Examine the claim that ‘state legitimacy is closely associated with democracy’ (Blakeley and Saward‚ 2009‚ p.370). State legitimacy refers to the popular acceptance of a governing body or bodies by citizens. Democracy is a greatly debated term broadly involving the selection of a competitor‚ candidate or party by the majority of citizens or ‘the people’ by way of election. In this essay‚ the claim of how and in what ways these two ideas or practices are associated‚ and how power underpins the
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and Saward (2009 P. 361) defines the state as ‘An organisation that successfully claims a monopoly of the legitimate use of force in a given territory. The word legitimate also appears in the question for this essay‚ so legitimacy appears to be the key word‚ and its definition is‚ “able to be defended with logic or justification” (Oxford dictionaries online). In a democracy the Government is voted in by the people‚ and it could be argued this process makes it legitimate. But not all states in the
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million tonnes of iron ore and 2 million tonnes of coal each year to produce 4.3 million tonnes of steel products. CCI products go into a range of leading edge developments: The production process Modern steel production is a large scale operation dealing in huge quantities of materials and products. The process of steel plate production has several stages: • Receipt of pre-cut steel slabs from the steel plant • Reheating of slabs • Rolling to achieve required dimension and mechanical properties
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Rationality Breeds Legitimacy In Jurgen Habermas’‚ Legitimation Crisis‚ Western society is examined through a sociological lens to determine whether society is just. In his work‚ Habermas argues that advanced capitalism in Western societies leads to a legitimation crisis. Advanced capitalism displaces crisis tendencies‚ by means of state action‚ from the economic sphere into the socio-cultural sphere. Therefore‚ the legitimacy provided by the cultural sphere is threatened‚ resulting in a loss
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Brooke A. Marion 0492493 Professor: Linda Rodenburg English 1112 WDE 16 January 2013 Learning: A Continuous Process Learning is more than memorizing‚ more than regurgitating facts and information. It is about the context‚ the experience‚ of interpreting these facts and transforming them into knowledge. This‚ as Jeff Cobb argues‚ is what constitutes learning and I concur. After reading an excerpt from Charles Dickens’ novel‚ “Book the First Sowing” as well as one from bell hooks’ book‚ “Talking
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beauty care products to paper products. In the mid-1980’s‚ P&G management launched several projects to improve service and reduce costs across the supply channel. The first effort emphasized the logistics system that currently existed between retailers/wholesalers and manufacturers‚ more specifically P&G. They focused their efforts on improving supply logistics and reducing channel inventory through a process that became known as continuous replenishment‚ or CRP. The second project was to revise the
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Critically examine the claim by states to be the legitimate governing authority in a territory. This essay will first define ’the State ’‚ and then look at evidence to examine the above claim. The state is a set of institutions that possess the authority to make the rules and laws that govern the people within a defined territory. Max Weber‚ cited in “Exploring Social Lives”‚ defined the state as claiming “a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory”‚ (Bromley
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DD101 TMA01 Drawing from what I have learned from the study materials‚ I will be looking at High Street in Hirwaun and outlining some of the inequalities in comparison to City Road. Even though both City Road and High Street are over 200 years old and began as just country lanes‚ they have very different layouts. City Road is much longer with complex junctions and High Street is only 20 meters long with a simple layout. High Street is‚ though‚ one of the major roads through the village lined
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Unit 4222-371 Understanding and enable positive interaction and communication with individuals who have dementia Outcome 1 Understand the factors that can affect interaction and communication of individuals with Dementia 1 Explain how different forms of dementia may affect the way an individual communicates Alzheimer’s disease is a combination of genetic and environmental factors which during the course of the disease a number of chemical and structural changes happen within the brain. Alzheimer’s
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As demonstrated on City Road ( ’Making social lives on City Road ’‚ 2009)‚ many people use the same roads‚ visit the same shops and communicate with the same people‚ but this does not mean these people are the same. We all perceive people‚ places and objects differently and our perceptions of these define how we live our lives. Differences between the ways we live depend on our connections to people and places‚ and how we use these differences to our advantage. I am studying the Denton section
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