'a useful and thoughtful survey of recent discussions of an important and highly topical subject'Anthony Arblaster, Tribune

• Political legitimacy; the legitimacy of the autonomous state; the legitimacy of the representative or neutral state; the legitimacy of the partisan state; all subjects are legitimately governed but some are more legitimately governed than others; legitimacy and coercion; states as cultivators of legitimacy; the state as subverter of legitimacy.

'a useful and thoughtful survey of recent discussions of an important and highly topical subject'Anthony Arblaster, Tribune

• Political legitimacy; the legitimacy of the autonomous state; the legitimacy of the representative or neutral state; the legitimacy of the partisan state; all subjects are legitimately governed but some are more legitimately governed than others; legitimacy and coercion; states as cultivators of legitimacy; the state as subverter of legitimacy.

'a useful and thoughtful survey of recent discussions of an important and highly topical subject'Anthony Arblaster, Tribune

• Political legitimacy; the legitimacy of the autonomous state; the legitimacy of the representative or neutral state; the legitimacy of the partisan state; all subjects are legitimately governed but some are more legitimately governed than others; legitimacy and coercion; states as cultivators of legitimacy; the state as subverter of legitimacy.