This book confronts one of the central questions of political
science: how people choose to accept or not to accept particular
governments. In contrast to the prevailing view that citizens'
decisions about the legitimacy of their governments are strongly
conditioned by political culture and socialization and are hence
largely non-rational, Ronald Rogowski argues that such decisions
may indeed be the product of rational choice. The book proceeds
both from recent work in the theory of voting and constitutional
choice and from the older tradition of contract theory to postulate
that decisions about legitimacy are really choices among
alternative regimes. The author suggests that members of a society
choose among these alternative regimes on the basis of a knowledge
of ethnic and occupational divisions in their society. From these
postulates a general theory is derived, which finds expression in
numerous testable hypotheses. Originally published in 1974. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
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distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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