Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture

National state political system constitution legitimation domination political strategy procedure measurement methodology achievement performance cult of personality charisma populism ideology rationality legality Our measure of regime legitimation performs well in all these three validation tests, most notably, the construct validity exercise which explores commonly held beliefs about leadership under populist rule. Marcus Tannenberg is a PhD candidate at the V-Dem Institute at the. The main purposes of this paper are to present the conceptual basis for the measure, describe the data, and provide convergent, content, and construct validity tests for new measures. Anja Neundorf, Sofia Axelsson, Anna Persson and participants in the 2017 V-Dem.

They were also asked to qualify the ideology of the regime. Country experts rated the extent to which governments justify their rule based on performance, the person of the leader, rational-legal procedures, and ideology. In this paper, we introduce new expert-coded measures of regime legitimation strategies (RLS) for 183 countries in the world from 1900 to 2019. These claims to legitimacy are both an expression of and shape of how a rule is being exercised. Governments routinely justify why the regime over which they preside is entitled to rule. In this paper, we introduce new expert-coded measures of regime legitimation strategies (RLS) for 183 countries i.

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