Joshua Cohen In this essay I explore the ideal of a 'deliberative democracy'.1 By a deliberative democracy I shall mean, roughly, an association whose affairs are governed by the public deliberation of its members. I propose an account of the value of such an association that treats democracy itself as a fundamental political ideal and not simply as a derivative ideal that can be explained in t...

I develop a theoretical framework that specifies the content underlying legitimacy judgments and a model of the process by which these judgments develop and change. I argue that individual-level legitimacy judgments are based on evaluations that fall along three dimensions (instrumental, relational, and moral). I specify three stages of the legitimacy judgment process and two modes by which jud...

 This article, analyzes three basic concepts (power, knowledge and legitimacy) of Tusi's viewpoint. Also analyze that what are each of these concepts position in Islamic political thought and finally investigate the dignity of each one. In this research exploreTusi's components political thought, in fact explore the relationship between politics government and in relation with the basic concept...

Background: To achieve the ambition of the energy transition in the built environment, Dutch local governments try to motivate citizens to participate as communities in policy processes. There is a general expectation that such an interactive approach will foster a more rational policy output and will create stronger support from citizens towards policy outcomes. The emphasis put on this output...

Building on the tradition of research in organizational ecology and institutional theory, this article extends our understanding of how legitimacy contributes to the creation of new organizational populations. Ecologists have observed that both legitimacy and competition operate through density-dependent processes to affect patterns of organizational foundings. Drawing on Aldrich and Fiol (1994...

Social psychologists (e.g., Tyler 1990) have argued that an authority’s use of fair procedures can improve compliance by enhancing the authority’s legitimacy. However, previous efforts to assess this effect empirically are confounded because procedures that enhance legitimacy also alter subjects’ perceptions of the authority’s efficacy in sanctioning noncompliance. We evaluate the procedural le...

Legitimacy is widely invoked as a condition, cause, and outcome of other social phenomena, yet measuring legitimacy persistent challenge. In this article, I synthesize existing approaches to conceptualizing across the sciences identify agreed upon definitional properties. then build on these points consensus develop generalizable approach operationalization. implies specific relationships among...

Legitimacy is always considered an important concept among basic topics of political science; since it has been already posed as the prerequisite of acceptability for exercising of power in the societies through history. Accordingly, all of the political philosophies made efforts to establish an intellectual apparatus that enforces the fundamentals of governance, dealt to some extent with the i...