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-'''Legitimation''' or '''legitimization''' is the act of providing [[wikt:legitimacy|legitimacy]]. Legitimation in the [[social sciences]] refers to the [[wikt:process|process]] whereby an act, process, or [[ideology]] becomes legitimate by its attachment to [[Norm (sociology)|norms]] and [[values]] within a given [[society]]. It is the process of making something acceptable and normative to a group or [[audience]].+A '''political agenda''' is a set of issues and policies laid out by an [[executive (government)|executive]] or [[Cabinet (government)|cabinet]] in [[government]] that tries to influence current and near-future political news and debate.
-Legitimate power is the right to exercise control over others by virtue of the [[authority]] of one's superior organization position or status.+The political agenda while shaped by government can be influenced by grass-roots support from party activists at events such as a [[party conference]] and can even be shaped by non governmental activist groups which have a political aim.
-==Power and influence==+Governmental organizations such as [[Make Poverty History]] and environmental groups such as [[Greenpeace]] have been able to shape the political agenda at international conferences.
-For example, the legitimation of power can be understood using [[Max Weber]]'s traditional bases of power. In a [[bureaucracy]], people gain legitimate use of power by their positions in which it is widely agreed that the specified person hold authority . There is no inherent right to wield power. For example,a president can exercise power and authority because the position is fully legitimated by society as a whole. +
-In another example, if an individual attempts to convince others that something is "right", they can invoke generally accepted arguments that support their [[Political agenda|agenda]]. [[Advocacy group]]s must legitimate their courses of action based on invoking specific [[social norms]] and values. Invoking these norms and values allows the group to proceed in a rational and coherent manner with the expectation that their subsequent behavior is legitimated by the norms and values which guide their organizations.+
-==Family law==+Increasingly the [[mass media]] can have an effect in shaping the political agenda through its news coverage of news stories. Celebrity chef [[Jamie Oliver]] was able to shape the political agenda by running a series of programs which criticized the quality of school dinners in the [[United Kingdom]]. This led to government action by education secretary [[Ruth Kelly]] to improve the quality of meals which would not have occurred if not for such prominent and vocal criticism.
-Legitimation can also be used as a legal term where a father of a child born out of wedlock becomes the child's legal father. Prior to legitimation, the child is said to be illegitimate. Once a child has been legitimated, he or she is entitled to all of the benefits from that father as he or she would if that man had been married to the child's mother at the time of the child's birth. The father is responsible for providing support to the child and the child is entitled to inherit from the father.+A [[political party]] can be described as "shaping the political agenda" or "setting the political agenda" if its promotion of certain issues gains prominent news coverage, for example at [[election]] time a political party wants to promote its polices and gain prominent news coverage in order to increase its support.
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-==Canon Law==+
-Legitimation is a term in [[Roman Catholic]] [[canon law]] to remove the [[canonical irregularity]] of [[illegitimacy]] for candidates for the priesthood.+
== See also == == See also ==
-* [[Machiavellianism]]+* [[Social influence]]
-* [[Symbolic violence]]+
-* [[Structural abuse]]+
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A political agenda is a set of issues and policies laid out by an executive or cabinet in government that tries to influence current and near-future political news and debate.

The political agenda while shaped by government can be influenced by grass-roots support from party activists at events such as a party conference and can even be shaped by non governmental activist groups which have a political aim.

Governmental organizations such as Make Poverty History and environmental groups such as Greenpeace have been able to shape the political agenda at international conferences.

Increasingly the mass media can have an effect in shaping the political agenda through its news coverage of news stories. Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver was able to shape the political agenda by running a series of programs which criticized the quality of school dinners in the United Kingdom. This led to government action by education secretary Ruth Kelly to improve the quality of meals which would not have occurred if not for such prominent and vocal criticism.

A political party can be described as "shaping the political agenda" or "setting the political agenda" if its promotion of certain issues gains prominent news coverage, for example at election time a political party wants to promote its polices and gain prominent news coverage in order to increase its support.

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