Contents

INTRODUCTION
The Decentering of Democracies

Part One: Dual Legitimacy

CHAPTER ONE
The Legitimacy of Establishment

CHAPTER TWO
The Legitimacy of Identification with Generality

CHAPTER THREE
The Great Transformation

Part Two: The Legitimacy of Impartiality

CHAPTER FOUR
Independent Authorities: History and Problems

CHAPTER FIVE
The Democracy of Impartiality

CHAPTER SIX
Is Impartiality Politics?

Part Three: Reflexive Legitimacy

CHAPTER SEVEN
Reflexive Democracy

CHAPTER EIGHT
The Institutions of Reflexivity

CHAPTER NINE
On the Importance of Not Being Elected

Part Four: The Legitimacy of Proximity

CHAPTER TEN
Attention to Particularity

CHAPTER ELEVEN
The Politics of Presence

CHAPTER TWELVE
Interactive Democracy

CONCLUSION
The Democracy of Appropriation

Index