Faith Quote by Seymour Martin Lipset

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

— Fareed Zakaria

“Legitimacy is the elixir of political power. "The strongest is never strong enough to be the master", Jean-Jaques Rousseau observed, "unless he translates strength…

— Fareed Zakaria

“The theory is that legitimacy can only be earned through a long-suffering and constant presence. But that view is limiting in that it forecloses…

— Wesley Lowery

“Government in and of itself is the foremost agent for destroying order and imposing chaos." "To accept the legitimacy of the state is to…

— L.K. Samuels

“...what we are looking for is the appearance of political units persisting in time and fixed in space, the development of permanent, impersonal institutions,…

— Joseph Reese Strayer

“The political institutions of a society are a key determinant of the outcome of this game. They are the rules that govern incentives in…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Political mandates matter, but delivering on promises requires institutions. And it takes individuals to build those institutions, so expertise matters, as does the system’s…

— Shankkar Aiyar

“No political system ever perfectly expresses the needs of its society. No society in the English colonies constructed political arrangements completely faithful to itself.”

— Robert Middlekauff

“...legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“It was easy to speak theoretically and idealistically about politics when one is seeking power. The demands of exercising it once it is won,…

— Jon Meacham

“Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.”

— Giuseppe Prezzolini