- Look up
legitimacy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Legitimacy, from the
Latin legitimare meaning "to make lawful", may
refer to:
Legitimacy (criminal...
- In
political science,
legitimacy is the
right and
acceptance of an authority,
usually a
governing law or a regime.
Whereas authority denotes a specific...
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Legitimacy, in
traditional Western common law, is the
status of a
child born to
parents who are
legally married to each other, and of a
child conceived...
- The
legitimacy under international law of the 1999 NATO
bombing of the
Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia has been questioned. The UN
Charter is the foundational...
- In
common law, the "presumption of
legitimacy" is a
legal presumption that
states that a
child born
within the
subsistence of a
marriage is
presumed to...
- The
legitimacy of the
State of
Israel has been
challenged since before the
state was formed.
There has been
opposition to Zionism, the
movement to establish...
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Police legitimacy is the
extent to
which members of the
public view the
police as
higher power authority figure,
often measured in
terms of the public's...
- The
controversy regarding the
legitimacy of
eastward NATO
expansion relates to the
aftermath of the
Revolutions of 1989, when the fall of Soviet-allied...
- In law, "
legitimacy" is
distinguished from "legality" (see also
color of law). An
action can be
legal but not
legitimate or vice
versa it can be legitimate...
-
Suchman states three types of
legitimacy:
pragmatic legitimacy,
moral legitimacy, and
cognitive legitimacy.
Pragmatic legitimacy relies upon the self-interests...
