The triadic legitimacy model: Understanding support to disobedient groups

摘要: Abstract In a social-psychological perspective, many scholars have argued that disobedience plays significant role in avoiding the degeneration of authority into autocracy and promoting social change. particular, tripolar model (minority-majority-population) proposed by Mugny (1982) emphasized population for stability or progress every society. Authority may indeed preserve status quo only on grounds its influence large population. Likewise, protesters achieve change influencing involving part their struggles. understanding why people decide to join protest, aim this article is integrate Kelman Hamilton's (1989) analysis legitimacy with influence. The we propose – namely triadic (TLM) explains dialectic between considering both authority's disobedient groups' legitimacies.