John A. Booth, Mitchell A. Seligson

The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines citizens' attitudes toward the legitimacy of their political systems and the relationship between political legitimacy and democratic stability.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9780521515894
• ISBN-10: 0521515890
• Artikelnr.: 26105647

Autorenporträt

John A. Booth is Regents Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. In addition to his four coedited volumes and fourteen articles and chapters with this study's coauthor, Mitchell A. Seligson, he is the author of Understanding Central America: Global Forces, Rebellion, and Change (fourth edition 2006 coauthored with Christine J. Wade and Thomas W. Walker); Costa Rica: Quest for Democracy (1998); and The End and the Beginning: The Nicaraguan Revolution (second edition 1985). He has published articles in a wide array of scholarly journals in the United States and Latin America, is an associate editor of International Studies Quarterly, and serves on the editorial board of Latin American Politics and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The legitimacy puzzles
2. The structure of legitimacy
3. Countries in the study
4. The sources of political legitimacy
5. Legitimacy and political participation
6. Legitimacy and negative political capital
7. Legitimacy and democratic values
8. The sky is not falling: the puzzle solved.