Meaning of Legitimacy in Local Political Process

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angličtina
Original language name
Meaning of Legitimacy in Local Political Process
Original language description
The principle aim of the article is to describe various concepts of legitimacy and their theoretical framework and to evaluate the possibility of their application in the local political process. The legitimacy of local political institutions can be perceived as one of the conditions of their stability and efficiency in relation to the rural development. The approaches and concepts of legitimacy of Max Weber, Luhmann, Tyler and Zimmerman and Zeitz are compared in the first part of article. To apply these classifications to local political institutions entails some theoretical and methodological problems, e.g. to distinguish legitimacy relating to communal politician from personal trust, ill-defined indicators of legitimacy, etc. Analysing various examples of legitimizing local magistrates and councils indicates that the communal legitimacy can be highly confused and can be based upon various sources of legitimation. One of the possible local legitimacy assesment is concept of the ? sys
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AD - Political sciences
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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