In his article, “The Space between Justice and Legitimacy”, Kit Wellman offers a novel account of the relationship political philosophy's two central concepts.1 He argues that states can be legitimate yet impose many unjust laws policies. This is true, he suggests, because legitimacy should understood as claim about wide proportionality.2 Just country's war widely proportionate overall, contain...

Threats to our freedom are part of our daily social interactions. They are accompanied by an aversive state of motivational arousal, called reactance, which leads people to strive to reestablish their threatened freedom. This is especially the case if the threat seems to be illegitimate in nature. However, reactance theory suggests that reactance should also be aroused when people are exposed t...