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Phillips, Robert. "Stakeholder Legitimacy." Business Ethics Quarterly 13, no. 1 (January 2003): 25–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/beq20031312.
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Abstract:This paper is a preliminary attempt to better understand the concept of legitimacy in stakeholder theory. The normative component of stakeholder theory plays a central role in the concept of legitimacy. Though the elaboration of legitimacy contained herein applies generally to all “normative cores” this paper relies on Phillips’s principle of stakeholder fairness and therefore begins with a brief description of this work. This is followed by a discussion of the importance of legitimacy to stakeholder theory as well as the general ambiguity of the term. A distinction is then drawn between normative and derivative legitimacy. Reference to this distinction helps distinguish between a relationship with the organization based on direct moral obligation and one based on the power to help or harm the organization. It is concluded that stakeholders who retain the ability to affect the organization are legitimate (derivatively), but that this legitimacy is derived from the moral obligation owed other (normative) stakeholders and that the two sorts of legitimacy are importantly different from one another. An example of the normative/derivative distinction at work in managerial decision making is elaborated upon and managerial and research implications are then suggested.
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Gold, Barry Allen. "Punctuated Legitimacy: A Theory of Educational Change." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 101, no. 2 (December 1999): 192–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146819910100201.
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This research presents a theory of educational change grounded in 23 years of qualitative data that document the history of a public elementary school. The pattern of change observed supports the punctuated equilibrium theory of organizational change in which short periods of revolutionary change—usually the result of failed innovation—are followed by long periods of equilibrium or incremental change. Attempts to legitimate organizational and individual behavior—the dynamics of construction, erosion, loss, reconstruction, and maintenance of organizational legitimacy—explain the sequence of stages in the change process. The study concludes that punctuated legitimacy, which created the need to reestablish legitimacy, not rational administrative attempts to improve the programs and structure of the school, was the major factor that produced significant organizational change.
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Bondy, Patrick. "Virtues, Evidence, and Ad Hominem Arguments." Informal Logic 35, no. 4 (December 11, 2015): 450. http://dx.doi.org/10.22329/il.v35i4.4330.
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Argumentation theorists are beginning to think of ad hominem arguments as generally legitimate. Virtue argumentation theorists argue that a character trait approach to argument appraisal can explain why ad hominems would are legitimate, when they are legitimate. But I argue that we do not need to appeal to virtue argumentation theory to explain the legitimacy of ad hominem arguments; a more straightforward evidentialist approach to argument appraisal is also committed to their legitimacy. I also argue that virtue argumentation theory faces some important problems, and that whereas the virtue-theoretic approach in epistemology is (arguably) well-motivated, that motivation does not carry over to virtue argumentation theory.
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Hope, Jade Danielle, and Faye Kathryn Horsley. "Invited paper: Legitimacy of fire use: investigating the Continuum of Fire Use Theory (CoFUT)." Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice 8, no. 1 (October 7, 2021): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcrpp-08-2021-0047.
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Purpose Most individuals regularly encounter fire, but certain uses are legally disallowed. Horsley (2020, 2021; in press) proposed the continuum of fire use theory (CoFUT), which posits that the legitimacy of fire use exists on a spectrum. This study aims to investigate the CoFUT and to elucidate the process of conceptualising legitimacy in a sample of legitimate fire users. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 16 legitimate fire users underwent semi-structured interviews regarding their own experiences with fire, the factors considered when determining the legitimacy of fire use and the relationships between those factors. The data extracted was subjected to conceptual analysis. Findings Analysis indicated that the legitimacy of fire use is best conceptualised along a continuum. Placement on the continuum required consideration of seven defining attributes: function; location; scale; materials used; characteristics of the actor(s); potential and actual consequences, and social acceptance. These attributes were shown to have interactive semantic relationships with one another. Practical implications A continuum approach to understanding fire use is a novel conceptualisation. Exposing the nuances that exist along the continuum could inform early intervention strategies aimed at fostering healthy relationships between young people and fire. Furthermore, practitioners working with arsonists would benefit from adopting a continuum perspective that allows for consideration of offenders’ individualised trajectory “up and down” the continuum of fire use. Originality/value Findings offer support for the CoFUT (2020; 2021; in press) and provide insight into how the legitimacy of fire use is conceptualised in legitimate fire users.
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Patten, Dennis M. "Seeking legitimacy." Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal 11, no. 6 (May 31, 2019): 1009–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sampj-12-2018-0332.
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Purpose In this essay, the author reflects on the legitimacy theory in corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure research. Design/methodology/approach This is a reflection/review essay based on a review of relevant literature. Findings Although almost constantly under attack from a variety of scholars, legitimacy theory seems to hold on in the social and environmental disclosure arena. However, the failure of the recent wave of CSR-themed work published in The Accounting Review to even acknowledge, let alone engage with, the theory is problematic. Research limitations/implications We, in the CSR disclosure arena, need to do all we can to help emerging scholars (particularly in the USA) find the rich body of research the mainstream journals fail to discuss. Practical implications Legitimacy-based research can help move CSR disclosure at least closer to being a tool of accountability, as opposed to a tool for legitimation. Social implications Perhaps the critique of the mainstream North American literature’s failure to consider legitimacy theory can lead to the recognition of the need to focus on the harm to sustainability that a narrow, shareholder-centric focus leads to. Originality/value This reflection takes a unique look at the contributions of legitimacy theory to CSR disclosure research.
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ABIZADEH, ARASH. "On the Demos and Its Kin: Nationalism, Democracy, and the Boundary Problem." American Political Science Review 106, no. 4 (September 19, 2012): 867–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055412000421.
