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 109
... eroded ? I can offer no more than the merest outline here , since the subject will be taken up in the second part of the book . In the light of the account of legitimacy I have given , we could distinguish two different kinds of erosion ...
... eroded ? I can offer no more than the merest outline here , since the subject will be taken up in the second part of the book . In the light of the account of legitimacy I have given , we could distinguish two different kinds of erosion ...
Page 215
... eroded . Where it is the principle of traditional or dynastic legitimacy that has suffered erosion , at the forefront will be the assertion of popular sovereignty as such , in any form . Where it is foreign domination that is under ...
... eroded . Where it is the principle of traditional or dynastic legitimacy that has suffered erosion , at the forefront will be the assertion of popular sovereignty as such , in any form . Where it is foreign domination that is under ...
Page 229
... erosion in the legitimacy of the civilian order , whose warning signs are evident well in advance . Such an erosion provides both a prime reason for military intervention , and the means of justifying the breach of legality after it has ...
... erosion in the legitimacy of the civilian order , whose warning signs are evident well in advance . Such an erosion provides both a prime reason for military intervention , and the means of justifying the breach of legality after it has ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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