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 122
... sovereignty : that the state determines its own rules , as well as those of all other powers within its territory . In the legal sense it is self - validating . Sovereignty thus represents at once a con- dition of power and of ...
... sovereignty : that the state determines its own rules , as well as those of all other powers within its territory . In the legal sense it is self - validating . Sovereignty thus represents at once a con- dition of power and of ...
Page 129
... sovereignty is qualified by assumptions deriving from Marxist - Leninist doctrine about the leading role of the working - class party in the historical scheme of social development . Most recently of all , in the Islamic republic of ...
... sovereignty is qualified by assumptions deriving from Marxist - Leninist doctrine about the leading role of the working - class party in the historical scheme of social development . Most recently of all , in the Islamic republic of ...
Page 149
... sovereignty is recognised as the main , though as we have seen not the only , source of authority for government . The first concerns the different points of vulner- ability of different types of political system . What I have called ...
... sovereignty is recognised as the main , though as we have seen not the only , source of authority for government . The first concerns the different points of vulner- ability of different types of political system . What I have called ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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