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Logics of Legitimacy
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Logics of Legitimacy

by Margaret Stout
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
325 pages
11h 32m
English
Routledge
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28 ◾  Logics of Legitimacy
of powers. It is also moderately robust in its organizing capacity in regard to func-
tional dierences within the practice of public administration. However, from the
perspective of the legitimacy question, the Political approach imagines only one
type of politics, not recognizing the philosophical dierences between representa-
tive and direct democracy. Nor does it question the functional dierences between
elected ocials and appointed experts in those political processes. Perhaps most
problematic is that it does not consider the implications of administration func-
tioning like branches that are meant to oversee the executive function. In this sense,
it lacks coherency because administrators are asked to act
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