Look up legitimacy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Legitimacy, from the Latin legitimare meaning "to make lawful", may refer to: Legitimacy (criminal...
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In political science, legitimacy is the right and acceptance of an authority, usually a governing law or a regime. Whereas authority denotes a specific...
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Legitimacy, in traditional Western common law, is the status of a child born to parents who are legally married to each other, and of a child conceived...
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In common law, the "presumption of legitimacy" is a legal presumption that states that a child born within the subsistence of a marriage is presumed to...
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a number of countries and individuals have challenged the political legitimacy of the state of Israel and/or its occupation of Arab territories. Over...
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The legitimacy under international law of the 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has been questioned. The UN Charter is the foundational...
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Police legitimacy is the extent to which members of the public view the police as higher power authority figure, often measured in terms of the public's...
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Legitimation crisis (redirect from Legitimacy crisis)
Suchman states three types of legitimacy: pragmatic legitimacy, moral legitimacy, and cognitive legitimacy. Pragmatic legitimacy relies upon the self-interests...
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Synthetic cannabinoids are a class of designer drug molecules that bind to the same receptors to which cannabinoids (THC, CBD and many others) in cannabis...
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The Legitimacy Theory of the Provisional Government (Korean: 임시정부 법통론 or 임정법통론; Hanja: 臨時政府 法統論 or 臨政法統論) claims that the Provisional Government of the...
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