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Cultural–nationalist and democratic theory both seek to legitimize political power via collective self-rule: Their principle of legitimacy refers right back to the very persons over whom political power is exercised. But such self-referential theories are incapable of jointly solving the distinct problems of legitimacy and boundaries, which they necessarily combine, once it is assumed that the self-ruling collectivity must be a prepolitical, in principle bounded, ground of legitimacy. Cultural nationalism claims that political power is legitimate insofar as it expresses the nation's prepolitical culture, but it cannot fix cultural–national boundaries prepolitically. Hence the collapse into ethnic nationalism. Traditional democratic theory claims that political power is ultimately legitimized prepolitically, but cannot itself legitimize the boundaries of the people. Hence the collapse into cultural nationalism. Only once we recognize that the demos is in principle unbounded, and abandon the quest for a prepolitical ground of legitimacy, can democratic theory fully avoid this collapse of demos into nation into ethnos. But such a theory departs radically from traditional theory.
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Shugurov, M. V. "The phenomenon of the legitimacy of rights: philosophical and legal interpretation." Russian Journal of Legal Studies 2, no. 1 (March 15, 2015): 86–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/rjls17997.
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Article seeks to substantiate the philosophical and legal approach to the analysis of the phenomenon of the legitimacy of law. It proved heuristic meaning of this concept, a distinction is made between the approaches of political philosophy, philosophy of law and legal theory in the definition of the concept of «legitimacy». The author focuses on the concept of «legitimate right» assumptions crisis of legitimacy of law, as well as possible ways to overcome it.
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Stilz, Anna. "Territorial boundaries and history." Politics, Philosophy & Economics 18, no. 4 (June 19, 2018): 374–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470594x18779308.
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This article evaluates the theory of boundary legitimacy put forward in A. J. Simmons’ recent book Boundaries of Authority. I believe Simmons is correct to hold that questions about the legitimacy of political boundaries are distinct from questions about the justice of political institutions. But I argue that Simmons’ own theory makes legitimate boundaries depend far too strongly on historical processes in the past, with implausible implications. I conclude with some thoughts about how a broadly Kantian theory might take on board the most important insights of Simmons’ work.
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Savenkov, Artem Aleksandrovich. "On the problem of legality-legitimacy in theory of law and philosophy of law." Право и политика, no. 3 (March 2020): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0706.2020.3.32414.
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The subject of this research is the problem of understanding and interpretation of the meaning and designation of one of the key concept of modern legal lexicon – “legitimacy”. Legitimacy became an attribute of the current scientific paradigm of legal thinking, because broadening the area of application, it is used as a certain standard of highest legality, often perplexing comprehension of the problems of legal theory, as on etymological level its leans only on one of the Latin versions of the word “legal”. In the same platitude, legitimate legality and legal legitimacy are a common tautology, which in the context of theory of law and philosophy of law, insistently dictates the necessity to clarify this term and definition. Research methodology suggests the analysis of the problem of legality-legitimacy from the perspective of differentiating legal and other disciplinary approaches: political scientific, sociological, etc. The novelty of this study consists in the problematic-critical analysis of the concept of “legitimacy” on the context of theory of law and philosophy of law. The conducted research demonstrates that the problem of legitimacy represents is a terminological substitution within the framework of legal-positivistic doctrine for the so-called not “purely” legal aspects: sociological, psychological, political scientific, and other.
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O'Kane, Rosemary H. T. "Against Legitimacy." Political Studies 41, no. 3 (September 1993): 471–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1993.tb01650.x.
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Beetham has recently made an impressive contribution to the understanding of Legitimacy which he holds to be central to both political and social theory. As a social science concept, capable of playing a significant part in the explanation of the workings and breakdowns of political systems, however, legitimacy so defined proves difficult, sometimes impossible, to apply and runs the serious danger of misleading explanation. The case against legitimacy is argued through a combination of theoretical and empirical considerations and in place of legitimacy a case is made for the experience of government behaviour and the capacity for collective action as the more fruitful foci of social theory.
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Duke, George. "Strong popular sovereignty and constitutional legitimacy." European Journal of Political Theory 19, no. 3 (April 26, 2017): 354–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474885117701602.
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Recent critiques of attempts to ground constitutional legitimacy in the constituent power of a strong popular sovereign have tended to focus upon the tension between strong popular sovereignty and central assumptions of liberal constitutionalism. Foremost among these assumptions are the need to reconcile disagreement regarding controversial matters of common concern and the value of the rule of law. The weakness of such critiques, however, is that they presuppose a commitment to liberal principles and values that an advocate of strong popular sovereignty need not share. In this paper, I argue that recourse to liberal assumptions is unnecessary in order to demonstrate the inability of a theory of strong popular sovereignty to issue in a viable account of constitutional legitimacy. Theories of constitutional legitimacy grounded in strong popular sovereignty and constituent power, I contend, simply lack the basic resources for an adequate theory of constitutional legitimacy because they do not offer normative grounds for an assessment of whether any particular constitution is or is not legitimate. The paper is structured in three sections. Section 1 demonstrates that Carl Schmitt’s theory of constitutional legitimacy – which remains the primary source of contemporary appeals to strong popular sovereignty and constituent power – sustains a normative interpretation. Section 2 then develops a minimal constraint on an adequate normative theory of constitutional legitimacy. Finally, in Section 3, I demonstrate why a normative account of constitutional legitimacy based on strong popular sovereignty and constituent power is, at least without supplementation from normative concepts derived from a weaker conception of popular sovereignty, unable to meet this constraint.
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Majdi, Suria, Norman Mohd Saleh, Maizatulakma Abdullah, and Norazlan Alias. "Sustainability Disclosure in The Malaysian Construction Sector: The Effect of Community and Media Legitimacies." South East Asian Journal of Management 17, no. 2 (October 31, 2023): 122–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.21002/seam.v17i2.1450.
