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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Published in:	Frontiers in Political Science
Main Authors:	Claudia Wiesner, Philipp Harfst
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-01
Subjects:	legitimacy concepts genealogy normative-theoretical empirical-analytical methods
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2022.867756/full