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Comment in about 150 words: Tools of legitimation of the State.

  • UPSC 2021
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  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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Legitimation is the work by which a state produces and renews the belief that it has the right to rule. Max Weber observed that no rule relies on material or emotional motives alone: "every such system attempts to establish and to cultivate the belief in its legitimacy." The tools have shifted over time from the…

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