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	Legitimacy (political science) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Legitimacy in political science, is the popular acceptance of a governing regime or law as an authority.
		Legitimacy based on the charisma of the leader, often partly based on the perception that this leader has certain supernatural attributes.
		Democratic legitimacy is also claimed by states which reject liberal democracy, and the fact that states whose values are antithetical to liberal democracy claim democratic legitimacy causes much controversy over the meaning of the term democracy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legitimacy_(political_science) (1052 words)

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		The political culture of the international system is that set of implicit or explicit propositions, shared by the major actors in the system, about the nature of legitimate political authority, state identity, and political power, and the rules and norms derived from these propositions that pertain to interstate relations within the system.
		Political legitimacy is a critical component of political power, because a government perceived as illegitimate by its own subjects will have more difficulty mustering the resources for international competition than a legitimate one--as the troubled reign of Louis XVI demonstrates.
		Because key late eighteenth-century political struggles--especially the American and French revolutions and the wars that accompanied them--were articulated in terms of Enlightenment discourse, one of the outcomes of those struggles was a new template for political legitimacy, grounded in the notion of popular sovereignty.
	pup.princeton.edu /chapters/DAB/sent/0691074348.html (4827 words)

	Central Europe Review - Anti-Communism & Emotional Substitutes
		It is an interesting question whether the quick emergence of economic and administrative effectiveness as a source of political legitimacy in Poland and Hungary is the reason why the media in the Czech Republic, which are still struggling with ideologisation of politics in their country, hardly ever report on developments in these two neighbouring countries.
		It was not until 1997 that Klaus lost most of its political legitimacy: his government was forced to admit that the economic reform had been done incompetently and that Klaus's policies had landed the country in a blind alley.
		Political programmes, concepts, intelligence and logic applied to state management recede into the background and are all replaced by a bizarre nationwide television soap opera...
	www.ce-review.org /00/40/culik40.html (4414 words)

	The Legitimacy of Legal and Political Institutions in a Divided Polity
		There seems to be considerable agreement that political institutions, especially courts, need some sort of “reservoir of goodwill” in order to govern effectively, and assessing the causes and consequences of legitimacy has captured the attention to many of our best political scientists.
		With the new national government most likely in short supply of popular legitimacy, and with the deep and sharp ideological divisions in the country, the next four years in American politics are likely to provide great challenges to the ability of American political institutions to govern.
		By combining a comprehensive analysis of the major hypotheses of Legitimacy Theory with a bold research design, this project should advance the study of political legitimacy far beyond its condition today and set the research agenda for the next generation of scholars concerned about legitimacy.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~legit/legitimacy-supremecourt.index.html (453 words)

	Political Legitimacy 1997 Fall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It will be assumed that political legitimacy is a relationship between rulers and ruled that refers to the moral condition of individuals in modern political communities: to say that citizens owe loyalty to the state implies that legal and political requirements of the state authority ought to be capable of justification.
		Legitimacy as relation between authority and citizens: the right to rule and to claim loyalty (on the part of authority), and the recognition that this right exists, because it can be morally defended (on the part of citizens).
		Legitimacy and obligation in fraternal community (community of principle), as meeting the political ideal of integrity.
	www.ceu.hu /crc/Syllabi/97-98/Polsci/nenadleg.html (1147 words)

	The European Central Bank and Legitimacy
		Every political system also includes a number of institutions that cannot claim to function in a democratic manner, such as the court system, but which are still a central part of a democracy.
		Legitimacy, on the other hand, refers to the belief that a specific institution is widely recognised or at least accepted as being the appropriate institution to exercise specific powers.
		Still, it is difficult for many to accept a political theory not built upon the principle of representiveness and not open to the possibility of changing policies and office-holders as the result of general elections.
	www.jeanmonnetprogram.org /papers/00/001101-03.html (6792 words)

	Legitimacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Legitimacy (political science) is whether or not people accept the validity of a law or ruling or the validity of a governing regime.
		Legitimacy in government is garnered by when the citizens of said country authorize and submit themselves to the law in return for protections from the state.
		In the common law tradition, legitimacy (law) describes the status of children who are born to parents that are legally married (cf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legitimacy (184 words)

	Authority (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Political power does not require any kind of pro attitude toward the agent on the part of the subject, nor does it require that the state is actually successful at securing public order.
		At the root of all contemporary discussions of the legitimacy of authority is the problem posed by Robert Paul Wolff concerning the incompatibility of moral autonomy and political authority.
		In particular, it seems to be an unacceptable principle of political legitimacy because a principle of political legitimacy is partly framed for the purpose of according moral credentials to a society in the circumstances of political disagreement.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/authority (14145 words)