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"Research Aims: The objective of the study is to examine the effects of stakeholder pressure on sustainability disclosure (SD). The study includes the effect of community on SD when the company considers the media as one of the legitimate stakeholders. Design/Methodology/Approach: Stakeholder legitimacy is evaluated using SD via content analysis based on panel data samples from the construction and property sectors. Research Findings: It was found that legitimacy is an antecedent and has a positive relationship with SD. Furthermore, this relationship between community legitimacy and SD is stronger when mediated by media legitimacy. Theoretical Contribution/Originality: This study shows the effects of the legitimacy attribute on SD instead of the influence of stakeholders in general (regardless of the legitimacy concept) and the incremental value for companies to include the interest of the media in SD apart from the communities alone. Managerial Implications in the South East Asian Context: It guides managers in forming a comprehensive stakeholder engagement plan and budget to increase company value. This illustrates to the managers the motivation behind making disclosures about the media in the SD more so in this rapid social media where fake and misleading information threatens the public trust in Southeast Asia. Research Limitations & Implications: The study does not include power and urgency factors along with legitimacy. Keywords: Stakeholder Legitimacy, Stakeholder Salience Theory, Stakeholder Theory, Sustainability Disclosure, Construction, Endogeneity"
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Krambia-Kapardis, Maria. "Disentangling anti-corruption agencies and accounting for their ineffectiveness." Journal of Financial Crime 26, no. 1 (January 7, 2019): 22–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfc-01-2018-0016.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an adequate account of anti-corruption agency (ACA) ineffectiveness and propose the kind of ACA that would hold the promise of success. The paper draws on legitimacy theory, legal process and the notion of integrity of purpose. Design/methodology/approach This paper contextualizes the establishment and proliferation of ACAs; explores different ways of conceptualizing them; examines the broad range of factors that have underpinned ACA ineffectiveness and utilizes both legitimacy theory and the notion of the integrity of purpose. Findings The one-ACA-model-fits-all approach in corruption-control has been an abysmal failure. Disentangling the reasons for ACA ineffectiveness reveals various endogenous and exogenous factors. It also emphasizes the crucial importance of integrating both legitimacy theory and integrity of purpose in a revamped ACA concept that meets the corruption-control challenge. Practical implications It is possible to design and implement an effective ACA by avoiding various factors that have been shown to seriously undermine corruption control efforts by also drawing on legitimacy theory, legal process and integrity of purpose. Social implications Corruption in both the public and private sectors cannot be controlled in isolation from other socio-economic problems. An effective ACA is one that fosters integrity and is considered legitimate by its stakeholders. Originality/value While there have been some articles the past two decades discussing the effectiveness of ACAs in particular countries, this is the first paper to account for the overall ACA ineffectiveness also using legitimacy theory, legal process and integrity of purpose to revamp the ACA concept.
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Bagg, Samuel. "Realism against Legitimacy." Social Theory and Practice 48, no. 1 (2022): 29–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract2021129146.
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This article challenges the association between realist methodology and ideals of legitimacy. Many who seek a more “realistic” or “political” approach to political theory replace the familiar orientation towards a state of (perfect) justice with a structurally similar orientation towards a state of (sufficient) legitimacy. As a result, they fail to provide more reliable practical guidance, and wrongly displace radical demands. Rather than orienting action towards any state of affairs, I suggest that a more practically useful approach to political theory would directly address judgments, by comparing the concrete possibilities for action faced by real political actors.
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Zyznarska-Dworczak, Beata. "Legitimacy Theory in Management Accounting Research." Problemy Zarzadzania 16, no. 1(72) (February 27, 2018): 195–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.7172/1644-9584.72.12.
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Swindler, J. K. "Riker on Rawls' Theory of Legitimacy." Southwest Philosophy Review 22, no. 2 (2006): 123–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/swphilreview200622240.
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Seo, Yun Ho. "System Legitimacy in the Legislation Theory." Journal of the Humanities for Unification 65 (March 31, 2016): 273. http://dx.doi.org/10.21185/jhu.2016.03.65.273.
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Coicaud, Jean-Marc. "Theory of Politics and Political Legitimacy." Chinese Political Science Review 4, no. 4 (September 26, 2019): 434–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41111-019-00136-y.
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Patty, John W., and Elizabeth Maggie Penn. "A social choice theory of legitimacy." Social Choice and Welfare 36, no. 3-4 (January 15, 2011): 365–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00355-010-0509-y.
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Lefsrud, Lianne, Heather Graves, and Nelson Phillips. "“Giant Toxic Lakes You Can See from Space”: A Theory of Multimodal Messages and Emotion in Legitimacy Work." Organization Studies 41, no. 8 (April 15, 2019): 1055–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840619835575.
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Organizations need to appear legitimate to access resources. Thus, actors often carry out legitimacy work to shape others’ evaluation of something as “desirable, proper or appropriate.” Such research has tended to focus on the cognitive appeal of words. Recently, research has also emerged on the persuasiveness of images, especially for creating emotional appeals. We develop a process model to explain the role of multimodal messages—combining words and images—in legitimacy work. With this model, we aim to answer: Why do certain combinations of multimodal messages (words and images) more forcefully evoke emotion and more reliably capture recipients’ attention, motivate them to process those messages, and (re)evaluate the legitimacy of an organization, its activities, and/or its industry? We conclude by discussing theoretical extensions and connections to other methods such as institutional work and values work.
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VIOTTO, MARINA HENRIQUES, BRUNO SUTIL, and MARIA CAROLINA ZANETTE. "LEGITIMACY AS A BARRIER: AN ANALYSIS OF BRAZILIAN PREMIUM COCOA AND CHOCOLATE LEGITIMATION PROCESS." Revista de Administração de Empresas 58, no. 3 (June 2018): 267–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0034-759020180307.
