Unjust authority : justice, liberal democracy and political rule / Robert Jubb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jubb, Robert, 1981- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authority.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

'Unjust Authority' addresses a systematic weakness in contemporary political theory and philosophy. Most contemporary political theorists and philosophers are unable to explain, vindicate, or justify the authority of the liberal democratic institutions that they live under. Instead, they endorse moralist accounts of the right to rule which require governments to meet impossibly high standards to avoid condemnation as illegitimate usurpers. This is true not just of the dominant Rawlsian mainstream, but of many of its radical critics, whose membership of more critical traditions leaves them sceptical of the value of existing institutions, even where they provide stable, decent rule. The book instead provides a realist account of the authority of liberal democratic rule focused on impersonal rule and regulated democratic competition.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

The Problem

Approach and Ambitions

Outline of the Book

1 Binary Theories of Political Authority

The Special Case of a Nearly Just Society

Misplaced Moralisms

A Kind of Extortion

Conclusion

2 Nonideal Political Authority

Nonideal Theory, Practical Prescriptions, and Forms of Moralism

The Political and Institutional Life of Nondemocracies

Officer, Overseer

Murderers at the Door

(Not) In Our Name

3 Realism and Dissent

Sober and Radical Realism

Binding Public Rules

The Exception Rather than the Rule

Unconstitutional Citizenship

Dissent and Deviance

4 Liberal Democratic Authority

Open Access Orders

Liberal Democratic Authority

Rules of Order

The Politics of Faction

Judging Challenges Realistically

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 26, 2024).

ISBN:

9780198938125

0198938128

9780198938101

0198938101

OCLC:

1478699610