My Writings.

  Ethical Reciprocity and Political Legitimacy: A Relational Theory of Individuals, Society, and Political Institutions .  Abstract Political legitimacy is commonly examined through institutional authorisation, procedural validity, and governmental performance. Yet these approaches do not fully explain how the ethical relations connecting individuals, society, and political institutions sustain or erode legitimacy. This article develops a relational theory of political legitimacy centred on ethical reciprocity, understood as the reciprocal recognition of obligations among these actors under conditions of unequal power. It argues that legitimacy is not a fixed attribute of institutions but an ongoing relational achievement shaped by how political power is exercised and how responsibilities are acknowledged, fulfilled, and contested. The article distinguishes reciprocity from symmetrical exchange, showing how persistent inequalities in the distribution of obligations and the abs...