This paper seeks to explain how courts in new and vulnerable democracies acquire legitimacy and thus become credible … Benin (CCB), demonstrating that governmental appointment policies have had an important impact on the court’s legitimacy …

factor in sustaining the legitimacy of Communist party rule. Ideological change is conceived as a path-dependent process … legitimacy crises compared to other authoritarian regimes. -- Institutional change ; political legitimacy ; ideology ; Socialism …

the relative importance of various sources of legitimacy as they shift over time, as well as on their inherent dilemmas …-institutional approach. -- regime legitimacy ; China ; Chinese Communist Party ; performance ; nationalism ; ideology ; culturalism …

In the debate on authoritarian resilience, the importance of persuasion to regime legitimacy has been widely …) model of legitimacy, we contend that the ruling elites in authoritarian regimes propagate official frames in a continuous … in recent years reemphasized persuasion as a means of reproducing legitimacy. We then apply our theory in an analysis of …

; legitimacy claims ; US military support ; anti-government protests ; Arab Uprisings …

kind of performance-based legitimacy. This turn to a more responsive mode of governance has been driven by the findings of …

While traditional theories of legitimacy have focused on the nation-state, authoritarian regimes and democracies alike …

enjoy strong claims to legitimacy and have only limited linkages to the sanction sender. …