Conceptualizing legitimacy: What to learn from the controversies related to an “essentially contested concept”

Based on a genealogy of the concept of Legitimacy, the goal of the paper is to develop a proposal that unites normative-theoretical and empirical approaches and hence reconciles two different conceptual-theoretical camps in legitimacy research. Legitimacy is a core concept in Political Science that...

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Main Authors: Claudia Wiesner, Philipp Harfst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Political Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2022.867756/full