The connotation of legitimacy and the historical evolution of Western political

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10.2991/icsste-15.2015.124How to use a DOI?

Keywords

political legitimacy; law; normative theory; empirical theory;

Abstract

the concept of "legitimacy" is the core of political theory, it born with the country, but find the systematic analysis about legitimacy theory starts from modern. In the process of research, scholars have gradually clear the concept of political legitimacy, and differentiate these two concepts of legitimacy and law. At the same time, since ancient Greece, in the different historical period, the study of political legitimacy theory has different content and features, among them, with these two factions: western modern normative theory and empirical theory as representatives. Here, this paper was on the basis of historical materials, combing the development of western political legitimacy, straightening out the relationship between legitimacy and the law, finding out the essential connotation of political legitimacy.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Liu Jianping
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TI  - The connotation of legitimacy and the historical evolution of Western political
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science and Technology Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 460
EP  - 462
SN  - 2352-5398
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