Are regular elections sufficient to secure the legitimacy of the state?
If you think so, please respond to key arguments by those who disagree. If you consider regular elections on their own insufficient to safeguard legitimacy, please explain what else is needed.
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Peter, Fabienne (2017) Political Legitimacy, In: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy edited by EN Zalta, Summer 2017 ed., URL: .
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Rawls, John (1999) A Theory of Justice, rev. ed., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (340.1 RAW / UCD e-book), relevant passages.
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Rawls, John (2001) Justice as Fairness – A Restatement, edited by E Kelly, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (320.011), relevant passages.
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Gutmann, Amy and Dennis F. Thompson (2004) Why deliberative democracy?, Princeton, Mass.: Princeton University Press.
Chapter 1 – What is deliberative democracy?
