Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International
Politics - General and Theories, grade: 1,3, Zeppelin University
Friedrichshafen, language: English, abstract: Legitimacy theory has
developed from a western human centric point of view. The initial
question was how to control human beings. In answer to this
question, the nation state - a hierarchical ordered construct - was
invented. The concept of legitimacy refers to the people's
acceptance of this political entity. Thus, the concept of political
legitimacy is historically bound to the nation state and its
political system. Recent developments attempt to question this.
This becomes most obvious when it comes to the global problems we
are facing. We live in a complex global governance system and
affecting decisions are made by global organizations beyond the
nation state. Just as the state is no longer capable of controlling
and managing society anymore I argue that the society is no longer
capable of controlling the decisions made within - or beyond - a
nation state. Neither our traditional tools of domestic democracy,
nor such instruments as state consent on a global level are longer
sufficient.
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