Conflict and control : challenge to legitimacy of modern governments / ed. by Arthur J. Vidich, Ronald M. Glassman
Imprint
Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1979
Descript
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CONTENT
Part I : Theoretical perspectives -- Max Weber's concept of legitimacy: an evaluation -- Rational and irrational legitimacy -- Legitimacy, domination, and ego displacement -- Part II : Problems and processes of legitimacy in the modern world -- The costs of delegitimation in posrwar America -- Legitimation, bureaucracy, and Watergate -- The problem of legitimation in Soviet society -- Conflicts between legal and bureaucratic authority -- Legitimacy and the sociology of modernization -- The language of politics in underdeveloped countries -- Legitimation of regimes in world perspective