TY - BOOK ID - 77862511 TI - Legitimacy and politics AU - Coicaud, Jean-Marc AU - Curtis, David Ames PY - 2002 SN - 110712932X 1280432616 0511178220 0511040997 0511148704 0511330472 0511490208 0511046294 9780511040993 9780511490200 0521782619 9780521782616 9780511046292 9781280432613 9780521782616 0521787823 9780521787826 9780511178221 9780511148705 9780511330476 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Political obligation. KW - Legitimacy of governments. KW - Obligation, Political KW - Political science KW - Governments, Legitimacy of KW - Legitimacy (Constitutional law) KW - Consensus (Social sciences) KW - Revolutions KW - Sovereignty KW - State, The KW - General will KW - Political stability KW - Regime change KW - Legitimacy of governments KW - Political obligation KW - Rule of law KW - #SBIB:024.IO KW - #SBIB:324H50 KW - Supremacy of law KW - Administrative law KW - Constitutional law KW - Politieke participatie en legitimiteit (referenda, directe democratie, publieke opinie...) KW - Rule of law. KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77862511 AB - The increase in cases of political corruption, the loss of politicians' credibility, the development of social and political forms of pathology (notably the rise of the extreme right along with exclusionist ideologies), and the role of the State have been at the center of political debates. In one way or another, these problems raise the question of the legitimacy of the established powers. The result is that legitimacy, a key notion of political thought in general, has today become a burning issue. Coicaud examines all these issues and proffers insightful answers to questions such as the connections between morality and politics, how rulers acquire or lose the right to govern, and how one can become the advocate of a theory of political justice that, while establishing limits, respects and even ensures the promotion of plurality within societies. ER -