Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies - Couverture rigide

Studebaker, Benjamin M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1399534688 ISBN 13 : 9781399534680

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2024

Synopsis

In this book, Studebaker develops a theory of legitimacy to explain the crisis of liberal democracy in established democracies, like the United Kingdom and the United States. In these countries there is deep dissatisfaction with political procedures, yet no credible alternatives have emerged. Without alternatives, the crisis cannot produce revolution. Instead, Studebaker suggests that the disagreements that ordinarily lead to political violence instead proliferate throughout the state and society. As the distinction between legitimacy and ideology blurs, efforts to generate legitimacy instead generate greater inequality, pluralism, and gridlock. As different factions try to save democracy in radically different ways, diverse advocates of democracy get in each other’s way and even begin to appear authoritarian to one another. In Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies, Studebaker depicts a legitimacy crisis rife with state capacity problems, in which citizens tell each other many conflicting legitimation stories as they search for ways to live with a dissatisfying political system they cannot replace. The result is a legitimation hydra – a state that is burdened by an excess of narratives, that struggles to take any action at all.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin M. Studebaker received his PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1399534688
• ISBN 13: 9781399534680
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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