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ABSTRACT How can a product be legitimated when the legitimation process includes another legitimate product as a barrier? To address this question, we conducted a process theorization through in-depth analysis of interviews and newspaper articles in the context of Brazilian premium cocoa and chocolate markets. We found that the legitimation process involving the interaction of different actors focused on building cultural-cognitive legitimacy was supported, in particular, by normative legitimacy. In this process, media appears as an important market ally in educating consumers. We used institutional theory to show that it is essential to address other legitimate products and the interaction of actors to understand the legitimation process.
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Fossen, Thomas. "Language and legitimacy: Is pragmatist political theory fallacious?" European Journal of Political Theory 18, no. 2 (April 17, 2017): 293–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474885117699977.
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Eva Erman and Niklas Möller have recently criticised a range of political theorists for committing a pragmatistic fallacy, illicitly drawing normative conclusions from politically neutral ideas about language. This paper examines their critique with respect to one of their primary targets: the pragmatist approach to political legitimacy that I proposed in earlier work, which draws on Robert Brandom’s theory of language. I argue that the charge relies on a misrepresentation of the role of pragmatist ideas about language in my analysis of legitimacy. Pragmatism’s significance for thinking about political legitimacy does not lie in the normative conclusions it justifies but in the way it reorients our thinking towards political practice. This raises the deeper question of what we are to expect from a theory of legitimacy. I argue that Erman and Möller presuppose a widely held but unduly restrictive conception of what a normative theory of legitimacy consists in and that pragmatism can broaden the scope of enquiry: a theory of legitimacy should not focus narrowly on the content and justification of criteria, but more fundamentally aim to explicate the forms of political activity in which such criteria are at stake.
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Nix, Justin, Justin T. Pickett, and Scott E. Wolfe. "Testing a Theoretical Model of Perceived Audience Legitimacy: The Neglected Linkage in the Dialogic Model of Police–community Relations." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 57, no. 2 (September 8, 2019): 217–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022427819873957.
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Objectives: Democratic policing involves an ongoing dialogue between officers and citizens about what it means to wield legitimate authority. Most of the criminological literature on police legitimacy has focused on citizens’ perceptions of this dialogue—that is, audience legitimacy. Consequently, we know little about how officers perceive their legitimacy in the eyes of the public and the antecedents of such perceptions. Pulling together separate strands of literature pertaining to citizen demeanor, hostile media perceptions, and danger perception theory, we propose and test a theoretical model of perceived audience legitimacy. Method: We conducted two separate studies: the first a survey of 546 officers working at a southern U.S. agency and the second a survey of a national probability sample of 665 executives and high-ranking officers. Results: Local violent crime rates, but not minority group size or growth, are associated with lower perceived audience legitimacy. Additionally, recent experiences with citizen disrespect and global perceptions of citizen animus are both inversely associated with perceived audience legitimacy. The perceived hostility of local, but not national, media coverage is also associated with lower perceived audience legitimacy. Conclusions: Our results suggest a need for additional research that explores whether the antecedents of audience legitimacy indirectly affect police behaviors, like the use of force.
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Arsovski, Dusan. "Deliberative democracy and legitimacy." Theoria, Beograd 62, no. 1 (2019): 119–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo1901119a.
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In this paper I approach the issue of the legitimacy of deliberative democracy according to how the problem between deliberation and participation is resolved. The assumption is that the decision arrived at through deliberation is legitimate if all those impacted by this decision have parttaken in its making. However, it is believed that the deliberation of all whom the decision concerns is impossible. The representative model of deliberative democracy, proposed by John Parkinson, offers a solution to this problem, commonly named mini-forums strategy. The critique of all attempts at developing theory through mini-forums as institutionalized forms of decision-making, submitted by Christina Lafont, demonstrates certain flaws of such attempts, but it also showcases some valuable ideas Parkinson put forth. After presenting the critique offered by Lafont I will provide my own critique of Parkinson?s model, in which I indicate: 1) the relativism of his definitions, which creates issues regarding the application of his theory and 2) the inadequacy of strategies which offer solutions of the problem of the legitimacy of deliberative democracy through a representational model.
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Karim, Sitara, Norlida Abdul Manab, and Rusmawati Binti Ismail. "Legitimising the Role of Corporate Boards and Corporate Social Responsibility on the Performance of Malaysian Listed Companies." Indian Journal of Corporate Governance 12, no. 2 (November 1, 2019): 125–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0974686219881092.
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The prime objective of this study is to investigate the legitimate role of corporate boards and corporate social responsibility on the performance of Malaysian listed companies during 2006–2017. Elements of corporate boards include board size, board independence and board diversity, whereas corporate social responsibility (CSR) dimensions constitute marketplace, environment, community and workplace. Both accounting-based (return on assets [ROA], return on equity [ROE]) and market-based (earnings per share [EPS]) performance measures have been employed for measuring performance. Pooled ordinary least squares method (OLS) and multiple regressions are used to estimate the dataset. Findings reveal larger board size and higher board independence positively affect firm performance and significantly legitimise the board role in firms. However, the presence of women on Malaysian corporate boards does not legitimate the performance due to their lower percentage on board, hence insignificantly affecting firm value. Additionally, out of four CSR dimensions, only marketplace is positively and significantly related to EPS and negatively and significantly related to ROA. Conversely, environment, community and workplace are insignificantly related to all performance measures, leaving firms in a questionable legitimate state. This study embraces support from agency theory, resource dependence theory, legitimacy theory and stakeholder theory. However, this research raises questionable insights for regulatory bodies and academicians in the form of corporate legitimacy.
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Ivanchenko, Olga. "DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE OF THE THEORETICAL AND LEGAL PROFILE OF THE LEGITIMACY OF LAW." Baltic Journal of Economic Studies 8, no. 3 (September 30, 2022): 86–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/2256-0742/2022-8-3-86-91.
