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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 77-94 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | European political science review |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 4 Dec 2020 |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 2021 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Abstract
Governments routinely justify why the regime over which they preside is entitled to rule. These claims to legitimacy are both an expression of and shape of how a rule is being exercised. In this paper, we introduce new expert-coded measures of regime legitimation strategies (RLS) for 183 countries in the world from 1900 to 2019. Country experts rated the extent to which governments justify their rule based on performance, the person of the leader, rational-legal procedures, and ideology. They were also asked to qualify the ideology of the regime. 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. 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.
Keywords
- expert survey, legitimacy, legitimation strategies, populism
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)
- Sociology and Political Science
- Social Sciences(all)
- Political Science and International Relations
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In: European political science review, Vol. 13, No. 1, 02.2021, p. 77-94.
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T1 - Claiming the right to rule
T2 - Regime legitimation strategies from 1900 to 2019
AU - Tannenberg, Marcus
AU - Bernhard, Michael
AU - Gerschewski, Johannes
AU - Lührmann, Anna
AU - Von Soest, Christian
N1 - Funding Information: Acknowledgments. For their helpful comments, we thank Anja Neundorf, participants in the 2019 V-Dem conference, and three anonymous reviewers. This project was supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Grant M13-0559:1, PI: Staffan I. Lindberg); the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (Grant 2013.0166, PI: Staffan I. Lindberg); the European Research Council (Grant 724191, PI: Staffan I. Lindberg); and internal grants from the University of Gothenburg.
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N2 - Governments routinely justify why the regime over which they preside is entitled to rule. These claims to legitimacy are both an expression of and shape of how a rule is being exercised. In this paper, we introduce new expert-coded measures of regime legitimation strategies (RLS) for 183 countries in the world from 1900 to 2019. Country experts rated the extent to which governments justify their rule based on performance, the person of the leader, rational-legal procedures, and ideology. They were also asked to qualify the ideology of the regime. 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. 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.
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