This book examines citizens' attitudes toward the legitimacy of their political systems and the relationship between political legitimacy and democratic stabili

Offers a new theory of regime support to explain why citizen support for regimes does not always match policy performance.

Explaining Support for Populism in Contemporary Latin America investigates the stronghold that populism exerts on citizens in the developing world. More specifi

Latin American Political Culture: Public Opinion and Democracy presents a genuinely pan-Latin American examination of the region’s contemporary political cult

The new edition of this classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of legitimacy as applied to political systems. Now addressing the issu