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Examining organizational legitimacy: an empirical analysis of organizational legitimacy, issue legitimacy, legitimacy gaps, and factors affecting the legitimacy regarding the issue of direct-to-consumer advertising in the pharmaceutical industry
… dissertation is to explore the concepts of issue legitimacy and organizational legitimacy in an issue management context, providing empirical data when little has existed previously. To do so, this dissertation used two studies to explore the trend and features of issue legitimacy of DTC-ads, …
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Contractarianism and Legitimacy
… authority. The first chapter defines the idea of legitimacy and responds to two objections to the project. The second chapter examines the idea of a social contract and defends its use as the proper heuristic for understanding political authority. Drawing on the link between group membership and …
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Personality and Perceived Police Legitimacy
<p>Police legitimacy refers to one’s trust in the police to be fair and make just decisions in their interactions with the public. Individuals’ perceptions of police legitimacy play a crucial role in predicting how they interact with police. More positive perceptions are associated with cooperative …
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Legitimacy and diversity : an examination of the problem pluralism presents to the legitimacy of democratic regimes
The foundations of liberalism lie in respect for the intrinsic value of human freedom. This respect is usually expressed through the defence of the twin values of autonomy and equality. It was during the Enlightenment that liberal values acquired concrete philosophical foundations in the writing of …
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Legitimacy in the New Regulatory State
… goals, can accord with the values that confer legitimacy in‘traditional’ legislative and administrative rule-making contexts. The rules drafted by industry can be incorporated into the existing system of law without undermining its coherence. The thesis is also directed at regulatory scholars …
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Communicating strategically: public relations and organisational legitimacy
… of NATO as an organisation facing a crisis in legitimacy following the end of the Cold War. It demonstrates how the Kosovo Campaign provided a vehicle to transform NATO's identity while retaining military capabilities, to make the organisation relevant to the global demands of the 21st century. …
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Gender and Legitimacy in United Nations Mediation
… it has to fit with these existing ideas of legitimacy. The ideas of UN mediation as an art or a science both constrain the implementation of the WPS Agenda, although they do it in different ways. I show how these competing ideas about mediation affect the interpretation of the WPS Agenda, …
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Political legitimacy, citizens' mobilization, and leaders' survival
… survival by focusing on elections, perceived legitimacy, and political movements. First, political legitimacy is viewed as both a consequence of voters' perception of the selectorate institutions and as a cause for leaders to secure the support of citizens. Finally, leaders' survival is …
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Legitimacy of the Maltese Financial Services Regulator
… from the first, to explore the influence of legitimacy perceptions on the behaviour of operators. Legitimacy – the recognition of power as morally valid – is an important topic to researchers across many disciplines and to policy makers. Unlike other disciplines, criminology has been a …
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Power, legitimacy and sovereignty in Hadramawt, Yemen
… armed capability, both of these classes rely on legitimacy and the signalling of their status in order to subjugate the population and avoid violence and potential revolts. To this end, a number of social norms are observed which serve to maintain the status quo through relatively peaceful means, …
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Legitimacy, Inequality, and Conceptions of Democratic Crisis
This thesis explores the relationship between legitimacy and inequality in well-established, embedded democracies by considering inequality as a potential cause of legitimacy crises. In the first chapter, the thesis reviews rival accounts of how to conceptualise political legitimacy and of what …
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Input and Output Legitimacy in WTO Law
… of the complex relationship between law and legitimacy in the WTO. It focuses on the notional dichotomy between ‘Member-driven’ (input-based) and ‘results-oriented’ (output-based) narratives of the WTO’s legitimacy, and how such narratives are both framed by, and reflected in, WTO law. It …
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Legitimacy and Belonging: Community Engagement in Higher Education
… generally, and more specifically the concepts of legitimacy and belonging in engagement practices. My work contributes to a relatively recent shift toward community engagement classifications and designations for institutions of higher education (Saltmarsh and Driscoll 2015). These designations …
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Regulative Legitimacy and Entry in Working-class Industries
… process. The strategies they use to obtain legitimacy, however, change contingent on costs. Importantly, available strategies have the power to influence entrepreneurs' decisions to exploit perceived opportunities and enter the market. Within this context, I investigate the relationship …
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Policing as a Virtue; Moral Alignment and Legitimacy
… perceptions concerning moral alignment, legitimacy and the practice of virtues in support of morally good policing. The narratives revealed how 11 of the 16 participants regarded their authority, power and legitimacy to derive from the rule of law, their oath of allegiance to the Queen …
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Law's Legitimacy: Lon Fuller in a Consequentialist Frame
… culture, and in so doing, may strengthen the legitimacy of American law and legal institutions. It also gleans from Fuller’s work a sense of his likely metaethics, whose modesty offers an illuminating symmetry with his jurisprudence, especially in comparison with the metaethics and …
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Writing centers professionalize: Visions and versions of legitimacy
This dissertation explores the ambiguities of professionalization for writing centers and presents an alternative way to approach what I believe is an inevitable process. Toward that end, my project is to examine how the discourse surrounding the professionalization of writing centers constructs …
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Cancer and the clock : chronotherapy's struggle for legitimacy
Circadian rhythms govern almost every process in our bodies. Chronotherapy is the practice of giving medications in synchrony with these rhythms. For cancer chemotherapy, study after study has shown that paying attention timing makes a big difference. Patients receiving chemotherapy at the …
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The Masculine Ideal: Achieving Masculine Legitimacy in Contemporary Japan
… thesis to explore how men can achieve masculine legitimacy, or success, in contemporary Japan. Since the economic rise of the postwar period, the salaryman has been deemed the epitome of masculine success in Japan, but recent studies have highlighted the challenges to achieving this ideal, mainly …
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