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The subject of the study is the definition of the disciplinary perspective of the theoretical-legal profile of the legitimacy of law. Methodology. The methodological basis of the study are methods of induction and deduction, dialectical-materialistic method, the method of analysis and synthesis, the historical method, which allowed to objectively understand the content and essence of the issues under study. The aim of the article is to investigate the theoretical concept of legitimacy of law in the context of its correlation with the concept of legitimacy in the modern state of law. The results of the study showed that the disciplinary perspective of the theoretical-legal profile of the legitimacy of law is defined. Namely: proposed a modern theoretical and philosophical genesis of the legal understanding of the legitimacy of law and legality; investigated the relationship of legality, legitimacy of law and legal consciousness in the theory of state and law; identified conceptual directions in the study of the phenomenon of legitimacy of law. Conclusion. Legitimacy is both a constructive and a destructive concept. In its strict form, this concept characterizes a certain moment of attitude toward the law and the problems of its effective functioning. However, in philosophy or legal theory, for example, legitimation should thus mean communicating a legitimate-legal character to the law. It appears that this concept, which has a purely legal etymology – legitimate, excludes from the law its value essence, shifting the center of gravity to the practical assimilation of the law in the public and individual consciousness. This gives rise to a rather peculiar construction. Law can be anything, the main thing is that it corresponds to a formal procedure. The right thus legitimized enters a new stage – assimilation and acceptance in the public and individual consciousness. If it is not accepted voluntarily, it does not cease to be a right, but suffers from a lack of legitimacy. In essence, legitimacy captures two essential points: the first is the orientation toward dialogue with society and with each of its members individually, that is, the final sanction in the minds of the people or its majority; but, on the other hand, it is not the law itself that possesses some internal attribute of supreme legitimacy, but only its collective psychological perception and justification. In other words, the central issue in this approach is, on the one hand, the role of individual consciousness and, on the other hand, it creates a very wide scope for technological, in the sociological and political sense, influence on collective consciousness.
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Wei, Jo-Ting. "Financial Reporting Material Misstatements, Earnings Conservatism and Managerial Replacement Decisions." International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences Applied Research 14, no. 1 (June 2021): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.25103/ijbesar.141.01.
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Purpose: Based on signal theory and legitimacy theory, this paper examines whether firms with financial reporting misstatements (restatements) would prefer conservative financial reporting to send signals regarding their determinants of improving financial reporting credibility and legitimate organizational image in Taiwan. This paper further examines whether these firms reduce the demand for conservative financial reporting after replacing managers in the reveal of restatements.
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Fleet, Nicolás. "Racionalización y poder La cuestión de la legitimidad en Weber como referente de la acción política." Revista Temas Sociológicos, no. 12 (January 23, 2017): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.29344/07194145.12.224.
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ResumenEste artículo desarrolla, en tres pasos, una perspectiva original de la teoría de la dominación de Max Weber. El primer paso establece un vínculo necesario entre las formas típicas de dominación política y los intereses sociales, de modo que toda acción política debe legitimarse ante el interés general. El segundo paso explica las crisis de legitimación como una respuesta a cambios de identidad en la base social de la dominación política, de tal forma que se introduce un concepto dinámico de legitimidad. El tercer paso establece que los valores que habitan en las formas legitimas de dominación política son usados como orientaciones simbólicas por parte de intereses sociales y acciones políticas particulares, de manera que toda forma de legitimación de la autoridad encierra, en sus propias premisas, los argumentos que justifican luchas políticas hacia la modificación de los esquemas de dominación.Palabras clave: legitimidad, dominación, acción política, democratización.Abstract This article develops, in three steps, an orignal perspective of Weber’s legitimacy theory. The first one, establishes a necessary link that exists between the typical forms of legitimate domination and the social interests, in such a way that every political action that purse the realization of its interests has to legitimate itself before the general will. The second explains the legitimation crises as a response to indentity changes at the social base of the political domination and, in so doing, it introduces a dinamic concept of legitimacy. The third step states that the values that dwell in legitimate forms of political domination are used as symbolic orientations by particular social intersts and political actions, in a way that each form of authority legitimation encapsulate, in its own premises, the arguments that justify political struggles aiming toward the modification of the domination schemes.Key words: legitimacy, domination, political action, democratization.
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Fleet, Nicolás. "Racionalización y poder La cuestión de la legitimidad en Weber como referente de la acción política." Revista Temas Sociológicos, no. 12 (January 23, 2017): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.29344/07196458.12.224.
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ResumenEste artículo desarrolla, en tres pasos, una perspectiva original de la teoría de la dominación de Max Weber. El primer paso establece un vínculo necesario entre las formas típicas de dominación política y los intereses sociales, de modo que toda acción política debe legitimarse ante el interés general. El segundo paso explica las crisis de legitimación como una respuesta a cambios de identidad en la base social de la dominación política, de tal forma que se introduce un concepto dinámico de legitimidad. El tercer paso establece que los valores que habitan en las formas legitimas de dominación política son usados como orientaciones simbólicas por parte de intereses sociales y acciones políticas particulares, de manera que toda forma de legitimación de la autoridad encierra, en sus propias premisas, los argumentos que justifican luchas políticas hacia la modificación de los esquemas de dominación.Palabras clave: legitimidad, dominación, acción política, democratización.Abstract This article develops, in three steps, an orignal perspective of Weber’s legitimacy theory. The first one, establishes a necessary link that exists between the typical forms of legitimate domination and the social interests, in such a way that every political action that purse the realization of its interests has to legitimate itself before the general will. The second explains the legitimation crises as a response to indentity changes at the social base of the political domination and, in so doing, it introduces a dinamic concept of legitimacy. The third step states that the values that dwell in legitimate forms of political domination are used as symbolic orientations by particular social intersts and political actions, in a way that each form of authority legitimation encapsulate, in its own premises, the arguments that justify political struggles aiming toward the modification of the domination schemes.Key words: legitimacy, domination, political action, democratization.
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Finlayson, James Gordon. "Where the Right Gets in: On Rawls’s Criticism of Habermas’s Conception of Legitimacy." Kantian Review 21, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 161–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1369415416000017.
