Convergence concepts
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation defines a broad class of normative political concept - the 'convergence concept' - named to highlight the distinctive mode by which these concepts are evaluated: the evaluation of convergence concepts at the collective scale of the polity derives from the consolidation and convergence of individual citizens' normative judgements. Thus, convergence concepts reflect citizens' own conceptual definitions and assessments, as well as the processes of both private and discursive reasoning which guide these judgements. These concepts are of central concern in the study of political coordination and cooperation (as well as crisis and conflict), since citizens' judgements and behaviors can either establish and reinforce, or undermine and erode, shared structures of governance and coercive political authority. This project investigates three such concepts: stability, legitimacy, and authority. It offers a normative framework for conceptualizing these concepts, and presents an empirical approach by which to investigate political processes of discursive conceptual reasoning.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Basu, Jacqueline Amrita |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Tokita, Alison, 1947- |
| Degree supervisor | Ober, Josiah |
| Thesis advisor | Tokita, Alison, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Ober, Josiah |
| Thesis advisor | Chapman, Emilee |
| Degree committee member | Chapman, Emilee |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jacqueline A. Basu. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Jacqueline Amrita Basu
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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