Legitimation Crisis and Resolution Process

A Legitimation Crisis and Resolution Process is a political transformation process that can enable ideological legitimation transitions through authority legitimation foundation erosions and new legitimation establishments.

• AKA: Legitimacy Crisis Cycle Process, Authority Foundation Shift Process, Political Legitimation Transformation Process.
• Context:
  • It can typically emerge from Performance Failure through economic legitimation crisises or military legitimation defeats that undermine regime legitimation credibility.
  • It can typically manifest Ideological Exhaustion through belief legitimation system erosions when official legitimation narratives lose popular legitimation resonance.
  • It can typically accelerate Mass Mobilization through protest legitimation movements that challenge existing legitimation authority claims.
  • It can typically require Alternative Vision through competing legitimation narratives that offer credible legitimation governance models.
  • It can typically resolve through New Institution Building via constitutional legitimation reforms that establish fresh legitimation authority bases.
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  • It can often involve Moral Delegitimation through corruption legitimation exposures or human rights legitimation violations.
  • It can often create Cascade Effect through rapid legitimation collapses across multiple legitimation institutions.
  • It can often generate Legitimacy Competition through rival legitimation claims from different legitimation political actors.
  • It can often produce Transitional Uncertainty through authority legitimation vacuums before new legitimation order consolidation.
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  • It can range from being a Gradual Legitimation Crisis Process to being a Sudden Legitimation Crisis Process, depending on its legitimation erosion speed.
  • It can range from being a Partial Legitimation Crisis Process to being a Total Legitimation Crisis Process, depending on its legitimation institutional scope.
  • It can range from being a Managed Legitimation Resolution Process to being a Chaotic Legitimation Resolution Process, depending on its legitimation transition control level.
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  • It can undermine Economic Performance Legitimacy through development legitimation failures and inequality legitimation increases.
  • It can challenge Traditional Authority Legitimacy through modernization legitimation pressures and social legitimation changes.
  • It can erode Revolutionary Legitimacy through ideological legitimation rigiditys and generational legitimation shifts.
  • It can establish Democratic Legitimacy through electoral legitimation mandates and constitutional legitimation rules.
  • It can create Nationalist Legitimacy through sovereignty legitimation assertions and cultural legitimation revivals.
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• Example(s):
  • Economic Crisis Legitimation Processes, such as:
    • Soviet Collapse Legitimation Crisis Process, undermining communist legitimation through economic stagnation and consumer good shortages.
    • Asian Financial Crisis Legitimation Impact Process, challenging developmental state legitimation through rapid economic contractions.
    • Argentine 2001 Legitimation Crisis Process, destroying neoliberal legitimation consensus through massive unemployment and social dislocations.
  • Moral Authority Legitimation Crisis Processes, such as:
    • Apartheid Delegitimation Process, eroding racial hierarchy legitimation justifications through international condemnations and internal resistances.
    • Cultural Revolution Aftermath Legitimation Process, discrediting Maoist legitimation ideology through violence exposures and economic disasters.
    • Latin American Military Regime Legitimation Crisis Process, undermining authoritarian legitimation rule through human rights violation revelations.
  • Performance-Based Legitimation Crisis Processes, such as:
    • Shah's Iran Modernization Legitimation Failure Process, alienating traditional legitimation constituencys while failing development promises.
    • Eastern Bloc Stagnation Legitimation Process, contrasting socialist legitimation rhetoric with consumer society failures.
    • African One-Party State Legitimation Crisis Process, exposing development model legitimation failures and corruption networks.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Sustained Legitimacy Systems, which maintain stable legitimation authority foundations without significant legitimation crisis.
  • Legitimacy Reinforcement Processes, which strengthen existing legitimation authority claims through successful legitimation adaptations.
  • External Legitimations, which derive authority legitimation support from foreign backing rather than domestic legitimation sources.
• See: Political Legitimacy, Regime Crisis Process, Authority Foundation, Political Transition Process.

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