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 11
... beliefs and examining their reasons for holding them . Yet the above reply is still handicapped by the Weberian definition of legitimacy as the ' belief in legitimacy ' , within whose orbit it remains . What is wrong with this ...
... beliefs and examining their reasons for holding them . Yet the above reply is still handicapped by the Weberian definition of legitimacy as the ' belief in legitimacy ' , within whose orbit it remains . What is wrong with this ...
Page 12
... beliefs play in legitimacy . In making legitimacy primarily a matter of belief , it also ignores those elements which are not really to do with beliefs at all . I have already mentioned legality as an important component of legitimacy ...
... beliefs play in legitimacy . In making legitimacy primarily a matter of belief , it also ignores those elements which are not really to do with beliefs at all . I have already mentioned legality as an important component of legitimacy ...
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... legitimacy itself ; indeed it has become a straightjacket into which , either singly or in combination , every example of legitimate power has , willy- nilly , to be forced . True to his definition of legitimacy as the ' belief in ...
... legitimacy itself ; indeed it has become a straightjacket into which , either singly or in combination , every example of legitimate power has , willy- nilly , to be forced . True to his definition of legitimacy as the ' belief in ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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