introduced in order to enhance regime legitimacy but suggests that they may spur democratization by the rise of accountability as … a conditioning factor of this legitimacy and by electoral 'habituation' as a transition to full democratic commitment …

Conventional wisdom maintains that the Chinese Communist Party is upheld by performance-based legitimacy. Yet what … about procedural legitimacy? Analyzing national survey data on China, this study finds that governance procedures affect the … legitimacy of subnational levels of governing, if not necessarily that of the national level. Good governance contributes to …