Legitimacy: The Right to Govern in a Wanton World

Harvard University Press (2019)
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What makes a government legitimate? Arthur Isak Applbaum rigorously argues that the greatest threat to democracies today is not loss of basic rights or despotism. It is the tyranny of unreason: domination of citizens by incoherent, inconstant, incontinent rulers. A government that cannot govern itself cannot legitimately govern others.

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9780674241923   0674983467   0674241924

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10.4159/9780674241923

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