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The degree of "internal legitimacy" of governments in terms of human rights and democracy could become another factor determining voting weights or voting rights.
Hamas insists that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas does not have the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians, and that any deal he reaches with Israel is not binding.
On the other hand, this award strengthens the visibility, authority, and international legitimacy of the American initiative.
China, in seeking to lead the next stage of economic globalization, enjoys no such geopolitical power and legitimacy.
Whoever triumphs in future elections will lack the legitimacy that only a majority can provide.
Add to this the fact that the Arab world’s nationalist regimes, which have calcified into militarized dictatorships, lost their popular legitimacy long ago.
Tunisia shows that no government that has lost its legitimacy and is supported only by bayonets is sustainable in the long term.
The theory behind parliamentary government is that parliamentary scrutiny offers the best-testing ground for government proposals, the best restraint against abuse, the best source of legitimacy and, above all, a system that can adapt flexibly to changing times.
Allowing Zakaev’s return would have worsened matters by increasing Kadyrov’s prestige at home, as well as his international visibility and legitimacy.
The crux of the issue is political legitimacy.
How, then, will Brown acquire legitimacy as Britain’s new leader?
The one thing that is clear is that he will not gain legitimacy if he offers only more of what Blair has been dishing up for the past ten years.
If Brown is to gain legitimacy, he must offer something new; but he can do that only by distinguishing himself from the Blair legacy in clearly perceptible – and therefore fairly radical – ways.
Meanwhile, the political legitimacy of the Palestinian leadership has long been declining, and many Palestinians doubt that it can articulate a national strategy and deliver an agreement with Israel in any form.
Musharraf’s personal frankness and integrity appealed to the street and earned him de facto legitimacy.
Musharraf is now desperate to beg, steal, or borrow any political legitimacy he can get – including from the two civilian political leaders he exiled.
The Bush administration is slowly recognizing that for a Pakistani leader to be an effective counterterrorism ally, he or she must have a modicum of legitimacy.
In fact, the government’s success in clamping down on corruption, especially at sub-national levels, will be a litmus test of its legitimacy.
Once the failure of free trade, deregulation, and monetarism came to be seen as leading to a “new normal” of permanent austerity and diminished expectations, rather than just to a temporary banking crisis, the inequalities, job losses, and cultural dislocations of the pre-crisis period could no longer be legitimized – just as the extortionate taxes of the 1950s and 1960s lost their legitimacy in the stagflation of the 1970s.
When it comes to intervention nowadays, respect for legality has overcome the concern for legitimacy that prevailed a decade ago.
Communist parties and Marxist intellectuals saw their legitimacy vanish at the same time as social democratic faith waned.
Many establishment leaders nowadays – the so-called elites who are the standard-bearers of the liberal democratic order – seem to believe that the risks of engaging with radical figures are too great: more exposure could mean more legitimacy.
Establishing the ICT and imbuing it with legitimacy will require the support of civil society, academia, and the general public.
As the slowdown threatens to impede job creation, undermining the prospects of the millions of people moving to China’s cities each year in search of a more prosperous life, the Chinese Communist Party will struggle to maintain the legitimacy of its political monopoly.
But the Kremlin still seems addicted to this means of buttressing its legitimacy among ordinary Russians.
Among some technocrats’ obvious disadvantages are lack of managerial experience, lack of perceived legitimacy, and lack of a domestic power base.
Monti and Papademos both have managerial experience and, for now, legitimacy.
Russia’s propaganda war on Ukraine – a well funded, widely distributed, and highly sophisticated media drive meant to undermine the Ukrainian government’s legitimacy – has been ongoing for years.
In that case, the eurobond regime would have to carry sanctions from which there is no escape – something like a European finance ministry that has political as well as financial legitimacy which could emerge from the intense debate and soul-searching that is so badly needed (particularly in Germany).
This would be bad for democracy because citizens deserve to be offered clear options on central issues ; and it would further undermine the European Union’s legitimacy just when the EU needs to redefine itself.
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