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The achilles heel of democracy? A macro cross-national assessment of the correlates of state legitimacy
Social Science Research ( IF 2.617 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-21 , DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102574
Andrew Dawson 1
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This study investigates the macro-level correlates of subjective state legitimacy using a cross-national panel dataset of 82 countries from 1989 to 2014. It conducts the first comprehensive multivariate assessment of the effect of democracy, while also evaluating the effects of the nationalist principle of ethnic self-rule and state endogeneity (i.e. colonialism), net of controls. The findings suggest that—contrary to certain theories and earlier empirical studies—democracy has a strong and negative association with legitimacy, which is robust across different measures of democracy and model specifications. The results also provide some evidence that adhering to the nationalist principle is related to subjective state legitimacy, while suggesting that state endogeneity is not. Moreover, democracy is the strongest correlate of subjective state legitimacy whose effect becomes stronger—rather than weaker, as some predict—in the presence of controls. Preliminary analyses provide some support to the claim that the freedom of expression contributes to the negative democracy/state legitimacy relationship.



中文翻译:

民主的致命弱点?国家合法性相关性的宏观跨国评估

本研究使用 1989 年至 2014 年 82 个国家的跨国面板数据集调查主观国家合法性的宏观相关性。它对民主的影响进行了首次全面的多变量评估,同时也评估了民族主义原则的影响。民族自治和国家内生性(即殖民主义),没有控制。研究结果表明 - 与某些理论和早期的实证研究相反 - 民主与合法性有着强烈的负相关关系,这在不同的民主衡量标准和模型规范中都是稳健的。结果还提供了一些证据,表明坚持民族主义原则与主观的国家合法性有关,而国家内生性则不然。而且,民主是主观国家合法性最强的相关因素,在控制存在的情况下,其影响会变得更强——而不是像一些人预测的那样更弱。初步分析为言论自由促成消极民主/国家合法性关系的说法提供了一些支持。

更新日期:2021-05-25
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