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...

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...

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...

Suchman states three types of legitimacy: pragmatic legitimacy, moral legitimacy, and cognitive legitimacy. Pragmatic legitimacy relies upon the self-interests...

a number of countries and individuals have challenged its political legitimacy, its occupation of Arab territories, or both. Over the course of the Arab–Israeli...

or 'judgement' on the legality of the war. A dispute exists over the legitimacy of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The debate centers around the question whether...

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...

Synthetic cannabinoids are a class of designer drug molecules that bind to the same receptors to which cannabinoids (THC, CBD and many others) in cannabis...

An open standard is a standard that is openly accessible and usable by anyone. It is also a common prerequisite that open standards use an open license...

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...

people or win their popular support. Autocrats may claim that they have legitimacy under a legal framework, or they may exert influence purely through force...

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...

about the blue shift phenomenon has led some Republicans to call the legitimacy of elections into question. Blue shift occurs because young voters, low-income...

The Federal Analogue Act, 21 U.S.C. § 813, is a section of the United States Controlled Substances Act passed in 1986 which allows any chemical "substantially...

It took several forms: Asserting the legitimacy of the exiled government, and by implication the lack of legitimacy of Vidkun Quisling's pro-Nazi regime...

Linguistic prescription is the establishment of rules defining preferred usage of language. These rules may address such linguistic aspects as spelling...

politics. His rule (premiership 1959–1963) was autocratic; he built his legitimacy around the god-like status of the monarch and by channelling the government's...

phrase consent of the governed refers to the idea that a government's legitimacy and moral right to use state power is justified and lawful only when consented...

known for his work on Institutional theory, and particularly on "managing legitimacy." Suchman obtained his AB in sociology at Harvard University in 1983 and...

alongside other Republican titles, notably consul and Pontifex maximus. The legitimacy of an emperor's rule depended on his control of the Roman army and recognition...

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In representative democracies, a mandate is a perceived legitimacy to rule through popular support. Mandates are conveyed through elections, in which voters...

transition, numerous regimes established by rebel forces vied for control and legitimacy as the power of the ruling Sui dynasty weakened. Autonomous regimes that...

caused controversy, because it was taken by some as questioning "India's legitimacy over Kashmir" as it had used the word "independence" in regard to revocation...

single, foundational historical narrative. This called into question the legitimacy of the Enlightenment account of progress and rationality. Critics allege...

democratic facade, frequently holding elections in order to establish their legitimacy or provide incentives to members of the ruling party, but these elections...

中国土上的本土哲学 (indigenous philosophy from Chinese soil). The debates over the legitimacy of Chinese philosophy primarily concern the indigenous philosophy of China...

Chinese legitimacy question (Chinese: 中國代表權問題) is the question regarding the political legitimacy of representing "China", and what polity is considered...

position as the leader of the Shiv Sena and strengthened his government's legitimacy. Shinde is married to Lata Shinde. On 2 June 2000, their son Dipesh (aged...