“People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.” PeopleStatesFactsLostEconomyLateSouthRepublicQuestioningKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanLegitimacyLost Faith Author:Brian Reynolds Myers
“In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation should not separate the power holders from the rest.” ShouldStatesPoliticalGivenPrinciplesCuttingParticularTheoryBoundariesNationalismExcludedLegitimacyContingency Book:Nations and Nationalism Source: Nations and Nationalism
“Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.” StatesPoliticalJusticeVirtueClaimsLegitimacy Author:Alan Ryan