revolutionary legislators often used specific language in the new laws as a vehicle of legitimacy, i.e. to make the people comply … legitimacy. The revolutionary strategy used propagandistic legislation, written in the language of lay people, which urged them … law written in familiar legal language, which in turn implied rational/legal legitimacy. The second strategy had already …

It is commonplace that a sovereign state is a prerequisite to democracy. But not all states are alike, each having … conducive to democracy or autocracy? How do different types of stateness and their dynamics relate to different trajectories of … importance of structural and procedural (actor-oriented) factors in democratization and democratic consolidation, we address the …

This paper analyzes the relationship between support of democracy and attitudes to human rights: in particular, support … democracy and gender equality is very low in Arab countries. There is a group of people in the region who support both democracy … characterized by higher education and social status. A substantial number of poorly educated males express support for democracy …

provide consistent findings, arguments currently under discussion vary from “stateness first” (democratization only after … effective state-building) to “building or rebuilding the ship of state while at sea” (state-building and democratization as … complements). Several studies reveal a J-curve link connecting autocracy and democracy to levels of state capacity, implying that …