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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._____________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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Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde on Legitimation - Dictionary of Arguments
Brocker I 782 Legitimation/Law/State/Böckenförde: "Legitimation Chain Theory": Thesis: In a democratic state, every factual or personnel decision must be traceable in a chain to the will of the people expressed in a binding manner in elections. (1) This chain may be long but must not be interrupted. (2) BöckenfördeVsRousseau: Thus Böckenförde emphasizes the principle of popular sovereignty (3), but not a direct-democratic understanding for which the ideal image of an identity of governed and government in Rousseau's sense is leading. See Democracy/Böckenförde. 1. Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Staat – Verfassung – Demokratie. Studien zur Verfassungstheorie und zum Verfassungsrecht, Frankfurt/M. 1992 (zuerst 1991), p. 299 2. Ibid. p. 302 3. Ibid. p. 291 Tine Stein, „Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Staat – Verfassung- Demokratie“, in: Manfred Brocker (Ed.) Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. 2018_____________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. |
Böckenf I Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde State, Society and Liberty: Studies in Political Theory and Constitutional Law, London 1991 German Edition: Staat, Gesellschaft, Freiheit. Studien zur Staatstheorie und zum Verfassungsrecht Frankfurt 1976 Brocker I Manfred Brocker Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert Frankfurt/M. 2018 |