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Peter, Fabienne (2019) Legitimate political authority and expertise. In: Sadurski, Wojciech and Sevel, Michael and Walton, Kevin, (eds.) Legitimacy : the state and beyond. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, pp. 32-42. ISBN 9780198825265
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Abstract
Can legitimate political authority be based on expertise? Stephen Darwall has argued that it cannot. According to Darwall, legitimate political authority requires a mode of justification involving mutual accountability, which is exemplified by public reason. Darwall has objected to the influential Razian account of legitimate political authority that it conflates expertise and legitimate political authority. In a first move, this chapter defends Raz’ account against Darwall’s objection and argues that expertise can be a ground of legitimate political authority. It also argues that mutual accountability remains important for political legitimacy, however. That is because political decisions often concern complex issues on which sufficiently robust expertise is not available.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Oxford, United Kingdom | ||||||
ISBN: | 9780198825265 | ||||||
Book Title: | Legitimacy : the state and beyond | ||||||
Editor: | Sadurski, Wojciech and Sevel, Michael and Walton, Kevin | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 April 2019 | ||||||
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Number of Pages: | 272 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 32-42 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | "This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Peter, Fabienne (2019) Legitimate political authority and expertise. In: Sadurski, Wojciech and Sevel, Michael and Walton, Kevin, (eds.) Legitimacy : the state and beyond. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, pp. 32-42. ISBN 9780198825265, which has been published in final form at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/legitimacy-9780198825265?cc=gb&lang=en&. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions." | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 November 2018 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 April 2020 | ||||||
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