Type | Characteristics | Example |
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Traditional Legitimacy | Built by habit and custom over time; stressing history; strongly institutionalized | Monarch (Queen Elizabeth II) |
Charismatic Legitimacy | Built on the force of ideas and the presence of leader; weakly institutionalized | Revolutionary hero (Vladmir Ilyich Lenin) |
Rational-Legal Legitimacy | Built on rules and procedures and the offices that create and enforce those rules; strongly institutionalized | Elected executive (Donald Trump) |
High Autonomy | Low Autonomy | |
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High Capacity | State is able to fulfill basic tasks with a minimum of public intervention; power highly centralized; strong state.Danger: Too high a level of capacity and autonomy may prevent or undermine democracy. | State is able to fulfill basic tasks, but public plays a direct role in determining policy and is able to limit state power and scope of activity.Danger: State may be unable to develop new policies or respond to new challenges owning to the power of organized opposition. |
Low Capacity | State is able ot fulfill with a minimum of public interference or direct control, but its capacity to fulfill basic tasks is limited.Danger: State is ineffectual, limiting development, and slow development may provoke public unrest. | State lacks the ability to fulfill basic tasks and is subject to direct public control and interference; power highly decentralized among state and nonstate actors; weak state.Danger: Too low a level of capacity and autonomy may lead to internal state failure. |
High Capacity | Low Capacity | |
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High Autonomy | China | Russia |
Low Autonomy | United States | South Africa |
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