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 147
... competition between parties may be effective at removing those who have forfeited public confidence , but its corresponding disadvantage is that it readily assumes the charac- ter of an all - or - nothing contest between different ...
... competition between parties may be effective at removing those who have forfeited public confidence , but its corresponding disadvantage is that it readily assumes the charac- ter of an all - or - nothing contest between different ...
Page 175
... competition for access to economic oppor- tunities , through control of the state , itself heightens the signifi- cance of the ethnic or regional connections through which oppor- tunities for business or upward mobility can be organised ...
... competition for access to economic oppor- tunities , through control of the state , itself heightens the signifi- cance of the ethnic or regional connections through which oppor- tunities for business or upward mobility can be organised ...
Page 227
... competition . This was a revolution whose outcome was determined very largely at the ideological level , rather than by the exigencies of counter - revo- lution and civil war , and whose legitimacy was more solidly grounded in ...
... competition . This was a revolution whose outcome was determined very largely at the ideological level , rather than by the exigencies of counter - revo- lution and civil war , and whose legitimacy was more solidly grounded 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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