national parliament cannot, without undermining its own legitimacy, allow the results of a constitutional referendum to be …

(over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious …

legitimacy of organizational structure. To this end, we design a laboratory experiment in which we exogenously manipulate the … organizational structure in a way that leaves the incentives of all individuals unaffected, but changes the perceived legitimacy of … incentive effects and that the observed changes are significantly associated with changes in perceived legitimacy. …

The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that … explanation of the positive relationship between economic development, education, and democratization, and of the negative … relationship between inequality and democratization. Furthermore, we obtain new insights on the resources-curse hypothesis and on …

instruments such as repression, redistribution, and gradual democratization. Section 5 reviews models of dynamic games in resource …