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- Authority
- Definition
- Governments and authority
- How authority can be backed up through coercion, persuasion
- Legitimacy and authority
- Sources of legitimacy
- Legitimacy by results
- Legitimacy by habit
- Legitimacy by historical, religious or ethnic identity
- Legitimacy by procedures
- Qualities of a democratic citizen
- Tolerance
- Active participation
- High level of interest and information
- Varying Support for the state
- Evaluation of the above "requirements"
- Social capital
- Necessary ingredient for effective democratic government
- Robert Putnam's studies of Italy and bowling league membership in the U.S.
- Political culture
- Wide variations from state to state
- Responsible for major differences
- An Application of Political Culture: Robert Kagan's Of Power and Paradise.
- Religion and Political Culture
- Political socialization / Agents of socialization
- Examples:
- Building authority and legitimacy in West Germany after WWII
- Declining Democratic legitimacy in the US
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