Legitimation as Political Practice - Dodworth, Kathy
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"'Legitimacy' has held an unwavering prominence within Western political philosophy. It is to an extent its founding debate as to the rightful use of power (Mulligan 2006). Weberian influenced legitimacy studies have more recently aimed to prise empirical legitimacy from normative, what is over what should be, in the service of good social science. In this book, I argue that empirical legitimacy remains only partially represented. This partiality is due to an entrenched focus on the actions of state elites and state, or inter-state, institutions. From legitimacy's earliest framings, theorists…mehr

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"'Legitimacy' has held an unwavering prominence within Western political philosophy. It is to an extent its founding debate as to the rightful use of power (Mulligan 2006). Weberian influenced legitimacy studies have more recently aimed to prise empirical legitimacy from normative, what is over what should be, in the service of good social science. In this book, I argue that empirical legitimacy remains only partially represented. This partiality is due to an entrenched focus on the actions of state elites and state, or inter-state, institutions. From legitimacy's earliest framings, theorists have conflated political power with state power. The state is legitimate force: ergo legitimacy is the state. Its study is thus hamstrung by recursive, state-based rationalities, which mask the extent to which Western norms and normativity imbue world politics and its study (Dodworth 2014; 2018a)"--
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Kathy Dodworth is a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for African Studies. Her current fellowship critically re-examines contemporary community health work in Kenya (2021-25). Her doctoral thesis on legitimation practices in Tanzania was awarded the University of Edinburgh's School of Social and Political Science Outstanding Thesis Award in 2018. She has published in African Affairs, Ethnography, Critical African Studies, Health and the Journal of Social Policy. Her African Affairs article won the British International Studies Association Postgraduate Prize in 2015. Prior to academia, she worked within a number of health and education international non-governmental organisations.