Legitimacy and the practice of judgment
The past two decades have seen a resurgence of debates about how to understand legitimacy in political theory.One of the reasons for this resurgence has been the recent realist turn, with its call to pay more attention to questions of (authorized) power rather than to principles of justice (Sleat, 2015).Such a realist perspective has led theorists to shed new light on many facets of legitimacy, for example the relationship between legitimation and the establishment of politics (Cozzaglio & Greene,
Authors
- Thomas Fossen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5688-8366)
- Veith Selk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7554-3486)
- Manon Westphal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5481-2862)
- Daniel Hausknost (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0496-5526)
- Ilaria Cozzaglio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8078-7648)
- Janosch Prinz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5195-3694)
- Felix Petersen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6871-3651)
Institutions
- Vienna University of Economics and Business (AT)
- Leiden University (NL)
- Universität Hamburg (DE)
- University of Münster (DE)
- Maastricht University (NL)
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Contemporary Political Theory
- Published
- 2026-04-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-026-00813-z
- Primary Topic
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Technische Universität München