With the growing fragmentation of western societies and
disillusionment with the political process, the question of
legitimacy has become one of the key issues of contemporary
politics and is examined in this volume in depth for the first
time. Drawing on ethnographic material from the U.S., Europe,
India, Japan, and Africa, anthropologists and legal scholars
investigate the morally diversified definitions of legitimacy that
co-exist in any one society. Aware of the tensions between state
morality and community morality, they offer reflections on the
relationship between agency -- individual and collective -- and the
legal and political systems. In a situation in which politics has
only too often degenerated into vacuous rhetoric, this volume
demonstrates how critical the relationship between trust and
legitimacy is for the authoritative exercise of power in democratic
societies.
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