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...

 Political legitimacy is one of the basic and major concepts of political science especially      political thought. Different views of the meaning and the concept of political legitimacy go back to the roots of political legitimacy. In this article by using a comparative style, the author will attempt to      compare the concept of political legitimacy in Imam Khomeini and Jurgen Habermas's th...

Legitimacy or “fairness” seems a key requirement for trust in computer-mediated social environments. Trust in turn seems necessary for productive community interactions like ecommerce. But unless legitimacy is built into social software, achieving trust may not be possible. This means expressing apparently vague social "rights" as specific information system (IS) requirements, i.e. carrying out...

In this paper we propose answers to the research question: how does power shape the construction of legitimacy in the context of public organizations? We suggest that while organizational structures of dominancy will be embedded, not all structures of dominancy align with those that are normatively presented as legitimate and authoritative. Such situations make the creation and sustenance of le...

In this study, we formulated and tested a theory about how heterogeneity among subpopulations affects the degree to which organizations in these subpopulations contribute to and benefit from the overall population’s legitimacy. Historical data on banking in Shanghai were used. Firms in subpopulations with a higher “grade of membership” were found to contribute strongly to the legitimacy of the ...

Adolescents differ in the extent to which they believe that parents have legitimate authority to impose rules restricting adolescents' behavior. The purpose of the current study was to test predictors of individual differences in legitimacy beliefs during the middle school years. Annually, during the summers following Grades 5, 6, and 7, early adolescents (n = 218; 51% female, 47% African Ameri...

As the power and influence of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in international debates on social and moral matters increases, questions concerning their legitimacy and accountability become all the more challenging. Some starting points are given for a defensible account of the legitimacy and accountability of internationally operating NGOs. Special attention is given to the use of new inf...

legitimacy is among the factors that bring stability and effectiveness to a political system. in this article, the writer argues that there is a stronger tendency to keep and amend the basic rules of the system of the islamic republic of iran than to change and replace them. also, there is a stronger tendency to amend the present rules than to keep them as they are. political legitimacy, the wr...