Legitimacy, built through contestatory democracy, generates civic virtue.
Evidence
The most important thing for the state to do by way of encouraging the widespread civility that it needs for its own success is to establish the republican legitimacy of its laws in the public mind; and this it can best do by being an effective, contestatory democracy. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1292 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
For a … people to understand wise principles of politics and follow basic rules of state craft, the effect would have to become the cause; the social spirit which must be the product of social institutions would have to preside over the setting up of those institutions; men would have to have already become before the advent of law that which they become as a result of law. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 702 (
#qualifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Contestatory democracy cultivates the civic virtue the state needs — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1292; Democratic institutions presuppose the civic spirit they are meant to create. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 702; Civic virtue grows through identification with the polity, offering new identities — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1297 (+8 more)
Related
- Contestatory democracy cultivates the civic virtue the state needs (similarity 0.93)
- Civic virtue grows through identification with the polity, offering new identities (similarity 0.85)
- Civic virtue rests on group identification and satisfying identities, not just self-discipline (similarity 0.83)
- Mutual trust predates and is prerequisite for civic virtue. (similarity 0.82)
- Democratic institutions presuppose the civic spirit they are meant to create. (similarity 0.81)
- Civic virtue advances republican freedom instrumentally, not intrinsically. (similarity 0.81)
- Civic virtue and mutual personal trust are the same achievement (similarity 0.81)
- Civic virtue grows from rewarding group identification, not self-discipline. (similarity 0.80)
- Allegiance to democratic institutions rests on practices forming citizens, not rational justification (similarity 0.78)
- Legitimacy requires a visible link between votes and policy, not just good results (similarity 0.78)
- Active citizenship from below yields higher quality democracy than passive (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Contestatory democracy cultivates the civic virtue the state needs
#corroborates(0.97) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1292 - Democratic institutions presuppose the civic spirit they are meant to create.
#qualifies(0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 702 - Civic virtue rests on group identification and satisfying identities, not just self-discipline
#expands(0.80) - Civic virtue grows through identification with the polity, offering new identities
#expands(0.78) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1297 - Mutual trust predates and is prerequisite for civic virtue.
#complicates(0.78) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 33 - Civic virtue grows from rewarding group identification, not self-discipline.
#expands(0.78) - Democratic legitimacy depends on citizens’ internalized commitment that imposed systems cannot replace
#expands(0.75) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 74 - Active citizenship from below yields higher quality democracy than passive
#expands(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 819 - Political legitimacy is an ongoing project of constructing and repairing trust
#expands(0.75) - Legitimacy arises from inclusion plus deliberation filtered through reasons
#expands(0.72) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 16