Consensus and social security: from social legitimacy to technocratic legitimacy

Social Capital and Institutional Legitimacy:

Refinements to Legitimacy Theory in Social and Environmental Accounting

" Legitimacy is a generalized perception or assumption that the actions of an entity are desirable, proper, or appropriate within some socially constructed system of norms, values, beliefs, and definitions " (Suchman, 1995, p. 574, emphasis in original) Legitimacy theory has become one of the most cited theories within the social and environmental accounting area. Yet there remains deep sceptic...

Social Choice and Legitimacy The Possibilities of Impossibility

Teachers' legitimacy: Effects of justice perception and social comparison processes.

BACKGROUND Teachers' legitimacy is central to school functioning. Teachers' justice, whether distributive or procedural, predicts teachers' legitimacy. AIMS What is still do be found, and constitutes the goal of this paper, is whether unjust treatment by a teacher affects the legitimacy of the teacher differently when the student knows that the teacher was fair to a peer (comparative judgemen...

The Actuarial Subject: Legitimacy and Social Control in Late Modernity