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David Beetham. 6 Crisis Tendencies of Political Systems In the light of the previous chapter's discussion , a political system can be defined as a set of constitutional rules whose purpose is not only to effect a particular arrangement ...
David Beetham. 6 Crisis Tendencies of Political Systems In the light of the previous chapter's discussion , a political system can be defined as a set of constitutional rules whose purpose is not only to effect a particular arrangement ...
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... on oil . The distinctive feature of the Saudi Arabian political system is that it is an absolute monarchy whose legitimacy is based entirely on the hereditary principle , and yields no place Crisis Tendencies of Political Systems 193.
... on oil . The distinctive feature of the Saudi Arabian political system is that it is an absolute monarchy whose legitimacy is based entirely on the hereditary principle , and yields no place Crisis Tendencies of Political Systems 193.
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... political system that Islam has served to validate . In Saudi Arabia , Islam has underwritten a conservative mon- archy , whose family and tribal networks , nourished by oil rev- enues , have given it sufficient authority to keep the ...
... political system that Islam has served to validate . In Saudi Arabia , Islam has underwritten a conservative mon- archy , whose family and tribal networks , nourished by oil rev- enues , have given it sufficient authority to keep the ...
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Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 63 |
Legitimacy through expressed consent | 90 |
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