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 129
... popular sover- eignty enjoys such universality in the contemporary world , it does not constitute the only legitimating principle , but in many systems coexists more or less uneasily with other beliefs about the rightful source of ...
... popular sover- eignty enjoys such universality in the contemporary world , it does not constitute the only legitimating principle , but in many systems coexists more or less uneasily with other beliefs about the rightful source of ...
Page 132
... popular masses demonstrate their readiness for sacrifice to overturn a discredited regime and defend a new order in its place . It is just such actions that confer enormous authority on a successor regime , and to which those in power ...
... popular masses demonstrate their readiness for sacrifice to overturn a discredited regime and defend a new order in its place . It is just such actions that confer enormous authority on a successor regime , and to which those in power ...
Page 149
... popular sovereignty is recognised as the main , though as we have seen not the only , source of authority for government . The first concerns the different points of vulner- ability of different types of political system . What I have ...
... popular sovereignty is recognised as the main , though as we have seen not the only , source of authority for government . The first concerns the different points of vulner- ability of different types of political system . What I have ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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