... defended private property. They saw the legitimacy of government as grounded on the will of the people. Previously, the Reformation in Europe had led to rival claims of possible religious legitimation of authority. There were Catholics and multiple Protestant groups, each with its own religious...

...This chapter discusses the complex concepts and practices of transparency. Transparency has become a tool and resource for political legitimation. Transparency also became a material structure of many governmental workplaces. This chapter tackles how democracy was made transparent at the German...

... assistance and to growing opposition and legitimation crisis in the United Kingdom and eventually the United States? Both conflicts had involved the “evil” Saddam Hussein and both were dealing with a possible threat to world security. Something happened to make the threat posed by Saddam Hussein in 2003...

...How do revolutionary regimes legitimize their rule, in the absence of free elections and a constitution? This essay analyzes how four revolutionary theorists (Robespierre, Marx, Sorel, and Lenin) relied on “future perfect” legitimation: they defended non-elected regimes in the present in the name...

...This chapter explains how the original terms Left and Right emerged in the French Revolution in 1789-1792. The Left and Right were divided primarily on the question of the legitimate source of authority for government, and secondarily on the question of universal and equal human rights. The Right...

.... By contrast, legislation in the modern West is legitimated via the authority of representative democracy. Islam still devolves the implementation of several legal-religious rules onto the believers themselves, who under God’s instruction from the Qur’an, may take the law into their own hands, and mete out...

... reform in the wake of scandal served to re-legitimize indenture and the imposition of special legal restrictions on non-European labor. indentured labor migration reform royal commissions scholarship East India Company Hastings Warren law lobbying Morant Bay Rebellion race sugar production Des...

... legitimation, there need be little reason for dissent. Science Peace Workshop Turing Alan Two Cultures Wittgenstein Ludwig Hodges Alan Monk Ray Bloor David Collins and Pinch on controversial science postmodernism science wars skepticism Evans Lawrence Feynman Richard Golem The book Gross...

... called himself the “midwife” of the new attitudes and expressions that hearkened not only to the “new” culture but to a wider, more engaged sense of group identity. His philosophical bent and temperament led him, early and late, to ponder the issues of group identity and cultural legitimation...

... legitimation within the academy comes with its own conflicts. The university as a research location cannot merely divorce itself from the ethical and restrictive practices that have characterized the treatment of disabled people during the past two centuries. The institutionalization of disability studies...

...Modeling itself on Timothy Mitchell’s Carbon Democracy, this chapter asks what forms of subversive and legitimating power can be exercised in a finance-based and data-driven form of capitalism by popular movements seeking to transform it. The chapter stresses the centrality of liquid asset markets...

...In chapter one, which begins part one, differentiates liberalism from neoliberalism by contrasting Jürgen Habermas’s theory of “legitimation crisis” with that of Friedrich Hayek’s in The Road to Serfdom. It argues that while the former is concerned...

... of legitimation, or does it belong on the side of a break with the culture of legitimation and its ultimately violent cycles of foundation, preservation, and augmentation (and if so, what might a life oriented by such a break look like)? The conceptual space of this inquiry can thus be thought to span the divide...