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Informationen zum Autor 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. Mitchell A. Seligson is the Centennial Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University and a Fellow of the Center for the Americas and of the Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies. He founded and directs the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), which conducts the Americas Barometer surveys that currently cover twenty-two countries in the Americas. He has been a Fulbright Fellow and been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others and has published more than 140 articles, fourteen books, and dozens of monographs. His most recent book is Development and Underdevelopment: The Politics of Global Inequality (fourth edition, 2003, with John Passé Smith). Klappentext This book examines citizens' attitudes toward the legitimacy of their political systems and the relationship between political legitimacy and democratic stability. Zusammenfassung Political scientists have worried about the declining support of citizens for their regimes (legitimacy) but have failed to link it empirically to democratic stability. This book addresses the 'legitimacy puzzle'! using exhaustive empirical analysis of high-quality survey data from eight Latin American nations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
