https://doi.org/10.4081/ilpolitico.2021.563
THE CONCEPT OF LEGITIMACY: BETWEEN THEORY AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH
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The concept of legitimacy is undoubtedly one of the most widespread and ambiguous of political language. The attribution of legitimacy to a certain political object (political power, a political institution, a given political system) seems to consist in an attribution of positive value to that object. political system) seems to consist in an attribution of positive value to that object. However, within the literature on legitimacy, there seems to be no agreement on what property (i.e., the legitimacy of a political object) should be attributed to that object. however, within the literature on legitimacy, there seems to be no agreement on what property (or set of properties) a certain object object must have in order to be considered legitimate.
