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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... respective duties and obligations of those involved in a power relationship . These rules may be largely conventional , or they may be legally defined . A feature of the modern world is the increasingly precise legal specification of ...
... respective duties and obligations of those involved in a power relationship . These rules may be largely conventional , or they may be legally defined . A feature of the modern world is the increasingly precise legal specification of ...
Page 58
... respective powers , to use the lan- guage of the first section ; i.e. their capacity to achieve their purposes , and the kinds of purposes they can achieve . They are distanced from one another by various forms of inequality . Secondly ...
... respective powers , to use the lan- guage of the first section ; i.e. their capacity to achieve their purposes , and the kinds of purposes they can achieve . They are distanced from one another by various forms of inequality . Secondly ...
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... respective institutions . I argue that each can be seen as offering different solutions to the common legitimation ... respectively . Its conclusion draws together the different strands for an expla- nation of why such breakdown is so ...
... respective institutions . I argue that each can be seen as offering different solutions to the common legitimation ... respectively . Its conclusion draws together the different strands for an expla- nation of why such breakdown is so ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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