Legitimacy
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It appears that Springer wanted to make this movie to grab some
legitimacy
for himself.
Betty never had too much of a problem with her notoriety, although we get the impression that her reputation prevented her from gaining
legitimacy
in the straight acting world.
The story concerns a bandit (Musante) who wants the
legitimacy
of being a "revolutionary", but needs the help of a hardened professional (Nero) to do it.
First, it is a road movie that rips off Kerouac and thinks that somehow gives it
legitimacy.
But once he starts down this evil road - that the Oppressed are allowed to kill their Oppressors, as well as their innocent family members - he loses
legitimacy.
The film delivers it's story with a soft touch, avoiding extremes while maintaining an earnest sense of
legitimacy.
It wasn't difficult to follow the movie per se, but there were numerous times in which the average viewer questioned the
legitimacy
and purpose of certain scenes.
Only this will give a Morsi administration the necessary
legitimacy
and capacity to carry out a joint transition with the military for a true change of regime.
After seizing power in September 1973, torturing and murdering thousands in the process of consolidating his rule, Pinochet needed to establish his legitimacy, domestically and internationally.
Already, democracy has lost
legitimacy
here and social protest movements grow increasingly violent.
Without legitimacy, any purchaser will worry about the security of his property rights, which will contribute to even lower prices.
Theoretically, international loans could be an alternative, but who would lend to an unstable government, let alone a government whose
legitimacy
has not been fully established?
So, perhaps the more important message is that society’s tolerance for monetization is proportional to the
legitimacy
accorded to the distribution of money.
Rather than focusing on prohibiting monetary transactions, perhaps a more important lesson imparted by Sandel’s examples is that we should work continuously to improve the perceived
legitimacy
of money’s distribution.
Moreover, the controversial presidential election of June 2009, and the political crisis that ensued, irreparably damaged Ahmadinejad’s democratic
legitimacy.
His
legitimacy
rested on free elections and his project for economic and social justice.
And the rapid economic growth that China’s leaders must sustain in order to lift enormous numbers of people out of poverty – and thus prevent a crisis of
legitimacy
– places a floor under global food, energy, and mineral prices.
With no effective central authority to inspire fear or respect and the PLO devoid of
legitimacy
precisely because of its refusal to give Hamas its rightful share in the organization, a grotesquely ineffective brand of “cohabitation” between a Fatah president and a Hamas prime minister has emerged.
So far, most Arab monarchies have had enough legitimacy, money, and force to survive the waves of popular revolt that have brought down secular republican autocrats like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, but we are only two years into the revolutionary process.
The Islamic tradition of protecting the welfare of the poor can provide the language and
legitimacy
needed to inspire citizens to do their part.
The Chinese Communist Party’s
legitimacy
depends on strong economic growth, and it will not risk this strategy for some “authoritarian alliance” with Russia.
There were anxieties, too, that the increasing loss of
legitimacy
of Arab nationalist regimes would benefit radical Islamists - fears confirmed by Algeria's bloody civil war of the 1990's.
Such organizations often take advantage of states that lack the
legitimacy
or capacity to administer their own territory effectively, launching a mix of political and armed operations that, over time, give them coercive control over local populations.
Of course, its current ideological hostility to Israel’s very existence is a serious issue; but Israel and the West should not compound their grievous mistake of not recognizing the
legitimacy
of its electoral victory in Gaza by rejecting any Palestinian state in which Hamas plays a governing role.
Since the council’s
legitimacy
stems exclusively from Libyan good will and blind faith, rather than from success at the ballot box, this could be devastating.
To be sure, the CPC has undoubtedly taken to heart the first key lesson: strong economic performance is essential to political
legitimacy.
Another reason for the Fed to reconsider hiking rates is that the
legitimacy
of the Bretton Woods institutions depends on a well-functioning global financial system.
Indeed, incompetent states now comprise almost a majority in the UN, which undermines that body's moral
legitimacy
in the eyes of many in the developed world.
The big, open democratic conventions that he has proposed for the first half of 2018 could inject fresh ideas into a stale debate, provide
legitimacy
for bold reforms, and put pressure on recalcitrant governments.
The absence of well-articulated common analyses and policy coordination has accentuated
legitimacy
deficits, encouraging leaders and publics to opt for partial narratives and eroding confidence in existing institutional structures.
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