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 …

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

to diminish corruption through replacement of administrative discretion by rule-based decision making. Strategists should …

We examine whether a corruption scandal in which the incumbent is implicated undermines trust in local government. We … use a novel dataset containing information on local corruption scandals reported in Spain during the period 1999 - 2009 … matching methods to improve the identification of the effect of corruption scandals on trust, comparing municipalities affected …