This paper proposes a unifying framework to integrate two of economic sociology’s theory fragments on categorization: typecasting and entry-driven legitimation. Typecasting is a producer-level argument that considers the consequences for producers of earlier affiliation with one category on the chances of success in another. Entry-driven legitimation considers how the attributes of producers en...

Abstract Research on legitimacy of international organizations (IOs) has often focused discursive self-legitimation by IOs. This article explores the role other (de)legitimizing actors. Distinguishing between elites different political and societal sectors, we use unique data from a survey 860 in Brazil, Germany, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, United States, global elite group, to perform f...

Power, rule, and legitimacy have always been core concerns of political science. In the 1970s, when governability appeared to be problematic, legitimacy was discussed both in the context of policy research and by critics of the capitalist state. More recently interest turned to governance beyond the nation-state. The legitimacy of transnational (i.e., European and international) organizations, ...

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'...