%0 Journal Article %1 herbst_legitimate_2006 %A Herbst, Susan %D 2006 %J Political Communication %K classic-work-treatment friedrich intellectual internalist political-communication political-science united-states %N 3 %P 285--290 %R 10.1080/10584600600808653 %T Legitimate Power in a Mediated Age: Revisiting Carl J. Friedrich's Authority, Reason and Discretion %V 23 %X Although scholars of political communication study legitimacy and power consistently, we often overlook older works on the topic from political theory and philosophy that might give us guidance in a mediated age. Friedrich was a contemporary of Lazarsfeld, Merton, and so many of the great 20th-century social scientists we look to as providing the foundations for our field. This essay asks that we go back to Friedrich as well, and to others who found authority to be one of our most complex and important social phenomena.

@article{herbst_legitimate_2006, abstract = {Although scholars of political communication study legitimacy and power consistently, we often overlook older works on the topic from political theory and philosophy that might give us guidance in a mediated age. Friedrich was a contemporary of Lazarsfeld, Merton, and so many of the great 20th-century social scientists we look to as providing the foundations for our field. This essay asks that we go back to Friedrich as well, and to others who found authority to be one of our most complex and important social phenomena.}, added-at = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, author = {Herbst, Susan}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/293abea64dd4dbc84fbbf282f9b0ea716/jpooley}, doi = {10.1080/10584600600808653}, interhash = {6682876b4b0d348b51e53d3a97f68938}, intrahash = {93abea64dd4dbc84fbbf282f9b0ea716}, issn = {1058-4609}, journal = {Political Communication}, keywords = {classic-work-treatment friedrich intellectual internalist political-communication political-science united-states}, month = sep, number = 3, pages = {285--290}, timestamp = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, title = {Legitimate {{Power}} in a {{Mediated Age}}: {{Revisiting Carl J}}. {{Friedrich}}'s {{Authority}}, {{Reason}} and {{Discretion}}}, volume = 23, year = 2006 }