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Reflections on the Social and Psychological Processes of Legitimization and Delegitimization
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by Kelman, Herbert C.

The concept of legitimacy has fascinated me for many years. Again and again, particularly over the course of the 1960s, I felt that the concepts of legitimacy and illegitimacy provided the organizing principles that helped explain various phenomena with which I was concerned.

Publication Type: Published Paper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published Date: February 2001
Field of Interest: Global Issues
Kelman, Herbert C. "Reflections on the Social and Psychological Processes of Legitimization and Delegitimization." In J.T. Jost & B. Major (Eds.), The psychology of legitimacy: Emerging perspectives on ideology, justice, and intergroup relations (pp. 54-73). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.