State legitimacy: An updated dataset for 52 countries |
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| Authors: | BRUCE GILLEY |
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| Affiliation: | Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University, USA |
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| Abstract: | A previous article in this journal presented a conceptualisation of the political legitimacy of the state and its operationalisation for 72 countries c. 2000. This article provides an updated dataset of state legitimacy for 52 countries c. 2008 using the same conceptualisation. It presents a brief discussion of the comparative results of the two datasets. |
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| Keywords: | legitimacy consent political support political trust satisfaction rule of law |
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