The new edition of this classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of legitimacy as applied to political systems. Now addressing the issue of legitimacy beyond the state, the book also includes a new introduction and two major additional chapters which update the argument in the light of developments and debates.

The Legitimation of Power (Political Analysis, 1)

Politics & Social Sciences

Beetham, David

Philosophy

Red Globe Press

The new edition of this classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of legitimacy as applied to political systems. Now addressing the issue of legitimacy beyond the state, the book also includes a new introduction and two major additional chapters which update the argument in the light of developments and debates.

The Legitimation of Power (Political Analysis, 10)

Bureaucracy (Concepts in the Social Sciences)

Social Sciences

Open University Press

Political Power and Democratic Control in Britain

Democratic Institutions and Practices is the second study carried out under the Democratic Audit of the UK. This volume explores the formal institutions and processes of the liberal democratic state: including the executive, elections, parliament and the civil service.

Weir, Stuart

Anthropology

Routledge

The second study carried out under the Democratic Audit of the UK, this volume explores the formal institutions and processes of the liberal democratic state, including the executive, elections, parliament and the civil service.

Most of the contemporary debates about the European Union - about its role, its institutional arrangements, its development dynamic, its expansion and possible futures - revolve around the issue of political legitimacy. Legitimacy and the European Union addresses the fundamental issues at the heart of the debates on Europe and examines such key questions as:- -What is the scope of the EU's authority -Is there a legitimacy deficit? If so, how much does it matter -Does political legitimacy only reside in the nation state? Using a multi-dimensional conception of political legitimacy, the text analyses the character and problems of the European Union's authority in respect of democracy, political identity and governmental performance. Its distinctive claim is that political legitimacy can now only be understood as a process of interaction between the state and EU levels, and that this interaction impacts differentially on different member states.

Legitimacy and the European Union (Political Dynamics of the European Union)

History

Europe

Max Weber's writings on the politics of Wilhelmine in Germany and the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 are much less well known than his contributions to historical and theoretical sociology, yet they are essential to any overall assessment of his thought. Drawing on these writings, still mostly untranslated, David Beetham offers the most comprehensive account available in English of Weber's political theory.   The book explores Weber's central concern with the prospects for liberal Parliamentarism in authoritarian societies and in an age of mass politics and bureaucratic organization, and shows how this concern led him to a revision of democratic theory which is still influential. It argues that Weber's analyzis of the class basis of contemporary politics necessitate a modification in some of the accepted interpretations of his sociology of modern capitalism. A special feature of the book is its full treatment of the extensive German literature on Weber's political thought.   This second edition contains a substantial new critical introduction and an expanded bibliography. Otherwise the text of the widely acclaimed first edition remains unaltered. This is a book which adds an essential dimension to the understanding of Max Weber for students of sociology and politics who have previously only approached his work through his sociological writings.

Max Weber and the Theory of Modern Politics

Polity

Democracy and Human Rights

What is democracy? How do we know when we have it? Is liberal democracy merely one, or the only, version of democracy.

Politics & Government

Introducing Democracy: 80 Questions and Answers

This textbook, specially commissioned by UNESCO, addresses eighty of the most pressing questions about democracy today.

Boyle, Kevin

What is democracy? Why should we value it? What is the relation between democracy and individual rights? Is majority rule always democratic? Why do we have political parties? Are some electoral systems more democratic than others? What is the relation between nationalism and democracy, or democracy and a market economy? How can democracy be maintained and improved? What difference does it make to ordinary people? What is its future?

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The Legitimation of Power (Political Analysis, 1)

The Legitimation of Power (Political Analysis, 10)

Bureaucracy (Concepts in the Social Sciences)

Political Power and Democratic Control in Britain

Political Power and Democratic Control in Britain

Legitimacy and the European Union (Political Dynamics of the European Union)

Max Weber and the Theory of Modern Politics

Democracy and Human Rights

Introducing Democracy: 80 Questions and Answers

Introducing Democracy: 80 Questions and Answers