The Legitimation of PowerPolitical theory has undergone a remarkable development in recent years. A systematic study of legitimacy within social science, the book starts as a critique of Weber and examines the link betwen a social-scientific approach and the various philosophical traditions of theorizing about legitimacy. |
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Page 197
... Iran's oil assets . The Shah's later attempt to demonstrate the continuity of his rule with Iran's pre - Islamic past in the grandiose celebrations for 2500 years of the monarchy in 1971 served more to expose the weakness of his ...
... Iran's oil assets . The Shah's later attempt to demonstrate the continuity of his rule with Iran's pre - Islamic past in the grandiose celebrations for 2500 years of the monarchy in 1971 served more to expose the weakness of his ...
Page 198
... Iran , by contrast , the Shah's more ambitious programme of ' modernisation ' simply intensified the gulf between a privileged Westernised élite and the vast majority of society . This gulf was most evident in the economic disparities ...
... Iran , by contrast , the Shah's more ambitious programme of ' modernisation ' simply intensified the gulf between a privileged Westernised élite and the vast majority of society . This gulf was most evident in the economic disparities ...
Page 202
... Iran have seen themselves as models for others , if not uni- versally , then at least within the Islamic world . Saudi Arabia is the leading representative of conservative forces within the Middle East . And Iran has actively sought to ...
... Iran have seen themselves as models for others , if not uni- versally , then at least within the Islamic world . Saudi Arabia is the leading representative of conservative forces within the Middle East . And Iran has actively sought to ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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