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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Perceived legitimacy"”.
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Towards an Understanding of an Institution: The Perceived Legitimacy of Online Business Degree Programs
… and application is taken-for-granted and perceived as legitimate by stakeholders. Over time, new organizational forms can emerge that challenge perceived legitimacy of the established form. From this perspective, this dissertation examined institutionalization in the context of online …
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Development and Validation of a Perceived Legitimacy of Hazing Behavior Scale for College Coaches
… As no scale currently exists to measure coaches' perceived legitimacy of hazing behaviors (PLHB) in sport, the study focused on the creation and validation of such an instrument for Division I, II, and III intercollegiate coaches. The PLHB scale underwent content validation through expert review …
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Mini-Publics and the Maxi-Public: Investigating the Perceived Legitimacy of Citizens’ Assemblies in a Deeply Divided Place
… one established form of mini-public, and their perceived legitimacy from the perspective of the maxi-public. Compared to other modes of decision-making, to what extent do people regard citizens’ assemblies as legitimate? And are there design features of citizens’ assemblies that strengthen or …
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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION, COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT, AND DECISION LEGITIMACY: A CASE IN CHINA
Questions regarding the concept of legitimacy are central to social and political science. Exploring how people justify legitimacy and why people grant legitimacy to leadership and collective decisions in groups, organizations, and nations is generally agreed to be essential to scholarship on …
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Ingroup bias : the effect of status, legitimacy and cooperation on intergroup relations
… group's position on a status hierarchy and the perceived legitimacy of that status order. This study considered the effect of intergroup cooperation, compared with no cooperation and with intragroup cooperation, within this framework.
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Mapping austerity-based 'Crisis Law' before the European Court of Human Rights: an exploration of the impact of the court's interpretive ethic upon its derived legitimacy
… of the contextual influence of the Court’s role, perceived legitimacy and general discourse on the reform and development of the Court. Finally considering whether the approach of the Court to Crisis Law affects or undermines the nature of the Court’s legitimacy.
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Teisėjų elgesio teisingumo vertinimo veiksniai civilinėje justicijoje /
Public cooperation and perceived legitimacy of courts, obedience to court rulings depend on perceived fairness of court actions. This paper aims to determine factors of civil party’s judgments of judicial behavior fairness and evaluate judicial compliance with procedural fairness requirements. 151 …
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Bridging the Gap : The United Nations, Global Governance and the Crisis in Peacekeeping.
… access to resources, fulfilment of mandates, perceived legitimacy both local and global, challenges faced during the operation from both state and non-state actors, and issues of command and control within the operation including organization and integration with other actors. In doing so the …
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The Application of the Democratic Dialogue Model to the Relationship between Domestic Legislatures and International Courts
… is argued, is particularly useful to build the legitimacy, and perceived legitimacy, of the international human rights law system, because it goes some way to addressing an ongoing objection, based on an alleged ‘democratic deficit’, to the adjudication of rights by international courts.
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Why the Chinese obey the law : case studies from transportation
… motivations explored in this thesis are the perceived legitimacy of the authorities and the perceived morality of the laws. This thesis contains three papers that address compliance in the context of transport in China. The first paper examines compliance with a wide set of laws and …
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Preventing Crime in Communities: A Critical Analysis of Community Safety in a Lower Income Neighbourhood in Nairobi, Kenya
… 2010). This has the potential to improve the perceived legitimacy of formal social control methods.<br/><br/>It is hoped this research will contribute to the literature and gaps in knowledge on existing community initiatives and responses to deal with crime in Nairobi’s lower-income …
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Imagining the Scottish Economy: Economic (In)Security and the 'Hidden Politics' of Independence
… very idea of the economy, and critically, the perceived legitimacy of arrangements made for its governance – an established discursive context that made possible almost entirely economistic arguments for and against independence, which served to obscure the necessarily ‘political’ underpinnings …
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Policy, practice and perceptions : understanding governance of aquarium fishing in the Philippines
… fishery, and local perceptions of benefits and legitimacy in fishery management. Policy-practice gaps form as de-jure rules are translated into rules-in-use. Firstly, as national and local policies are implemented on-the-ground, and then through inconsistent enforcement. Other than cyanide bans, …
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Sovereign borrowing without odiousness: legal instruments to substitute the odious debt doctrine in the repudiation of sovereign debt
… that debt repudiation does not depend on the perceived legitimacy of the government. Therefore, the thesis examines the use of legal principles to repudiate debt, independent of the form of government in the following chapters. Since rule of law principles, human rights law, case law of a …
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Testing the procedural justice model of legal socialization: Expanding beyond the legal world
… legal socialization predicts that perceptions of legitimacy and cynicism toward rules mediate the relation between procedural justice and engagement in rule-violating behavior. This dissertation used a multi-methodological approach to test this model in terms of three authority figures: parents, …
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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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Discrimination: because I want to or because I have to? : a comparison between the explanations of social identity theory and social dominance theory for intergroup prejudice in South Africa
… of group status, stability, and the legitimacy of status differences influences in-group bias in English speaking students from the University of Cape Town. They completed the SDO6 scale before and after being exposed to a contrived theory of coping differences between English and …
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Political legitimacy, citizens' mobilization, and leaders' survival
… of leaders' 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 …
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Women's perceptions of human rights and rights-based approaches in everyday life: a case study from provincial Russia
… norms and practical constraints impact on the perceived legitimacy of certain categories of rights, which in turn determine which issues are viewed as legitimate rights claims for women. Analysis of respondents' perceptions of rights indicate that, despite clearly identifiable examples of …
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Why Ratification? Questioning the Unexamined Constitution-making Procedure
… this entails articulating a three-part theory of legitimacy corresponding to the concept's legal, moral, and sociological manifestations, and analyzing the role of ratification within this scheme. I test these potential justifications by looking at their theoretical coherence, applicability to …
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