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Legitimacy and politics : a contribution to the study of political right and political responsibility /

Coicaud, Jean-Marc.

Legitimacy and politics : a contribution to the study of political right and political responsibility / Jean-Marc Coicaud ; translated and edited by David Ames Curtis. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002. - xxvii, 259 p. ; 24 cm.

1. What is political legitimacy?;
2. Controversies around political legitimacy;
3. Modernity, rationality of the social sciences, and legitimacy;
4. Social sciences, historicity, and truth;
5. Study of politics, relation to history, and de jure judgement;
6. Community experience, dynamic of possibilities, and political legitimacy.



Translated from the French.

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Legitimacy of governments.
Political obligation.
Rule of law.

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