...them without the use of naked force, depends in large measure upon its legitimacy and effectiveness. Legitimacy involves the capacity of the system to...institutions are the most appropriate ones for the society; effectiveness means actual performance, the extent to which the system satisfies the basic...

...the present unacceptable and dysfunctional policies and systems. Seymour Martin Lipset once wrote: Legitimacy involves the capacity of the system to...institutions are the most appropriate ones for the society. The extent to which contemporary democratic political systems are legitimate depends in large...

...science. Schaar has collected three representative contemporary definitions, to which we may add a fourth: Legitimacy involves the capacity of the system to...institutions are the most appropriate ones for the society. In the tradition of Weber, legitimacy has been defined as the degree to which institutions...

...the population and such powerful groups within it as big business or the armed forces see them'.20 Legitimacy involves 'the capacity of the system to...institutions are the most appropriate ones for the society'.21 Political systems which enjoy both legitimacy and effectiveness are very stable. Political...

...able to resolve these differences. Seymour M. Lipset, a wellknown American sociologist, once wrote: "Legitimacy involves the capacity of the system to...institutions are the most appropriate ones for the society .... All claims to a legitimate title to rule must ultimately win acceptance through demonstrating...

...same basic ideas, viz. that legitimacy defined as subjective meaning is correlated with stability. 'Legitimacy involves the capacity of the system to...institutions are the most appropriate ones for the society."7 Lipset is engaged in a discussion of the determinants of stability in modern polities. He singles out...

...peaceful transfers of power. Legitimacy is another social factor favoring democracy. Legitimacy is "the capacity of the system to engender and maintain...institutions are the most appropriate ones for the society" (Lipset 1960, p. 77). A major test of legitimacy is whether or not a common "secular political...

...same basic ideas, namely, that legitimacy defined as subjective meaning is correlated with stability. "Legitimacy involves the capacity of the system to...institutions are the most appropriate ones for the society." 15 Lipset is engaged in a discussion of the determinants of stability in modern polities:...

...a more concise and measured definition. Seymour Martin Lipset, for example, suggests that political legitimacy 'involves the capacity of the system to engender and maintain the belief that the political institutions are the most appropriate ones for the society.'6 John H. Schaar elaborates on...

...justified—eg, as "good," "right," or "natural," and so on. Lipset has summarized this most succinctly: "Legitimacy involves the capacity of the system to...political institutions are the most appropriate ones for society" (my emphasis). 7 This kind of domination by definition will always be stable. It is also possible...