Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE CRITERIA FOR LEGITIMACY -- 1.Towards a Social-scientific Concept of Legitimacy -- The different dimensions of legitimacy -- The significance of legitimacy -- Conclusion: a social or political concept? -- 2.Power and Its Need of Legitimation -- The concept of power -- The social organisation of power -- Power and legitimacy -- 3.The Normative Structure of Legitimacy -- Legitimacy derived from rules -- Legitimacy as justifiability of rules -- Legitimacy through expressed consent -- Conclusion -- 4.The Social Construction of Legitimacy -- pt. II LEGITIMACY IN THE MODERN STATE -- 5.Dimensions of State Legitimacy -- The elusiveness of legality -- Constitutional rules and their justification -- Modes of popular consent -- Conclusion -- 6.Crisis Tendencies of Political Systems -- Liberal democracy -- Liberal democracy in developing countries -- The communist model -- Types of Islamic state -- 7.Modes of Non-legitimate Power --

Contents note continued: Revolutions and legitimacy -- Revolutionary regimes and relegitimation -- Coups d'etat and military regimes -- Conclusion: the dilemmas of political legitimacy -- 8.Legitimacy in Political Science and Political Philosophy -- pt. III LEGITIMACY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- 9.Legitimacy within the State -- Operationalising the concept of legitimacy -- Compliance with law enforcement agencies -- The comparative legitimacy of states -- The role of consent in political legitimacy -- 10.Legitimacy beyond the State -- Inter-governmental institutions and their legitimacy -- Legitimacy issues in international NGOs -- Contested legitimacy in the European Union -- Legitimacy crisis in the international financial sector -- Conclusion.