dc.contributor.author | KRIESI, Hanspeter | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-19T18:00:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-12-19T18:00:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 2013, Vol. 54, No. 4, pp. 609-638 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0032-3470 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1862-2860 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/33990 | |
dc.description.abstract | Against the background of a renewed debate about democratic legitimacy, this essay discusses its conceptualization, its development over time and space, as well as its driving forces. The conceptual discussion leads to a typology of four distinct bases of democratic legitimacy. Tracing their empirical scope and depth shows that democratic values are developing world-wide even in non-democracies, but that they are often shallow and badly understood. For established democracies, the empirical trends are not so much indicative of a continuous erosion of democratic legitimacy, but more compatible with equilibrium models that allow for performance-driven short- or medium term fluctuations of democratic legitimacy around stable equilibrium levels. These levels, in turn, are shifting as a function of long-term cultural trends and exogenous economic shocks like the current economic crisis. | |
dc.language.iso | En | |
dc.publisher | Nomos | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Politische Vierteljahresschrift | |
dc.subject | Democratic legitimacy | |
dc.subject | meaning of democracy | |
dc.subject | satisfaction with democracy | |
dc.subject | trends in democratic legitimacy | |
dc.subject | determinants of democratic legitimacy (institutional, cultural | |
dc.subject | and economic) | |
dc.subject | Social requisites | |
dc.subject | satisfaction | |
dc.subject | institutions | |
dc.subject | support | |
dc.subject | quality | |
dc.title | Democratic legitimacy : is there a legitimacy crisis in contemporary politics? | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.identifier.volume | 54 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 609 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 638 | |
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dc.identifier.issue | 4 | |