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 162
... communist systems had entered by 1989 demonstrates only too clearly the deficiencies of the ' classical ' communist type as a desirable or even a viable model , on the other side the inability of the liberal - democratic type to survive ...
... communist systems had entered by 1989 demonstrates only too clearly the deficiencies of the ' classical ' communist type as a desirable or even a viable model , on the other side the inability of the liberal - democratic type to survive ...
Page 179
... communist regimes across Eastern Europe in 1989 ; and that the brutal suppression of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in China radically altered the basis of communist rule in that country even as it sought to immunise the political ...
... communist regimes across Eastern Europe in 1989 ; and that the brutal suppression of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in China radically altered the basis of communist rule in that country even as it sought to immunise the political ...
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... communist system of rule in its classical form derived its authority from a dual source . First was from the people ; here it stood in the mainstream of legitimacy from the French revolution onwards . However , it was the people only as ...
... communist system of rule in its classical form derived its authority from a dual source . First was from the people ; here it stood in the mainstream of legitimacy from the French revolution onwards . However , it was the people only as ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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