The first transition did not manage to gather broad popular legitimacy.

In other words, global markets suffer from weak governance, and therefore from weak popular legitimacy.

Emirs who need parliamentary approval to secure popular legitimacy must now reckon with the need to share power.

Without legitimacy, there can be no stability in any political system, and without elections that is, an explicit expression of popular consent to the holders of power there can be no legitimacy.

Re equilibration The Party protects its legitimacy, keeps the military subordinate, and manages to put a lid on popular dissent.

The nationalist regimes thus gradually lost domestic popular legitimacy, creating a vacuum that non state actors have now largely filled.

The terrorists with whom we are currently at war cannot win, because their dark vision will never gain broad popular legitimacy.

The rich, confident of popular legitimacy, can then use the independence that accompanies wealth to limit arbitrary government and protect democracy.

Add to this the fact that the Arab world s nationalist regimes, which have calcified into militarized dictatorships, lost their popular legitimacy long ago.

But they are anti liberal they accept democracy s demand for the popular legitimacy, but reject its demand for constitutionalism (the separation of powers).

Such an arrangement can establish the strong popular legitimacy that the Palestinians will need at the negotiating table in order to make any real compromise.

There is a broad array of policies that can benefit people in both developing and developed countries, thereby providing globalization with the popular legitimacy that it currently lacks.

Securing popular legitimacy requires equal dexterity, which has played an important role in preventing North African leaders and family members from openly admitting their preparations for dynastic successions.

Nothing less than a full fledged peace agreement that meets the fundamental aspirations of Palestinian nationalism is likely to give him the popular legitimacy needed to confront the radicals.

Re equilibration The Party protects its legitimacy, keeps the military subordinate, and manages to put a lid on popular dissent. In other words, the status quo prevails for the foreseeable future.

It is encouraging to see that many thousands are indeed getting involved, because without popular engagement, security will remain undefined, and the important reforms that are needed will lack political legitimacy.

As products of revolutionary military takeovers, these secular nationalist regimes failed to produce genuine popular legitimacy and have had to fall back on the dynastic succession practiced by the regimes they toppled.

ISLAMABAD As Pakistan gears up for its parliamentary election on February 18, many observers hope that the vote will usher in a period of stability and calm by lending popular legitimacy to the government.

Legitimacy and Elections

A logical corollary of the criteria set forth by Kenen and Obstfeld, and even of Mundell s labor mobility criterion, is that currency unions cannot survive without political legitimacy, most likely involving region wide popular elections.

The difference and the distance between markets and politics must be clear and, for the sake of both effectiveness and legitimacy, it must be based on rules that are well understood and on popular consent.

Finance s Crisis of Legitimacy

And the least popular became the most popular.

We collectively affirm that popular support is the crucial test of a modern democratic government, for in a democracy a government's legitimacy depends on the support it receives in the form of a plurality of votes cast.

Now the most popular option became the least popular.

Legitimacy and validity of documents

So legitimacy is more than legality.

Political Islam s Loss of Democratic Legitimacy

How can America recover international legitimacy?

Mural of Asmahan, the popular Syrian Egyptian singer, actress and popular icon.

The legitimacy question is particularly problematic if the ruler s biography or charisma is closely tied to the legitimacy of the regime.

Legitimacy and stability are inseparable in practice, because maintaining stability in the absence of legitimacy would ultimately require Tiananmen style repression.

But, by being allowed to acquire popular legitimacy and a high degree of acceptance within the political establishment as the driving force behind the ruling party s preparations for the post Mubarak era, Gamal is being positioned strategically to compete effectively for the presidency.

The other key lesson from Singapore is that single party rule has retained popular legitimacy by delivering inclusive growth and equality of opportunity in a multi ethnic society, and by eliminating corruption of all kinds, including cronyism and excessive influence for vested interests.

That has considerably reduced the Council's legitimacy.

I'm very popular.

Popular support does.

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The first is the growing shift in the Middle East, and elsewhere, from rejection of Israel s legitimacy to rejection of Zionism s legitimacy.

Morsi, the question is not whether you have lost your legitimacy. The question is how many times have you lost your legitimacy?

In popular education set ups, everyone educates everyone by generating popular and collective knowledge.

Not anymore the experts have lost their legitimacy.

It lacks legitimacy and its members are unknown.

This process facilitates systemic change and political legitimacy.

Popular pressure is growing