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The Legitimation of Power

  • Textbook
  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. David Beetham
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Part of the book series: Issues in Political Theory (IPT)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Criteria for Legitimacy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Towards a Social-scientific Concept of Legitimacy

      • David Beetham
      Pages 3-41

    3. Power and its Need of Legitimation

      • David Beetham
      Pages 42-63

    4. The Normative Structure of Legitimacy

      • David Beetham
      Pages 64-99

    5. The Social Construction of Legitimacy

      • David Beetham
      Pages 100-114

  3. Legitimacy in the Contemporary State

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Dimensions of State Legitimacy

      • David Beetham
      Pages 117-160

    3. Crisis Tendencies of Political Systems

      • David Beetham
      Pages 161-204

    4. Modes of Non-legitimate Power

      • David Beetham
      Pages 205-242

    5. Legitimacy in Political Science and Political Philosophy

      • David Beetham
      Pages 243-250

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 251-267
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David Beetham's book explores the legitimation of power both as an issue in political and social science theory and in relation to the legitimacy of contemporary political systems including its breakdown in revolution. 'An admirable text which is far reaching in its scope and extraordinary in the clarity with which it covers a wide range of material... One can have nothing but the highest regard for this volume.' - David Held, Times Higher Education Supplement ;'Beetham has produced a study bound to revolutionize sociological thinking and teaching... Seminal and profoundly original... Beetham's book should become the obligitory reading for every teacher and practitioner of social science.' - Zygmunt Bauman, Sociology

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