"This is an important and unique work in the theory and
history of democratic legitimacy. It is contextually situated but
offers general propositions about the conditions, meaning, and
institutional forms for democratic legitimacy in the twenty-first
century."--Jean L. Cohen, Columbia University"This is a
major work that deserves to have a large impact on current
political theory, and its investigation of historical episodes of
democratic legitimation make it of obvious interest to U.S. and
European historians as well."--Samuel Moyn, Columbia
University
"This is a major work that deserves to have a large impact on current political theory, and its investigation of historical episodes of democratic legitimation make it of obvious interest to U.S. and European historians as well."--Samuel Moyn, Columbia University
Pierre Rosanvallon is professor at the Collège de France and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His many books include Counter- Democracy, The Demands of Liberty, Democracy Past and Future, and The New Social Question (Princeton).
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Introduction: The Decentering of Democracies 1 Part One: Dual Legitimacy 15 Chapter One: The Legitimacy of Establishment 17 Chapter Two: The Legitimacy of Identification with Generality 33 Chapter Three: The Great Transformation 60 Part Two: The Legitimacy of Impartiality 73 Chapter Four: Independent Authorities: History and Problems 75 Chapter Five: The Democracy of Impartiality 87 Chapter Six: Is Impartiality Politics? 104 Part Three: Reflexive Legitimacy 121 Chapter Seven: Reflexive Democracy 123 Chapter Eight: The Institutions of Reflexivity 137 Chapter Nine: On the Importance of Not Being Elected 154 Part Four: The Legitimacy of Proximity 169 Chapter Ten: Attention to Particularity 171 Chapter Eleven: The Politics of Presence 187 Chapter Twelve: Interactive Democracy 203 Conclusion: The Democracy of Appropriation 219 Index 227
