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Fabienne Peter argues that political legitimacy doesn't just depend on respect for the will of the citizens. The Grounds of Political Legitiamacy compares democratic and non-democratic conceptions of legitimacy and develops a novel hybrid conception of the grounds of political legitimacy.

Thirteen leading philosophers and economists discuss the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's trenchant critique of rational choice theory, and propose their own answers to the question of how to account for the rationality of committed action. The volume concludes with a specially-written reply by Sen.

This book offers a systematic treatment of the requirements of democratic legitimacy. It argues that democratic procedures are essential for political legitimacy because of the need to respect value pluralism and because of the learning process that democratic decision-making enables. It proposes a framework for distinguishing among the different ways in which the requirements of democratic legitimacy have been interpreted. Peter then uses thi...

Offers a treatment of the requirements of democratic legitimacy. This book intends to propose a framework for distinguishing among the different ways in which the requirements of democratic legitimacy have been interpreted. It uses this framework to identify and defend what appears as the most plausible conception of democratic legitimacy.