Carolien van Ham

Dutch politics have long been described as consensual, engineering compromise to work well as a 'decentralized unitary' state. Meer

This volume provides a state-of-the-art assessment of citizens' beliefs in the legitimacy of modern Western democracies, an overview of current explanations of fluctuations in these beliefs (both over-time and cross-national), and a perspective on fruitful future lines of investigation into political legitimacy. Meer