...Kristiina Silvan Who does a personalist authoritarian ruler designate as their successor, and what makes the transition of presidency to them peaceful in the short term? This article argues that these questions can be fruitfully approached from the perspective of political legitimacy, thus...

... insufficient to legitimize a leader’s rule. This raises the question of how elections and legitimacy interact. Under what conditions are elections sufficient to legitimate rule, and in what cases are they insufficient? Under what circumstances do non-legal means of changing rulers gain popular legitimacy...

...—in the later published texts. The research note suggests that in the context of the early 1990s, these editorial efforts were made to restore the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party by highlighting Deng’s image as a pragmatic reformer, maintaining Jiang Zemin’s position as the core of the new leadership...

...Xiaoguang Wang This article explores a recent tendency in the official Chinese discourse on nationalism—the government more actively employs Chinese achievements in science and technology to boost national pride and regime legitimacy. This “techno-turn” focuses on China’s construction...

... Ideology Nation-building Legitimacy Nation Minority Kazakhstan Keywords: Non-democratic regime Ideology Nation-building Legitimacy ommunist context ned state-building. r with the Russian an-speaking group radicalization, the (2009) census, 74 ever, the Russian- iency. Russian, the official language...

... Crimea Barack Obama Masculinity Gender Legitimacy Domestic politics Foreign policy e Rus jacke rch 2 media en tra f Stali eratio ed ov cult of personality is debatable. As Cassiday and Johnson (2013, 48e49) write, elements of satire and the presence of both d Soviet leaders. the sense in which...

... civil society in Russia. © 2014 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California Public Chamber Civil society Legitimacy Power Russia Democratization nt ye Ghod feder ion in ontex he...

...Alexander Dukalskis; Zachary Hooker This article attempts to analyze the construction and maintenance of political legitimacy in North Korea through the lens of its state-produced films. After classifying North Korea’s regime as totalitarian, we then discuss the strategies of legitimation available...

...Michael L. Smith This article examines the relationship between social justice norms and the perceived legitimacy of the social stratification system in the Czech Republic. Despite the fact that meritocratic values have remained the dominant part of ideology in the Czech Republic throughout...

...Eugene Huskey This article argues that Russia has a peculiar form of authoritarianism that exhibits pronounced technocratic features. The analysis places in a comparative frame the bases of regime legitimacy and the paths to political, administrative, and economic power in Russia. By locating...

... of the University of California. Keywords: Lenin; Stalin; Putin; Foreign threat; Anti-Americanism; Legitimacy; Regime; Encirclement; Propaganda; Color revolutions Democracy in Russia Introduction: a foreign threat to the regime The interaction between domestic and foreign policy has been an issue for political...

... of California German Democratic Republic Communist elites Legitimacy Political crisis Economic crisis Dissent Communist and Post-Communist Studies 32 (1999) 127 138 The GDR on the eve 1 Thomas A. Baylis* Division of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX...