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Examine the conditions that are required for the maintenance of legitimacy in modern societies.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 15 marks
  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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Legitimacy is a flow, not a stock: it has to be renewed continuously. Max Weber held that modern societies rest mainly on legal-rational authority. Once rule no longer rests on custom or on sacred right, it must keep answering to law, to the people and to results. Three bodies of theory identify the conditions: normative,…

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  • Normative Conditions: Beetham
  • Empirical Conditions: Lipset and Easton
  • Discursive Condition: Habermas
  • Limits of the Conditions
  • Conclusion
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