The Mandate of Heaven and Performance Legitimation in Historical and Contemporary China
Dingxin Zhao — The Mandate of Heaven and Performance Legitimation in Historical and Contemporary China (2009)Dingxin Zhao · 2009 · Article · AbstractTheorySource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-1064 · as of 2026-10-30 · about: Performance legitimacy · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Zhao argues that performance legitimacy has been central in Chinese history and politics but is intrinsically unstable, because concrete promises produce immediate crisis when unfulfilled, and predicts a major crisis for the current government when the economy cools unless it builds legal-electoral legitimacy.”
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2The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century
Samuel P. Huntington — The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991)Samuel P. Huntington · 1991 · Book · The performance dilemmaEvidence that contradicts
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