Legitimacy between Acceptance and Acceptability: A Subjects-First View.
Political realists argue that the concept of political legitimacy should be linked to subjects' beliefs, while still offering normative guidance. In this article, I suggest doing so by referring to the concepts of acceptance and acceptability. I argue that a regime is legitimate if its power is acce...
| Published in: | Social Theory & Practice Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 61 - 89 |
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Florida State University
Jan2022
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