• Dimensions of Legitimacy - L White; Political Legitimacy in Malaysia: Regime Performance in the Asian Context - B Gilley; The Basis of Political Legitimacy in Late-Authoritarian Taiwan - D D Yang; Political Trust in China: Forms and Causes - Z Wang; Nationalism and the Problem of Political Legitimacy in China - J Seo; Political Legitimacy in Reform China: Between Economic Performance and Democratization - Y Zheng and L F Lye; Legitimating Rhetorics and Factual Economies in a South Korean Development Dispute - R Oppenheim; Policy Legitimacy as a Determinant of Policy Outputs: Japan's Case - T Sakamoto

"Most of the articles are also well worth reading." Pacific Affairs "A book that attempts to make sense of the changing nature and importance of legitimacy in East Asia is, therefore, timely and welcome, Legitimacy does precisely that ... this book will be of interest to scholars working on East Asian politics in particular, and on the nature of legitimacy more generally." The China Review "One of the strengths of this book is that contributors in the book study legitimacy in different countries that are authoritarian (China and Taiwan before democratization), semi-democratic (Malaysia) and democratic (South Korea and Japan). Thus the book presents studies and information on legitimacy issues in a truly comparative fashion ... Another strength of the book is that authors took different yet appropriate methodological approaches including systematic quantitative and interpretative methods to study the issue of legitimacy." Professor Yang Zhong University of Tennessee "This is a courageous attempt on the part of several authors to put aside the hegemonic liberal democratic narrative and grapple with this very complicated concept." The China Journal

• Dimensions of Legitimacy - L White; Political Legitimacy in Malaysia: Regime Performance in the Asian Context - B Gilley; The Basis of Political Legitimacy in Late-Authoritarian Taiwan - D D Yang; Political Trust in China: Forms and Causes - Z Wang; Nationalism and the Problem of Political Legitimacy in China - J Seo; Political Legitimacy in Reform China: Between Economic Performance and Democratization - Y Zheng and L F Lye; Legitimating Rhetorics and Factual Economies in a South Korean Development Dispute - R Oppenheim; Policy Legitimacy as a Determinant of Policy Outputs: Japan's Case - T Sakamoto

"Most of the articles are also well worth reading." Pacific Affairs "A book that attempts to make sense of the changing nature and importance of legitimacy in East Asia is, therefore, timely and welcome, Legitimacy does precisely that ... this book will be of interest to scholars working on East Asian politics in particular, and on the nature of legitimacy more generally." The China Review "One of the strengths of this book is that contributors in the book study legitimacy in different countries that are authoritarian (China and Taiwan before democratization), semi-democratic (Malaysia) and democratic (South Korea and Japan). Thus the book presents studies and information on legitimacy issues in a truly comparative fashion ... Another strength of the book is that authors took different yet appropriate methodological approaches including systematic quantitative and interpretative methods to study the issue of legitimacy." Professor Yang Zhong University of Tennessee "This is a courageous attempt on the part of several authors to put aside the hegemonic liberal democratic narrative and grapple with this very complicated concept." The China Journal

• Dimensions of Legitimacy - L White; Political Legitimacy in Malaysia: Regime Performance in the Asian Context - B Gilley; The Basis of Political Legitimacy in Late-Authoritarian Taiwan - D D Yang; Political Trust in China: Forms and Causes - Z Wang; Nationalism and the Problem of Political Legitimacy in China - J Seo; Political Legitimacy in Reform China: Between Economic Performance and Democratization - Y Zheng and L F Lye; Legitimating Rhetorics and Factual Economies in a South Korean Development Dispute - R Oppenheim; Policy Legitimacy as a Determinant of Policy Outputs: Japan's Case - T Sakamoto

"Most of the articles are also well worth reading." Pacific Affairs "A book that attempts to make sense of the changing nature and importance of legitimacy in East Asia is, therefore, timely and welcome, Legitimacy does precisely that ... this book will be of interest to scholars working on East Asian politics in particular, and on the nature of legitimacy more generally." The China Review "One of the strengths of this book is that contributors in the book study legitimacy in different countries that are authoritarian (China and Taiwan before democratization), semi-democratic (Malaysia) and democratic (South Korea and Japan). Thus the book presents studies and information on legitimacy issues in a truly comparative fashion ... Another strength of the book is that authors took different yet appropriate methodological approaches including systematic quantitative and interpretative methods to study the issue of legitimacy." Professor Yang Zhong University of Tennessee "This is a courageous attempt on the part of several authors to put aside the hegemonic liberal democratic narrative and grapple with this very complicated concept." The China Journal