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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... power or the means of exercising it , themselves rightful ? If not , are we ... power go deeper than the question of its legal validity ; they concern the ... relations within a society ought to be arranged , and what would count as a ...
... power or the means of exercising it , themselves rightful ? If not , are we ... power go deeper than the question of its legal validity ; they concern the ... relations within a society ought to be arranged , and what would count as a ...
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... relations of power . It is with these internal relations of power within societies that this book is primarily concerned . It is not concerned with differences of power between societies , except in so far as these come to affect the ...
... relations of power . It is with these internal relations of power within societies that this book is primarily concerned . It is not concerned with differences of power between societies , except in so far as these come to affect the ...
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... power relations , if they are to develop the impetus to transform them . What we are talking of is the possibility of a legitimacy , not that is entirely asocial or ahistorical , but that is constructed independently of existing relations ...
... power relations , if they are to develop the impetus to transform them . What we are talking of is the possibility of a legitimacy , not that is entirely asocial or ahistorical , but that is constructed independently of existing relations ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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