The Right to Rule: How States Win and Lose Legitimacy

Bruce Gilley

March, 2009
Cloth, 336 pages, 15 illus., 15 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-13872-7
$34.50 / £24.00

List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes

Introduction

1. The Empirical Study of Legitimacy

2. Sources of Legitimacy

3. Change Over Time: Legitimation

4. A Historical Case: Uganda After 1986

5. The Consequences of Legitimacy

Conclusion: Widening Horizons

Notes

References

Index

Related Subjects

• International Affairs
• Political Theory

About the Author

Bruce Gilley is an assistant professor of political science at Portland State University. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Democracy and is the author of China's Democratic Future: How It Will Happen and Where It Will Lead; Tiger on the Brink: Jiang Zemin and China's New Elite; Model Rebels: The Rise and Fall of China's Richest Village; and, with Andrew J. Nathan, China's New Rulers: The Secret Files.

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