	Amazon.ca: Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food: Books: Michael G. Schatzberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He argues that all societies have a culturally-rooted template against which people come to understand the political legitimacy, or "thinkability," of institutions, ideas, policies, and procedures.
		Michael G. Schatzberg is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
		He is editor of The Political Economy of Kenya, The Political Economy of Zimbabwe, and co-editor (with I. William Zartman) of The Political Economy of Cameroon.
	www.amazon.ca /Political-Legitimacy-Middle-Africa-Family/dp/0253339928 (230 words)

	20th WCP: Hypothetical Consent and Political Legitimacy
		I argue that while hypothetical consent may not serve as an adequate ground for political obligation, it is capable of grounding political legitimacy.
		I understand a theory of political obligation to give an account of why and under what conditions, citizens are morally required to obey the rules constituting those arrangements.
		As others have maintained, in particular with respect to Rawls, the heart of the issue in social contract approaches to political legitimacy concerns the characterization of the parties imagined to be choosing the rules that are thereby legitimated by their being chosen by those parties.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Poli/PoliStar.htm (3406 words)

	Political Stability in Argentina--Maria Lambert
		Thus, based on current levels of legitimacy and social capital, I have concluded that Argentina has not effectively inculcated the necessary democratic ideals to cultivate a participant political culture essential to the stabilization and modernization of its democratic form of government.
		Undoubtedly, myriad reasons contribute to Argentina’s substantial lack of legitimacy and social capital, but most notably an unstable political past marred by authoritarian regimes, a rapid implementation of democratic ideology, and a civically uninvolved and distrusting society have resulted in a reluctance to accept and to defend democracy.
		In order to analyze the political culture of Argentina and its relation to the institutionalization of a modern, liberal democracy, one must first understand the tumultuous nature of its past that underlies its present political culture.
	www.smu.edu /ecenter/discourse/MariaLambert.htm (3278 words)

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		This relative lack of serious attention is unfortunate--if the persistence of economic institutions depends on their legitimacy, it would seem to follow that a complete theory of market capitalism would have to address issues relating to the beliefs and attitudes people have toward these economic institutions.
		Through politics they are able to exercise direct and immediate influence on the shape of society and the direction of national affairs.
		Political socialization is one possibility: Litt (1963) found that civics textbooks used in working class communities convey a notion of politics that emphasizes passivity.
	www.dickinson.edu /~bergsten/papers/legitimacy.html (10511 words)

	Walter Riker, “Disagreement and Democratic Legitimacy
		Political legitimacy refers to a state’s right to enforce laws against its citizens, while political obligation refers to a citizen’s duty to obey those laws.
		And while classical political philosophers like Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, were more concerned with political legitimacy and obligation than justice, political philosophy in the past several decades has focused largely on justice.
		A few political theorists recognize this and have developed accounts of political obligation that are more limited in scope.
	web.utk.edu /~wriker/Research (1373 words)

	Lecture: The Constitution and the Legitimacy of Political Systems : News & Events : Birzeit University : Palestine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jadallah began his lecture by defining Constitutional Law as “a group of Basic Laws outlining the makeup of the State” and stemming from a number of sources most important of which is the Constitution.
		The first mechanism is the formation of political vigilance committees which, he added, are usually not effective because “they are usually appointed by one of the three branches of authority (judicial, legislative or executive) and are, therefore, held hostage to the shifting political situations." The second mechanism is judicial scrutiny.
		The lecture was followed by an open discussion during which a number of issues were discussed, especially in regards to the political situation in Palestine and Iraq.
	www.birzeit.edu /news/news-d?news_id=54198 (341 words)

	The Political Legitimacy of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth
		Often encyclopedia definitions of "political legitimacy" will specify that a set of laws, regime, or constitution must be popularly recognized or accepted to be politically legitimate.
		As you may know, there was a well-known debate in the 1960s between revolutionary political thinker C. Wright Mills and liberal political thinker Robert A. Dahl over issue of political legitimacy in the United States.
		The attempt to evolve political legitimacy within the present context of mass propaganda and manipulation, power brokering, and systems of domination and subversion is futile and hopeless.
	www.runet.edu /~gmartin/political_legitimacy_of_the_cons.htm (1760 words)

	ARAFAT'S DUELING DILEMMAS
		The answer to this question depends to a great extent on the political legitimacy of the regime and the expectations of the Palestinians as to the continuation of the corruption and inefficiency of that regime under Arafat’s successor.
		This will be difficult in a political environment in which there are factions within Fatah opposing the peace process and problems in forming alliances with challengers both within and outside of Fatah, despite their common chorus of criticism of the corruption and inefficiency of the regime.
		The remaining two challengers to the political legitimacy of the Arafat regime are less likely to sponsor viable candidates in a succession struggle, but constitute potential allies for contenders in that struggle.
	meria.idc.ac.il /journal/2002/issue1/jv6n1a5.html (4701 words)

