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 …

This article introduces the concept of indirect speech and shows what it can contribute to understanding "legitimacy … pass the salt?"). Transporting concepts from pragmatics and sociolinguistics, this article argues that legitimacy talk … generalized legitimacy claims. Understanding this double role of legitimacy talk sheds light on otherwise puzzling empirical …

and rethink questions of democratic legitimacy. …

Official A at almost all individual detection levels. This 'legitimacy' effect may help explain why anti-corruption policies …

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 …