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- Näsström, Sofia
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Introduktion
- 2004. - 1. uppl.
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Ingår i: Texter i samtida politisk teori. - Malmö : Liber. - 9147074353 ; , s. 111-116
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Näsström, Sofia
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Introduktion
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Ingår i: Texter i samtida politisk teori. - Malmö : Liber. - 9147074353 ; , s. 111-116
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Näsström, Sofia
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The An-Archical State : Logics of Legitimacy in the Social Contract Tradition
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The modern state is today under great pressure. In the face of globalization, many theorists seek to rethink the boundaries of the state. They call for a transformation of the state from the national to the global level. But there is a deeper theoretical question at stake. It has to do with the way we conceive of the state itself; what purposes it serves and what notion of legitimacy it harbours. This thesis undertakes a rereading of the state within the social contract tradition. It replaces a traditional conception of statehood with a version called the an-archical state. The an-archical state is sustained by way of a distinction between two different logics of state legitimacy: a vertical and a horizontal. If the vertical logic has been at the centre of the social contract tradition, the horizontal logic has for the most part been unexplored. By retrieving this horizontal logic, the thesis seeks to contribute to a new way of thinking about legitimacy. Two arguments are made. Together they make up the essence of the an-archical state. Firstly, it is argued that the rationale behind the modern state is to limit an infinite responsivity to the other. Unlike those who argue that the raison d’etre of the state is to free people from an anarchical war of all against all, this thesis contends that it frees people from the an-archical responsivity of the one for all. Secondly, it is argued that this negative act of freedom alters the political structure of the state itself. The legitimacy of the state no longer resides in the will to consent, but in the act of dissent.
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- Näsström, Sofia
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What Globalization Overshadows
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Ingår i: Political theory. - Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications. - 0090-5917 .- 1552-7476. ; 31:6, s. 808-834
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What is the connection between modern democratic thought and globalization? This article examines the rationale behind the present crisis of democracy. It demonstrates that the problem facing modern democratic thought has less to do with the asymmetries associated with the forces of globalization and more to do with an asymmetry within popular sovereignty itself: the fact that the boundaries of democracy cannot themselves be democratically legitimated. By making this argument the article seeks to move beyond the contemporary opposition between nationalism and cosmopolitanism. It shows that the appeal to globalization among contemporary political theorists to a large extent is analogous to the appeal to the nation during the French Revolution.
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