...Gothic fiction is bound up with the function of the paternal figure, an effect of and an engagement with a crisis in its legitimacy and authority, with tremors in its orchestration of symbolic boundaries and distinctions, with disruptions to its heterogeneous maintenance of cultural values...

...Chapter 7 considers agency within a large supranational polity. In engaging with well-known debates about the EU's supposed lack of a demos, its democratic and legitimacy deficits, and the suggested remedies, it calls for a rethink of the way notions such as democracy...

... types of taxation Privacy law privacy value legitimacy The reference list sketches a common-sense understanding of privacy. It is a long enumeration of heterogeneous components but not completely unwieldy; they have one or two things in common, structurally. It is challenging but not chaos. So why...

.... But from where do state priorities emanate? The chapter argues that state preferences are largely driven domestic legitimacy considerations, and that each of the issues embodied in TAN campaigns therefore fall within a risk probability distribution. The risk posed to Party legitimacy by state action...

... of language in the construction of legitimacy and to contribute to the procedural argument that how we arrive at decisions may be as important as the substance of those decisions. communicative imperatives critical theory emancipation justification validity claims Alexy Robert Arendt...

... with respecting individuals’ freedom by constraining political power via a series of normative and institutional mechanisms. freedom Kant I political order Rousseau J J consensus coercion legitimacy Carr E H Hampton J Macedo S Nagel T Rawls J Waldron J Larmore C Manin B Quong J reasonable...

... as unnecessarily undermining the taboo and the arms control regime that has developed around it. In effect, then, the taboo protected Assad’s legitimacy in that – as long as he did not use chemical devices – he could use any other weaponry and this would not undermine his newly strengthened position. The way...

... in some cases strengthen democratic legitimacy by ensuring that citizens' preferences are acknowledged in policies. Alaska Australia Becker Ted E democracy Hawaii Queensland Almond Gabriel Barber Benjamin Bobbio Norberto Dahl R Hirshman Albert Verba Sidney Citizen Juries Labour Tocqueville...

... enfranchise their constituency, so enfranchising the affiliates of such groups is not necessary for democratic legitimacy. The chapter identifies a framework for identifying those interest groups that are, in principle, capable of representation, and those of solidarity. It also demonstrates why...

... tensions, rampant human rights abuses, rising terrorism and crime, along with a lack of legitimacy and political inclusion, as well as an inability to exercise effective control over territory are hallmarks of failing states. Cold War legitimacy nation state non state actors Democratic Republic...

... delegated legislation judicial power judicial legitimacy The rule of law is a political ideal that legal systems can instantiate and against which they can be judged. On the one hand, those to whom the laws are addressed should be capable of following the laws. On the other hand, those in positions...

... with an overview of the case which cements the status of social and economic rights in the Irish Constitutional order, this chapter examines the potential of reinvigorating the doctrine of unspecified rights, utilising the power of Article 45 and analysing the legitimacy of the Supreme Court’s reasoning to refuse...

... be argued that the question of legitimacy is posed in respect of what liberals call the political domain, and not the relations of parents and children. Second, in the political domain, it is argued, we must appeal to the most objective moral standards, and this is because of the moral seriousness of what...

... it is developing, examining the constitutional politics of the European Union, from the Single European Act to the Treaty of Nice and beyond. The ongoing debate on the future of Europe links together the questions of democracy and legitimacy, competences and rights, and the prospects for European polity-building...

... in international politics and the limits to conceptualisations of legitimacy when it is conflated with morality or legality. The chapter identifies these thematic areas of concern and sets out the parameters of the debate concerning legitimacy in IR which leads to the argument for the need for a critical...

...The secular women's seals present the historian with unique opportunities to study the portrayal of female identity in twelfth-century England. Seals were visual representations of power, and they conveyed notions of authority and legitimacy. Women's seals have been particularly poorly served...

...This chapter highlights the importance of achieving the right balance between democracy and ecological governance. It explains that while ecological governance for sustainability must profoundly affect all and everyone in order to be successful, it cannot achieve legitimacy without offering each...

... obligations political Legitimacy International institutions Supranational Transnational Democratic authority Citizens Political responsibility Morality Duty Extra-territorial To see how a justifiable political framework must be constituted by citizenship, we start with Gewirth's premise that basic...

...This chapter reviews the literature on the struggle for legitimacy conducted by republican and loyalist former prisoners in Northern Ireland during the 1970s and 1980s. Although similar tactics were used by both sides in refusing to comply with prison authorities, the larger and more enduring...