Legitimacy in the Modern State

by John H. Schaar

Book Overview

This analysis of the concept of authority in Western society constitutes a central work in political sociology and a fundamental critique of the process of modernization. Schaar proposes that legitimate authority is declining in the modern state. Law and order, in a very real sense, is the basic political issue of our time -- one that conservatives have understood with greater clarity than their liberal adversaries. Schaar sees what were once authoritative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887387721
• ISBN13: 9780887387722
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.