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The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America by Booth John A.; Seligson Mitchell A. ISBN: 9780521515894

Original price was: £23.87.Current price is: £19.10.

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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition however the dust cover is missing so sold as acceptable. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Political scientists for more than two decades have worried about declining levels of citizens’ support for their regimes (legitimacy) but have failed to empirically link this decline to the survival or breakdown of democracy. This apparent paradox is the “legitimacy puzzle” which this book addresses by examining political legitimacy’s structure sources and effects. With exhaustive empirical analysis of high-quality survey data from eight Latin American nations it confirms that legitimacy exists as multiple distinct dimensions. It finds that one’s position in society education knowledge information and experiences shape legitimacy norms. Contrary to expectations however citizens who are unhappy with their government’s performance do not drop out of politics or resort mainly to destabilizing protest. Rather the disaffected citizens of these Latin American democracies participate at high rates in conventional politics and in such alternative arenas as communal improvement and civil society. And despite regime performance problems citizen support for democracy remains high. These findings resolve the puzzle – citizen actions and values even among the disaffected likely strengthen rather than weaken democratic governments.

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