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Peter, Fabienne (2020) The grounds of political legitimacy. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 6 (3). pp. 372-390. doi:10.1017/apa.2020.6
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2020.6
Abstract
The debate over rival conceptions of political legitimacy tends to focus on first-order considerations—for example, on the relative importance of procedural and substantive values. In this essay, I argue that there is an important, but often overlooked, distinction among rival conceptions of political legitimacy that originates at the meta-normative level. This distinction, which cuts across the distinctions drawn at the first-order level, concerns the source of the normativity of political legitimacy, or, as I refer to it here, the grounds of political legitimacy. If we focus on the grounds of political legitimacy, there are three main conceptions of political legitimacy: will-based, belief-based, and fact-based conceptions. I present an objection to each of those main conceptions and defend a hybrid account of the grounds of political legitimacy.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2053-4477 | ||||||||||
| Official Date: | October 2020 | ||||||||||
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| Volume: | 6 | ||||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 372-390 | ||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/apa.2020.6 | ||||||||||
| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | This article has been accepted for publication in a revised form for publication in Journal of the American Philosophical Association https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-american-philosophical-association | ||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | American Philosophical Association | ||||||||||
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