Legitimacy Run-Out Process

A Legitimacy Run-Out Process is a legitimacy depletion phenomenon that occurs when a legitimacy authoritarian regime exhausts its legitimacy performance-based justification and must rely increasingly on legitimacy coercive control.

• AKA: Performance Legitimacy Exhaustion, Authoritarian Legitimacy Crisis.
• Context:
  • It can typically follow Legitimacy Economic Slowdown after legitimacy growth-based rule.
  • It can typically accelerate Legitimacy Popular Disillusionment through legitimacy expectation failure.
  • It can typically erode Legitimacy Social Contract between legitimacy regime and legitimacy population.
  • It can typically increase Legitimacy Regime Vulnerability to legitimacy external shocks.
  • It can typically diminish Legitimacy Elite Cohesion around legitimacy regime survival.
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  • It can often trigger Legitimacy Repression Escalation as legitimacy substitute mechanism.
  • It can often precede Legitimacy Regime Crisis through legitimacy support erosion.
  • It can often generate Legitimacy Ideological Rigidity to compensate for legitimacy performance failure.
  • It can often produce Legitimacy Scapegoating Campaigns against legitimacy internal enemies.
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  • It can range from being a Gradual Legitimacy Run-Out Process to being a Rapid Legitimacy Run-Out Process, depending on its legitimacy depletion rate.
  • It can range from being a Partial Legitimacy Run-Out Process to being a Complete Legitimacy Run-Out Process, depending on its legitimacy erosion scope.
  • It can range from being a Reversible Legitimacy Run-Out Process to being an Irreversible Legitimacy Run-Out Process, depending on its legitimacy recovery potential.
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  • It can result from Comparative Modernization Dilemma when legitimacy modernization promises fail.
  • It can be sustained by Authoritarian Collective Action Problem preventing legitimacy regime renewal.
  • It can culminate in Political Bank Run when legitimacy threshold is crossed.
  • It can be analyzed through Archive-Driven Historical Analysis of legitimacy regime documents.
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• Example(s):
  • Legitimacy Historical Cases, such as:
    • Imperial Legitimacy Cases, such as:
      • Late Roman Empire Legitimacy Run-Out Process (3rd-5th century) following legitimacy debasement crisis undermining legitimacy imperial authority.
      • Ming Dynasty Legitimacy Run-Out Process (1620s-1644) after legitimacy fiscal collapse eroded legitimacy mandate of heaven.
      • Spanish Empire Legitimacy Run-Out Process (1808-1825) when legitimacy napoleonic invasion triggered legitimacy colonial independence.
    • Monarchical Legitimacy Cases, such as:
      • French Monarchy Legitimacy Run-Out Process (1770s-1789) as legitimacy financial crisis destroyed legitimacy bourbon credibility.
      • Russian Tsarism Legitimacy Run-Out Process (1905-1917) through legitimacy military defeats and legitimacy economic failures.
      • Iranian Monarchy Legitimacy Run-Out Process (1960s-1979) when legitimacy oil wealth inequality undermined legitimacy pahlavi legitimacy.
  • Legitimacy 20th Century Cases, such as:
    • Communist Legitimacy Cases, such as:
      • Soviet Union Legitimacy Run-Out Process (1970s-1991) following legitimacy brezhnev stagnation after legitimacy post-war reconstruction.
      • Eastern Europe Legitimacy Run-Out Process (1980s-1989) experiencing legitimacy consumer goods shortages despite legitimacy socialist promises.
      • Yugoslavia Legitimacy Run-Out Process (1980s-1992) combining legitimacy hyperinflation crisis with legitimacy ethnic tensions.
    • African Decolonization Legitimacy Cases, such as:
      • Ghana Nkrumah Legitimacy Run-Out Process (1960s-1966) when legitimacy economic mismanagement eroded legitimacy independence euphoria.
      • Congo Mobutu Legitimacy Run-Out Process (1980s-1997) as legitimacy kleptocracy exhausted legitimacy authenticité ideology.
    • Latin American Military Legitimacy Cases, such as:
      • Argentina Junta Legitimacy Run-Out Process (1976-1983) after legitimacy falklands defeat shattered legitimacy military prestige.
      • Brazil Military Legitimacy Run-Out Process (1970s-1985) when legitimacy debt crisis ended legitimacy economic miracle.
  • Legitimacy Contemporary Cases, such as:
    • Post-Communist Legitimacy Cases, such as:
      • Russia 1990s Legitimacy Run-Out Process during legitimacy shock therapy destroying legitimacy democratic credibility.
      • Ukraine Pre-Maidan Legitimacy Run-Out Process (2010-2014) through legitimacy corruption scandals eroding legitimacy electoral mandate.
    • Middle Eastern Legitimacy Cases, such as:
      • Tunisia Ben Ali Legitimacy Run-Out Process (2000s-2011) as legitimacy youth unemployment overwhelmed legitimacy economic stability.
      • Syria Assad Legitimacy Run-Out Process (2011-present) when legitimacy drought crisis triggered legitimacy civil uprising.
      • Iran Islamic Republic Legitimacy Run-Out Process (2010s-present) facing legitimacy generational alienation from legitimacy revolutionary ideals.
    • Latin American Populist Legitimacy Cases, such as:
      • Venezuela Chavismo Legitimacy Run-Out Process (2013-present) after legitimacy oil price collapse destroyed legitimacy socialist redistribution.
      • Nicaragua Ortega Legitimacy Run-Out Process (2018-present) when legitimacy pension reforms sparked legitimacy mass protests.
    • African Resource Curse Legitimacy Cases, such as:
      • Zimbabwe Mugabe Legitimacy Run-Out Process (2000s-2017) through legitimacy hyperinflation crisis despite legitimacy liberation credentials.
      • Sudan Bashir Legitimacy Run-Out Process (2010s-2019) as legitimacy bread price increases triggered legitimacy revolution demands.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Democratic Legitimacy Renewal, which allows democratic electoral correction through democratic peaceful transition.
  • Traditional Authority Persistence, which relies on traditional legitimacy sources rather than performance legitimacy.
  • Legitimacy Innovation Success, which generates legitimacy new sources through legitimacy institutional reform.
• See: Political Legitimacy, Authoritarian Durability, Performance Legitimacy, Regime Crisis, Comparative Modernization Dilemma, Authoritarian Collective Action Problem, Political Bank Run.

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