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Popular legitimacy and the exercise of legal authority: Motivating compliance, cooperation, and engagement.

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Tyler, Tom R., Jackson, Jonathan·2014·Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

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The traditional goal of legal authorities has been to obtain widespread public compliance with the law. Empirical research findings have shown that legitimacy—typically operationalized as the perceived obligation to obey and trust and confidence in the relevant institutions—plays an important role in achieving such compliance. But over time the goals of legal authorities have broadened in 2 ways. First, they increasingly include the desire to motivate willing cooperation, with legal authorities and members of the public working together to produce social order. Second, conceptions of the goals of the legal system have broadened to include the importance of promoting public engagement in communities in efforts to build social, political and economic vitality. Drawing on these broader goals—and building upon recent conceptual advances in the meaning of legitimacy—we report findings from a major new national survey of U.S. citizens. We examine the role that legitimacy plays in achieving each of these goals of law and in defining the policies and practices of the police and courts which influence legitimacy. Importantly, we also consider whether a focus on achieving this broader set of goals leads to a need to reexamine the traditional theoretical conception of legitimacy. Our findings support the utility of a multidimensional conception of legitimacy that differentiates between consent to authority and normative justifiability of power. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved)

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Authors: Tyler, T. R., & Jackson, J.
ORCID: Tyler, Tom R.
Jackson, Jonathan
Venue: Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 2014-02
Volume: 20
Issue: 1
Pages: 78-95
ISSN: 1076-8971 (ISSN-L)
1939-1528
DOI: 10.1037/a0034514
OpenAlex: W3124082667
Cited by: 716
References: 60
Citations by year: 2026: 49 · 2025: 68 · 2024: 77 · 2023: 62 · 2022: 90 · 2021: 93 · 2020: 58 · 2019: 80 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 36 · 2015: 32 · 2014: 10
FWCI: 157.61
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
doi.org
Locations: Psychology Public Policy and Law (publishedVersion)
SSRN Electronic Journal (publishedVersion)
Funders: Yale Law School
New York University
Topics: Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
Social Sciences › Law › Judicial and Constitutional Studies
Social Sciences › Public Administration › Public Policy and Administration Research
Keywords: public legitimacy, legal authority, legal compliance, public cooperation, citizen participation, police practice, judicial practice, social order, institutional trust

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