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The sociologist Max Weber described three bases of authority: traditional, charismatic, and rational (legal).
Consequently, those who are more interested in arbitrary authority than legality are using the language of law to legitimize their actions – and weakening the rule of law in the process.
Zhao’s package – a sharp break with Mao’s totalitarianism – was approved by the 13th Party Congress, officially the highest authority within the CCP.
True employee ownership, with effective employee participation in governance, has generally met long-term success only where there is substantial homogeneity of interest among the employees involved: the employees who participate in ownership commonly do similar work within the firm, have similar kinds and levels of skill, and exercise little hierarchical authority over each other.
A country’s soft power rests on three main resources: an appealing culture, political values that it reliably upholds, and foreign policy that is imbued with moral authority.
But the aid agencies that work on the ground have first-hand experience of the impact of peacekeepers’ presence, and we have the authority to say that protection of aid workers can be dangerously inadequate.
The key to this proposal is that banks must agree; it is a voluntary debt restructuring, compelled by no legal authority.
But then, as a 78-year-old white male, I would think that, wouldn’t I?Guilt and Shame in Abu GhraibWhenever governments lose moral authority, as when their police seize evidence in violation of the Constitution, their case for conviction suffers.
This leaves only accommodation – which means effectively granting legitimacy to the Kremlin's claim to authority over Ukraine and, presumably, the rest of its “near abroad."
That is why the British have mixed the authority of elected politicians with that of aristocratic privilege.
As a result, its authority is less constrained, which may explain the greater frequency in France of street demonstrations and even of mob violence.
Social media also make it possible to bypass the traditional filters of authority, such as serious newspapers or broadcasters, and publish any point of view directly.
It is hard to see how traditional elites are going to regain any authority.
Nor is it a plea to trust anyone with a plausible air of authority.
On May 22, the Senate avoided it, by narrowly defeating – 51 to 48 – a proposed “currency manipulation” amendment to a bill that gives Obama so-called “fast-track” authority to negotiate the TPP.
Fortunately, one building block that was not available to Bush – a legitimate government to assume authority – is available for Libya.
Will it be able to exercise authority and ensure security for ordinary Libyans, thereby preventing a recurrence of the blood vendettas that shattered Iraq after Saddam’s fall?
She pushed for greater integration of the European single market, while questioning whether this really required ceding more political authority to the European Commission.
She won the vote with about two-thirds support, but with her authority badly dented.
Succumbing to the temptation to consolidate power in the hands of the president, ostensibly to protect his government’s authority, could limit checks and balances and restrict space for political opposition, including within his own party.
To deploy this technology, which is based on American research but piloted in-country, Zipline signed agreements with the aviation authority and the ministry of health, among others, and a public-private partnership was set up to fund the program.
The history of the struggle for rights from the Magna Carta to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been mainly about placing limits on state authority.
Recognizing the potential of corruption to undermine the legitimacy of the Communist Party of China and the authority of the Chinese state, Xi has embarked on an anti-graft campaign that is unprecedented in scale, scope, and depth.
In April, the State Council, China’s highest administrative authority, unveiled targets aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of the country’s cars.
Ayatollah Yousef Sanei, a former attorney general and a religious authority (marja’), has asked the government to refrain from provoking Israel.
Upon taking office, all US presidents soon realize that their domestic and economic policymaking authority is constrained by Congress and the courts, but that they have much more sway over foreign and national-security affairs.
For example, the IMF’s authority has suffered in the recent decade – especially in Asia – from the fund’s deep commitment to neo-liberal orthodoxy and the so-called “Washington Consensus.”
That authority should allow the Fund to inspect even the world’s mightiest economies, the US and China.
While some of the criticism might have merit, what gives politicians the moral authority to criticize?
Abdullah’s succession in 2005 posed a direct challenge to the Sudeiri brothers’ authority.
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