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| List of Figures page | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Latin American Public Opinion Project | |
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| Background to the 2004 Survey | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Legitimacy Puzzles | |
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| Prior Research on Legitimacy | |
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| Legitimacy's Structure | |
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| Legitimacy's Sources | |
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| Legitimacy's Effects | |
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| Legitimacy in Costa Rica | |
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| A Pilot Research Project: The 2002 Survey | |
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| Discussion and Plan of This Book | |
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| The Structure of Legitimacy | |
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| The Data: The 2004 Eight-Nation Survey | |
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| Variable Selection | |
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| Findings: The Structure of Legitimacy | |
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| Dimensional Structure | |
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| Relationships among Dimensions | |
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| Relative Levels of Support | |
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| National Patterns of Legitimacy | |
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| Conclusions and Measurement Decisions: Our Key Variables | |
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| Countries in the Study | |
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| The Eight Nations - Common Features | |
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| Key Differences among the Eight Countries | |
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| The Eight Nations - Variations on a Theme | |
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| Mexico | |
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| Guatemala | |
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| El Salvador | |
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| Honduras | |
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| Nicaragua | |
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| Costa Rica | |
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| Panama | |
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| Colombia | |
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| The Central Research Question | |
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| The Sources of Political Legitimacy | |
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| Macrosocial Sources of Legitimacy | |
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| Microsocial Sources of Legitimacy | |
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| Demographic Variables | |
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| Personal Experiences and Attitudes | |
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| Results | |
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| Political Community | |
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| Support for Regime Principles | |
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| Support for Regime Institutions | |
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| Evaluation of Regime Performance | |
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| Support for Political Actors | |
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| Support for Local Government | |
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| Discussion and Conclusions | |
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| Legitimacy and Political Participation | |
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| Theories about Legitimacy and Political Participation | |
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| The Measures of Participation | |
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| Analysis and Results: Legitimacy's Effects on Participation | |
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| Voting and Registration | |
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| Partisan and Campaign Activism | |
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| Contacting Public Officials | |
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| Communal Activism | |
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| Civil Society Activism | |
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| Protest Participation | |
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| Discussion and Conclusions | |
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| Legitimacy and Negative Political Capital | |
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| Measuring Negative Political Capital | |
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| Analysis and Results | |
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| Willingness to Accept the Violent Overthrow of an Elected Government | |
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| Support for a Coup d'Etat | |
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| Approval of Confrontational Political Tactics | |
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| Vigilantism | |
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| Discussion and Conclusions | |
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| Legitimacy and Democratic Values | |
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| Legitimacy and Opposition to Authoritarian Rule | |
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| The Perceived Supply of Democracy and Legitimacy | |
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| The Democracy Demand-Supply Gap | |
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| Huntington's Question: Legitimacy, Participation, and Democracy | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Sky Is Not Falling: The Puzzle Solved | |
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| Summary of Findings | |
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| The Structure of Legitimacy | |
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| Comparative Levels of Legitimacy | |
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| Sources of Legitimacy | |
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| Consequences of Legitimacy: Its Impact on Political Participation | |
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| Consequences of Legitimacy: Its Impact on Negative Political Capital | |
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| Consequences of Legitimacy: Its Impact on Support for Democracy | |
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| Implications for the Eight Countries | |
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| What Proportion of Citizens Is Triply Dissatisfied? | |
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| How Do the Triply Dissatisfied Behave and What Are Their Attitudes? | |
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| Solving the Puzzle | |
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| A Final Word | |
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| Supporting Data and Analyses for Chapters 1-5 | |
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| Variables Used in the Analyses | |
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| System-level Performance Measures | |
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| Nonsampling Errors, Sampling Errors, and Design Effects for the Eight-Nation Survey | |
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| Method of Constructing the Legitimacy Factor Scores | |
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| References | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Index | |