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Legitimacy : the right to govern in a wanton world / Arthur Isak Applbaum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Applbaum, Arthur Isak, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Legitimacy of governments.
- Government accountability.
- Political leadership.
- Political ethics.
- Despotism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- What makes a government legitimate? Arthur Isak Applbaum rigorously argues that the greatest threat to democracies today is not loss of basic rights or despotism. It is the tyranny of unreason: domination of citizens by incoherent, inconstant, incontinent rulers. A government that cannot govern itself cannot legitimately govern others.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I. Substance and Normative Power
- PART II. Free Group Agency
- PART III. Inhumanity, Despotism, and Wantonism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780674241930
- 0674241932
- 9780674241923
- 0674241924
- OCLC:
- 1125187771
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