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Legitimacy, popular acceptance of a government, political regime, or system of governance. The word legitimacy can be interpreted in either a normative way or a “positive” (see positivism) way. The first meaning refers to political philosophy and deals with questions such as: What are the right.
- Joachim Blatter
Jan 30, 2024 · Our second governance indicator, the quality of government, is constructed using the average of the three individual measures, i.e. law and order, bureaucratic quality, and corruption. While the law component of law and order assesses the strength and neutrality of the legal system, order measures the extent to which the populace observes the law.
Apr 29, 2010 · Political Legitimacy. First published Thu Apr 29, 2010; substantive revision Mon Dec 11, 2023. Political legitimacy is a virtue of political institutions and of the decisions—about laws, policies, and candidates for political office—made within them. This entry will survey the main answers that have been given to the following questions.
In political science, legitimacy is the right and acceptance of an authority, usually a governing law or a regime. Whereas authority denotes a specific position in an established government, the term legitimacy denotes a system of government—wherein government denotes "sphere of influence". An authority viewed as legitimate often has the ...
Rational-legal rule is grounded on the existence of an extensive, binding, and consistent set of laws, which regulate and discipline the conduct of authority. Those exercising rational-legal domination are usually selected by special means, via elections (democracy or oligarchy), appropriation (seizing power), or succession (monarchy).
- Marcus Tannenberg, Michael Bernhard, Johannes Gerschewski, Anna Lührmann, Christian von Soest
- 2021
The data of political legitimacy come from Gilley (2012), who collects data on political legitimacy scores of 72 states.9These states comprise 83% of the world’s population. In our sample, the mean value of political legitimacy is 5.12, with a standard deviation of 1.31 (Table 1).
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Jan 1, 2023 · Such banal approaches might serve only to “legitimize existing structures of rationality and power” (Denhardt and Denhardt 1979, p. 114), leaving people who desperately need to play a role in the public sphere out of the discussion and uninvolved and the larger goal of a democratic and representative government, at best, a fiction useful for its narrative value. As a field of study, public ...
