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Rational Sources of Chaos in Democratic Transition

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A crisis of legitimacy is a crisis of change. Therefore, its roots must be sought in the character of change in modern society. Crises of legitimacy occur during a transition to a new social structure, if (1) the status of major conservative institutions is threatened during the period of structural change; (2) all the major groups in the society do not have access to the political system in the transitional period, or at least as soon as they develop political demands.

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