AP Comparative Government and Politics / Unit 1: Political Systems, Regimes, and Governments
1.9 Sustaining Legitimacy
Notes
Governments maintain legitimacy by providing services, economic growth, nationalism, responding to citizens, and sometimes by controlling media or repressing opposition.
Practice
Social welfare programs can sustain legitimacy by:
Performance.
Authoritarian regimes may use nationalism to:
Rally citizens.
Corruption tends to:
Erodes trust.
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