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This chapter discusses concepts and theories of legitimacy and the English-language literature on the subject of legitimacy in China. The first part discusses Western theories of legitimacy — including normative legitimacy, empirical legitimacy, and critical legitimacy — and their limits in analyzing the case of China. The second part of this chapter reviews regime legitimacy in China from the Western perspective. It shows that ideology is a crucial topic that does not receive sufficient attention from the English-language literature on the subject of regime legitimacy in China.
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Zeng, J. (2016). Popular Legitimacy from the Western Perspective. In: The Chinese Communist Party’s Capacity to Rule. Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-53368-5_3
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