Legitimation of regimes : international frameworks for analysis

Foreword         Bogdan Denitch

I. THE DIMENSIONS OF THE PROBLEM

Legitimacy and the Social Order Bogdan Denitch ... 5

The Norm of Illegitimacy — Ten Years Later Irving Louis Horowitz ... 23

Political Legitimacy in Contemporary Europe Joseph Rothschild ... 37

The Legitimacy Bias: Conservative Man in Market and State Robert E. Lane ... 55

The Delegitimation of Old and the Legitimation of New Social Relations in Late Capitalist Societies Branko Horvat ... 81

Legitimacy, Hegemony and Domination: Gramsci — With and Versus Lenin Franco Ferrarotti ... 101

II. CASE STUDIES AND SPECIFIC PROBLEMS

Power Circles and Legitimacy in Developed Societies Charles Kadushin ... 127

Elites, Insiders, and Outsiders: Will Western Political Regimes Prove Non-viable? G. Lowell Field and John Higley ... 141

Legitimacy in a Divided Nation: The Case of the German Democratic Republic Peter C. Ludz ... 161

Soviet Industrial Workers: The Lack of a Legitimation Crisis? David Lane ... 177

The Men with Guns: The Legitimacy of Violent Dissent J. Bowyer Bell ... 195

Ethnicity, Inequality and Legitimacy Andreas Svrakov ... 217

Italy in 1978: ‘Where Everybody Governs, Does Anybody Govern?’ Sidney Tarrow ... 229

Patterns of Changing Support for Christian Democracy in Italy: 1946-1976 Paolo A. Farneti ... 249

The State and Late Capitalist Development: The Case of Brazil Sylvia Ann Hewlett ... 273

Notes on Contributors ... 303