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3. Measuring Legitimacy

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Abstract

When analyzing how we currently measure and assess legitimacy, we found that the process legitimacy is often conflation with democracy , performance legitimacy is often omitted or its importance is minimized even when it is often the most valued type of legitimacy by the population affected by the conflict, and the differentiation between political support and legitimacy, which serves the Western world well, leads us to miss that performance legitimacy, unlike process legitimacy and international recognition, is not exclusive to the state and plays a crucial role in the undermining of new public management and state institution-building processes when leaders work through or are in control of state institutions. The findings also raise concern regarding how we actually measure legitimacy in non- or weakly-democratic non-Western countries, the reliability of the current legitimacy measures, and the implications on how post-conflict development, especially as it relates to building the legitimacy of the state, is undertaken. To fill the void associated with the measurement of performance legitimacy, new means of measuring performance legitimacy are presented.

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Metadaten
Titel
Measuring Legitimacy
verfasst von
Ruby Dagher
Copyright-Jahr
2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67254-6_3