On the value of political legitimacy

Coakley, Mathew

doi:10.1177/1470594x10387272

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“…In Habermas’ view, deliberation is the central process of political legitimacy (Palazzo and Scherer, 2006), thus political roles can be performed by nonpolitical actors as their legitimacy depends on the reasons given by them to assume this role (Sabadoz and Singer, 2017). Tightly linked with political legitimacy is the obedience concept as the latter sustains governmental power (Matheson, 1987; Gleeson, 2000; Coakley, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

Building political capital through corporate social responsibility: a microlevel focus on the role of business leaders

Borges

Ramalho

2022

SRJ

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Purpose There are no management decisions deprived of ethical or political consequences. Political corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been highlighting this assertion but research at the microlevel on this topic is scarce. This study aims to contribute to the microlevel research by proposing a behavioral framework where leaders’ political skills are determinants of engagement in strategic CSR and perceived CSR leverages their ascribed legitimacy to perform a political role outside the boundaries of the organizations. Design/methodology/approach Building upon political CSR and critical realism theories, this study offers a general review on key political CSR microlevel concepts and examines multiple dimensions of CSR to explain the indirect effect between boards' political skills and political legitimacy. Findings This research suggests that high politically skilled leaders are associated to more CSR adoption which fosters higher legitimacy to act as political influencers. Among these, CSR activities directed toward community members and employees are seemingly the most successful from a political standpoint. Originality/value This study proposes a contemporary form of political influence to business leaders that, in contrast with other strategies such as lobbying or financing political campaigns, does not end up damaging corporate image and reputation. Also, this study proposes that not all CSR activities leverage corporate political legitimacy per se, therefore they do need to be differentiated. This study then offers a comprehensive future research agenda, including detailed suggestions for research designs and measurements.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building political capital through corporate social responsibility: a microlevel focus on the role of business leaders

Borges

Ramalho

2022

SRJ

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“…Mathew Coakley argues that legitimacy is the sort of thing that is capable of mattering only in those cases when it shouldn't matter. 64 That is to say, legitimacy could only come to matter in those cases where we lack interest-or rights-based reasons to obey the law. But in those cases, we simply lack sufficient reason to obey the law.…”

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3. Is Political Legitimacy Worth Promoting?

Greene¹

2020

Political Legitimacy

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This chapter develops and defends a new account of political legitimacy. I argue that a regime is legitimate insofar as it achieves quality assent to rule. Assent to rule is an evaluative assessment of the regime, by its subjects, about whether the regime realizes some goods through the exercise of power and authority. Assent is quality assent just when it is consistent with what I call the minimal claim of ruling, namely, the provision of basic security for all subjects. When legitimacy is characterized in these terms, its achievement will be naturally correlated with the realization of key political goods: non-alienation, stability, and political alignment among subjects. What makes this account distinctive, and attractive, is that it captures the crucial insights from both sides of the theoretical divide in the existing literature on political legitimacy, namely (i) that legitimacy is a good-making feature of a regime, but also (ii) that legitimacy depends upon people’s subjective attitudes.

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“…Many scholars have focused on legitimate entities such as legal organizations and democratic governments. For instance, Coakley argues that there are certain features that a state needs to possess to be legitimate (Coakley, 2010).…”

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How Can Cinema Justify Wars? A Qualitative Study on War Justification in American Cinema

Emamzadeh¹,

Sabbar²

2016

JPL

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Cinema is a powerful media that can shape people's minds about different issues. Movies can focus on very detailed or hidden matters in society, and critical issues that profoundly affect the lives of large populations are usually at the center of cinema's attention. Among these issues are wars that can affect tens of millions of people financially, mentally and of course physically.Films can question or justify wars. To answer if they questioned wars or justified them one should choose a specific war, a period and maybe a particular group of films and analyze their content and discourse. However, to do so, it would be helpful and maybe necessary to first better understand how films may question or justify wars.

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On the value of political legitimacy

Cited by 27 publications

References 20 publications

Building political capital through corporate social responsibility: a microlevel focus on the role of business leaders

Building political capital through corporate social responsibility: a microlevel focus on the role of business leaders

3. Is Political Legitimacy Worth Promoting?

How Can Cinema Justify Wars? A Qualitative Study on War Justification in American Cinema

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