Format:
1 online resource (171 pages)
ISBN:
9780511154492
Content:
This book discusses how rulers cultivate their identity for their own self-justification and esteem.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 Legitimacy and legitimation -- WHAT THIS BOOK IS NOT ABOUT -- THE CORONATION OF NAPOLEON -- THE RE-EMERGENCE OF GOVERNMENT -- EXISTING WORK -- NEW WORK -- QUESTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES -- OBJECTIONS -- THERE IS MUCH FOR WHICH WEBER CAN BE BLAMED -- DEFENDING WEBER -- SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE SUBJECT MATTER OF SOCIAL SCIENCE -- LEGITIMATION AND LEGITIMACY -- A MORATORIUM ON THE USE OF 'LEGITIMACY'? -- THE MISTAKE OF ORTHODOXY -- CHAPTER 2 Legitimating identities -- WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT: THEMES AND ARGUMENT -- Endogenous or self-legitimation is a characteristic activity of government -- Legitimation is hierarchically pursued -- People, not laws or commands, rulers, not regimes are legitimated -- Legitimation and identification -- Two meanings of identification -- Identification and legitimation are significant activities -- Enemies and the common people -- Legitimation enables people to obey and to command -- Picking up a clue from Weber: the correspondence of types of rule and types of legitimation -- THE SCOPE AND CHARACTER OF A THEORY OF LEGITIMATION -- What use is an account of legitimation? -- The elaboration of theories versus the clarification of language -- CHAPTER 3 King John's Christmas cards: self-legitimation -- THREE GROUPS OF ACTORS -- DEMOCRATIC AND MOST POST-WEBER THEORY ASSUMES THAT LEGITIMATION IS ENGAGED IN BY CUSTODIANS AS AN INSTRUMENT OF RULE -- LEGITIMATION OF RULERS, BY RULERS, FOR RULERS -- LEGITIMATION OF RULERS IN THEIR OWN EYES -- The secret garden of government -- LEADERS AND IMMEDIATE FOLLOWERS -- LEADERS AND LED IN NATIONALISM -- FORMS OF LEGITIMATION AND FORMS OF GOVERNMENT -- THE FAILURE OF SELF-LEGITIMATION -- IS LEGITIMATION A PRIVATE GAME? -- CHAPTER 4 Cousins at home and abroad -- CIRCLES AND HIERARCHIES.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521808224
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521808224
Additional Edition:
Print version Legitimating Identities : The Self-Presentations of Rulers and Subjects
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=202124
