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Anselm Rink - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Do Protestant Missionaries Undermine Political Authority? Evidence From Peru
EconStor Open Access Articles, 2018Co-Authors: Anselm RinkAbstract:The relation between religious organizations and Political Authority is notoriously tense. Max Weber argued that this is because both compete over the same resource: human commitment. This article revisits Weber’s hypothesis. Specifically, we explore two psychological mechanisms through which Protestant missionaries affect Political Authority: obedience and persuadability. Exploiting exogenous variation in missionary activity in Peru, we demonstrate that missionaries make converts more obedient, which we attribute to a theological and a social mechanism. Yet, we also find that missionaries make converts less susceptible to persuasion by Political authorities because they shift attention from secular topics to questions of theological importance, and endorse a skeptical stance toward the government. Exploiting variation in treatment intensity, we argue that the degree to which Political Authority is affected depends on a given mission’s theological strictness. We arrive at these findings by combining experimental outcomes and process-tracing evidence using Bayesian integration.
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Do Protestant Missionaries Undermine Political Authority? Evidence From Peru:
Comparative Political Studies, 2017Co-Authors: Anselm RinkAbstract:The relation between religious organizations and Political Authority is notoriously tense. Max Weber argued that this is because both compete over the same resource: human commitment. This article ...
Julia Costa López - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Political Authority in International Relations: Revisiting the Medieval Debate
International Organization, 2020Co-Authors: Julia Costa LópezAbstract:AbstractIn international relations, accounts of medieval Political Authority are divided between those who see a heteronomous patchwork of overlapping authorities and those who claim that the era of the state started in the twelfth century. How can we overcome this divide? I argue that IR's current difficulties in grasping the nature of medieval Political Authority stem from shortcomings in how the notion of Political Authority itself has been conceptualized. Thus, rather than starting from a substantive definition of Political Authority, I focus on contestation over the categorization and authorization of rule, that is, on how Authority is produced in historically specific ways as a result of contemporary contestation over what Political Authority is, who is authorized, and how rulers stand in relation to one another. This reorientation allows us to appreciate how medieval Political Authority emerged from the competition between four sets of ordering categories: iurisdictio, potestas, lord/vassal, and magistrate. Each one of these four categories understood Authority, rulers, and the relation between rulers in different ways. The problem with existing accounts of medieval Authority is that they attempt to find the single ordering principle of medieval international relations. In doing so, they not only fail to capture the features of the time but also reinforce a particular approach to Political Authority that is unhelpful for understanding medieval and modern politics alike.
Grace Skogstad - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Global Public Policy and the Constitution of Political Authority
The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration, 2019Co-Authors: Grace SkogstadAbstract:The prospects for policy beyond the territorial state hinge on the possibilities of constructing sites and processes of legitimate transnational Political Authority. To illustrate the nature of the Authority challenge and how these challenges affect the policy process, the chapter investigates three pathways on which transnational Political actors are expected to be present. The first pathway is via international organizations granted legal Authority by their member states; the second, via private actors establishing regulatory standards for the conduct of transnational businesses; and the third, via processes of voluntary diffusion of policies across states. It argues that the Authority challenges that arise in pathways one and two—about who gets to decide and via what processes—are less likely to surface in pathway three.
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who governs who should govern Political Authority and legitimacy in canada in the twenty first century
Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2003Co-Authors: Grace SkogstadAbstract:This article examines the contemporary basis of legitimate governance in Canada by identifying and documenting four different bases of Political Authority: statecentred, market-based, expert and popular Authority. The co-existence of these competing bases of Authority, traced to cultural shifts and developments associated with globalization, creates conflicting domestic and international norms of procedural and substantive legitimacy. The article argues that effective and legitimate governing in Canada requires greater incorporation of elements of popular Authority, and reform, not abandonment, of state-cen-
John Horton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Peter Winch and Political Authority
Philosophical Investigations, 2005Co-Authors: John HortonAbstract:This article explores a neglected aspect of Peter Winch's work: his writings on Political Authority. It seeks to show that this neglect is undeserved. Three themes are interweaved in the discussion. First, the major developments in Winch's thinking between his first published article on Political Authority (in a symposium with Richard Peters) and his later writings on the subject are identified and assessed. Criticism is focused mainly on his tendency to be insufficiently attentive to the distinction between being in Authority and being an Authority, and the implications this has for the distinctiveness of Political Authority. Secondly, particular attention is given to some of the key strands in Winch's analysis. These include his distinction between the nature and the grounds of Political Authority, how the role of consent is to be understood in the light of this distinction, how an adequate understanding Political Authority does not undermine our ideas of autonomy, and what it might mean to reject the whole idea of Political Authority. Finally, the article concludes by briefly defending the value of Winch's approach to Political philosophy. Earlier it is shown that Winch's analysis does not foreclose on a range of Political responses to Authority, and this point is generalised to argue for a philosophical approach (like Winch’s) that aims at understanding, rather than at advancing any particular set of moral or Political principles.
Alexander Thompson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Governance in a Global Economy: Political Authority in Transition
Perspectives on Politics, 2004Co-Authors: Alexander ThompsonAbstract:Governance in a Global Economy: Political Authority in Transition. Edited by Miles Kahler and David A. Lake. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 472p. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. The social scientific study of “globalization” has not been especially productive. Varying and expansive definitions of the phenomenon are used, cause and effect tend to be confused, and positive and normative claims are sometimes mixed. In this volume, Miles Kahler and David A. Lake offer a tractable and fruitful approach to the study of globalization by defining the phenomenon narrowly—in terms of economic integration made possible by reduced barriers to exchange and capital mobility—and by adopting a “second image reversed” perspective. Globalization is the independent variable used to explain changes in governance policies and institutions at the national level. This coherent focus allows the individual contributions to speak to each other while building on landmark works, such as Ronald Rogowski's (1989) Commerce and Coalitions and Robert Keohane and Helen Milner's (1996) Internationalization and Domestic Politics .
