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    Challenging the Underlying Assumptions of Development

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  • Reconstructing our Understanding of State Legitimacy in Post-conflict States

    Building on Local Perspectives

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    This book reassesses performance legitimacy in the context of statebuilding and identifies the paradox between state institution building and state legitimacy by looking at the interplay between state legitimacy and leaders’ legitimacy The author reviews the significant weaknesses associated with the current measures of state legitimacy and uses this to demonstrate the incompatibility of these ... Read more

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