Overview
- an alternative theory of political legitimation from the citizen’s point
- of view and updates Weber’s work for the 21st
- Analyses politics respectively in terms of domination, conflict, coordination and argumentation
- Provides a new theoretical framework: the ‘four faces’ of political legitimacy
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Legitimacy is an essential concept in politics. But what is it? This book seeks to answer this question through adopting Weber’s sociological approach to legitimacy. Weber argues that we should not only understand legitimacy from the perspective of the political order, but that we should also look at its subjective meaning. If this approach seems to have fallen into discredit since Weber formulated it almost a century ago, Netelenbos argues that we need to bring back the subjective into political sociology and theory.
Political Legitimacy beyond Weber argues that contemporary politics in late-modern society cannot merely be understood in terms of legitimate domination or formal bureaucratic organisation. Politics is also about strategic conflict, coordination and argumentation. Based upon these different conceptualisations of politics and by critically evaluating some of the most leading sociologies, Netelenbos presents four analytical perspectives of political legitimacy. Providing crucial insights into the multiple dimensions of political legitimacy, this will be an essential tool for both empirical and normative research.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Benno Netelenbos is a lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Legitimacy beyond Weber
Book Subtitle: An Analytical Framework
Authors: Benno Netelenbos
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55112-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55111-5Published: 31 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71567-1Published: 21 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55112-2Published: 20 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 267
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Development Policy, Political Sociology