The legitimacy of political regimes and self-understanding of citizens
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://reflexe.flu.cas.cz/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Refl_2020_58_0029.pdf" target="_blank" >http://reflexe.flu.cas.cz/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Refl_2020_58_0029.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/25337637.2020.21" target="_blank" >10.14712/25337637.2020.21</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
čeština
Original language name
Legitimita politické moci a sebeporozumění občanů
Original language description
The legitimacy of political regimes does not lie only in the manner in which these regimes use their power. A key role is played by the way these regimes are perceived by their populations. Following this insight, the paper defends and elaborates one necessary condition of legitimacy of every political regime: the justification of power provided by the regime must „make sense“to the citizens. This „making sense“can be best understood as a correspondence between the proposed justification of political authority and the citizens' understanding of themselves. In other words, a political regime „makes sense“to its population only if it resonates with their conception of themselves and their role in the society. The paper then analyses the possible correspondence between the Rawlsian conception of liberal self-understanding, where citizens view themselves as „self-authenticating sources of valid moral claims“, and the legitimacy of contemporary democratic societies. This perspective reveals the sources of deep egalitarian assumptions behind the legitimation frameworks of contemporary societies, as well as the necessary limitations of power of contemporary states. The correspondence between our self-understanding and the legitimacy of the present-day states also reveals the fundamental importance of the human rights framework in current political life. © 2020 Oikoymenh. All rights reserved.
Czech name
Legitimita politické moci a sebeporozumění občanů
Czech description
The legitimacy of political regimes does not lie only in the manner in which these regimes use their power. A key role is played by the way these regimes are perceived by their populations. Following this insight, the paper defends and elaborates one necessary condition of legitimacy of every political regime: the justification of power provided by the regime must „make sense“to the citizens. This „making sense“can be best understood as a correspondence between the proposed justification of political authority and the citizens' understanding of themselves. In other words, a political regime „makes sense“to its population only if it resonates with their conception of themselves and their role in the society. The paper then analyses the possible correspondence between the Rawlsian conception of liberal self-understanding, where citizens view themselves as „self-authenticating sources of valid moral claims“, and the legitimacy of contemporary democratic societies. This perspective reveals the sources of deep egalitarian assumptions behind the legitimation frameworks of contemporary societies, as well as the necessary limitations of power of contemporary states. The correspondence between our self-understanding and the legitimacy of the present-day states also reveals the fundamental importance of the human rights framework in current political life. © 2020 Oikoymenh. All rights reserved.
Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000425" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000425: Centre for Ethics</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Reflexe : filosofický časopis
ISSN
0862-6901
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2020
Issue of the periodical within the volume
58
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
29-51
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85092916643