The Legitimation of Power [Paperback]

The new edition of this classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of legitimacy as applied to political systems.?Now addressing the issue of legitimacy beyond the state, the book also?includes a new introduction and two major additional chapters which update the argument in the light of developments and debates.

Preface to the 2nd edition.- Preface to the 1st edition.- Introduction.- PART I: THE CRITERIA FOR LEGITIMACY.- 1. Towards a Social-Scientific Concept of Legitimacy.- 2. Power and its need of Legitimation.- 3. The Intellectual Structure of Legitimacy.- 4. Social Science and the Social Construction of Legitimacy.- PART II: LEGITIMACY IN THE MODERN STATE.- 5. Dimensions of State Legitimacy.- 6. Crisis Tendencies of Political Systems.-7. Modes of Non-Legitimate Power.- 8. Legitimacy in Political Science and Political Philosophy.- 9. The Legitimation of Power in the 21st Century.- PART III: LEGITIMACY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.- 10. Legitimacy Within the State.- 11. Legitimacy Beyond the State.

• Updated edition of a book which is now seen as a classic text in political science
  
• Includes a brand new Introduction and two additional chapters which look at legitimacy beyond the state
  
• Written by an eminent authority in the field