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Legitimacy

About: Legitimacy is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 26153 publications have been published within this topic receiving 565921 citations.


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01 Aug 2015-Geoforum
TL;DR: The authors in this article argue that the current water govermentality project implements reforms that do not challenge established market-based water governance foundations Rather it aims to contain and undermine communities' autonomy and "unruly" polycentric rule-making, which are the result of both historical and present-day processes of change.

119 citations

Book
01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: The Making of Semi-Civil Society in Deng's Era - Chinese Theories of Civil Society - Roles of civil society in the 1989 Democracy Movement - Political Civil Society in Exile - Legitimacy, the arts of rule and civil society - Civil Society, Pluralization and the Boundary Problem as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - List of Tables - Introduction - The Making of Semi-Civil Society in Deng's Era - Chinese Theories of Civil Society - Roles of Civil Society in the 1989 Democracy Movement - Political Civil Society in Exile - Legitimacy, the Arts of Rule and Civil Society - Civil Society, Pluralization and the Boundary Problem - The Limits of Civil Society - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index

119 citations

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TL;DR: A critical survey of the last ten years of research on the principles of legitimacy of constitutional democracy and their application in practice in Europe and North America can be found in this article, where three contemporary trends which tend to conflict with the principle of democracy and thus diminish democratic freedom are discussed.
Abstract: The paper is a critical survey of the last ten years of research on the principles of legitimacy of constitutional democracy and their application in practice in Europe and North America. A constitutional democracy is legitimate if it meets the test of two principles: the principles of democracy or popular sovereignty and of constitutionalism or the rule of law. There are three contemporary trends which tend to conflict with the principle of democracy and thus diminish democratic freedom. There are three responses to the lack of legitimacy of these three trends. The first is to downplay the principle of democracy in order to endorse the three trends. The second is to uphold the principle of democracy, in the form of deliberative constitutional democracy, in order to criticise aspects of the three trends and to call for further democratisation. The third trend deepens this critical response by tying the test of democratic legitimacy more closely to case studies of attempts by citizens to exercise their democratic freedom.

119 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the development of one specific administrative institution, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the effect of its regulatory actions in establishing the SEC's own legitimacy with Congress, the press and regulatees, particularly in terms of the McKesson and Robbins enforcement action.
Abstract: It has been urged that research be directed at understanding the development of political institutions, particularly administrative institutions, in the American governance structure, as well as their role in providing order and change in American politics. Toward this end, the purpose of this paper is to examine the development of one specific administrative institution, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the effect of its regulatory actions in establishing the SEC's own legitimacy with Congress, the press and regulatees, particularly in terms of the McKesson and Robbins enforcement action. Our archival analysis, using primary and secondary material, probes the SEC's efforts at developing a dramaturgy of exchange relations with its external constituents in terms of its: 1. (a) conformity to sanctioned language forms; 2. (b) use of both the acquiescence and compromise strategies in dealing with external constituents and in balancing needs for the appearance of regulation with de facto inaction in regulating audit practice; 3. (c) development and application of a ritualistic pattern of interacting with regulatees. We conclude that in order to understand the SEC as a political institution, it is necessary to incorporate an appreciation of its self-interested behavior in terms of the form, content and rhetoric of its regulatory actions. A critical facet of early SEC efforts and success did not concern whether it did good in terms of applying effective regulations, or bad in terms of preserving the status quo in power relations among the business and political communities. The ability of the SEC to legitimate its existence and institutionalize its role in the financial markets and in the financial reporting and auditing communities proved more essential.

119 citations

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Abstract: In recent years, scholars of criminal justice and criminology have brought legitimacy to the forefront of academic and policy discussion. In the most influential definition, institutional trust is assumed to be an integral element of legitimacy, alongside duty to obey. For an individual to find a criminal justice institution to be legitimate, he or she must (a) believe that officials can be trusted to exercise their institutional power appropriately, and (b) feel a positive duty to obey rules and commands. In this chapter we argue that the nature, measurement, and motivating force of trust and legitimacy are in need of further explication. Considering these two concepts in a context of a type of authority that is both coercive and consent-based in nature, we make three claims: first, that legitimacy is the belief that an institution exhibits properties that justify its power and a duty to obey that is wrapped up in this sense of appropriateness; second, that trust is about positive expectations about valued behavior from institutional officials; and third, that legitimacy and institutional trust overlap conceptually if one assumes that people judge the appropriateness of the police as an institution on whether officers can be trusted to use their power appropriately. Our discussion will, we hope, be of broad theoretical and policy interest.

119 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20245
20231,984
20224,252
2021967
20201,096
20191,281