Legitimacy and post-conflict state-building: the undervalued role of performance legitimacy

Dagher, Ruby

doi:10.1080/14678802.2018.1447860

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“…When enterprises implement economic hedging in the game of great powers, two critical variables, performance legitimation, and particularity legitimation, simultaneously affect the external interaction model of small country enterprises. The first is performance legitimation, which refers to the country or government proving the authority of its rule through economic growth and well-being and using substantial economic gains as a specific indicator to clarify its legitimacy status (Dagher, 2018). For small countries, their performance significantly impacts whether elite groups can win the support and trust of the people.…”

Section: Analytical Framework: Economic Hedging Of Small-state Enterp...mentioning

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Economic Hedging by Small-State Firms in Great Power Strategic Competition: The Case of Malaysian Rail Link (MRL) (2013-2020)

Xinlei

2024

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Existing research on how small (weak) states respond to the geopolitical rivalry of great powers often centers around the hedging strategy, where small states tend to maintain their diplomatic independence by taking non-explicit sides and stances to better safeguard their security and interests in the face of increasing external uncertainty. This paper, however, provides another powerful way of explaining this from the perspective of non-state actors through the changing attitudes and strategies of the Malaysian Rail Link (MRL) in the Malaysia-China East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project. This paper shows that due to the unique nature of firms, small state firms will choose to respond to external great power games with economic hedging, and performance legitimization and particularistic legitimization determine the strength of small states' economic hedging and when firms and the governments they represent choose performance as a way to enhance legitimacy, small state firms will choose to use economic soft hedging as their primary mode of response. Conversely, economic complex hedging is more pronounced when particularistic legitimization is used to enhance legitimacy. The findings of this paper also demonstrate that small state firms have a complex connection with the government. On the one hand, small state firms are the implement and influential representatives of the ruling government's foreign policy, inheriting the government's essential interest pursuits and expectations. On the other hand, the enterprise itself is also a vital interest organization. It will also formulate economic policy according to its own needs. However, the MRL shows that the Malaysian government firmly controls the tiny state firms and is an important tool and instrument for the foreign economic game of the small state government.

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Section: Analytical Framework: Economic Hedging Of Small-state Enterp...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Economic Hedging by Small-State Firms in Great Power Strategic Competition: The Case of Malaysian Rail Link (MRL) (2013-2020)

Xinlei

2024

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“…Likewise, institutional and management scholars discuss ways of repairing “legitimacy gaps.” These include not only strategies to improve performance but also efforts to influence public perceptions and expectations, propagation of certain values, or interpretation of an institutions’ activities and identity (Bridwell-Mitchell & Mezias, 2012; Suchman, 1995). As mentioned above, statebuilding literature particularly considers how legitimation is a matter of supporting democratization and enhancing the capacity of the state to deliver basic goods and services, elections, and meeting the basic needs of citizens (Dagher, 2018; Lemay-Hébert & Mathieu, 2014).…”

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The Legitimation Effects of Peacebuilding and Development Interventions—Strengthening Land Registration in Northern Uganda

Leeuwen

Kobusingye²,

Maiyo

2023

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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Fostering legitimate authority has become a priority of the international peacebuilding and development community, notably in fragile states and conflict-affected settings. Yet, how peacebuilding and development interventions feed into legitimation practices of public authorities remains underexplored, let alone how interveners can strategize on this. Analysis of programs to support land registration in Northern Uganda brings out how interventions not just enhance the legitimacy of targeted authorities. Often unintentionally, they impact on struggles for legitimacy between different state and nonstate authorities and change their relative legitimacy. They do so by redistributing land governance roles and responsibilities; stimulating certain practices of land governance; and contributing to the discussion on legitimacy assessments. The conclusion argues for more sensitivity to legitimation effects of peacebuilding and development interventions.

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“…In other words, unrecognized states’ role as the main ontological security provider is always confronted by internal and external challengers. Ultimately, postconflict settings are characterized by overlapping claims to sovereignty and authority, profound societal divisions, rapidly shifting contextual factors, and multiple legitimacy audiences (see Billerbeck and Gippeck 2017; Coleman 2017; Dagher 2018; Whalan 2017).…”

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Critical Junctures and Ontological Security in Unrecognized States: The Response of Northern Cyprus to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Gülseven

2022

Nationalities Papers

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This article will examine the response of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) to the COVID-19 pandemic from an ontological security approach to illustrate how critical junctures may help de facto states in their quest for status and internal legitimacy. Stressing the pandemic’s role in the reconstruction of political narratives and self-legitimating practices among Turkish Cypriot elites, it sheds light on the effects of this global crisis on domestic power struggles in Northern Cyprus as well as its quasi-foreign relations with its patron state (Turkey), parent state (Republic of Cyprus), and the European Union. The study shows that both nationalist and federalist elites of the de facto entity instrumentalized the pandemic in their legitimation strategies and engaged in opportunistic behavior amid the outbreak. It also reveals how the pandemic enhanced the ontological security of Northern Cyprus while advancing its nationalist leadership’s claims for legitimate authority by enabling state-specific forms of agency and unilateral acts concerning the Cyprus dispute that may jeopardize the resumption of peace talks with Greek Cypriots. Thus, it can be assumed that advanced ontological security of the TRNC is highly volatile given the prospects of further isolation and de-engagement in the post-pandemic era.

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Legitimacy and post-conflict state-building: the undervalued role of performance legitimacy

Cited by 11 publications

References 64 publications

Economic Hedging by Small-State Firms in Great Power Strategic Competition: The Case of Malaysian Rail Link (MRL) (2013-2020)

Economic Hedging by Small-State Firms in Great Power Strategic Competition: The Case of Malaysian Rail Link (MRL) (2013-2020)

The Legitimation Effects of Peacebuilding and Development Interventions—Strengthening Land Registration in Northern Uganda

Critical Junctures and Ontological Security in Unrecognized States: The Response of Northern Cyprus to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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