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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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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
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
Dates:
DateEvent
October 2020Published
20 July 2020Available
19 February 2020Accepted
20 September 2019Updated
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
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): 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
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Copyright Holders: American Philosophical Association
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