Definition of harm. 1 : physical or mental damage : injury the amount of harm sustained by the boat during the storm.
Introduction / Definition: Legitimacy is commonly defined in political science and sociology as the belief that a rule, institution, or leader has the right to govern.
(September 2011) In politics, a mandate is the authority granted by a constituency to act as its representative. The concept of a government having a legitimate mandate to govern via the fair winning of a democratic election is a central idea of representative democracy. New governments who attempt to introduce policies that they did not make public during an election campaign are said not to have a legitimate mandate to implement such policies.