EDITORIAL
Published on 04 Jun 2026
Editorial: Researching political legitimacy: concepts, theories, methods and empirical studies
doi 10.3389/fpos.2026.1840097
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- Frontiers in Political Science
- Comparative Governance
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- Researching Political Legitimacy: Concepts, Theories, Methods and Empirical Studies
Researching Political Legitimacy: Concepts, Theories, Methods and Empirical Studies
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Published on 09 Jan 2026
Rethinking democratic dissatisfaction: a citizen-centred evaluation of input, throughput, and output legitimacy of the political system
doi 10.3389/fpos.2025.1668402
- 1,801 views
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Published on 08 Dec 2025
Measurement of democratic values: a cross-country comparison with ESS round 10
doi 10.3389/fpos.2025.1612506
- 3,173 views
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Published on 07 Aug 2024
When legitimacy becomes the object of politics: the politicization of political support in European democracies
doi 10.3389/fpos.2024.1363083
- 3,665 views
- 4 citations
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Published on 22 Jul 2024
The relationship between political legitimacy and economic legitimacy: empirical explorations of a novel research approach on legitimacy
doi 10.3389/fpos.2024.1198295
- 11,979 views
- 6 citations
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Published on 10 May 2024
The global development of value orientations, political support and democracy since the 1990s
doi 10.3389/fpos.2024.1323464
- 5,457 views
- 4 citations
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Published on 12 Feb 2024
Measuring political legitimacy in two dimensions: internal and external measures
doi 10.3389/fpos.2024.999743
- 10,597 views
- 5 citations
HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY
Published on 05 Jan 2024
Empirical legitimacy as core of comparative democracy research
doi 10.3389/fpos.2023.1176508
- 5,974 views
- 3 citations
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Published on 05 Jul 2023
Does inequality erode political trust?
doi 10.3389/fpos.2023.1197317
- 12,865 views
- 8 citations
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Published on 28 Oct 2022
Conceptualizing legitimacy: What to learn from the controversies related to an “essentially contested concept”
doi 10.3389/fpos.2022.867756
- 11,100 views
- 18 citations
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Published on 09 Aug 2022
Overselling democracy–claiming legitimacy? The link between democratic pretention, notions of democracy and citizens' evaluations of regimes' democraticness
doi 10.3389/fpos.2022.880709
- 4,739 views
- 10 citations
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Published on 15 Jul 2022
Innovating Empirical Research on Legitimacy: Repertory Grid Analysis
doi 10.3389/fpos.2022.832250
- 2,470 views
- 3 citations
