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    Political legitimacy refers to the popular acceptance of a government's authority to govern. Legitimacy provides stability that allows a government to function without deadlocks or collapse. Theorists have defined legitimacy as stemming from the consent of the governed, recognition of a government's right to rule, and the belief that existing political institutions are appropriate. Legitimacy is seen as a reservoir that maintains political stability as long as the level of acceptance remains high enough. In law and moral philosophy, legitimacy involves the normative status conferred by a people on their government's actions and institutions when those actions are seen as appropriate uses of power by a legally constituted authority.

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    Political legitimacy refers to the popular acceptance of a government's authority to govern. Legitimacy provides stability that allows a government to function without deadlocks or collapse. Theorists have defined legitimacy as stemming from the consent of the governed, recognition of a government's right to rule, and the belief that existing political institutions are appropriate. Legitimacy is seen as a reservoir that maintains political stability as long as the level of acceptance remains high enough. In law and moral philosophy, legitimacy involves the normative status conferred by a people on their government's actions and institutions when those actions are seen as appropriate uses of power by a legally constituted authority.

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    Political legitimacy refers to the popular acceptance of a government's authority to govern. Legitimacy provides stability that allows a government to function without deadlocks or collapse. Theorists have defined legitimacy as stemming from the consent of the governed, recognition of a government's right to rule, and the belief that existing political institutions are appropriate. Legitimacy is seen as a reservoir that maintains political stability as long as the level of acceptance remains high enough. In law and moral philosophy, legitimacy involves the normative status conferred by a people on their government's actions and institutions when those actions are seen as appropriate uses of power by a legally constituted authority.

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    Political legitimacy refers to the popular acceptance of a government's authority to govern. Legitimacy provides stability that allows a government to function without deadlocks or collapse. Theorists have defined legitimacy as stemming from the consent of the governed, recognition of a government's right to rule, and the belief that existing political institutions are appropriate. Legitimacy is seen as a reservoir that maintains political stability as long as the level of acceptance remains high enough. In law and moral philosophy, legitimacy involves the normative status conferred by a people on their government's actions and institutions when those actions are seen as appropriate uses of power by a legally constituted authority.

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    In political science, legitimacy is the popular acceptance of a governing law or rgime as an authority.

    Whereas authority denotes a specific position in an established government, the term legitimacy denotes a system of government wherein government denotes sphere of influence. Political legitimacy is considered a basic condition for governing, without which, a government will suffer legislative deadlock(s) and collapse. In political systems where this is not the case, unpopular rgimes survive because they are considered legitimate by a small, influential lite.[1] The Enlightenment-era British social theoretician John Locke said that political legitimacy derives from popular explicit and implicit consent: The argument of the [Second] Treatise is that the government is not legitimate unless it is carried on with the consent of the governed.[2] The German political philosopher Dolf Sternbergersaid, Legitimacy is the foundation of such governmental power as is exercised, both with a consciousness on the governments part that it has a right to govern, and with some recognition by the governed of that right.[3]The American political sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset said that legitimacy also involves the capacity of a political system to engender and maintain the belief that existing political institutions are the most appropriate and proper ones for the society.[4] The American political theorist Robert A. Dahl explained legitimacy as a reservoir; so long as the water is at a given level, political stability is maintained, if it falls below the required level, political legitimacy is endangered.[5] In moral philosophy, the term legitimacy often is positively interpreted as the normative status conferred by a governed people upon their governors institutions, offices, and actions, based upon the belief that their government's actions are appropriate uses of power by a legally constituted government. In law, legitimacy is distinguished from legality (see colour of law), to establish that a government action can be legal whilst not being legitimate, e.g. a police search without proper warrant; conversely, a government action can be legitimate without being legal, e.g. a pre-emptive war, a military junta. An example of such matters arises when legitimate institutions clash in a constitutional crisis.

    Legitimacy in sociology

    Legitimation refers to the process by which power is not only institutionalized but more importantly is given moral grounding. Legitimacy (or authority) is what is accorded to such a stable distribution of power when it is considered valid. Max Weber, whose work is central to understanding the complexity of the relationship between

    power and legitimacy, distinguished factual power and the authoritarian power of command as two ideal types. The former refers to the subordination exacted on the basis of interests, where control over goods and services in the market involves the actor submitting freely to that power. As for the latter, in due course naked factual power needs to justify itself, and through the process of legitimation evokes the sense of duty to obey, regardless of personal motives and...

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