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The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy
Pedro T. Magalhães
2020
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By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T. Magalhães shows that present-day elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse and often complicated ways, an intellectual debt to the interwar era, German-speaking, scholarly and political controversies on the problem(s) of modern democracy. A discussion of Weber’s ambivalent diagnosis of modernity and his elitist views on democracy, as they were elaborated especially in the 1910s, sets the groundwork for the study. Against that backdrop, Schmitt’s interwar political thought is interpreted as a form of neo-authoritarian populism, whereas Kelsen evinces robust, though not entirely unproblematic, pluralist consequences. In the conclusion, the author draws on Claude Lefort’s concept of indeterminacy to sketch a potentially more fruitful way than can be gleaned from the interwar German discussions of conceiving the nexus between the elitist, populist and pluralist faces of modern democracy. The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy will be of interest to political theorists, political philosophers, intellectual historians, theoretically oriented political scientists, and legal scholars working in the subfields of constitutional law and legal theory. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315157566, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
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Keywords
- Als Beruf
- Basic Sociological Terms
- Carl Schmitt
- Continental Constitutional Law
- Empirical Democratic Theory
- Full Fledged Democratization
- Hans Kelsen
- Kelsen’s Pure Theory
- Kelsen’s Theory
- Legal Theory
- Liberalism
- Max Weber
- Max Weber’s Sociology
- Modern Democratic Rule
- Political legitimacy
- Political Philosophy
- political theology
- political theory
- Politik Als Beruf
- Schmitt’s Constitutional Theory
- Social and Political Thought
- Sonderweg Thesis
- sovereignty
- Stinnes Legien Agreement
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory
- thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy
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DOI: 10.4324/9781315157566Editions