Legitimacy (20TH CENTURY).
The view that systems of government either are or ought to be justified, and not simply based on coercion.
There are two versions of the theory of legitimacy, one deriving from political philosophy, the other from history and political science.
The first seeks for principles which would oblige people to obey government, and then uses those principles to assess existing regimes as worthy or otherwise of being obeyed.
The second treats a belief in the legitimacy of regimes as a common feature of government, however distasteful any particular regime may be to the observer. It then examines legitimacy as an historical phenomenon rather than engaging in moral appraisal.
The two approaches are often thought to be incompatible, but are in fact complementary.
Also see: political obligation
Source:
Rodney Barker, Political Legitimacy and the State (Oxford, 1990)
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World
- 2.2 Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court
- 2.3 To the Edge: Legality, Legitimacy, and the Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis
- 2.4 Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership (Debates in Archaeology)
- 2.5 The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
- 2.6 legitimacy
- 2.7 Social Choice & Legitimacy (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
- 2.8 The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
- 2.9 Political Legitimacy: NOMOS LXI (NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy)
- 2.10 State Legitimacy and Development in Africa
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Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World
- Hardcover Book
- Applbaum, Arthur Isak (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 304 Pages - 11/29/2019 (Publication Date) - Harvard University Press (Publisher)
Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court
- Hardcover Book
- Fallon Jr., Richard H. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 240 Pages - 02/19/2018 (Publication Date) - Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press (Publisher)
To the Edge: Legality, Legitimacy, and the Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Wallach, Philip A. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 334 Pages - 04/21/2015 (Publication Date) - Brookings Institution Press (Publisher)
Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership (Debates in Archaeology)
- Bristol Classical Press
- Renfrew, Colin (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 160 Pages - 10/20/2000 (Publication Date) - Bristol Classical Press (Publisher)
The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
- Hardcover Book
- Matthews, Helen (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 248 Pages - 06/27/2019 (Publication Date) - Pen and Sword History (Publisher)
Political Legitimacy: NOMOS LXI (NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy)
- Hardcover Book
- English (Publication Language)
- 400 Pages - 08/06/2019 (Publication Date) - NYU Press (Publisher)
State Legitimacy and Development in Africa
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- Hardcover Book
- Englebert, Pierre (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 244 Pages - 09/01/2000 (Publication Date) - Lynne Rienner Pub (Publisher)
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