era to instigate democratization globally. However, despite long-term external pressure through sanctions imposed by the … enjoy strong claims to legitimacy and have only limited linkages to the sanction sender. …

the relative importance of various sources of legitimacy as they shift over time, as well as on their inherent dilemmas … postrevolutionary regime through economic performance, nationalism, ideology, culture, governance, and democracy. At the same time, the …-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 …

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

Benin, a low-income West African country that underwent a fairly successful democratization process in the early 1990s. It … its extractive capacities since democratization. However, the effect of democratization has been largely indirect, while …

, and this paper engages in a preliminary analysis of their effects on democracy and peace. Theoretically, particularistic … implementation. -- Sub-Saharan Africa ; party bans ; ethnicity ; conflict ; democracy … untersucht und der vorliegende Artikel unternimmt eine vorläufige Analyse ihrer Auswirkungen auf Demokratie und Frieden …