Add to ORKGThe road to reforming and rebuilding the legitimacy of a state and its institutions is long and difficult. Elections, even when free and fair, are only a piece of the foundation upon which a state must re-establish trust with citizens and can start to rebuild public services, infrastructure, and its economy
I argue that legitimacy discourses serve a gatekeeping function. They give practitioners telic stand...
Despite the rise of multiparty democracy, many African governments still struggle to control corrupt...
Legitimacy is a contested concept in political science. The question of legitimacy has been addresse...
Within just one year, the world witnessed the collapse of elected governments in Mali, Afghanistan, ...
The international donor community has committed itself to assist in “building effective, legitimate ...
This article engages the debate on state legitimacy and fragility in Africa. It analyses the histori...
The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, the paper analyses how citizens in fifteen African countri...
Are we witnessing a crisis of democratic legitimacy? While citizens may lose trust in political auth...
An increasing amount of research on post-conflict reconstruction has highlighted the central role th...
This article argues for the reorientation of African governments from a model that privileges the ce...
Advocates of democracy and democratically-governed societies believe that a country’s state of devel...
The starting point of any statebuilding discussion is state fragility or state weakness broadly unde...
This article suggests that at national and local levels, the British state is seemingly incapable of...
This thesis investigates what creates legitimacy for national regimes, paying most attention to the ...
The article analyses the sources of local actors’ legitimacy perceptions towards international peace...
I argue that legitimacy discourses serve a gatekeeping function. They give practitioners telic stand...
Despite the rise of multiparty democracy, many African governments still struggle to control corrupt...
Legitimacy is a contested concept in political science. The question of legitimacy has been addresse...
Within just one year, the world witnessed the collapse of elected governments in Mali, Afghanistan, ...
The international donor community has committed itself to assist in “building effective, legitimate ...
This article engages the debate on state legitimacy and fragility in Africa. It analyses the histori...
The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, the paper analyses how citizens in fifteen African countri...
Are we witnessing a crisis of democratic legitimacy? While citizens may lose trust in political auth...
An increasing amount of research on post-conflict reconstruction has highlighted the central role th...
This article argues for the reorientation of African governments from a model that privileges the ce...
Advocates of democracy and democratically-governed societies believe that a country’s state of devel...
The starting point of any statebuilding discussion is state fragility or state weakness broadly unde...
This article suggests that at national and local levels, the British state is seemingly incapable of...
This thesis investigates what creates legitimacy for national regimes, paying most attention to the ...
The article analyses the sources of local actors’ legitimacy perceptions towards international peace...
I argue that legitimacy discourses serve a gatekeeping function. They give practitioners telic stand...
Despite the rise of multiparty democracy, many African governments still struggle to control corrupt...
Legitimacy is a contested concept in political science. The question of legitimacy has been addresse...