The document discusses seven sources of political legitimacy: tradition, habit, history, religion, elections, ethnic identity, and international recognition. Tradition and habit provide legitimacy through longstanding obedience to authority and laws. History builds legitimacy through pride in a nation's past. Religion can frame obedience as religious duty. Elections legitimate governments as representative of their people. Shared ethnic identity or connection to an ethnicity inspires obedience. International recognition also confers legitimacy.

1. SOURCES OF
POLITICAL
LEGITIMACY

2. TRADITION
•THE GOVERNMENT HAS
AUTHORITY BECAUSE ITS
CITIZENS HAVE A LONG
TRADITION OF GIVING IT
AUTHORITY AND RESPECT.

3. HABIT
•MOST PEOPLE ARE RAISED
TO OBEY THE LAWS, AND
THEY THEREBY ACQUIRE
THE HABIT OF OBEYING

4. HISTORY
•PEOPLE REMEMBER GREAT
DEEDS AND EVENTS IN THE
COUNTRY’S HISTORY, AND
THEY OBEY OUT OF A SENSE
OF HISTORICAL PRIDE.

5. RELIGION
•IN SOME
PLACES,OBEDIENCE TO
THE GOVERNMENT IS
SEEN AS A RELIGIOUS

6. ELECTIONS
•A GOVERNMENT THAT HOLD
ELECTIONS GAINS LEGITIMACY
BECAUSE CITIZENS BELIEVE THAT
THE GOVERNMENT, COMPOSED OF
ELECTED OFFICIALS, REPRESENTS

7. ETHNIC IDENTITY
•COUNTRIES COMPOSED OF
EXCLUSIVELY ONE ETHNIC
GROUP OR WHOSE REGIME IS
STRONGLY CONNECTED TO ONE
ETHNIC GROUP CAN INSPIRE
OBEDIENCE THROUGH ETHNIC

8. ELECTIONS
•A GOVERNMENT THAT HOLD
ELECTIONS GAINS LEGITIMACY
BECAUSE CITIZENS BELIEVE THAT
THE GOVERNMENT, COMPOSED
OF ELECTED OFFICIALS,

9. INTERNATIONAL
RECOGNITION
•A GOVERNMENT GAINS
LEGITIMACY WHEN OTHER
GOVERNMENTS RECOGNIZE IT
AND WELCOME IT TO THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY