Legitimacy
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So the White House now wants to undermine the WTO’s
legitimacy
and rescind US commitments to a multilateral trading system more broadly.
If Assad’s Ba’ath party cannot uphold that responsibility, it forfeits its own
legitimacy
as a participant in any future government.
Yet, because of that anomaly, Europe suffers from a grave deficit of
legitimacy
and presence internationally.
Given that Ukraine’s participation would significantly enhance the union’s legitimacy, Russia is using all available tactics – from lower gas prices to trade sanctions – to persuade its leaders to join.
The
legitimacy
of Kim Jong-un’s claim to power is weak, despite his blood tie to his father and grandfather, the dynasty that has ruled North Korea since its inception.
That concern for popular
legitimacy
is incompatible with the politics of the eurozone, which was never a very democratic project.
And by working hard to spur growth, they have fueled China’s rise to become the world’s second-largest economy (by some measures, the largest) and secured the ruling Communist Party’s
legitimacy
in the post-Mao era.
But corruption has spun out of control, and now threatens both China’s stability and the Communist Party’s
legitimacy.
This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the Great Leap Forward, when 20-40 million Chinese died of starvation, as well as the tenth anniversary of the government’s ban on Falun gong, an organization of self-claimed religious and meditation practitioners that has challenged the Communist Party’s
legitimacy.
The fall of the Soviet Union undercut the primary source of NATO's
legitimacy.
What better--and more cost-effective--way to secure the trans-Caucasus pipelines than through democratic
legitimacy?
Leftist parties in various Central European countries, indeed, have often turned out to be more successful in reforming because they, paradoxically, have greater
legitimacy
in this respect.
The growing sense of unfairness accompanying these developments has undermined “democratic legitimacy,” as Paul Tucker discusses in his book Unelected Power.
It is not immediately clear how we can rectify these problems, protect the vulnerable, and restore democratic
legitimacy.
Instead of
legitimacy
, or simply getting more seats at the table to provide input, the discussion in Asia is increasingly about outputs: how to create institutions that are more effective .
Only a constitution, they argue, can restore much needed
legitimacy
to a political system that is widely perceived as deeply corrupt and inept.
Unless and until China’s leaders answer both questions with a simple “No” they will continue to have blood on their hands and a tainted
legitimacy.
The CCP is judging itself not against the Western benchmark of liberal democratic governance, but against the ancient Chinese legalist tradition of strong, central authority that maintains
legitimacy
by upholding meritocratic standards of accountability.
Rather, Xi knew that widespread corruption was undermining the CPC’s
legitimacy
in the eyes of ordinary Chinese.
In any case, President Mahmoud Abbas lacks the
legitimacy
to turn his back on his predecessor Yasser Arafat’s legacy and confront Hamas over the need to compromise on core elements of the Palestinian national narrative.
Too much will crack along the way – the banks, the monetary system, social cohesion, the
legitimacy
of the political regime.
The speed with which debates in the French Estates General evolved into a revolt against the Bourbons reflected the deepening sense among ordinary Frenchmen that Louis XVI's rule lacked
legitimacy.
The only way to resist these threats is to address their root cause: the imbalance of power at the top of the regime and within ministry staffs that is gradually robbing Karzai's government of
legitimacy.
Whatever rules are improvised by UNMIK, they will lack the
legitimacy
which a Kosovar constitution would enjoy.
But much more important was what the fascist and authoritarian regimes shared – all were beneficiaries of a sweeping collapse of the
legitimacy
of democratic politics.
All this occurred against the background of emerging-market economies’ claims that their relatively low representation in the BWIs denied the IMF
legitimacy.
The filters that give users “what they want” had the effect of polarizing populations and eroding the
legitimacy
of fundamental democratic institutions (most notably, the free press).
While Abdul Razak permitted elections to gain a patina of legitimacy, his nods to democracy were largely window dressing.
These voters formed the basis of the AKP’s electoral victories and democratic
legitimacy.
Political Islam has reached a critical juncture on the road toward democratic
legitimacy.
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