How to Get Legitimate Coercion
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 2022-09-29

A lecture by Jane Mansbridge examining the concept of legitimacy as a "regulative" or aspirational ideal that operates on a spectrum, why it is difficult to maintain legitimacy of/for state coercion, and what can be done to rehabilitate coercion (the threat of sanction or use of force). 

The event was co-sponsored by the Institute for Regional and International Studies at UW-Madison.

Jane Mansbridge is Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values. She is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy, an empirical and normative study of face-to-face democracy, and the award-winning Why We Lost the ERA, a study of anti-deliberative dynamics in social movements based on organizing for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She is also editor or coeditor of the volumes Beyond Self-Interest, Feminism,Oppositional Consciousness, Deliberative Systems, and Negotiating Agreement in Politics. She was President of the American Political Science Association in 2012-13.  Her current work includes studies of representation, democratic deliberation, everyday activism, and the public understanding of free-rider problems.