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AbstractMany commentators have failed to identify the important issues at the heart of the debate between Habermas and Rawls. This is partly because they give undue attention to differences between Rawls’s original position and Habermas’s principle (U), neither of which is germane to the actual dispute. The dispute is at bottom about how best to conceive of democratic legitimacy. Rawls indicates where the dividing issues lie when he objects that Habermas’s account of democratic legitimacy is comprehensive and his is confined to the political. But his argument is vitiated by a threefold ambiguity in what he means by ‘comprehensive doctrine’. Tidying up this ambiguity helps reveal that the dispute turns on the way in which morality relates to political legitimacy. Although Habermas calls his conception of legitimate law ‘morally freestanding’, and as such distinguishes it from Kantian and natural law accounts of legitimacy, it is not as freestanding from morality as he likes to present it. Habermas’s mature theory contains conflicting claims about the relation between morality and democratic legitimacy. So there is at least one important sense in which Rawls’s charge of comprehensiveness is made to stick against Habermas’s conception of democratic legitimacy, and remains unanswered.
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Kil, Byung-ok. "The Art of Governance and the Political Grammar of Legitimacy: Tales of the State for a Unified Korea." Korean Journal of Policy Studies 16, no. 2 (February 28, 2002): 49–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.52372/kjps16205.
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This inquiry demonstrates that the political legitimacy of a certain society is historically determined, reflects specific institutional and contextual features, and employs a variety of meanings. These meanings can describe both a state of affairs and a process that ultimately involves justifications for legitimate agents and socio-political structures. This paper attepmpts to understand how the meanings of political legitimacy are conceptualized in society. As a case study, it questions: What are the conditions for the existence of political legitimacy and how have they been constructed? How is political legitimacy endorsed in South Korea today, and how does it differ from the past? This paper applies a deconstructive theory of political legitimacy that exploresa a distinctively modern style, or 'art of governance' that has an all-encompassing, as well as individualized effect upon its constituencies. By this approach, this paper argues that the concept of unification does not have a solid significance in the real world, but rather, it is an imaginary idea imposed by the dominant elite class, which is constantly imposed, reinterpreted and transformed in its political context.
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Riker, Walter. "Reading (and Misreading) Rawls’s Theory of Legitimacy." Southwest Philosophy Review 22, no. 1 (2006): 149–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/swphilreview200622117.
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Priel, Dan. "The Place of Legitimacy in Legal Theory." McGill Law Journal 57, no. 1 (November 22, 2011): 1–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1006417ar.
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In this essay I argue that in order to understand debates in jurisprudence one needs to distinguish clearly between four concepts: validity, content, normativity, and legitimacy. I show that this distinction helps us, first, make sense of fundamental debates in jurisprudence between legal positivists and Dworkin: these should not be understood, as they often are, as debates on the conditions of validity, but rather as debates on the right way of understanding the relationship between these four concepts. I then use this distinction between the four concepts to criticize legal positivism. The positivist account begins with an attempt to explain the conditions of validity and to leave the question of assessment of valid legal norms to the second stage of inquiry. Though appealing, I argue that the notion of validity cannot be given sense outside a preliminary consideration of legitimacy. Following that, I show some further advantages that come from giving a more primary place to questions of legitimacy in jurisprudence.
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McSwite, O. C. "After Legitimacy: Next Generation Public Administration Theory." Administrative Theory & Praxis 21, no. 4 (December 1999): 409–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10841806.1999.11643395.
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Bebbington, Jan, Carlos Larrinaga‐González, and Jose M. Moneva‐Abadía. "Legitimating reputation/the reputation of legitimacy theory." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 21, no. 3 (March 28, 2008): 371–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09513570810863969.
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Bosworth‐Davies, Rowan. "Deviant Legitimacy — A Theory of Financial Crime." Journal of Financial Crime 4, no. 1 (March 1996): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb025749.
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Gold, Barry Allen. "Punctuated Legitimacy: A Theory of Educational Change." Teachers College Record 101, no. 2 (December 1999): 192–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0161-4681.00038.
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Weismann, August. "On the Legitimacy of the Darwinian Theory." Science in Context 26, no. 1 (February 11, 2013): 181–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889712000348.
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ForewordThe motivation for the publication of this lecture is my firm belief that any word that can even slightly clarify and advance the powerful and fruitful idea of the transmutation of species is of value.First, I wish to put an end to the futile discussions which go nowhere since they ignore accumulated knowledge and always start from scratch. I want to proclaim that at the core of the Darwinian theory, regardless of its merit as a whole, lies the transmutation hypothesis, which is nowadays the only legitimate scientific hypothesis on the origin of organic forms. Therefore, futurescientificdiscussions should focus on Darwinian theory alone, as its foundation is irrefutable.This lecture has been printed completely unchanged and unavoidable necessary additions have been transferred to footnotes. This article was already completed when Moritz Wagner'sThe Darwinian theory and the migration law of organism1*was published. Wagner attempts to diminish the role of natural selection in Darwin's theory and I challenge this view in the appendix, which also addresses the factors Wagner emphasized as influencing speciation.Freiburg im Breisgau, August 2, 1868August Weismann
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Mousa, et. al., Gehan A. "Legitimacy Theory and Environmental Practices: Short Notes." International Journal of Business and Statistical Analysis 2, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.12785/ijbsa/020104.
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Filbert Kusuma Deharlie and Aminah. "DISCLOSURE OF SUSTAINABILITY REPORT LEGITIMACY THEORY PERSPECTIVE." International Journal of Accounting, Management, Economics and Social Sciences (IJAMESC) 2, no. 2 (April 30, 2024): 647–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.61990/ijamesc.v2i2.224.
