What Does a Legitimation Crisis Mean Today?

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-42
Author(s):  
Brian Milstein
Keyword(s):  
Legitimation Crisis

Peace Now and the Legitimation Crisis of ?Civil Militarism?

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-111
Author(s):  
Michael Feige
Keyword(s):  
Legitimation Crisis

scholarly journals New Labour, New Policies: Constructing a Discourse of Citizenship

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-114
Author(s):  
Keith Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Citizenship Education ◽  
New Labour ◽  
Political Context ◽  
British Society ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Legitimation Crisis ◽  
New Policies ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this paper is examine the development of citizenship education as a curriculum priority within the UK. Employing Habermas' theory of legitimation crisis, the paper places the contemporary enthusiasm for citizenship education within a socioeconomic, cultural and political context. The paper argues that current preoccupations with citizenship education contained in Education for Citizenship and the Teaching of Democracy in Schools (Dfee, 1999), stem from the impact of Neo-Liberal concerns with individualism, economic and technological globalisation and the potential fragmentation of contemporary society. The paper explores the principles of education for citizenship and the teaching of democracy in schools and suggests that, as part of New Labour's developing conception of British society, citizenship education asks some fundamental questions of that society.

Education and legitimation crisis: Systemic tendencies of capitalism in the work of Habermas

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 917-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato Crioni ◽  
Luiz Roberto Gomes ◽  
Antônio Álvaro Soares Zuin
Keyword(s):  
Legitimation Crisis

Culture Conflict and its Consequences for the Legitimation Crisis

Res Publica ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-253
Author(s):  
Mark Elchardus ◽  
Anton Derks
Keyword(s):  
New Left ◽  
New Right ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
Value Conflict ◽  
Culture Conflict ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Legitimation Crisis ◽  
Exit Option ◽  
The Difference

Our analysis indicates that it is correct to interpret non-participation and a vote for the Extreme Right as at least partly due to a legitimation crisis which seems to be the expression of a new alignment of values. This alignment describes a deep cultural cleavage that divides the higher from the less educated. People who hold pronounced positions on this alignment are more likely than others to turn away from the established, "traditional" parties. People with the values and attitudes typical of the "progressive" or "new left'' side of the cleavage, vote disproportionately for the Greens. People with the values and attitudes typical of the "conservative" or "new right" side of the cleavage, opt disproportionately for non-participation and for the Extreme Right.  In the recent political debate in Flanders, both non-participation and the Extreme Right have been regarded as symptoms of a legitimation crisis, and ofpolitical protest. The difference between the two expressions of cultural opposition or political protest can be understood as a choice for either an "exit" or a "voice" option. People select the "exit" option when they feel especially politically powerless. The "voice"-option is chosen by people for which the value conflict over the position of"migrants" is the most salient issue.The long term causes of the symptoms of a legitimation crisis seem to be the growing economic and cultural gap between the higher and less educated, and the ensuing growth of a conflict in which cultural and social-economic differences are strongly linked.

Legitimation Crisis

The Guardians ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 296-324
Author(s):  
Susan Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Legitimation Crisis

scholarly journals La pensée postmoderne et la criminologie

Criminologie ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul Brodeur
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Scientific Theory ◽  
Legitimation Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Postmodern Thought

This article is an attempt to investigate the various meanings of the words "postmodernity", "postmodernism" and "postmodern". ft also assesses the significance of these words and of the concepts that they express for criminology. The paper is divided in three parts. The first part tries to dispell important misunderstandings that have sprung in relation to postmodernism. The most significant of these is the belief that there is such a thing as a postmodernist "method" in the social sciences. The second part identifies the origin of the term "postmodern" and discusses various themes which are perceived to be characteristic of postmodern thought. These themes are: the present legitimation crisis, the internal reflexivity of scientific theory, discourse analysis and meta-language, social and cultural fragmentation and historical pessimism. The last part draws the consequences of the preceding analyses for the development of criminology.

The Exile of Political Theory: The Lost Homeland of Legitimation

1995 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 683-697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Simons
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legitimation Crisis ◽  
Implicit Definitions ◽  
Recurrent Theme

A sense of distance or exile is a recurrent theme of the literature in which the state of the political theory is either lamented or acclaimed. A review of these tales suggests that implicit definitions of the homeland of the sub-discipline as philosophical, practical or interpretive are inadequate, leading to mistaken diagnoses of the reasons for the ills or recovery of political philosophy. This paper argues that political theory has been exiled from its previous role or homeland of legitimation of political orders. Under contemporary conditions in the advanced liberal capitalist political order, in which a media-generated imagology of society as a communicative system fills the role of a legitimating discourse, political theory faces a legitimation crisis.

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