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On Policy-Making and Legitimation of the Law in Contemporary Pluralistic Society

Monday, July 14, 2014: 3:40 PM
Room: Booth 59
Oral Presentation
Vittorio OLGIATI , University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy
TITLE: Policy Making and Legitimation of the Law in Contemporary Pluralistic Society

The paper's aim is to discuss the substantive dimension, quality and content of current law-policy making and socio-legal legitimation of law in  present-day highly mobile, complex, multiethnic society. A special focus will be devoted on the couplig of the epochal crisis of formal-official State-nation law and   the rising differentiation of social and legal sub-systems. Most relevant problemtic variables related to traditional value-oriented identitary patterns and  interests will be considered. The quest for new models of citizenship and representativeness related to the search for new participatory rituals and institutional cerimonial events and high-tech interactions will be analysed also in relation to their current reliability and accountability.