When a strong and charismatic leader with mass appeal and a loyal organization to support her or him makes a bold stand invoking the notion of popular sovereignty, anti-corruption campaigns rarely succeed in making a major political impact. In such cases campaigners against corruption face two difficult challenges: they need to prove corruption through robust evidence; and they need to persuade millions of voters that popular legitimacy is no defence, and the notion of popular sovereignty no argument, against proven corruption in a social environment where people believe that most politicians
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