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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... regime : the correctness of its procedures , the justification for its decisions , and the fairness with which it treats its subjects . In Weber's hands , however , legitimacy no longer represents an evaluation of a regime ; indeed it ...
... regime : the correctness of its procedures , the justification for its decisions , and the fairness with which it treats its subjects . In Weber's hands , however , legitimacy no longer represents an evaluation of a regime ; indeed it ...
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... regimes and relegitimation One aspect of relegitimation has already been discussed , and that is the retrospective justification of the breach of legality involved in the overthrow of the old regime . This primarily negative task is ...
... regimes and relegitimation One aspect of relegitimation has already been discussed , and that is the retrospective justification of the breach of legality involved in the overthrow of the old regime . This primarily negative task is ...
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... regime necessarily deprives itself of the means of any public legitimation . The distinctions drawn above are essential if we are to under- stand the lack of legitimacy of military regimes . Nowhere in fact is it more important to ...
... regime necessarily deprives itself of the means of any public legitimation . The distinctions drawn above are essential if we are to under- stand the lack of legitimacy of military regimes . Nowhere in fact is it more important to ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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