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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: In this paper, the authors argue that collaboration is only one of several possible strategies of engagement used by organizations as they try to manage the interorganizational domain in which they operate.
Abstract: Many writers advocate interorganizational collaboration as a solution to a range of organizational and in tersectoral problems. Accordingly, they often concentrate on its functional aspects. We argue that collaboration deserves a more critical examination, particularly when the interests of stakeholders conflict and the balance of power between them is unequal. Using examples from a study of the UK refugee system, we argue that collaboration is only one of several possible strategies of engagement used by organizations as they try to manage the interorganizational domain in which they operate. In this paper, we discuss four such strategies: collaboration, compliance, contention and contestation. By examining the stakeholders in the domain and asking who has formal authority, who controls key resources, and who is able to discursively manage legitimacy, resear chers are in a stronger position to evaluate both the benefits and costs of these strategies and to differentiate more clearly between strategies that are truly collaborative and strategies that are not. In other words, we hope to demonstrate that collabo ration between organizations is not necessarily "good", conflict is not necessarily "bad", and surface dynamics are not necessarily an accurate representation of what is going on beneath.
526 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt the evaluators' perspective on legitimacy to develop a multilevel conceptualization of institutional processes, based on the distinction of macro-and microfoundations of institutions.
Abstract: The distinction of macro- and microfoundations of institutions implies a multilevel conceptualization of institutional processes. We adopt the evaluators' perspective on legitimacy to develop a mul...
523 citations
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15 Mar 2006
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the potential significance of their work and the potential implications of their research in the context of educational influence in learning, and evaluate the evidence-based account of our learning.
Abstract: PART ONE: BACKGROUNDS AND CONTEXTS Background to Our Research: Reasons and Purposes What Are Our Concerns? Contexts of Our Research Why Are We Concerned? Looking for Data What Experiences Can We Describe to Show Why We Are Concerned? PART TWO: GATHERING DATA AND GENERATING EVIDENCE Monitoring Practice and Gathering Data What Kind of Data Will We Gather to Show the Situation as It Unfolds Interpreting Data and Generating Evidence in Relation to Living Critical Standards of Judgement How Do We Explain Our Educational Influences in Learning? PART THREE: ESTABLISHING VALIDITY AND LEGITIMACY Validity, Legitimacy and Moral Authority How Do We Show that Any Conclusions We Come To Are Reasonably Fair and Accurate? The Potential Significance of Our Research How Do We Show the Potential Significance of Our Research? PART FOUR: IMPLICATIONS, EVALUATIONS AND DISSEMINATION Case Studies How Do We Show the Implications of Our Research? Evaluating the Account of Our Research How Do We Evaluate the Evidence-Based Account of Our Learning? PART FIVE: TESTING OUR CLAIMS TO EDUCATIONAL KNOWLEDGE Into New Research How Do We Modify Our Concerns, Ideas and Practices in the Light of Our Evaluations?
521 citations
TL;DR: This paper explored the link between violence and public discourse and found that differential public visibility, resonance, and legitimacy of right-wing violence significantly affected the rate of violence against different target groups.
Abstract: This article explores the link between violence and public discourse. It suggests that media attention to radical right violence and public reactions to violence affect the clustering of targets and the temporal and spatial distribution of violence. The notion of “discursive opportunities” is introduced, and the article argues that it can serve to link political opportunity structure and framing perspectives on collective action. Using a cross‐sectional and time‐series design to model event counts in states in Germany, this study finds that differential public visibility, resonance, and legitimacy of right‐wing violence significantly affected the rate of violence against different target groups.
514 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a framework to measure the domestic salience of an international norm and identify four pathways by which international norms can enter the national arena and one factor that conditions its impact on domestic political processes.
Abstract: Scholarship on international norms has recently begun to explore how domestic-level structures and processes affect compliance. This literature has identified the domestic legitimacy of an international norm as an important variable in accounting for the effects of norms on state behavior. But scholars have devoted insufficient attention to measuring the legitimacy or salience of international norms in the domestic arena and to identifying the pathways that lead to domestic salience. We offer insights that could lead to more systematic studies of the domestic impact of international norms. First, we propose a framework to measure the domestic salience of an international norm. Second, we identify four pathways by which an international norm can enter the national arena and one factor that conditions its impact on domestic political processes. The paper concludes by suggesting directions for future empirical research.
512 citations