Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. This book focuses on'democratic deficits', reflecting how far the perceived democratic performance of any state …
Civil conflict and state failure has often been linked to breakdowns in regime legitimacy. Trust in government is a critical element of regime legitimacy and the state's ability to …
This paper examines the relationship between distrust in incumbent government leaders and demand for systemic changes in rural China. It finds that individuals who distrust …
ML Hutchison - Polity, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
Theorists of international conflict argue that territory is an unusually salient issue to states and, by extension, their publics. Comparing competing insights from the “rally-round-the …
EM Trüdinger, U Bollow - Political Trust: Why Context Matters, 2011 - books.google.com
The recent economic crisis is not the only challenge the mature welfare states of Europe are confronted with. Demographic developments and budgetary constraints also put them under …
N Echart, MJ Canel Crespo - Central European Journal of …, 2011 - cejsh.icm.edu.pl
One of the questions to be addressed in public relations is that of how to measure the stakeholders' perceptions of an organization. This paper applies this debate to government …
BS Levitt - Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
What role do Latin Americans expect legislatures to play vis-à-vis the executive? How do expectations shape political trust in a developing democracy like Peru? This article …