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 149
... typically emerge to ' rectify ' the failings of democracy , are simply incapable of establishing a credible source of authority for their power , let alone rules of office that might embody it . A second conclusion concerns the agencies ...
... typically emerge to ' rectify ' the failings of democracy , are simply incapable of establishing a credible source of authority for their power , let alone rules of office that might embody it . A second conclusion concerns the agencies ...
Page 211
... typically follows the loss of authority produced by acts of delegitimation , and these in turn typically take place , with most damaging conse- quences , where the legitimacy of the constitutional order is itself weak . In other words ...
... typically follows the loss of authority produced by acts of delegitimation , and these in turn typically take place , with most damaging conse- quences , where the legitimacy of the constitutional order is itself weak . In other words ...
Page 212
... typically takes place under a democratic regime , whose authority is grounded in the acknowl- edged principle of ... typical ones only , which do not exhaust the full range of historic possibilities . There is , for exam- ple , a third ...
... typically takes place under a democratic regime , whose authority is grounded in the acknowl- edged principle of ... typical ones only , which do not exhaust the full range of historic possibilities . There is , for exam- ple , a third ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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