The Psychology of Legitimacy: Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations

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Connecting Work—Family Policies to Supportive Work Environments (2009, background): “Increased commitment, attachment, and identification with the organization have also been suggested as positive outcomes associated with individuals’ perceptions of legitimacy (Elsbach, 2001).”
Lay Theories and Intergroup Relations (2006, background): “In addition, perceivers might hold onto a lay theory that does not serve their ingroup interests because the lay theory is prevalent in their culture and, hence, difficult to reject (e.g. see Jost & Major, 2001).”
Complementary justice: effects of "poor but happy" and "poor but honest" stereotype exemplars on system justification and implicit activation of the justice motive. (2003, background): “Lane (1959) theorized that holding complementary, offsetting stereotypic beliefs helped people (especially the poor) to tolerate and justify economic inequality.”
Multicultural recognition and ethnic minority rights: A social identity perspective (2006, background): “Increasingly, more attention is given to processes of legitimisation in social relations such as the role of ideologies (see Jost & Major, 2001) and lay theories (Levy, Chin, & Hong, 2006).”