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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 explored the formation of post-Soviet Russian national identity through a study of political struggles over key Soviet-era monuments and memorials in Moscow during the "critical juncture" in Russian history from 1991 through 1999.
Abstract: This article explores the formation of post–Soviet Russian national identity through a study of political struggles over key Soviet–era monuments and memorials in Moscow during the “critical juncture” in Russian history from 1991 through 1999. We draw on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Pierre Nora to explain how competition among political elites for control over the sites guided their transformation from symbols of the Soviet Union into symbols of Russia. By co–opting, contesting, ignoring, or removing certain types of monuments through both physical transformations and “commemorative maintenance,” Russian political elites engaged in a symbolic dialogue with each other and with the public in an attempt to gain prestige, legitimacy, and influence. We make this argument through case studies of four monument sites in Moscow: Victory Park (Park Pobedy), the Lenin Mausoleum, the former Exhibition of the Achievements of the National Economy (VDNKh), and the Park of Arts (Park Isskustv). In the article, we firs...
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TL;DR: The Hero Factory: The Dilemma of Virtue as mentioned in this paper is a classic example of the classic dilemma of leadership in women's public administration, where women reformers and the rise of the administrative state were faced with the same dilemma.
Abstract: Preface Chapter 1 Gender and Public Administration Chapter 2 \"On Tap But Not on Top\": Women in the Administrative State Chapter 3 \"Sharpening a Knife Cleverly\": The Dilemma of Expertise Chapter 4 \"Look Like a Lady, Act Like a Man\": The Dilemma of Leadership Chapter 5 The Hero Factory: The Dilemma of Virtue Chapter 6 From the Ground(s) Up: Women Reformers and the Rise of the Administrative State Chapter 7 Paths Toward Change References Index About the Author
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TL;DR: The authors examined the linkages among institutional legitimacy, perceptions of procedural justice, and voluntary compliance with unpopular institutional decisions within the context of political intolerance and repression, and concluded that to the extent that an institution employs fair decision-making procedures, it is viewed as legitimate and citizens are more likely to comply with its decisions, even when they are unpopular.
Abstract: This research examines the linkages among institutional legitimacy, perceptions of procedural justice, and voluntary compliance with unpopular institutional decisions within the context of political intolerance and repression. Several questions are addressed, including: To what degree do judicial decisions contribute to the acceptance of unpopular political decisions? Do court decisions have a greater power to legitimize than the decisions of other political institutions? Are courts perceived as more procedurally fair than other political institutions? Do perceptions of procedural fairness-be it in a court or legislative institution-contribute to the efficacy of institutional decisions? The basic hypothesis of this research is that to the extent that an institution employs fair decisionmaking procedures, it is viewed as legitimate and citizens are more likely to comply with its decisions, even when they are unpopular. Based on an analysis of national survey data, I conclude that, although perceptions of institutional procedure have little impact on compliance, institutional legitimacy does seem to have some effect. The United States Supreme Court in particular seems to have some ability to elicit acceptance of public policies that are unpopular with the mass public. This effect is greatest among opinion leaders. I conclude with some observations about how these findings fit with the growing literature on procedural justice and with some thoughts about the implications of the findings for the protection of democratic liberty.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how firms resolve the tension between meeting the information needs of financial markets and maintaining their legitimacy within the community by relying on information economics and legitimacy theory, and find that a firm's environmental disclosure enhances the quality of analysts' information context, which ultimately allows them to make better forecasts.
Abstract: In determining its environmental disclosure strategy, a firm's management faces a tension between responding to the information needs of financial markets and maintaining its legitimacy within the community. In this paper, relying on information economics and legitimacy theory, we explore how firms resolve this tension. Results show that a firm's environmental disclosure enhances the quality of analysts' information context, which ultimately allows them to make better forecasts. Moreover, financial analysts seem to be able to decipher environmental information, discounting discourses that are inconsistent with a firm's underlying environmental performance. We find also that a firm's environmental disclosure serves another purpose, as it influences how its other stakeholders (beyond financial ones) perceive its legitimacy. Such enhanced legitimacy reduces the information uncertainty faced by financial analysts. Our results suggest also that both economic-based environmental disclosure and sustainable development and environmental disclosure are useful to analysts in making their forecasts and enhance a firm's legitimacy. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the dangers of decoupling an organizational compliance program from the core business activities of an organization are highlighted. And they illustrate how decoupled created a "legitimacy facade" that enabled the institutionalization of misconduct and precipitated a loss of external legitimacy.
Abstract: This theory-building analysis spotlights a dynamic that occurs between decoupling, legitimacy, and institutionalized misconduct. Using data gathered from a case study of widespread deceptive sales practices at a large financial services firm, we demonstrate the dangers of decoupling an organizational compliance program from the core business activities of an organization. We illustrate how decoupling created a “legitimacy facade” that enabled the institutionalization of misconduct and precipitated a loss of external legitimacy.
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