Parliament and nation-building: Max Weber and the German state

Senigaglia, Cristiana

doi:10.1080/02606755.2014.889364

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“…Soccer's legitimisation story in Australia has also been one of transformation. Senigaglia (2014) outlined that "through the confrontation with Bismarck's personality, Weber also discovered the primary role that a charismatic personality played in making it possible to found and to organize a new state" (p. 93). For the purposes of comparing soccer against Weber's theory, the sport's re-constitution as Football Federation Australia reflects a correlation with the newness of Bismarck's Germany.…”

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“…In particular, Participant 3 noted that Lowy "gave the game instant credibility which no one else could have done … to people outside the game he gave it legitimacy." Senigaglia (2014) outlined, "Weber noticed that a strong charismatic personality helped to enhance the sentiment of unity especially in a young nation. Charisma could compensate for the reliability which in older nations was granted by tradition, or alternatively by a well-functioning system of law and by an efficiently working administration" (p. 86).…”

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“…To take one crucial issue, Weber's views on leadership, bureaucracy and class structure were developed as part of a debate about the future of Germany and the legacy of Bismarck's chancellorship" (Weber, 2009, p. xv). Of the period concerned, Bismarck was Germany's central character and acknowledged by Weber as the state's driving force (Senigaglia, 2014;Eliaeson, 1991;Weber, 1948).…”

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The Legitimisation of Soccer in Australia: A Theoretical Analysis

Harper¹

2019

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Weber's legitimacy theory has been diffused widely throughout the corporate and political context but not to the sporting world. This paper adopts Weber's legitimacy theory to better understand the context of Australian sport, particularly as it relates to soccer's standing in the culture. For the majority of its Australian existence, soccer was not part of the mainstream, and academic and other writing has labelled it illegitimate. However, despite appropriating the illegitimacy label, no theoretical model has been applied to the assertion. Weber's Theory of Legitimacy depicts three types of legitimacy; charismatic, legal/rational and traditional. This qualitative research utilized interview data collected from a purposive sample (N=22) of the influential people who determined soccer's legitimacy as a result of the sport's restructure in 2003, through to the nationally acclaimed triumph of winning the men's Asian Cup in 2015. The data was then compared against Weber's theory to better understand soccer's transformation, showing that Australian soccer was legitimised by the recruitment and leadership of Frank Lowy (charismatic), the intervention of the Federal Government (legal/rational) and the inter-generational growth of the sport's popularity and participant base (traditional). This paper not only attempts to theorise Australian soccer but also raises some important questions regarding Australian soccer studies in general.

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