legitimacy. It considers the experience of NGOs in three such contexts – Sri Lanka, Nepal and the Occupied Palestinian … Territories (OPT). The paper argues that existing accounts of NGO legitimacy are unhelpful for understanding the dynamic and …

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 …

elections in Palestine, from the point of view of Municipal Council members, especially the municipal elections in Hebron … the most prominent means of mobilizing and guiding voters in Palestine. The field study indicated thact clans and parties … mobilizing and guiding voters in the municipal elections in Palestine. Comparing that effect between the 2005 and 2017 elections …