Dimensions of legitimacy / Lynn White -- Political legitimacy in Malaysia, regime performance in the Asian context / Bruce Gilley -- The basis of political legitimacy in late-authoritarian Taiwan / David Dahua Yang -- Political trust in China: Forms and causes / Zhengxu Wang -- Nationalism and the problem of political legitimacy in China / Jungmin Seo -- Political legitimacy in reform China / Yongnian Zheng, Liang Fook Lye -- Legitimating rhetorics and factual economies in a South Korean development dispute / Robert Oppenheim -- Policy legitimacy as a determinant of policy outputs, Japan's case / Takayuki Sakamoto
Summary
This book documents the bases for a new view of legitimacy in general and in various parts of Asia, including China, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. The authors see legitimacy anywhere as always partial, rather than total, and somewhat measurable
