Grappling with Legitimacy

Issue Date July 1996
Volume 7
Issue 3
Page Numbers 170-73
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A review of Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority, edited by Muthiah Alagappa.

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Andrew MacIntyre is associate dean of the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California at San Diego.

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