Power and Legitimacy - Challenges from Russia - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0415677769 ISBN 13: 9780415677769

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Riassunto

This book sheds new light on the continuing debate within political thought as to what constitutes power, and what distinguishes legitimate from illegitimate power. It does so by considering the experience of Russia, a polity where experiences of the legitimacy of power and the collapse of power offer a contrast to Western experiences on which most political theory, formulated in the West, is based. The book considers power in a range of contexts – philosophy and discourse; the rule of law and its importance for economic development; the use of culture and religion as means to legitimate power; and liberalism and the reasons for its weakness in Russia. The book concludes by arguing that the Russian experience provides a useful lens through which ideas of power and legitimacy can be re-evaluated and re-interpreted, and through which the idea of "the West" as the ideal model can be questioned.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Per-Arne Bodin is Professor of Slavic Languages at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Stefan Hedlund is Professor of Russian Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Elena Namli is Professor of Ethics at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415677769
• ISBN 13: 9780415677769
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Redattore: Bodin Per-Arne, Hedlund Stefan, Namli Elena
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania