Benno Netelenbos
Biographic Data
| ID | 4588532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benno Netelenbos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benno |
| FAMILY NAME | Netelenbos |
| SIGNATURE | NETELENBOS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0314-3966 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Deus ex Machina
That modern state power is bureaucratically and legally organized almost goes without saying. But that procedural correctness is enough to explain the belief in its legitimacy is more difficult to understand and often disputed. Why would anyone hold the conviction that correctly following contingent and man-made rules confers legitimacy? How can this be sufficient on its own? Yet, this is exactly what Max Weber claims. To fully appreciate this cl…
Bringing back Max Weber into Network Governance Research
The current debate on the consequences of governance networks (GNs) for the future of democracy is excessively normativized at the expense of its empirical accuracy and critical force. This paper therefore aims to bring back Weber’s approach to legitimacy as an empirical problem. This approach allows studying GNs as improbable achievements that require constant legitimacy work as part of the art of networking. Weber offers a theory of ethical pow…
Politics as Argumentation
Politics is a constant struggle to frame the way in which we perceive the world—the way we see problems, solutions, facts, and actions. For Weber, and the democrat realists, such framing is mostly seen in terms of mobilising support, in terms of political acclamation, while decision-making itself is coordinated by legitimate power and by power-structured bargaining in the political game. The old traditional liberal idea that political decision-ma…
Conclusion
In this book, I have analysed four analytical perspectives of political legitimacy, based upon three premises. First, we need to understand what political legitimacy means as an empirical phenomenon, not just for the sake of empirical research, but also for the sake of (critical) normative theory. Second, we need to understand political legitimacy, like Weber, from an action-theoretical standpoint, not only because a concept of legitimacy inacces…
Politics as Domination
Max Weber is the sociologist who most famously analysed legitimacy in political relations of domination. In his work, he tries to understand the sociological and historical processes that generate a belief in legitimacy—subjective feelings of obligation and duty. Not only is Weber’s work still relevant in itself, it also structures much of the contemporary debate, as its theoretical framework forms the background—implicitly or explicitly—of many …
Politics as Conflict
Many have pointed out that the autonomy of politics rests precisely upon its intrinsically conflictive nature. Political judgements are inherently different from scientific, moral, aesthetic, or economic judgements, to the extent that there is no single value that rules over politics. Indeed, where consensus exists or ‘where reason claims to speak, politics is silent’ (Barber 1988:205). Politics, then, is to deal with conflicting values, the ‘war…
Politics as Coordination
In Weber’s sociology, politics concerns legal domination and conflict, the ‘warring of the gods’. Modern society, moreover, is differentiated into value spheres with their own specific values and logics. It is this latter perspective that is picked up by the third generation of system theory. However, this type of system theory, mostly developed by Luhmann, discards Weber’s action theory. Luhmann is outright hostile and dismissive of the ‘subject…
Political Legitimacy beyond Weber
Legitimacy is an essential concept in politics. But what is it? This book seeks to answer this question through adopting Weber's sociological approach to legitimacy. Weber argues that we should not on
Deliberation behind Closed Doors. Transparency and Lobbying in the European Union
Political Legitimacy beyond Weber
Legitimacy is an essential concept in politics. But what is it? This book seeks to answer this question through adopting Weber's sociological approach to legitimacy. Weber argues that we should not on
Bringing back Max Weber into Network Governance Research
The current debate on the consequences of governance networks (GNs) for the future of democracy is excessively normativized at the expense of its empirical accuracy and critical force. This paper therefore aims to bring back Weber’s approach to legitimacy as an empirical problem. This approach allows studying GNs as improbable achievements that require constant legitimacy work as part of the art of networking. Weber offers a theory of ethical pow…
Deliberation behind Closed Doors. Transparency and Lobbying in the European Union
Deliberation behind Closed Doors. Transparency and Lobbying in the European Union
Politics as Argumentation
Politics is a constant struggle to frame the way in which we perceive the world—the way we see problems, solutions, facts, and actions. For Weber, and the democrat realists, such framing is mostly seen in terms of mobilising support, in terms of political acclamation, while decision-making itself is coordinated by legitimate power and by power-structured bargaining in the political game. The old traditional liberal idea that political decision-ma…
Conclusion
In this book, I have analysed four analytical perspectives of political legitimacy, based upon three premises. First, we need to understand what political legitimacy means as an empirical phenomenon, not just for the sake of empirical research, but also for the sake of (critical) normative theory. Second, we need to understand political legitimacy, like Weber, from an action-theoretical standpoint, not only because a concept of legitimacy inacces…
Politics as Domination
Max Weber is the sociologist who most famously analysed legitimacy in political relations of domination. In his work, he tries to understand the sociological and historical processes that generate a belief in legitimacy—subjective feelings of obligation and duty. Not only is Weber’s work still relevant in itself, it also structures much of the contemporary debate, as its theoretical framework forms the background—implicitly or explicitly—of many …
Politics as Conflict
Many have pointed out that the autonomy of politics rests precisely upon its intrinsically conflictive nature. Political judgements are inherently different from scientific, moral, aesthetic, or economic judgements, to the extent that there is no single value that rules over politics. Indeed, where consensus exists or ‘where reason claims to speak, politics is silent’ (Barber 1988:205). Politics, then, is to deal with conflicting values, the ‘war…
Politics as Coordination
In Weber’s sociology, politics concerns legal domination and conflict, the ‘warring of the gods’. Modern society, moreover, is differentiated into value spheres with their own specific values and logics. It is this latter perspective that is picked up by the third generation of system theory. However, this type of system theory, mostly developed by Luhmann, discards Weber’s action theory. Luhmann is outright hostile and dismissive of the ‘subject…
Political Legitimacy beyond Weber
Legitimacy is an essential concept in politics. But what is it? This book seeks to answer this question through adopting Weber's sociological approach to legitimacy. Weber argues that we should not on
Bringing back Max Weber into Network Governance Research
The current debate on the consequences of governance networks (GNs) for the future of democracy is excessively normativized at the expense of its empirical accuracy and critical force. This paper therefore aims to bring back Weber’s approach to legitimacy as an empirical problem. This approach allows studying GNs as improbable achievements that require constant legitimacy work as part of the art of networking. Weber offers a theory of ethical pow…
Deus ex Machina
That modern state power is bureaucratically and legally organized almost goes without saying. But that procedural correctness is enough to explain the belief in its legitimacy is more difficult to understand and often disputed. Why would anyone hold the conviction that correctly following contingent and man-made rules confers legitimacy? How can this be sufficient on its own? Yet, this is exactly what Max Weber claims. To fully appreciate this cl…
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Law and economics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Legitimacy (6 works) · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory (5 works) · Economics (4 works)