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Richard M. Merelman
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 3
Citations - 221
Richard M. Merelman is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Political system & Legitimacy. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 217 citations.
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Learning and Legitimacy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define political legitimacy as the quality of "oughtness" that is perceived by the public to inhere in a political regime, and propose a theory and a set of implicit indices of political legitimacy.
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On the Neo-Elitist Critique of Community Power
TL;DR: The first period marked the contemporary emergence of community power as a distinct field of study, mainly through the investigations of Hunter, Mills and their followers as mentioned in this paper, and the second phase was marked by the challenge of another group of observers, the "pluralists" who contended that the methods and premises of the elitists predisposed them to conclusions about community power which were unjustified.
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The Dramaturgy of Politics
TL;DR: The relationship between the political process and notions of the drama is explored in this paper, where it is argued that politicians use dramatic devices, and therefore it is useful to know some principles of dramatic construction in order to appreciate politics fully.