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postgraduate thesis: Staging democracy: rethinking political legitimacy and the public sphere
Title | Staging democracy: rethinking political legitimacy and the public sphere |
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Authors | |
Advisors | Advisor(s):O'Leary, TE |
Issue Date | 2012 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Chan, Y. [陳鋈傑]. (2012). Staging democracy : rethinking political legitimacy and the public sphere. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b5053416 |
Abstract | By now it has become a common observation that liberal and republican models of democracy are inadequate in making sense of the expansive political landscape in today’s complex and pluralistic societies. Deliberative democracy has become a new favorite amongst scholars in the attempt to reinvigorate democracy through normative frameworks that emphasize rationality, consensus and informed discussions. On the other hand, scholars have questioned whether the this model is effective with regards to present forms of political engagements that are often mediatized and staged in ways that fall short of deliberative ideals.
This research moves beyond these models in the attempt to better capture the complex power relations that underpin contemporary liberal democratic societies. This involves rethinking concepts of political legitimacy and the public sphere. Through interrogating Habermas’s discourse model of democracy and putting him in dialogue with the works of Lefort and Foucault, it will be demonstrated that it is useful to view political legitimacy not as a status but a process in which individuals legitimate or de-legitimate the power relations that they find themselves in. In addition, the public sphere should be conceptualized as the public stage, in which individuals must struggle with not only the state apparatuses, but also with oppressive or dominating forms of power, in the government of both themselves and others. By redefining these two important concepts in political philosophy, this research seeks to rethink modern democracy as constituting the very condition of indeterminacy. |
Degree | Master of Philosophy |
Subject | Democracy. Legitimacy of governments. |
Dept/Program | Philosophy |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/188297 |
HKU Library Item ID | b5053416 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.advisor | O'Leary, TE | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chan, Yuk-kit. | - |
dc.contributor.author | 陳鋈傑. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-27T08:03:24Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-08-27T08:03:24Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Chan, Y. [陳鋈傑]. (2012). Staging democracy : rethinking political legitimacy and the public sphere. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b5053416 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/188297 | - |
dc.description.abstract | By now it has become a common observation that liberal and republican models of democracy are inadequate in making sense of the expansive political landscape in today’s complex and pluralistic societies. Deliberative democracy has become a new favorite amongst scholars in the attempt to reinvigorate democracy through normative frameworks that emphasize rationality, consensus and informed discussions. On the other hand, scholars have questioned whether the this model is effective with regards to present forms of political engagements that are often mediatized and staged in ways that fall short of deliberative ideals. This research moves beyond these models in the attempt to better capture the complex power relations that underpin contemporary liberal democratic societies. This involves rethinking concepts of political legitimacy and the public sphere. Through interrogating Habermas’s discourse model of democracy and putting him in dialogue with the works of Lefort and Foucault, it will be demonstrated that it is useful to view political legitimacy not as a status but a process in which individuals legitimate or de-legitimate the power relations that they find themselves in. In addition, the public sphere should be conceptualized as the public stage, in which individuals must struggle with not only the state apparatuses, but also with oppressive or dominating forms of power, in the government of both themselves and others. By redefining these two important concepts in political philosophy, this research seeks to rethink modern democracy as constituting the very condition of indeterminacy. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) | - |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.source.uri | http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50534166 | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Democracy. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Legitimacy of governments. | - |
dc.title | Staging democracy: rethinking political legitimacy and the public sphere | - |
dc.type | PG_Thesis | - |
dc.identifier.hkul | b5053416 | - |
dc.description.thesisname | Master of Philosophy | - |
dc.description.thesislevel | Master | - |
dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Philosophy | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5353/th_b5053416 | - |
dc.date.hkucongregation | 2013 | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991035481249703414 | - |