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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... analysis that follows in the rest of the volume . Here it is important to clarify what this claim does , and does not , entail . At first sight it might seem that the claim that there are criteria of legitimacy universally applicable ...
... analysis that follows in the rest of the volume . Here it is important to clarify what this claim does , and does not , entail . At first sight it might seem that the claim that there are criteria of legitimacy universally applicable ...
Page 42
... analysis of legit- imacy , the present one will provide an approach to legitimacy through the analysis of power . In doing so I shall aim to identify precisely what it is about power that calls for legitimation , which in turn explains ...
... analysis of legit- imacy , the present one will provide an approach to legitimacy through the analysis of power . In doing so I shall aim to identify precisely what it is about power that calls for legitimation , which in turn explains ...
Page 244
... analysis of ideas and arguments , of the kind that is central to the practice of normative philosophy . On the other hand the work of normative philosophy cannot proceed in isolation from empirical analysis , for a number of reasons ...
... analysis of ideas and arguments , of the kind that is central to the practice of normative philosophy . On the other hand the work of normative philosophy cannot proceed in isolation from empirical analysis , for a number of reasons ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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