David Beetham

The Legitimation of Power

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The new edition of this classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of legitimacy as applied to political systems. Now addressing the issue of legitimacy beyond the state, the book also includes a new introduction and two major additional chapters which update the argument in the light of developments and debates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC / Macmillan Education
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 419g
• ISBN-13: 9780230279735
• ISBN-10: 0230279732
• Artikelnr.: 39218871

Autorenporträt

David Beetham is Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Leeds, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the 2nd edition Preface to the 1st edition Introduction PART I:
THE CRITERIA FOR LEGITIMACY 1. Towards a Social-Scientific Concept of
Legitimacy 2. Power and its need of Legitimation 3. The Intellectual
Structure of Legitimacy 4. Social Science and the Social Construction of
Legitimacy PART II: LEGITIMACY IN THE MODERN STATE 5. Dimensions of State
Legitimacy 6. Crisis Tendencies of Political Systems 7. Modes of
Non-Legitimate Power 8. Legitimacy in Political Science and Political
Philosophy 9. The Legitimation of Power in the 21st Century PART III:
LEGITIMACY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 10. Legitimacy Within the State 11.
Legitimacy Beyond the State.