Title Democratic legitimacy : impartiality, reflexivity, proximity / Pierre Rosanvallon ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.

Publication Info.	Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2011]
	©2011

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Description	1 online resource (vi, 235 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	pt. 1. Dual legitimacy -- pt. 2. The legitimacy of impartiality -- pt. 3. Relexive legitimacy -- pt. 4. The legitimacy of proximity.
Summary	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 to comprehend and make better use of these new sources of legitimacy in order to strengthen our political self-belief and commitment to democracy. Drawing o.
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Subject	Democracy.
	Democracy.
	Legitimacy of governments.
	Legitimacy of governments.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Added Title	Légitimité démocratique. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010054531
Other Form:	Print version: Rosanvallon, Pierre, 1948- Légitimité démocratique. English. Democratic legitimacy. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011 9780691149486 (DLC) 2010034284 (OCoLC)657270888
ISBN	9781400838745 (electronic book)
	1400838746 (electronic book)
	9780691149486
	0691149488