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 9
... existing political institutions are the most appropriate ones for the society ' ( 1958 , p.86 ) . And R. Merelman calls legitimacy ' a quality attributed to a regime by a population . That quality is the outcome of the government's ...
... existing political institutions are the most appropriate ones for the society ' ( 1958 , p.86 ) . And R. Merelman calls legitimacy ' a quality attributed to a regime by a population . That quality is the outcome of the government's ...
Page 68
... existing rules of power beyond question , and turn legal validity into the ultimate , rather than simply the proximate , criterion of legitimacy , to the advan- tage of those who derive their power from established law . However , the ...
... existing rules of power beyond question , and turn legal validity into the ultimate , rather than simply the proximate , criterion of legitimacy , to the advan- tage of those who derive their power from established law . However , the ...
Page 97
... existing rules of power them- selves structure the condition of relative powerlessness , disadvan- tage or dependency that gives people the incentive to make agreements of subordination which in turn confirm the existing rules of power ...
... existing rules of power them- selves structure the condition of relative powerlessness , disadvan- tage or dependency that gives people the incentive to make agreements of subordination which in turn confirm the existing rules of power ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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