While traditional theories of legitimacy have focused on the nation-state, authoritarian regimes and democracies alike seek legitimation not only in the domestic realm but also from international sources. This paper argues that the degree to, and the form in, which they do so depend on the...

The "Cuban safety-valve theory" explains sustained survival of Cuban socialism in part through the high levels of emigration, following Hirschman's model of "exit' undermining 'voice". The article argues that this remains insufficient in two important ways. Taking a closer look at the crisis...

Few political transformations have attacked social inequalities more thoroughly than the 1959 Cuban Revolution. However, as the survey data in this paper shows, 60 years on, structural inequalities which echo the pre-revolutionary socio-ethnic hierarchies are returning. While official Cuban...