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dc.contributor.authorAbumere, Frank Aragbonfoh
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-22T12:25:13Z
dc.date.available2019-09-22T12:25:13Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-22
dc.description.abstractThe notion of world government is anathema to most political theorists. This is the case due to the arguments that a world government is infeasible, undesirable and unnecessary. This threefold argument is partly predicated on the assumption that in world politics the larger a geographical and political entity is, the greater the chance of it becoming unstable, ungovernable and, ultimately, illegitimate. On the one hand, if this assumption is correct, then a world government is likely to be illegitimate. On the other hand, if the assumption is wrong, then it is not far-fetched to consider a world government to be legitimate. Considering a world government that emerges from a global social contract, this paper contends that the legitimacy or illegitimacy of a world government and the extent to which it is legitimate or illegitimate depends on the kind of social contract that produces it and the extent to which it fulfils or fails to fulfil the conditions of the social contract.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in <i>Philosophical Papers</i> on 22 May 2019, available online: <a href=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/05568641.2019.1585200>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/05568641.2019.1585200</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAbumere, F.A. (2019). World Government, Social Contract and Legitimacy. <i>Philosophical Papers, 48</i>(1), 9-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2019.1585200en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1714149
dc.identifier.issn0556-8641
dc.identifier.issn1996-8523
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/16246
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.journalPhilosophical Papers
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Philosophical disciplines: 160::Philosophy: 161en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Filosofiske fag: 160::Filosofi: 161en_US
dc.titleWorld Government, Social Contract and Legitimacyen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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