Political trust and support for the rule of law are important for sustaining stability in democracies.
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President Yoweri Museveni’s effort to stop evictions didn’t address underlying problems, but it enhanced his political legitimacy.
Economic crises since the 1990s led to a sharp rise in Zimbabwe’s informal economy, hence some call the country a nation of vendors.
2 scholars analyzed more than 1 million official Tweets from members of Congress − and found a lot of antidemocratic language that damages the very institution the politicians belong to.
With their upcoming decision concerning whether Donald Trump can appear on the Colorado ballot, Supreme Court justices face the possibility that the ruling could be ignored or defied by the public.
Legitimacy is an essential part of comprehending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its intractable nature.
As a powerful branch of government, the Supreme Court has enormous power over public policy only if defendants comply with its rulings.
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, will it be out of step with America?
A collapse in political legitimacy means people think the normal rules don’t apply anymore, making the world a more difficult and even dangerous place for all of us.
Has Europe’s last dictator finally gone too far?
When people don’t trust the government, the media or police, they are less inclined to play by the rules and more likely to lash out violently.
While Donald Trump’s election may seem to US voters to present unprecedented questions of legitimacy, such questions were first asked more than a century ago, in an election that turned on bicycles.
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Professor of Political Science, Trinity College
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law (PPEL), University of Richmond
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh