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With the growing fragmentation of western societies and disillusionment with the political process, the question of legitimacy has become one of the key issues of contemporary politics and is examined in this volume in depth for the first time. Drawing on ethnographic material from the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, and Africa, anthropologists and legal scholars investigate the morally diversified definitions of legitimacy that co-exist in any one society. Aware of the tensions between state morality and community morality, they offer reflections on the relationship between agency - individual and collective - and the legal and political systems. In a situation in which politics has only too often degenerated into vacuous rhetoric, this volume demonstrates how critical the relationship between trust and legitimacy is for the authoritative exercise of power in democratic societies.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Morals of Legitimacy
• Subtitle: Between Agency and the System
• Author: Italo Pardo
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274
• EAN: 9781571817853
• ISBN: 1571817859
• ID: 04819436
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Weight: 322 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 2001

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