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 5
... moral ques- tions and practical dilemmas about power go deeper than the question of its legal validity ; they concern the justification for the law itself . It is not what the law actually prescribes , but what it ought to prescribe ...
... moral ques- tions and practical dilemmas about power go deeper than the question of its legal validity ; they concern the justification for the law itself . It is not what the law actually prescribes , but what it ought to prescribe ...
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... moral sense ; in an underlying logic common to moral argument everywhere , however diverse its actual content ; and in the needs that are shared by all societies , however varied the social relations and organisational arrangements by ...
... moral sense ; in an underlying logic common to moral argument everywhere , however diverse its actual content ; and in the needs that are shared by all societies , however varied the social relations and organisational arrangements by ...
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... moral as well as prudential , normative as well as self - interested , that legitimate power provides for those who are subject to it . This complexity may make it difficult to determine the precise balance of reasons in any one ...
... moral as well as prudential , normative as well as self - interested , that legitimate power provides for those who are subject to it . This complexity may make it difficult to determine the precise balance of reasons in any one ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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