Legitimacy: The Right To Rule In A Wanton World

What makes a government legitimate? Arthur Isak Applbaum rigorously argues that the greatest threat to democracies today is not loss of basic rights or despotism. It is the tyranny of unreason: domination of citizens by incoherent, inconstant, incontinent rulers. A government that cannot govern itself cannot legitimately govern others.

• | Author: Arthur Isak Applbaum
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674983467
• | ISBN-13: 9780674983465