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The Mandate of Heaven and Performance Legitimation in Historical and Contemporary China

Dingxin Zhao · American Behavioral Scientist 53(3), 416–433 · 2009

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Dingxin Zhao
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DOI 10.1177/0002764209338800

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TheoryZhao 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.