Opacity and Transparency On the ‘Passive Legitimacy’ of Capitalist Democracy

Abstract I present the contours of an explanatory model of legitimacy that directs the focus away from normative questions and onto specific mechanisms of reality construction at play in constituting social orders. The key assumption informing the model is that stable orders rely fundamentally on th...

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Published in:	Theoria (Pietermaritzburg) Vol. 70; no. 177; pp. 26 - 53
Main Author:	Hausknost, Daniel
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Afrikaans English
Published:	New York Berghahn Books, Inc 01-12-2023
Subjects:	Authorship Capitalism Contours Democracy Dialectics Legitimacy Legitimation Power Reality Reification Social order Social reality Society Transparency
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