scholarly journals Review: Neighborhood Revitalization and the Postindustrial City: A Multinational Perspective, Electoral Change in Western Democracies: Patterns and Sources of Electoral Volatility, Progress in Planning, Volume 24, Part 3. The New Urban Studies in Literature: A Review with Special Reference to Australia, Policy and Politics. Environmental Policy and Politics, Intergovernmental Finance in Colombia: Final Report of the Mission on Intergovernmental Finance, Women's Rights at Work: Campaigns and Policy in Britain and the United States

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-496
Author(s):  
B T Robson ◽  
R J Johnston ◽  
P L Knox ◽  
J Fernie ◽  
R J Bennett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Neighborhood Revitalization ◽  
Electoral Volatility ◽  
Postindustrial City ◽  
Electoral Change ◽  
Western Democracies

Democratic Legitimacy

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Rosanvallon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
International Debate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Democratic Authority ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Western Democracies

It's a commonplace occurrence that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But this book argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. The book makes the case that the sources of democratic legitimacy have shifted and multiplied over the past thirty years and that we need to comprehend and make better use of these new sources of legitimacy in order to strengthen our political self-belief and commitment to democracy. Drawing on examples from France and the United States, the book notes that there has been a major expansion of independent commissions, NGOs, regulatory authorities, and watchdogs in recent decades. At the same time, constitutional courts have become more willing and able to challenge legislatures. These institutional developments, which serve the democratic values of impartiality and reflexivity, have been accompanied by a new attentiveness to what the book calls the value of proximity, as governing structures have sought to find new spaces for minorities, the particular, and the local. To improve our democracies, we need to use these new sources of legitimacy more effectively and we need to incorporate them into our accounts of democratic government. This book is an original contribution to the vigorous international debate about democratic authority and legitimacy.

scholarly journals International Commercial Policies, with Special Reference to the United States.

1909 ◽  
Vol 19 (74) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
J. Shield Nicholson ◽  
George Mygatt Fisk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
The United States
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