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53Legitimacy without Liberalism: A Defense of Max Weber’s Standard of Political LegitimacyAnalyse & Kritik 39 (2): 295-324. 2017.In this paper I defend Max Weber's concept of political legitimacy as a standard for the moral evaluation of states. On this view, a state is legitimate when its subjects regard it as having a valid claim to exercise power and authority. Weber’s analysis of legitimacy is often assumed to be merely descriptive, but I argue that Weberian legitimacy has moral significance because it indicates that political stability has been secured on the basis of civic alignment. Stability on this basis enables …Read more
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