NDLI: Legitimate Political Authority and Sovereignty: Why States Cannot be the Whole Story

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Krehoff, Bernd
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	States are believed to be the paradigmatic instances of legitimate political authority. But is their prominence justified? The classic concept of state sovereignty predicts the danger of a fatal deadlock among conflicting authorities unless there is an ultimate authority within a given jurisdiction. This scenario is misguided because the notion of an ultimate authority is conceptually unclear. The exercise of authority is multidimensional and multiattributive, and to understand the relations among authorities we need to analyse this complexity into its different aspects. Instead of ultimate authorities we can have actors endowed with superior authority over others in one regard, but not necessarily in another. And this limited superiority is sufficient for resolving conflicts. There is no need for ultimate authorities. Having discarded the notion of sovereignty we can embrace a different conception of legitimate authority, one that is not interested in the pedigree of actors, but in their capacity to serve its subjects. If states wish to retain their central role in the domain of political authority, they will have to earn it.
Starting Page	283
Ending Page	297
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13564765
Journal	Res Publica
Volume Number	14
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15728692
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-11-07
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Legitimacy Authority Sovereignty States International organisations Joseph Raz Philosophy Ethics Political Philosophy Philosophy of Religion Philosophy of Law
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Law

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