naa a22 4500 510738745 CHVBK 20180411083020.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12142-013-0276-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12142-013-0276-0 Buckley Michael Philosophy Department, Lehman College, CUNY, Carmen Hall, 360, 250 Bedford Park Blvd West, 10468, Bronx, NY, USA aut The Priority of Legitimacy in Times of Political Transition [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Buckley] This paper interprets the relation between justice and legitimacy found in John Rawls's Political Liberalism and then applies it to the field of transitional justice. The author argues that transitional mechanisms can be better defended in terms of "legitimacy” than in "justice,” because the circumstances of transitional justice admit of reasonable disagreement over "just” public policy. In such circumstances, policy recommendations can always be construed as falling short of justice, thus raising plausible concerns over their normative justification. This paper attempts to answer such concerns by justifying transitional mechanisms as morally appropriate yet less than fully just. The author explains how the concept of legitimacy facilitates such a justification and how such a justification can secure the normative grounds that are ironically threatened by investigations relying on a concept of justice. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Legitimacy nationallicence Transitional justice nationallicence John Rawls nationallicence Political Liberalism nationallicence Justification nationallicence Justice nationallicence Human Rights Review Springer Netherlands 14/4(2013-12-01), 327-345 1524-8879 14:4<327 2013 14 12142 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-013-0276-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-013-0276-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Buckley Michael Philosophy Department, Lehman College, CUNY, Carmen Hall, 360, 250 Bedford Park Blvd West, 10468, Bronx, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Rights Review Springer Netherlands 14/4(2013-12-01), 327-345 1524-8879 14:4<327 2013 14 12142 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer