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 110
... requires adopting a position internal to the given society or power relationship , so as to make intelligible the norms , conventions and legitimating principles that govern it , and to reconstruct the reasoning of the agents involved ...
... requires adopting a position internal to the given society or power relationship , so as to make intelligible the norms , conventions and legitimating principles that govern it , and to reconstruct the reasoning of the agents involved ...
Page 118
... requires legitimation , not so much to function , or even to survive over a period of time , but to achieve those purposes that depend upon the support of its population , and to maintain its political system intact in the face of ...
... requires legitimation , not so much to function , or even to survive over a period of time , but to achieve those purposes that depend upon the support of its population , and to maintain its political system intact in the face of ...
Page 249
... requires a post - Darwinian recognition that the processes whereby new social forms first develop are very different from those that ensure their survival and expansion in competition with others ; and that the two require ...
... requires a post - Darwinian recognition that the processes whereby new social forms first develop are very different from those that ensure their survival and expansion in competition with others ; and that the two require ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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