...Hope Bastian The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded a crisis of legitimacy for Cuba’s first leader of the post-Castro era. The initial pandemic response, relying on lockdowns, was effective but worsened the country’s economic problems. Then a wave of infections driven by a new variant of the virus...

..., and the Ukrainian response had been weak and divided. Since then, Ukraine has strengthened its institutions by building political legitimacy and the capacity of its armed forces, cultivating national unity, and obtaining more international support. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022...

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... Russia Vladimir Putin protesters power legitimacy liberals leftists authoritarian nationalism decline 251 Recent developments in Russia demonstrate that the society is awakening, and that the country sooner or later will face a moment of truth, as it did twice in the past century when it had...

... Catharin Dalpino Southeast Asia Myanmar Philippines Thailand authoritarianism democratization performance legitimacy Aung San Suu Kyi Thaksin Shinawatra 235 As Southeast Asian democracies mature, the pressure of performance legitimacy is gradually moving politics from personalities...