Legitimation

Legitimacy referred in political science, the justification of a state for his sovereign or not sovereign action or its result.

Forms of legitimation

A distinction is made between different forms of legitimacy:

The input- legitimacy is based on the normative principle of consent of the governed ( government by the people ). It is the dominant in the law category of legitimacy. To the criticism concerned the input legitimacy see legitimation chain theory.

The output legitimacy is based on the functional principle of utility ( government for the people ). The actors that create the helpful services must not be selected necessarily democratic or belong to a recognized government.

Criticism

The Critical rationalism rejects the political legitimacy theory with similar arguments from how he does in the epistemological generalization. The legitimacy theory maintain that a government has the right to rule, if they are " legitimate" is, that is was chosen according to the rules. However, Hitler and the Enabling Act had come into being in this sense legitimate. Therefore, the principle of legitimacy rich not go. It was an answer to the question "Who should rule? ". This question is wrongly put. It must be replaced by the question of how the Constitution could be designed so that one could get rid of the government without bloodshed. Not on the nature of the establishment of the Government what was more, but the possibility of their deposition.