Legality and Legitimacy: Normative and Sociological Approaches

Prof. Chris Thornhill; Dr. Samantha Ashenden

doi:10.5771/9783845222608

Summary

The question about the relation between legality and political legitimacy is both one of the basic questions of modern legal and political philosophy and one of the most important problems in theoretical sociology. This volume brings together the work of a number of internationally prominent legal theorists, political theorists, sociologists, historians and philosophers, all of whom have worked extensively on the conceptual analysis of law and power, in order to address and illuminate this central question of the social sciences. The primary objective of the book is to propose and elaborate paradigms that traverse conventional disciplinary boundaries, and to combine sociological and normative/deductive patterns of analysis in order both to capture the legitimatory foundations of modern societies and accurately to account for the transformation of the classical foundations of political legitimacy in recent decades. All chapters in the volume propose new and challenging paradigms for analyzing the legal sources of legitimate power both in the historical formation of modern societies and in the present. .

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2010
Copyright Year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-5354-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-2260-8
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Studien zur Politischen Soziologie. Studies on Political Sociology
Volume: 6
Language: English
Pages: 344
Product Type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 6
Introduction No access Pages 7 - 18
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1. The legal and sociological construction of norms No access Pages 19 - 29
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2. Legality, legitimacy and the constitution: A historical-functionalist approach No access Pages 29 - 57
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3. Legality, legitimacy and the circumstances of sociology No access Pages 57 - 79
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4. Sociology among the third-order observers in legitimation processes No access Pages 79 - 103
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5. Societal constitutionalism: Procedural legality and legitimation in global and civil society No access Pages 103 - 125
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6. The critique of instrumental reason: Between normative and sociological approaches to legitimate law No access Pages 125 - 144
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1. Legitimacy in global and international law: A sociological critique No access Pages 145 - 171
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2. Cosmopolitanism and democratic freedom No access Pages 171 - 197
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3. Political argument and the legitimacy of international law: A case of distorted modernization No access Pages 197 - 215
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4. Saving cosmopolitanism? Legality without legitimacy No access Pages 215 - 235
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5. Post-colonial legality and legitimacy: The challenge of indigenous people No access Pages 235 - 255
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6. From legitimacy to legality: The problem of the global legal form No access Pages 255 - 276
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1. Legality and legitimacy in the European Union No access Pages 277 - 291
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2. From Philadelphia to Vitoria via Bonn? Why there is no Constitutional Patriotism in the Basque Country No access Pages 291 - 307
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3. The necessary secularism of legitimate authority No access Pages 307 - 323
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4. Legitimation in terms of questioning: Integrating political rhetoric and the sociology of law No access Pages 323 - 340
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Notes on contributors No access Pages 341 - 344