	Scoop: Nepal: Perpetual Legislature, Political Legitimacy
		The sense of finality that set in from the outset impelled some to insist that the constitution did not need to be amended for another 30 years.
		The wider political climate undoubtedly favors that interpretation, as the virtual silence emanating from the royalist parties/factions in the legislature underscores.
		The ideology-vs.-personality clashes within parties and their factions, the assertion of power by non-political actors, representational resentments that led to the squandering of political capital and the other factors that created an anguished electorate are all capable of returning to the forefront of the national consciousness – and with a vengeance.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0606/S00069.htm (1482 words)

	Democratic Legitimacy. Plural Values and Political Power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Here is an answer that many political philosophers in the liberal-democratic tradition have been tempted by: when you obey the state, you are not really acquiescing to coercion, for democracy is government by the people, and since you are one of the people, you are really just obeying yourself.
		If a single theme runs through the volume, it is that political philosophers through the ages have been tempted time and time again by conceptualizations of the political domain that draw on non-political conceptual resources.
		Barnard's principal proposal is that the key to understanding democratic legitimacy lies not in the misleading image of the polity as subject to the legal and political authorship of each of its citizens, but rather in the notion of accountability.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/721/721_review_weinstock.html (723 words)

	Legality and Legitimacy.
		Legal procedures cannot adequately secure a political system’s legitimacy because a regime of robust legal proceduralism is vulnerable to a perfectly legal means for undermining the very rule of law that proceduralism seeks.
		Schmitt’s political authoritarianism involves the rejection of constitutionalism and the embrace of a decisionist notion of sovereignty, further developing a theme of POLITICAL THEOLOGY, which begins with the sentence: “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception” (p.5).
		Indeed, the state of exception is political eschatology: it allows for the existentially (indeed otherworldly) significant “authentic politics” precluded by normal politics in the bourgeois state.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/schmitt804.htm (1368 words)

	Legitimacy and Politics - Cambridge University Press
		For the past few years, the increase in cases of political corruption, the loss of politicians' credibility, the development of social and political forms of pathology (notably the rise of the extreme right along with exclusionist ideologies), and the role of the State have been at the center of political debates.
		The result is that legitimacy, a key notion of political thought in general, has today become a burning issue.
		Coicaud examines all these issues and proffers insightful answers to questions such as the connections between morality and politics, how rulers acquire or lose the right to govern, and how one can become the advocate of a theory of political justice that, while establishing limits, respects and even ensures the promotion of plurality within societies.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521782619 (238 words)

	TIMEasia.com \| WTO: Barshefsky: 'It is political legitimacy' \| 11/29/99
		Zhu saw that he could use the WTO accession as a means to, first, force internal reform and, second, ensure that the reform process would be cemented even after he left--in a concrete set of agreements fully enforceable which go out into the future well beyond his term.
		Since his political imperative was met, it was a win for him whatever else he gave U.S. Since commercially we ended up with a stronger deal in telecoms and in autos than we had, it ended up for us to be a win as well.
		BARSHEFSKY: On the political and diplomatic side China has always wanted the recognition of the large multilateral institutions, the GATTs/WTOs being prominent on the list of those to which it is not a member.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/99/1129/wto.barshefsky.html (1892 words)

	LEGITIMACY
		Legitimacy derives not just from scientific norms or technocracy, even in modern times.
		It is a belief whose alternative (illegitimacy) people may often suppress in their minds until external situations change, bringing an unexpected cascade of altered legitimacy.
		The volume is edited by Lynn White, a professor in the Woodrow Wilson School and Politics Department at Princeton.
	www.worldscibooks.com /eastasianstudies/5698.html (392 words)

	In the News
		The near universal condemnation of the murder, the propaganda traps the CPP has fallen into, and the reactivation of ‘rejectionist’ groups and individuals have generated dynamics that have already changed the political equation on the Left.
		By admitting culpability publicly, however, the CPP has been forced to submit itself to a different political discourse, one that abhors violence to the same degree that the CPP glorifies it.
		The top CPP leadership at the time Rolly was supposed to have organized these crimes, it should be noted, remain the same today.
	www.ipd.ph /features/july_2003/political_ligitimacy.html (781 words)

	The Fight for Legitimacy — Praeger Security International
		By using a comparative context with five different cases, this important study reveals the impact of unique regional, cultural, social, and political dynamics on states that are facing the twin pressures of terrorism and long-standing social and political grievances.
		Although this work points to the complex and often dangerous nature of politics in emerging democracies, it also argues that the potential costs of avoiding democratization are far greater in terms of forsaking our values and weakening our long-term security.
		The authors argue that the best way for states to win legitimacy vis-a-vis terrorists is by adhering to liberal democratic values, cooperating with other states, and applying prudent counterterrorist tactics.
	www.greenwood.com /psi/book_detail.aspx?sku=C9189 (638 words)

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