Non-state governance and non-state legitimacy
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This project reexamines the way liberal political theory normatively evaluates the legitimacy of the power of non-state actors, including non-profit organizations, for-profit corporations, and international institutions. I argue here that, when these agents participate in governance, when they have independent authority to make, change, and enforce the rules that people must live by, their power raises the same questions of legitimacy that liberal political theory, particularly theories influenced by Rawls, evaluates through a requirement of public justification. I present empirical evidence here that this type of governance is widespread, deeply important for many people's lives, and likely to continue. However, the way that this requirement of public justification is generally understood assumes it is a unified, Westphalian state whose power is being evaluated, and the standard theory therefore cannot be applied to non-state power. The reconstructive portion of this project develops revisions to the standard Rawlsian theory of political legitimacy that, while grounded in the same widely shared liberal values, allow the theory to be applied to governance by non-state actors.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Coyne, Brian Kenneth |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science. |
| Primary advisor | Ober, Josiah |
| Thesis advisor | Ober, Josiah |
| Thesis advisor | Cohen, Joshua, 1951- |
| Thesis advisor | McQueen, Alison |
| Thesis advisor | Reich, Rob |
| Advisor | Cohen, Joshua, 1951- |
| Advisor | McQueen, Alison |
| Advisor | Reich, Rob |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Brian Kenneth Coyne. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Brian Kenneth Coyne
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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