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Will and Political Legitimacy

Dr Patrick Riley

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  • 289 sidor
  • 1982
At the heart of representative government is the question: "What makes government and its agents legitimate authorities?" The notion of consent to a social contract between the citizen and his government is central to this problem. What are the functions of public authority? What are the people's rights in a self-governing and representative state? Patrick Riley presents a comprehensive historical analysis of the meaning of contract theory and a testing of the inherent validity of the ideas of consent and obligation. He uncovers the critical relationship between the act of willing and that of consenting in self-government and shows how "will" relates to political legitimacy. His is the first large-scale study of social contract theory from Hobbes to Rawls that gives "will" the central place it occupies in contractarian thinking.

  • Författare: Dr Patrick Riley
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780674435490
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 289
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1982-02-01
  • Förlag: Harvard University Press