Refounding State Legitimacy - A Guide to Action (volume 2)

The political, social and financial crises currently shaking the world are generating ever greater mistrust between societies and states. It is the stateÕs managerial approach and its protection of specific interests that provoke anger among the people and rejection, not the state as such. But faced with its failures, populations self-organise or turn to other ÒauthoritiesÓ and role models, who compete with or even replace the state in a rampant, authoritarian or violent way.
This book offers a practical methodology of legitimacy for a democratic refoundation. While the first volume was intended to describe the processes of legitimisation of political power in different countries, this second volume lays the foundation for a political approach, the implementation of Òplural public actionÓ. It intends to give state and non-state actors the capacities, the means and especially the desire to act in order to make social pluralism live and contribute to its institutionalisation: the refounded state.