The Grounds of Political Legitimacy

Fabienne Peter

ม.ค. 2024 · Tantor Media Inc · บรรยายโดย Eva Wilhelm

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Political decisions have the potential to greatly impact our lives. Think of decisions in relation to abortion or climate change, for example. This makes political legitimacy an important normative concern. But what makes political decisions legitimate? Are they legitimate in virtue of having support from the citizens? Democratic conceptions of political legitimacy answer in the affirmative. Such conceptions rightly highlight that legitimate political decision-making must be sensitive to disagreements among the citizens. Peter argues that the legitimacy of political decisions doesn't just depend on respect for the citizens' will; and defends a novel hybrid conception of political legitimacy, called the Epistemic Accountability conception. According to this conception, political legitimacy also depends on how political decision-making responds to evidence for what there is most reason to do. The Grounds of Political Legitimacy starts with an overview of the main ways in which philosophers have thought about political legitimacy, and identifies the epistemic accountability conception as an overlooked alternative. Considering the norms that should govern political debate, it examines the role of experts in politics, and probes the responsibilities of democratically elected political leaders and as well as of citizens.

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Fabienne Peter is a professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick, specializing in moral and political philosophy and social epistemology. She is the author of Democratic Legitimacy and coeditor of Rationality and Commitment, and Public Health, Ethics, and Equity.

Eva Wilhelm is a classically trained stage actor, with two decades of theater experience. The narrator of over one hundred audiobooks, she teaches everything from "Acting for Business Professionals" to "Voice for the Microphone" for The Shakespeare Theatre, Howard University, and other educational institutions.