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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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TL;DR: The authors examines how currents of Bolivia's indigenous movement are gravitating to the city and to the centre of national political life, capitalising on popular sentiment against the political status quo, economic privatisation and violations of national sovereignty.
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TL;DR: This article argued that citizens should be involved in expert deliberations on science and technology issues, and this interest in public deliberation has gained attraction in many practice areas such as government, academia, and the media.
Abstract: Today many scholars seem to agree that citizens should be involved in expert deliberations on science and technology issues. This interest in public deliberation has gained attraction in many pract ...
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01 Dec 1989
TL;DR: The Contemporary Polarization of Democratic Theory: The Case for a Third Way as discussed by the authors is a good starting point for a discussion of the contemporary polarization of political theory in the modern state.
Abstract: Preface. Introduction. 1. Central Perspectives on the Modern State. 2. Class, Power and the State. 3. Legitimation Problems and Crisis Tendencies. 4. Power and Legitimacy. 5. Liberalism, Marxism and the Future Direction of Public Policy. 6. The Contemporary Polarization of Democratic Theory: The Case for a Third Way. 7. Citizenship and Autonomy. 8. Sovereignty, National Politics and the Global System. 9. A Discipline of Politics? Index.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the construction of legitimacy and identity during the life cycle of an entrepreneurial Internet firm, from inception to death, and found that the strategic action of organizational members in pursuing and enacting their preferred scripts depends on their position and role in the organization.
Abstract: We study, longitudinally and ethnographically, the construction of legitimacy and identity during the life cycle of an entrepreneurial Internet firm, from inception to death. We utilize organizational scripts to examine how social actors enact identity and legitimacy, maintaining that different scripts, both contested and consent-oriented, become the source of action for acquiring legitimacy and creating organizational identity. We show that scripts enable entrepreneurs and other social actors to invoke a set of interactions within and outside the organization. Scripts construct values and interests, form social bonding and consented actions, and eventually shape and reshape the individual and institutional contexts of identity and legitimacy. We found that the strategic action of organizational members in pursuing and enacting their preferred scripts depends on their position and role in the organization. We observed that the institutionalization of simultaneously competing scripts created a path-dependent process leading to organizational conflict and eventual failure.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the democratic qualities of core institutions of representative democracy: multiparty elections, focusing on the three basic democratic values participation, competition and legitimacy, and compared both over time and between founding, second, third and following elections.
Abstract: This article analyses the democratic qualities of core institutions of representative democracy: multiparty elections. Focusing on the three basic democratic values participation, competition and legitimacy, the empirical examination of Africa compares both over time and between founding, second, third and following elections. The results, based on 203 observations of presidential and parliamentary elections, show that there are significant improvements of democratic qualities in Africa and breakdowns typically occur only after founding elections. The core institutions of representative democracy may have a future in Africa. Hence, there is a cotinuing case for demo-optimism on the continent.
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