Criticism of contract theory has always played an important role in Hartmut Kliemt’s writings on political philosophy. Notwithstanding his objections to a consent-based justification of the state he has never subscribed to an anarchist position. In Hartmut Kliemt’s view, a minimal state which protects the basic liberties of its citizens has to be considered legitimate. The article begins with a...

We present a method to quantify the political legitimacy of a populace using public Twitter data. First, we represent the notion of legitimacy with respect to k-dimensional probabilistic topics, automatically culled from the politically oriented corpus. The short tweets are then converted to a feature vector in k-dimensional topic space. Leveraging sentiment analysis, we also consider the polar...

Much research on political legitimacy has reported a widespread decline in support for institutions in industrial democracies. Despite falling legitimacy there have been no failures of such regimes, contrary to the expectation that participation by disgruntled citizens might destabilize regimes with low popular support. The literature’s conventional hypotheses are linear: declining legitimacy s...

The output side of the political system provides services for citizens and societies. It is on the output side daily interaction among citizens and public administration take place and is maintained. This is, indeed, a crucial aspect of daily life for most citizens and their interpretation of a good life, not at least in mature welfare states with extensive provision of public social services a...

This paper opens the ‘black box’ of endogenous political legitimacy and asks what role, if any, did political legitimacy play in the process rendering England the first modern economy, a colonial Empire and an exemplary democracy? Legitimacy entails obedience based on the moral obligation to follow the authority, and public displays of support from legitimizing agents increase legitimacy. Altho...

Investigation and thinking on concepts such as knowledge, power and legitimacy is considered one of the most important subjects in this study.Till now, the concepts of knowledge and power by using Foucault's discourse on Ghazali political thought, have not studied by researchers And this is may be one of the innovations of this research. Of course, in this article we will act descriptive – anal...

This article contends that legitimacy in the exercise of power comes from the consent of those subject to it. In global health, this implies that the participation of poor country citizens is required for the legitimacy of major actors and institutions. But a review of institutions and processes suggests that this participation is limited or absent. Particularly because of the complex political...

The crisis of the euro area has severely tested the political authority of the European Union (EU). The crisis raises questions of normative legitimacy both because the EU is a normative order and because the construction of economic and monetary union (EMU) rested upon a theory that stressed the normative value of the depoliticization of money. However, this theory neglected the normative logi...