Legitimacy Challenge to Iraqi Government Authority

After the collapsing of Iraqi Baathis t regime in 2003, Iraqi parties built a new democratic government. But very soon, the new government encountered with asevere political ins tability, and its legitimacy was challenged by some political players like Sunnis, Baathis ts, and al-Qaida. The ins tability dangerously took the government on the verge of collapse, and near to half of the country was occupied by these groups in thename of ISIS (Islamic S tate of Iraq and Syria). Therefore, here, the ques tion would be why the governmentlegitimacy has been challenged while has been es tablished upon a comprehensive democracy to include all Iraqi people. Many of writers have tried to analyze the ques tion by resorting theories of s tate-building as “es tablishment paradigm” and legitimacy theories as “processing paradigm,” but we know there are many problems in applying these old and inefficient theories on Iraq situation. In the current paper we have triedto bring a new way of analysis by tes ting a hypothesis that can be titled as “recons truction of legitimacy which is an emphasis on his torical process of nation- building, ethno-coexis tence, and diversity prob- .lem کلیدواژه‌ها [English]