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 69
... rules provide the recognised source of entitlements , and because a generalised respect for rules is the condition for any social order or settled expectations . That it is no more than a first step follows from the fact that rules ...
... rules provide the recognised source of entitlements , and because a generalised respect for rules is the condition for any social order or settled expectations . That it is no more than a first step follows from the fact that rules ...
Page 76
... rules of power and the beliefs necessary to support them , it is also impor- tant to insist that any particular legitimating source does not deliver an unequivocal set of power rules . The authority of religion , for example , has ...
... rules of power and the beliefs necessary to support them , it is also impor- tant to insist that any particular legitimating source does not deliver an unequivocal set of power rules . The authority of religion , for example , has ...
Page 113
... rules of power reproduce the differences that serve to justify them ; and it provides the means for eroding the ... power , and therefore for all power rules , in the people . This principle - again despite all the limitations ...
... rules of power reproduce the differences that serve to justify them ; and it provides the means for eroding the ... power , and therefore for all power rules , in the people . This principle - again despite all the limitations ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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