governments. Using the random assignment of an innovative election fraud-reducing intervention in Afghanistan, we find that … interventions to support democratic elections. Yet little evidence exists on whether elections enhance the domestic legitimacy of … decreasing electoral misconduct improves multiple survey measures of attitudes toward government, including: (1) whether …

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 …

behalf of higher government authorities. Nevertheless, the author finds that as limited the significance of - and knowledge … 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 …