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This study aims to empirically ascertain how the Sustainability Report is influenced by company size, profitability, audit committee, and institutional shareholding. Sustainability Report internal and external responsibility of stakeholders to the performance of the organization in achieving sustainable development goals. This study determines the population of companies included in the List of Rating – Asia Sustainability Reporting Rating (ASRRAT) awards in 2022. Purposive sampling was used for the sampling process, resulting in 11 companies and 44 observations in total. Testing research results using multiple linear regression, classical assumption testing, descriptive statistical analysis, and hypothesis testing are all part of the data analysis approach. The findings show how the disclosure of the Sustainability Report is positively influenced by company size, profitability, audit committee, and institutional shareholding.
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Alam, Md Kausar. "Rationality of fourth party in legitimacy theory: Shariah governance of Islamic financial institutions." Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research 12, no. 3 (May 20, 2021): 418–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jiabr-08-2019-0154.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on conceptualizing the origin of legitimacy, the legitimation process and its trustworthiness toward the people, regulators, society and stakeholders. In achieving the purpose of the study, an inclusive research gap concerning the roles of the Shariah Supervisory Board (SSB) as a Shariah regulatory authority or an internal mechanism of Shariah Governance Framework (SGF) in the development and formation of Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) would also be addressed. Design/methodology/approach The paper implements an analytical approach to investigate the legitimation process of SSB, and its presence, significance, as well as credibility to the stakeholders. Findings This study proposes an additional authority of legitimacy, namely, SSB/Shariah regulatory authority, along with regulators, professionals and people. These could be derived from the internal mechanism of Shariah Governance (SG) practices of IFIs. The study also proposes another type of legitimacy (ethical/Shariah legitimacy) that derives from the organizational SG practices through its internal mechanisms. The formation of SSB is mandatory and more significant for the isomorphic identification of IFIs, SG system, legitimacy and broader acceptance to stakeholders. Research limitations/implications The rational argument shows that SSB legitimates the overall functions of IFIs, SG practices, processes and structures. It is more apposite because it has substantial validity, dominance, recognition and acceptability along with three external bodies. Besides, IFIs and their SG do not have the proper value to the general people, society, regulators and other stakeholders without the legitimization of SSB. Thus, theorists and academicians may consider SSB as the fourth party of legitimacy along with three legitimacy providing authorities (regulators, professionals and people). Originality/value The paper focuses on illustrating and extending the border knowledge concerning the legitimacy from SG and how do SSBs legitimize IFIs and enhance their credibility to the general people, government, society and other stakeholders. The paper first clarified the internal legitimacy concerning SGF and contributed to the area of Islamic finance, legitimacy, institutional theory, legitimacy theory and internal legitimacy.
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Vonsovych, Serhiy. "Evolution vectors of legitimacy theory as an attribute of power: past and present." Bulletin of Mariupol State University. Series: History. Political Studies 11, no. 31-32 (2021): 94–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-2830-2021-11-31-32-94-102.
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The article considers the concept of legitimacy as an attribute of power, reveals the content of legitimacy, shows its role and significance for the subjects of the political process, defines the stages of origin and genesis of legitimacy theory. It proves that power either on the state or local levels cannot be obtained for the sake of satisfaction from the feeling of one's temporary supremacy. Nevertheless, most interpretations of power reflect it as the vertical asymmetry of its participants’ dispositions, what implies the «ability» of the subject (operator of power) to use dominant positions. It appears necessary either for self-restoration of centralized hierarchical dependencies, or for achievement of certain goals. Therefore, the problem of legitimacy of government and political regime, including their safety, maintenance, preservation etc, is cause of concern for both. The problem of legitimacy of political regime is especially important for the countries of so-called «hybrid democracy». The analysis of works of native and foreign researchers was the basis to substantiate legitimacy theory. It is found out that the urgent task in transit countries is to increase the level of legitimacy of the political system and, accordingly, to legitimize regime change. Therefore, for transitional societies, legitimacy is a political characteristics leading to the formation of a new political system. In fact, the «hybridity» of the political regime complicates the process of its legitimation, because at the stage of transformation of the political regime the symbols of power, institutions, procedures and the very form of government change. Also the article gives the approaches to the definition and substantiation of legitimacy, its typology and model range and dimensions. It traces the relationship between the type of legitimacy of power and its ability to control violence in modern political systems. It reveals that fear becomes a new type of legitimacy of the political regime. Legitimacy based on fear is defined through the aspects of social division making them an instrument to appeal to certain social groups and their problems.
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Weidner, Kathrin, Christiana Weber, and Markus Göbel. "You Scratch My Back and I Scratch Yours: Investigating Inter-Partner Legitimacy in Relationships Between Social Enterprises and Their Key Partners." Business & Society 58, no. 3 (November 3, 2016): 493–532. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0007650316675617.
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Social enterprises, like almost all organizations, continuously strive for external legitimacy. To be perceived as externally legitimated by society, social enterprises often engage in strategic partnerships. However, scholars have only recently turned their attention to the legitimating function of such partnerships. The purpose of this article is to address the hitherto neglected construct of inter-partner legitimacy. Drawing on institutional theory, we hypothesize that such inter-partner legitimacy affects the resource transfer among partners, which will, in turn, be recognized by society and will subsequently affect each partner’s external legitimacy. Dyadic data of 121 strategic partnerships between social enterprises and their key partners confirm our hypotheses. We add to institutional theory by integrating the often ignored dimension of inter-partner legitimacy into our analysis and demonstrate its relevance to each partner’s external legitimacy and to resource transfer. Further contributions to the literature on institutional theory, legitimacy, social entrepreneurship, and inter-organizational relationships are identified.
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Wilenmann, Javier. "Framing Meaning through Criminalization." New Criminal Law Review 22, no. 1 (2019): 3–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nclr.2019.22.1.3.
