 (1):79-89.
    Even though revolutions are central to the history of modern constitutionalism, some revolutions have invited more attention than others. This essay, a response to a symposium on India’s Founding Moment, underlines the significance of India’s constitutional founding and highlights ways in which India’s founders sought to create and develop democracy in a land where its supposed ingredients did not exist. The essay then turns to contemporary politics and considers the possibilities and limitations of the constitutional framework to address the current (...)
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    Mixed Constitutions in East Asia: South Korea and Taiwan as Examples.Wen-Chen Chang & Yi-Li Lee - 2022 - The Law and Ethics of Human Rights 16 (2):273-294.
    The study of illiberal constitutions has recently generated enormous scholarly interests. Few, however, have focused on whether democracies may still embrace constitutionalism mixed with illiberal elements. This article explores mixed constitutions of South Korea and Taiwan, the two democracies with vibrant civil societies in East Asia. Three distinctive features in both constitutions have demonstrated illiberal elements, including duty clauses imposed upon citizens, directives requiring the State to enact laws to fulfill the goals of governance, and constitutional cultures that exhibit high (...)
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    The problem of low expectations and the principled politician.Sam Schmitt - 2023 - Economics and Philosophy 39 (2):177-198.
    Nobel laureate James Buchanan downplays any theory of ethical politicians, focusing instead on rules which economize personal restraint, setting lower moral expectations. Through a constructive critique of James Buchanan’s work, I argue these lowered expectations come at a cost: degraded character in politicians, leading to constitutional decay. Buchanan lacks a theory to address choices between (a) action which furthers the politician’s self-interest and (b) action which protects some already accepted, good rule, but which does not further their self-interest. I generate (...)
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    Critical Citizens: Attitudes towards Democracy in Indonesia and Malaysia.Juliet Pietsch & Marshall Clark - 2015 - Japanese Journal of Political Science 16 (2):195-209.
    In recent years much has been said about how new democracies are backsliding or have regressed since the turn of the century when hope and optimism about the future spread of democracy was widespread. However, ideas that democracy would spread were based on institutional and governance indicators rather than from the perspective of everyday citizens. When we look at public attitudes towards democracy during this period, we can see that such optimism was perhaps misplaced or premature. Drawing on findings (...)
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    Backsliding: Understanding Weakness of Will.Alfred R. Mele - 2012 - New York, US: Oup Usa.
    People backslide. They freely do things they believe it would be best on the whole not to do. Mele draws on work in social and developmental psychology and in psychiatry to motivate a view of human behavior in which both backsliding and overcoming the temptation to backslide are explicable.
  40. Backsliding and Bad Faith: Aspiration, Disavowal, and (Residual) Practical Identities.Justin White - 2023 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 26 (1).
    Disavowals such as "That's not who I am" are one way to distance ourselves from unsavory actions in order to try to mitigate our responsibility for them. Although such disclaimers can be what Harry Frankfurt calls "shabbily insincere devices for obtaining unmerited indulgence," they can also be a way to renew our commitments to new values as part of the processes of aspiration and moral improvement. What, then, separates backsliding aspirants from those in denial who seek unmerited indulgence? Drawing (...)
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    Has Backsliding Replaced Federal Protectionism?E. L. Pattullo - 1985 - IRB: Ethics & Human Research 7 (3):10.
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  42. Backsliding.R. M. Hare - 1963 - In Richard Mervyn Hare (ed.), Freedom and reason. Oxford,: Clarendon Press.
    Discusses an important objection to the view that moral judgements are prescriptive: the existence of cases in which people act in ways that they know to be wrong. The objection is that if moral judgements are prescriptive, it is impossible to accept a moral judgement and yet act contrary to it; therefore prescriptivism must be wrong. It is argued that cases of moral weakness do not constitute a counterexample to prescriptivism.
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  43. Backsliding: Understanding Weakness of WillBy Alfred R. Mele.J. Bransen - 2013 - Analysis 73 (3):585-587.
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    Backsliding: Understanding Weakness of Will, by Alfred R. Mele.A. W. Price - 2015 - Mind 124 (493):370-373.
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  45. Democratic Theory and Border Coercion.Arash Abizadeh - 2008 - Political Theory 36 (1):37-65.
    The question of whether or not a closed border entry policy under the unilateral control of a democratic state is legitimate cannot be settled until we first know to whom the justification of a regime of control is owed. According to the state sovereignty view, the control of entry policy, including of movement, immigration, and naturalization, ought to be under the unilateral discretion of the state itself: justification for entry policy is owed solely to members. This position, however, is (...)
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  46. Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework.David M. Estlund - 2008 - Princeton University Press.
    Democracy is not naturally plausible. Why turn such important matters over to masses of people who have no expertise? Many theories of democracy answer by appealing to the intrinsic value of democratic procedure, leaving aside whether it makes good decisions. In Democratic Authority, David Estlund offers a groundbreaking alternative based on the idea that democratic authority and legitimacy must depend partly on democracy's tendency to make good decisions.Just as with verdicts in jury trials, Estlund argues, the authority (...)
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    The Democratic Paradox.Chantal Mouffe - 2000 - Verso.
    From the theory of ‘deliberative democracy’ to the politics of the ‘third way’, the present Zeitgeist is characterized by attempts to deny what Chantal Mouffe contends is the inherently conflictual nature of democratic politics. Far from being signs of progress, such ideas constitute a serious threat to democratic institutions. Taking issue with John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas on one side, and the political tenets of Blair, Clinton and Schröder on the other, Mouffe brings to the fore the paradoxical (...)
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    Theorizing Democratization with Jiwei Ci: Notes on Method.Simon Sihang Luo - 2024 - Comparative Political Theory 4 (1):152-170.
    In both political science and political theory, democratization has largely been considered a problem for non-liberal democratic countries. Drawing on Chinese political thinker Jiwei Ci’s writings on freedom, democracy, agency, plausibility, and legitimacy, I critically reconstruct Ci’s theory of democratization and his method of theorizing. I argue that a normative account of democratization is embedded in Ci’s political thought, which is based upon a philosophical anthropology of the modern man and focuses on broadening political possibilities in a given society. (...)
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  49. Democratic Legitimacy.Fabienne Peter - 2008 - Routledge.
    This book offers a systematic treatment of the requirements of democratic legitimacy. It argues that democratic procedures are essential for political legitimacy because of the need to respect value pluralism and because of the learning process that democratic decision-making enables. It proposes a framework for distinguishing among the different ways in which the requirements of democratic legitimacy have been interpreted. Peter then uses this framework to identify and defend what appears as the most plausible conception of (...)
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  50. Democratic Legitimacy and State Coercion: A Reply to David Miller.Arash Abizadeh - 2010 - Political Theory 38 (1):121-130.
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