The Legitimation of Power

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Preface to the Second Edition vii
Preface to the First Edition viii
Introduction x
PART I THE CRITERIA FOR LEGITIMACY
1 Towards a Social-scientific Concept of Legitimacy 3
The different dimensions of legitimacy 15
The significance of legitimacy 25
Conclusion: a social or political concept? 37
2 Power and Its Need of Legitimation 42
The concept of power 43
The social organisation of power 46
Power and legitimacy 56
3 The Normative Structure of Legitimacy 64
Legitimacy derived from rules 64
Legitimacy as justifiability of rules 69
Legitimacy through expressed consent 90
Conclusion 97
4 The Social Construction of Legitimacy 100
PART II LEGITIMACY IN THE MODERN STATE
5 Dimensions of State Legitimacy 117
The elusiveness of legality 121
Constitutional rules and their justification 126
Modes of popular consent 150
Conclusion 158
6 Crisis Tendencies of Political Systems 161
Liberal democracy 163
Liberal democracy in developing countries 171
The communist model 179
Types of Islamic state 191
7 Modes of Non-legitimate Power 205
Revolutions and Legitimacy 213
Revolutionary regimes and relegitimation 221
Coups d'état and military regimes 228
Conclusions: the dilemmas of political legitimacy 237
8 Legitimacy in Political Science and Political Philosophy 243
PART III LEGITIMACY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
9 Legitimacy within the State 253
Operationalising the concept of legitimacy 253
Compliance with law enforcement agencies 256
The comparative legitimacy of states 259
The role of consent in political legitimacy 266
10 Legitimacy beyond the State 269
Inter-governmental institutions and their legitimacy 269
Legitimacy issues in international NGOs 274
Contested legitimacy in the European Union 279
Legitimacy crisis in the international financial sector 287
Conclusion 292
Bibliography 295
Index 305