Legitimacy

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

Contested Compliance: Interventions on the Normative Structure of World Politics

Abstract: This article argues that ‘contested compliance’, ie a situation in which compliance conditions are challenged by the expected norm followers, offers an empirical access point for studying changes in the normative structure of world politics It conceptualizes the normative structure as the ‘structure of meaning-in-use’ that works as a reference frame for decision-makers The argument builds on a distinction between type, category and meaning of norms In addition, the article distinguishes between a behaviorist approach to the impact of regulative and constitutive norms on state behavior, and a reflexive perspective on the impact of discursive interventions on the normative structure of world politics The intention of the argument is twofold First, it addresses the puzzle of good norm following despite increasingly contested norms, eg regarding the European Union’s accession criteria, on the one hand, and the United Nations Security Council resolution 1441, on the other Second, it draws on and develops further the input of reflexive sociology on International Relations theory

Rebuilding governance in failed states and post‐conflict societies: core concepts and cross‐cutting themes

Abstract: This overview article looks at the emergence of failed and post-conflict states on the international relations and assistance agenda, and at the importance of governance in establishing peace, pursuing state reconstruction and preventing conflict. It introduces the topic of the special issue, how effective governance can be re-established following societal conflict or war. After a brief review of the terminology of failed states, post-conflict and governance, the article discusses governance reconstruction in terms of three dimensions: reconstituting legitimacy, re-establishing security and rebuilding effectiveness. The article summarises key points made by the contributors to the special issue, who look at donor governance reconstruction agendas, security-sector governance and subnational governance. Several common themes emerge and are elaborated upon: similarities between development and post-conflict assistance; linkages among governance's legitimacy, effectiveness and security dimensions; rebuilding versus creating governance systems; local versus national governance reconstruction; formal versus informal governance. The article concludes with a call for further work to elaborate frameworks that can incorporate the particulars of individual countries in addressing legitimacy, security and effectiveness. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Procedural Justice and Legal Compliance

Abstract: This article reviews the evidence on whether procedurally just treatment of citizens by agents of the criminal justice system, usually the police, has the effect of increasing the citizen's compliance with the law. In brief, we find that perception-based studies consistently show that citizen perceptions of procedurally just treatment are closely tied to perceptions of police legitimacy, and that with only a few exceptions perceptions of legitimacy are strongly associated with legal compliance. However, what has not been established is whether these associations reflect a causal connection whereby changes in policies that are effective in changing actual procedurally just treatment of citizens by police and others lead to changes in legal compliance and perceived legitimacy. Three priority areas for future research are identified: (a) devising and testing a theory of the cumulative effects of experience and community and situational context on perceptions of procedurally just treatment and perceptions of ...

Rhetorical and Critical Approaches to Public Relations II

Abstract: Introduction by Robert Heath Section 1: Rhetorical Heritage and Critical Tradition 1. The Rhetorical Tradition: Wrangle in the Market: Robert L. Heath 2. The Case for Pluralistic Studies of Public Relations: Rhetorical, Critical, and Excellence Perspectives : Elizabeth L. Toth 3. Theoretical Black Holes: A Partial A to Z of Missing Critical Thought in Public Relations: David McKie 4. Civil Society as a Rhetorical Public Relations Process: Maureen Taylor 5. Perspectives on Public Relations History: Ron Pearson 6. Feminist Criticism in Public Relations: How Gender Can Impact Public Relations Texts and Contexts: Linda Aldoory Section 2: Creating Shared Meaning through Ethical Public Relations Promotion and Publicity 7. Public Relations and the Strategic Use of Transparency - Consistency, Hypocrisy and Corporate Change: Lars Thoger Christensen and Roy Langer 8. 756*: The Legitimacy of a Baseball Number: Josh Boyd 9. The Devil in Disguise: Voixx, Drug Safety and the FDA: Jane Stuart Baker, Charles Conrad, Chris Cudahy and Jennifer Willyard 10. Activist Public Relations: A Case Study of Frederick Douglass' "Fourth of July Address": Robert L. Heath and Damion Waymer 11. Connecting Organizations and Their Employee Publics: The Rhetorical Analysis of Employee-Organization Relationships (EOR): Damion Waymer and Lan Ni Section 3: Activism, Issues, Crisis and Risk: Rhetorical Heavy Lifting 12. Crisis, Crisis Communication, Reputation, and Rhetoric: W. Timothy Coombs 13. Dialogue, Discourse Ethics, and Disney: Rebecca J. Meisenbach & Sarah Bonewits Feldner 14. Secret Persuaders: Ethical and Rhetorical Perspectives on the Use of Public Relations Front Groups: Michael J. Palenchar and Kathy R. Fitzpatrick 15. Inter-Organizational Crisis Communication: Exploring Source and Stakeholder Communication in the Roman Catholic Clergy Sex Abuse Case: Suzanne Boys Section 4: Character, Ethics, and Legitimacy in the Practice of Public Relations 16. Character, Ethics and Legitimacy in the Practice of Public Relations: John W. Hill and Arthur Page: Karen Miller Russell 17. Send Out a Posse: Outlaw Discourse As Postmodern Rhetoric: Josh Boyd and Sarah Hagedorn VanSlette 18. Documentary as Activist Medium: The Wal-Mart Movie: Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Rachel Holloway 19. Good Environmental Citizens? The Green Rhetoric of Corporate Social Responsibility: Oyvind Ihlen

Political science and the crisis of authoritarianism

Abstract: Political science is a discipline in constant danger of fragmentation because of the centrifugal pulls of our subfields and the contradictions in our scientific and humanistic traditions. We are, however, periodically brought together by the need to respond to major developments that are reshaping the political universe. We are today confronted with a unifying challenge in the crisis of authoritarianism that is undermining the legitimacy of all types of authoritarian systems throughout the world, including the Marxist-Leninist regimes. The crisis will not necessarily produce democracies, but rather a variety of part-free, part-authoritarian systems which do not conform to our classical typologies. Although the crisis of authoritarianism stems from profound social, economic, and cultural trends, the outcome in each case will be decided by political responses. Political science, therefore, has the responsibility to lead intellectually other social sciences in analyzing the fundamental change in political life that involves the clash between individual political cultures and the world culture of modernization.