Theory of Politics and Political Legitimacy

Coicaud, Jean Marc

doi:10.1007/s41111-019-00136-y

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“…To officers, although good relations with colleagues consistently predict their organizational commitment, support from the community is equally important for both police effectiveness and legitimacy (Coicaud, 2002; Ren et al, 2005). Noticeably, officers who perceive stronger social support tend to have a higher level of willingness to deliver procedural justice.…”

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“…Noticeably, officers who perceive stronger social support tend to have a higher level of willingness to deliver procedural justice. Receiving support from ordinary residents outside of the police enclosed circle is essentially important in democratic policing (Coicaud, 2002), and such support directly promotes officers to respectfully and fairly treat citizens out of good intentions. Support from the civilian community outside of the police group, however, does not have a significant indirect effect on procedural justice through self-legitimacy in the present study.…”

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“…A central theme of the model posits that people who perceive procedural fairness, receive respectful treatments, and trust regulatory authorities’ decision-making process are more inclined to comply with the law and to cooperate with the police because legal authorities are viewed as legitimate institutions (Mazerolle et al, 2013; Sunshine & Tyler, 2003; Tyler, 2017; Tyler & Huo, 2002). Legitimacy is thus the recognition of the right to govern (Coicaud, 2002), or an interactive product of a recognition of the right to govern and of the consent from the governed (Bottoms & Tankebe, 2012). Recent police scholarship has extended procedural justice framework to police organizations by highlighting the importance of fair and just treatment within the organizations in achieving procedural justice on the street (Van Craen, 2016).…”

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Explaining Police Procedural Justice in a Democracy: An Expanded Internal-External Model

Wang

Sun

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Police Quarterly

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Since procedural justice was proposed, this vein of research has gained much popularity in scholarship, empirical supports, and theoretical advancement. Yet, research on the procedural fairness within police organizations, particularly on the underlying and mediating mechanisms between internal and external procedural justice, remains understudied. Relying on survey data collected from Taiwanese police officers, this study expands the current literature by testing the direct relationships between supervisor, organizational, and social supports and external procedural justice and their indirect connections through supervisor trustworthiness and self-legitimacy. Supervisor and social supports were found to directly boost officers’ commitment to external procedural justice. Perceived organizational support promotes external procedural justice through cultivating officer self-legitimacy. This study concludes by discussing cross-border research and pragmatic implications for police training and management.

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Explaining Police Procedural Justice in a Democracy: An Expanded Internal-External Model

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Police Quarterly

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“…Instead, it is formed in the interplay between audiences, performers, and the force of discourse (Peetz, 2020). Despite a clear focus on external audiences and elite legitimacy beliefs in IOs (Coicaud, 2019b), researchers attach increased importance to self-legitimation, where an IO attempts to gain internal legitimation. The latter is a crucial component of building an IO’s identity.…”

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I Trends in Theorizing Democratic Legitimacy

Rak

2023

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The current literature on democratic legitimacy is vital to addressing why assaults on democracy are effective. The theoretical frameworks of the construction of legitimacy by international organizations (IOs) help us comprehend how and why IOs seek support and when the results of these quests effectively curb democratic backsliding in their member states. Furthermore, the explanatory models of domestic democratic legitimacy allow us to understand how anti-democratic actors claim the right to rule and what makes their claims successful. They also explain what makes militant democracies fail. The theories differentiate between socially attributed legitimacy and the acquisition of social legitimacy through claims to the right to rule. Their conceptualizations differ depending on the audiences, claimants, and consequences of legitimacy.

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“…Despite its established importance, social scientists have yet to reach consensus on how to define the "abstract and unobservable psychological construct" of legitimacy (Jackson & Bradford 2019, p. 22-23). Throughout the extant literature, terms such as rightful or proper (Zelditch, 2006), consent (Beetham, 2013;Coicaud, 2002), obligation to obey (Tyler, 2003(Tyler, , 2006b, moral alignment or shared values (Beetham, 2013;Jackson et al, 2012), lawfulness, fairness, and effectiveness (Bottoms & Tankebe, 2012;Tankebe, 2013) have all been used to characterize legitimate authority. Still, while there is considerable variation in conceptualization and operationalization, the majority of studies have focused on the sources and outcomes of a specific type of legitimate power that Max Weber (1947) called "legal-rational authority," or legitimation based on the legality and fair use of power.…”

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Understanding the Bounds of Legitimacy: Weber’s Facets of Legitimacy and the Police Empowerment Hypothesis

McLean

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2021

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Despite considerable evidence that police legitimacy results in beneficial outcomes like compliance, cooperation, and empowerment, scholars have yet to agree on how to define and operationalize legitimacy. Drawing on Max Weber's facets of legitimacy, we developed and tested a measure of "traditional authority," reflecting the possibility that some people legitimate the police more so based on tradition than normative concerns regarding fairness. Confirmatory factor analysis of survey data from a national sample of 701 US adults revealed that our traditional authority items loaded separately from items commonly used to capture feelings of trust, obligation to obey, and moral alignment. Furthermore, although perceived legitimacy appears to flow from perceptions of procedural and distributive fairness regardless of how it is measured, traditional authority is more strongly associated with empowerment of the police. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings and urge researchers to replicate and extend our work.

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Theory of Politics and Political Legitimacy

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Explaining Police Procedural Justice in a Democracy: An Expanded Internal-External Model

Explaining Police Procedural Justice in a Democracy: An Expanded Internal-External Model

I Trends in Theorizing Democratic Legitimacy

Understanding the Bounds of Legitimacy: Weber’s Facets of Legitimacy and the Police Empowerment Hypothesis

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