Questionning top/down and bottom/up approaches of legitimacy : stances of actors
We find ourselves in a top/down (bottom/up) dialectic, which can be more or less conflictual, where each actor tries to affirm his position. The general idea of the conference is to analyse the ways in which actors, public or private, individual or collective, demonstrate their legitimacy (their right) to act in various territories – be they at a global level (the State) or at a local level (individuals, local collectivities…) and the arguments put forward to substantiate their positions.