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Contemporary legal scholarship on criminalization focuses on evaluating the legitimacy of legislative decisions according to abstract standards of justice. In recent years, socio-legally oriented scholarship has attempted to do away with this focus by linking the theory of criminalization to the study of the real trends of criminal law enforcement. The article offers a critique of both approaches in what refers to the traditional area of application of the theory of criminalization, namely symbolic criminalization. It argues that whereas traditional papers discuss the legitimacy of the “enforcement of morality” through the criminal law, symbolic criminalization conflicts actually originate in disputes about meaning in plural societies. The real question that this phenomenon poses is thus not whether the enforcement of neutral morality is legitimate, but rather whether meaning framing through criminalization is.
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LANDIS, JOEL E. "Whither Parties? Hume on Partisanship and Political Legitimacy." American Political Science Review 112, no. 2 (December 12, 2017): 219–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055417000545.
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Recent work by party scholars reveals a widening gap between the normative ideals we set out for political parties and the empirical evidence that reveals their deep and perhaps insurmountable shortcomings in realizing these ideals. This disjunction invites us to consider the perspective of David Hume, who offers a theory of the value and proper function of parties that is resilient to the pessimistic findings of recent empirical scholarship. I analyze Hume's writings to show that the psychological experience of party informs the opinions by which governments can be considered legitimate. Hume thus invites us to consider the essential role parties might play in securing legitimacy as that ideal is practiced or understood by citizens, independent of the ideal understandings of legitimacy currently being articulated by theorists. My analysis contributes to both recent party scholarship and to our understanding of the role of parties in Hume's theory of allegiance.
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Sukma Priyambodo, Bagas, I. Ketut Ardana, and Sutrisni -. "Aswamedha: A Legitimation of Leadership Based on The Kitab of Aswamedha Parwa | Aswamedha: Sebuah Legitimasi Kepemimpinan Berbasis Kitab Aswamedha Parwa." GHURNITA: Jurnal Seni Karawitan 2, no. 2 (May 23, 2022): 105–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.59997/jurnalsenikarawitan.v2i2.1456.
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The legitimacy model with ceremonial means is rarely done nowadays, therefore it is necessary to re-narrate the legitimacy model with ceremonial means. The purpose of this creation research is to reveal the content and interpret the leadership legitimacy model in the Aswamedha Parwa book through musical compositions. This creation research uses Art Transformation Theory, which is to transform original works (literature) into new works (karawitan composition). The research method used is Practice as Research through Performance. This practice is analogous to a representation of the musical context, namely the analogy of leadership using the pathetan form, the analogy of sadness using the sendhon, the analogy of legitimate leadership using the ada-ada form. The stages that must be passed are, Pre-Working, Working on, Post-Working. The results of the analysis related to the content of the composition are the values that a leader must have so that his leadership becomes legitimate. These values have implications for an interpretation of a compositional model that prioritizes beauty as a means of representation of the musical context.
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Cross, Ben. "Radicalizing realist legitimacy." Philosophy & Social Criticism 46, no. 4 (June 12, 2019): 369–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0191453719857129.
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Several critics of realist theories of political legitimacy have alleged that it possesses a problematic bias towards the status quo. This bias is thought to be reflected in the way in which these theories are more willing to accommodate potentially severe injustices which may exist in real societies. In this article, I focus on the most widely discussed realist theory of legitimacy, namely that of Bernard Williams. I argue that it is not only free of such status quo bias; it also has considerably more radical, anti-status quo potential than what is commonly thought and, indeed, what Williams himself may have thought.
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Blount-Hill, Kwan-Lamar. "Advancing a Social Identity Model of System Attitudes." International Annals of Criminology 57, no. 1-2 (May 2019): 114–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cri.2020.8.
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AbstractThe connection between social identity and attitudes toward the criminal justice system (CJS) is an area of interest among criminologists and legitimacy scholars. Previous work has proposed a social identity theory of legitimation, positing that individuals categorize CJS officials as either in-group (i.e. legitimate authority) or out-group (i.e. illegitimate enforcer). Subsequently, how individuals perceive their CJS – including the sincerity of its commitment to the rule of law – is tied to this relationship. Those viewing the government as an out-group oppressor are less likely to accept its legitimacy. This article explores this thesis. From the perspective of system justification theory, how the CJS is categorized should depend on how strongly an individual identifies as belonging to a group disadvantaged by the CJS. System justification theorists hypothesize that system justification (including acceptance of system legitimacy) is more likely when members of disadvantaged groups believe that group interests are less important. Alternative models that explain attitudes toward the system by using social identity theory suggest the opposite: Those who identify more strongly with disadvantaged groups and hold their interests to be more important nonetheless justify oppositional systems and view them legitimately. The present study uses a sample of Black Americans (a disadvantaged group in the American CJS) to determine whether group identification predicts system justification.
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MacKay, Joseph. "Legitimation Strategies in International Hierarchies." International Studies Quarterly 63, no. 3 (June 29, 2019): 717–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqz038.
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AbstractHow do hierarchical cores or metropoles legitimate their influence or rule? How do their approaches to legitimation inform resistance? This theory note rethinks how legitimation operates in hierarchies, with a focus on variation in cores’ legitimation strategies. I argue that varying claims to hierarchical legitimacy shape both action at the core and resistance at the periphery. I develop a four-part typology of legitimation strategies, differentiated along two axes. On the first, cores may be universalist, recognizing no legitimate equals, or competitive, recognizing other cores as peer rivals. On the second, they may chiefly innovate legitimacy claims internally, drawing them from their own political traditions, or externally, borrowing the claims of others. These strategies shape available options for revisionism by rivals and resistance by hierarchical subordinates. I illustrate with historical examples.
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Alexander, Meghan, Neelke Doorn, and Sally Priest. "Bridging the legitimacy gap—translating theory into practical signposts for legitimate flood risk governance." Regional Environmental Change 18, no. 2 (July 21, 2017): 397–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-017-1195-4.
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