Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121908 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
GIGA Working Papers No. 277
Publisher: 
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg
Abstract: 
The analysis using the new Regime Legitimation Expert Survey (RLES) demonstrates that non-democratic rulers in post-Soviet countries use specific combinations of legitimating claims to stay in power. Most notably, rulers claim to be the guardians of citizens' socioeconomic well-being. Second, despite recurrent infringements on political and civil rights, they maintain that their power is rule-based and embodies the will of the people, as they have been given popular electoral mandates. Third, they couple these elements with inputbased legitimation strategies that focus on nationalist ideologies, the personal capabilities and charismatic aura of the rulers, and the regime's foundational myth. Overall, the reliance on these input-based strategies is lower in the western post-Soviet Eurasian countries and very pronounced among the authoritarian rulers of Central Asia.
Subjects: 
authoritarian regimes
claims to legitimacy
adaptation
expert survey
Post-Soviet countries
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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