Legitimate authority in democracy

Abstract

Contributions to the panel focus on issues surrounding the notion of legitimate (political) authority. While this is a genuinely theoretical issue that has received plenty of attention by political and legal philosophers, the way theorists approach the possibility of legitimate exercise of power under conditions of normative diversity could go some way towards explaining why trust in governments in liberal democracies shrinks across the world. The panel addresses several core topics in contemporary debates, such as the source of reasons for obedience, the place of emotions in public justification of authority relations, the construal of legitimate authority via Hohfeldian categories, or the normative status of scientific knowledge in a liberal democracy.

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