Legitimacyor
Legitimacyor is a neologism used in political theory to denote a theoretical tool for analyzing and judging the legitimacy of political authority, laws, or policies. It is not an existing institution; rather, it refers to an analytic framework that can be applied to governments, international bodies, or other governing actors to assess their legitimacy.
The term derives from combining legitimacy with the -or suffix, which in English often marks an agent
Usage of legitimacyor spans normative theory and empirical political analysis. Proponents view it as a flexible
See also: political legitimacy, authority, rule of law, social contract, legitimacy in political philosophy.