What is meant by legitimcay ?
Politics questions
a. What is meant by legitimacy?
Legitimacy refers to the degree to which the state or its government can be considered to have the right to exercise power. A state or government can be said to be legitimate if it has a valid claim to rule. Legitimacy is generally understood as the popular acceptance and recognition, by the public, of the authority of a governing régime, whereby authority has political power through consent and mutual understandings, not coercion. The three types of political legitimacy (authority) are, traditional, charismatic, and legal-rational. Traditional legitimacy is the right to govern, because legitimacy has existed over a long period of time. Charismatic legitimacy is when legitimacy is granted simply by acclaim, because the people want to be governed by a particular leader. Legal-rational legitimacy refers to any rational way of granting legitimacy, and in modern democracy this is usually done by election, exemplified perfectly by Britain, where there is a high degree of acceptance of the results of elections, and all mainstream parties accept the full legitimacy of the government.
a. Define direct democracy.
Direct democracy is a form of democracy that is based on the direct, unmediated and continuous participation of citizens in the tasks of government. It vanquishes the distinction between government and the people. It is therefore a system of popular self-government. The features of direct democracy are, popular participation, which is direct in that the people make policy decisions and they don’t merely choose who will rule on their behalf. Popular participation is unmediated in that the people ‘are’ the government and there is no separate class of professional politicians. On top of this it is continuous in the sense that people engage in politics on a regular and ongoing basis, all decisions are made by the people. An example of direct democracy would be that of Athens in ancient Greece, which
a. What is meant by legitimacy?
Legitimacy refers to the degree to which the state or its government can be considered to have the right to exercise power. A state or government can be said to be legitimate if it has a valid claim to rule. Legitimacy is generally understood as the popular acceptance and recognition, by the public, of the authority of a governing régime, whereby authority has political power through consent and mutual understandings, not coercion. The three types of political legitimacy (authority) are, traditional, charismatic, and legal-rational. Traditional legitimacy is the right to govern, because legitimacy has existed over a long period of time. Charismatic legitimacy is when legitimacy is granted simply by acclaim, because the people want to be governed by a particular leader. Legal-rational legitimacy refers to any rational way of granting legitimacy, and in modern democracy this is usually done by election, exemplified perfectly by Britain, where there is a high degree of acceptance of the results of elections, and all mainstream parties accept the full legitimacy of the government.
a. Define direct democracy.
Direct democracy is a form of democracy that is based on the direct, unmediated and continuous participation of citizens in the tasks of government. It vanquishes the distinction between government and the people. It is therefore a system of popular self-government. The features of direct democracy are, popular participation, which is direct in that the people make policy decisions and they don’t merely choose who will rule on their behalf. Popular participation is unmediated in that the people ‘are’ the government and there is no separate class of professional politicians. On top of this it is continuous in the sense that people engage in politics on a regular and ongoing basis, all decisions are made by the people. An example of direct democracy would be that of Athens in ancient Greece, which