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My thesis deals with the delegitimization efforts of political actors against successful anticorruption agencies (ACAs). The Romanian National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) will be used as a case study. I ask what kinds of legitimization/delegitimization efforts are made by political actors when an ACA is successful. Faculty Mentor: Andrea Wagner Department: Political Science (Honours)

Contrary to some widespread impressions, public ambivalence about nuclear deterrence is not a new phenomenon in Western societies but has existed since at least the mid-1950s. However, mass public acceptance of nuclear deterrence policies does not seem to have eroded significantly, except in West Germany. On the other hand, some delegitimization of nuclear deterrence has emerged in important sectors of the elite and attentive publics in Britain, West Germany, and the United States. Future public support for nuclear deterrence will probably be influenced by factors both outside and within the North Atlantic community, but the choices made by Western leadership elites will be of crucial significance in dealing with the elite-mass public gap on some issues (e.g., firstuse policies) and the trends that have tended to delegitimize nuclear deterrence in some sectors of the elite and attentive publics.

Changes in public support since the mid-1970s in Great Britain, West Germany, France, and the US; implications for Western security policy.

Italian Fascist propaganda was compared with contemporary right-wing material to explore how political propaganda depicts specific target groups in different historical periods. Taking the theory of delegitimization as the theoretical framework, we analyzed visual images concerning despised social groups used by the Fascist regime and current images of contemporary targets of social resentment used by Lega Nord (currently part of the governing coalition). Images of Jewish and Black people published in the Fascist magazine La Difesa della Razza were classified according to eight delegitimizing strategies, as were images of immigrants used on Lega Nord propaganda posters. Although the target group has changed, six of the eight strategies of delegitimization were used in both periods. In most cases, overlap was found in the way target groups were portrayed in the past and in the present.

"Italian Fascist propaganda was compared with contemporary right-wing material to explore how political propaganda depicts specific target groups in different historical periods. Taking the theory of delegitimization as the theoretical framework, the authors analyzed visual images concerning despised social groups used by the Fascist regime and current images of contemporary targets of social resentment used by Lega Nord (currently part of the governing coalition). Images of Jewish and Black people published in the Fascist magazine La Difesa della Razza were classified according to eight delegitimizing strategies, as were images of immigrants used on Lega Nord propaganda posters. Although the target group has changed, six of the eight strategies of delegitimization were used in both periods. In most cases, overlap was found in the way target groups were portrayed in the past and in the present." (author's abstract)

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Ideological and Theoretical Sources and Implications -- 1. The New Replacement Theory: Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, and the Denial of History -- 2. From Wilhelm Marr to Mavi Marmara: Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism as Forms of Anti-Jewish Action -- 3. Social Criticism and the "Jewish Problem" -- 4. New Challenges in Feminism: Intersectionality, Critical Theory, and Anti-Zionism -- Part II. University, Legal, and Historical Frameworks -- 5. The Role of International Legal and Justice Discourse in Promoting the New Antisemitism -- 6. Leaving the Post-Holocaust Period: The Effects of Anti-Israel Attitudes on Perceptions of the Holocaust -- 7. Antisemitism in the Guise of Anti-Nazism: Holocaust Inversion in the United Kingdom during Operation Protective Edge -- 8. Fraser v. University and College Union: Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, and Racializing Discourse -- 9. Conspiracy Pedagogy on Campus: BDS Advocacy, Antisemitism, and Academic Freedom -- Part III. Israeli Voices -- 10. "There Was No Uncorrupt Israel": The Role of Israelis in Delegitimizing Jewish Collective Existence -- 11. The Appropriation of the Israeli "New Historians" Work by Anti-Zionists -- 12. Christian BDS: An Act of Love? -- Part IV. National Contexts -- 13. Configurations of Antisemitism: The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland 1968 -- 14. Germany's Changing Discourse on Jews and Israel -- 15. The Roots of Anti-Zionism in South Africa and the Delegitimization of Israel -- 16. From Donetsk to Tel Aviv: Czech Antisemitic Movements Respond to the Russian-Ukrainian War -- 17. Muslim Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in South Asia: A Case Study of Lucknow -- Index

The factors of legitimation and delegitimization of power in the context of the functioning of transitional states are considered and analyzed. The peculiarity of such states is the problem of consolidation of citizens on the basis of common values, the absence of which gradually leads to the delegitimization of the political regime.

Particular attention is paid to classical and modern interpretations of legitimacy and related concepts. An understanding of the definition of «legitimacy» is given as an order in which the power of the rulers and the voluntary subordination of the governed, i.e. free recognition by each member of the legal society.

It is established that there are different political institutions with different levels of legitimacy in society. The main factors and phases of legitimacy are analyzed, on the example of Ukraine, allocated factors that lead to the delegitimization of a political regime.

The problem of the functioning of the institutional process in the post-Soviet states through the phenomenon of double institutionalization, which is characterized by public consent to the functioning of old and new institutions at the same time, is considered separately. The nature of such a phenomenon, which is characterized by a destructive impact on the democratic transformation of society due to the congestion of the new institutional space, has been established.

A number of factors of delegitimization of the political regime are analyzed and the classification of factors into economic, geographical, political. The dependence of different factors on different conditions of power is determined. The peculiarity of the delegitimization process in Ukraine, which is characterized by multifactorial with elements of adaptability, has been established.

Based on all the theories presented, it is concluded that legitimacy is not only a set of values, it has both cognitive and normative aspects.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE IS TO IDENTIFY THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF RIGHT-WING TERRORISM AND TO DEVELOP AN ANALYTICAL TYPOLOGY OF PARTICULARISTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS. THE ARTICLE IS BASED ON THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF THE PROCESS OF DELEGITIMIZATION DEVELOPED EARLIER BY THE AUTHOR. IT ARGUES THAT RIGHT-WING RADICALS USUALLY REACH TERRORISM THROUGH A TRAJECTORY OF SPLIT DELEGITIMIZATION, WHICH IMPLIES A PRIMARY CONFLICT WITH AN 'INFERIOR' COMMUNITY AND A SECONDARY CONFLICT WITH THE GOVERNMENT. SIX SUB-TYPES OF RIGHT-WING TERRORISM ARE IDENTIFIED: REVOLUTIONARY TERRORISM, REACTIVE TERRORISM, VIGILANTE TERRORISM, RACIST TERRORISM, MILLENARIAN TERRORISM AND YOUTH COUNTERCULTURE TERRORISM.