Unsettled Legitimacy: Political Community, Power, and Authority in a Global Era

by Steven Bernstein

Globalization has challenged taken-for-granted relationships of rule at all levels. This unsettling of legitimacy raises some serious questions. Under what conditions do individuals and communities accept globalized decision making as legitimate? And what political practices do individuals and collectivities under globalization use to exercise autonomy?

To answer these questions, the contributors to Unsettled Legitimacy explore the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774817178
• ISBN13: 9780774817172
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 408 Pages