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.
Joseph Raz links legitimacy to the justification of political authority. According to Raz, political authority is just a special case of the more general concept of authority (1986, 1995, 2006). He defines authority in relation to a claimâof a person or an agencyâto generate what he calls pre-emptive reasons.