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Reconstructing our Understanding of State Legitimacy in Post-conflict States

Building on Local Perspectives

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Authors:
  1. Ruby Dagher

    1. School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottowa, Canada

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  • The first book to focus on performance legitimacy in the context of conflict and post-conflict development
  • Provides an exploration of the non-exclusive nature of performance legitimacy and thus the current inadequacy of legitimacy indicators and measurements
  • Proposes a new approach for legitimacy, post-conflict institution-building and transition

Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Why Such a Fuss About Performance Legitimacy

      • Ruby Dagher
      Pages 3-22

  3. A New Way Forward

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Post-Conflict Legitimacy and the Role of Performance Legitimacy

      • Ruby Dagher
      Pages 25-61

    3. Measuring Legitimacy

      • Ruby Dagher
      Pages 63-99

  4. The Reassessment of the Experience of Three Countries Through the Performance Legitimacy Lens

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. The Cracks in the Liberal Peacebuilding and Post-conflict Development Model

      • Ruby Dagher
      Pages 103-117

    3. The Lebanese Experience with Performance Legitimacy

      • Ruby Dagher
      Pages 119-171

    4. Important Lessons from Senegal’s Changing Experience with Performance Legitimacy

      • Ruby Dagher
      Pages 173-212

    5. South Sudan and Its Bloody Experience with Performance Legitimacy

      • Ruby Dagher
      Pages 213-254

  5. What Does This All Mean?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
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    2. Performance Legitimacy and the Impact of Contextual Factors

      • Ruby Dagher
      Pages 257-283

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 285-305
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About this book

This book reassesses performance legitimacy in the context of statebuilding and identifies the paradox between state institution building and state legitimacy by looking at the interplay between state legitimacy and leaders’ legitimacy The author reviews the significant weaknesses associated with the current measures of state legitimacy and uses this to demonstrate the incompatibility of these measurements with the reality faced by conflict and post-conflict countries. The author uses the Performance Legitimacy Theory of Transition framework to demonstrate the potential legitimacy paths that post-conflict countries can embark on and proposes a new approach for building state legitimacy in post-conflict countries. The author also introduces new indicators to measure performance legitimacy that also reflect its non-exclusive nature. Essential reading for students and researchers of Peace and Conflict Studies and especially of post-conflict development, peacebuilding, statebuilding, intervention, and democracy promotion. Also accessible to policy makers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottowa, Canada

    Ruby Dagher

About the author

Ruby Dagher is an Adjunct Professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is also an international development consultant. She has worked in the private sector, the public sector, and academia.

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