Observations on Political Legitimacy in Contemporary Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7962644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Rothschild (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 487-501 |
| Publication date | 1977-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2148504 |
| OpenAlex | W2323733413 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
Before, during, and immediately after World War II, the viability of states was much discussed in political literature. Recently, however, that issue has waned as the international community has lowered its threshold requirements and definitions of what constitutes viability. States that would formerly have been deemed nonviable by virtue of their small size, awkward and indefensible frontiers, or meager human and material resources, are now normally and as a matter of course subsidized and sustained by the international community. Corresponding to this process in political life, there has occurred a simultaneous shift in the focus of political theory and political analysis away from the question of viability, and toward the issue of legitimacy as particularly important and problematical. The attention currently devoted to this problem of political legitimacy stems in part from a widespread sense that the contemporary state, while viable enough in terms of that older concern and its newer standards, is nevertheless somehow out of phase with the world's travails-seemingly too small and weak to solve such global issues as inflation, yet apparently too big and remote to evoke that cathartic trust, identification, and admiration of its subjects which the state requires if its political system is to function. This essay probes some of the problems-of theory and of policy-confronting state authorities in contemporary Europe as they seek to achieve, sustain, and enhance their always vulnerable legitimacy
Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
Legitimating Identities
Legitimating Identities
Compliance with the Law in Slovenia
More Security, More Trust? Security Perceptions as a Source of Government Trust in Post-Conflict Settings
Police effectiveness and police trustworthiness in Ghana
When is Alien Rule Legitimate
Explaining police support for the use of force and vigilante violence in Ghana
State of mind
In Search of Moral Recognition? Policing and Eudaemonic Legitimacy in Ghana
Flexible Authoritarianism
The influence of strain on law enforcement legitimacy evaluations
Rethinking Foreign Aid and Legitimacy
Public Confidence in the Police
Regime legitimation, elite cohesion and the durability of autocratic regime types
Enforcement and public opinion
Policy Legitimacy and the European Union
In their own eyes
Political legitimacy
Crises and Crises Outcomes
What makes political authorities legitimate? Students’ ideas about legitimacy in five European democracies and hybrid regimes
Domestic Legitimacy, Coethnics Abroad, and the Shape of the Homeland
Eastern Europe and ‘legitimacy crisis
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2026 (48) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |