The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy: A Study on the Political Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen

by Pedro T Magalhes

Book Overview

By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T. Magalh es shows that present-day elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse and often complicated ways, an intellectual debt to the interwar era, German-speaking, scholarly and political controversies on the problem(s) of modern democracy.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138068888
• ISBN13: 9781138068889
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"