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 76
... possible for similar power rules to derive their legitimacy from widely differing intellectual sources , as , for example , gender rules have claimed validation successively from religious doctrine , natural law and scientific argument ...
... possible for similar power rules to derive their legitimacy from widely differing intellectual sources , as , for example , gender rules have claimed validation successively from religious doctrine , natural law and scientific argument ...
Page 129
... possible for ' mixed ' political systems to exist , in which the legitimacy of government is derived from two different , even competing , sour- ces of authority . How is such a mixture possible in practice without contradiction ? What ...
... possible for ' mixed ' political systems to exist , in which the legitimacy of government is derived from two different , even competing , sour- ces of authority . How is such a mixture possible in practice without contradiction ? What ...
Page 159
... possible to trace a relation- ship between a different aspect or principle of legitimacy , and the manner in which it is realised , or fails to be realised , within specific institutions . For legality we look in the first instance ...
... possible to trace a relation- ship between a different aspect or principle of legitimacy , and the manner in which it is realised , or fails to be realised , within specific institutions . For legality we look in the first instance ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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