Book chapter

Institutional Power, Collective Acceptance, and Recognition

Published in Recognition and Social Ontology

Abstract

I offer an analysis of institutional power in terms of recognition relations. It spells out institutional power in terms of an accepted authority to sanction, and the acceptance of such authority as a defeasible readiness to not resist sanctions. This conception entails that institutional power can be shown to always rest on mutual recognition between participants in an institutions regarding the meaning of norms.

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Date of publication
2011
Pages
349–372
Edited by
Ikäheimo, Heikki, Laitinen, Arto
Publisher
Brill

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