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Legitimating identities : = the self-presentations of rulers and subjects /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Legitimating identities :/ Rodney Barker.
Reminder of title:	the self-presentations of rulers and subjects /
Author:	Barker, Rodney S.,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 161 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Political leadership - Psychological aspects. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490163
ISBN:	9780511490163 (ebook)

Legitimating identities : = the self-presentations of rulers and subjects /
Barker, Rodney S.,

Legitimating identities :the self-presentations of rulers and subjects /Rodney Barker. - 1 online resource (viii, 161 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Legitimacy and legitimation --1.

Rulers of all kinds, from feudal monarchs to democratic presidents and prime ministers, justify themselves to themselves through a variety of rituals, rhetoric, and dramatisations, using everything from architecture and coinage to etiquette and portraiture. This kind of legitimation - self-legitimation - has been overlooked in an age which is concerned principally with how government can be justified in the eyes of its citizens. In this book, Rodney Barker argues that at least as much time is spent by rulers legitimating themselves in their own eyes, and cultivating their own sense of identity, as is spent in trying to convince ordinary subjects. Once this dimension of ruling is taken into account, a far fuller understanding can be gained of what rulers are doing when they rule. It can also open the way to a more complete grasp of what subjects are doing, both when they obey and when they rebel.

ISBN: 9780511490163 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1110889
Political leadership
--Psychological aspects.

LC Class. No.: JC330.3 / .B33 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 303.3/4

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