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Legitimation: Legitimation is the process of making something acceptable and justified. It can be used to describe the process of making a law, institution, or individual legitimate in the eyes of society, an individual or a group. See also Legitimacy, Legislation, Laws, Law, Rights, Society, Community, State, Justice.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Michael Freeden on Legitimation - Dictionary of Arguments

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Legitimation/Freeden: (...) ‘legitimate’ does not always carry with it the connotation of morally or rationally justifiable (Gaus, 2000b: 39)(1).
Ideology: It is therefore no surprise that most, if not all, ideologies delight in surrounding their arguments in the opaque and the non-transparent aura of terms such as ‘natural’ or ‘self-evident’ precisely because this captures the high ground that is immune from challenge. These are acts of conceptual decontestation devised to end the competition over which political meaning is dominant or legitimate (...).
>Ideology
, >Persuasion, >Argumentation.

1. Gaus, G. F. 2000b. Political Concepts and Political Theories. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Freeden, M. 2004. „Ideology, Political Theory and Political Philosophy“. In: Gaus, Gerald F. 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Freeden, Michael
Gaus I
Gerald F. Gaus
Chandran Kukathas
Handbook of Political Theory London 2004


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