... must ask what it is that confers legitimacy on regimes normatively. Lipset's belief that legitimacy "involves the capacity of the system to engender and maintain the belief that the existing political institutions are the most appropriate ones for the society"1 may appear inadequate for the reason stated above regarding totalitarian states. This conferral of legitimacy on totalitarian regimes (provided ... one for society"2 then those states will necessarily consider the other illegitimate handing them grounds for conflict. Lipset's definition could be modified to refer to engendering b...

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... the Rice Riots of 1918 energized radical thought, and there were movements calling for universal male suffrage1, the social, economic and political liberation of women, and the end of the existing social order entirely. Why then, by the end of the decade, had the tide of democratic process receded, and how had Japan's conservative and authoritarian elements reined back power from ... ...

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... should be noted that in the two countries, the legislator did not attempt to define an act of terrorism itself but resolved the incrimination of terrorism by referring to offenses existing in common law. On the other hand, we can note that France took steps to characterize these offenses with reference to their purpose, which is not the case in Ireland ... ...

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