Democratic Legitimacy: Impartiality, Reflexivity, Proximity

by Pierre Rosanvallon and Arthur Goldhammer

It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But in Democratic Legitimacy, Pierre Rosanvallon, one of today's leading political thinkers, argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. He makes the case that the sources of democratic legitimacy have shifted and multiplied over the past thirty years and that we need...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691149488
• ISBN13: 9780691149486
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"