Testing a Model of Socio-Political Legitimacy

Abstract

As part of the transformation of the State, which demonstrates the loss of its prominence in public safety, socio-political legitimacy involves psychosocial dimensions that explain the relationship between rulers and the ruled on the threshold of the public peace. This study, thus, aimed to characterize and test a model. For this effect, it carried out a theoretical, conceptual and empirical review in order to make assumptions about this factor and to accept reflected relationships between the perceptual factor and the indicators. A nonrandom sample of 330 residents of a town in Mexico was analyzed. In reference to the state of knowledge, the results were discussed in order to anticipate scenarios of socio-political propaganda favoring the policy on combating violence.