Political Islam s Loss of Democratic Legitimacy

This process facilitates systemic change and political legitimacy.

Contemporary democracies base their legitimacy on ensuring both political and social rights.

Political Islam has reached a critical juncture on the road toward democratic legitimacy.

In addition, the European Parliament s detachment from national political debates means that it has less political legitimacy than is desirable.

Otherwise, the coming banking union and fiscal transfers will lack the necessary political legitimacy.

Aware that he must establish a greater sense of political legitimacy, his cabinet is likely to include representatives of other political parties.

Although expressed in religious terms to gain legitimacy, the objectives of Al Qaida are purely political.

Musharraf is now desperate to beg, steal, or borrow any political legitimacy he can get including from the two civilian political leaders he exiled.

As a result, legality has emerged as the main source of political legitimacy in the modern world.

The first consequence is that Egyptian society is even more divided over the question of political legitimacy.

They would, however, aggravate social and political turmoil in the eurozone, with Europeans increasingly challenging such operations legitimacy.

The IMF s response to its new mission of assessing global imbalances will thus test its battered political legitimacy.

Emasculating the elected presidency, which is Russia s sole source of political legitimacy, would pave the way to chaos.

The legitimacy of the WTO depended on the political ownership of, and participation in, the process by all.

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.

A foundation of the European integration process was recognition of the importance of a stable currency to political legitimacy.

Tensions have existed between liberty and equality ever since modern democracy placed citizenship at the root of political legitimacy.

Once domestic legitimacy has been achieved, international legitimacy can be generated by the UN's assumption of a truly leading role in managing all aspects of international support in Iraq (political, economic, and security related).

It was not until the Iranian revolution that the seminary establishment came to be considered a source of political legitimacy.

In fact, R2P is more about struggles over political legitimacy and soft power than it is about hard international law.

Specific proposals can then be considered by a political body which gives legitimacy to the proposals adopted by endorsing them.

No other system of government can claim more legitimacy, and through no other system can political grievances be addressed more effectively.

In some cases of internal conflict, non State actors or rival political groupings may make offers to adhere to such instruments precisely to gain legitimacy or a political locus standi.

Political legitimacy was validated by fear of anarchy, the terrifying reality of which had been observable across the Channel within living memory.

For without a common political identity on which to base social solidarity, redistribution of wealth by the welfare state loses its legitimacy.

At stake, both for Russia and the wider world, are stability and legitimacy, hence the prospects for steady political and economic modernization.

Only a constitution, they argue, can restore much needed legitimacy to a political system that is widely perceived as deeply corrupt and inept.

Terrorism must be stripped of its legitimacy those carrying it out must be shamed. No political cause justifies the taking of innocent life.

As a political model, Chavism is strongly based on nationalism, so that, Bush or no Bush, its legitimacy requires a growing anti Americanism.

Legitimacy and Elections

This Constitution, which remained in force until 15 March 2003, confirmed, in the preamble, that universal suffrage is the only source of political legitimacy.

Because their accountability to national electorates is indirect and uncertain, they do not generate the political allegiance and hence legitimacy that truly representative institutions require.

With the seminaries politicized and their independence greatly reduced, the religious establishment is no longer in a position to confer political legitimacy on the regime.

But heroic rescue efforts will not be able to help the government forever, so it is worth asking what can provide long term political legitimacy.

Thus, left Confucians favor institutional reform, arguing that the long term stability and legitimacy of political institutions requires that they be founded on Chinese traditions.

Finance s Crisis of Legitimacy

Although the US viewed Musharraf as an agent of change, he has never achieved domestic political legitimacy, and his policies were seen as rife with contradictions.

The deal was viewed as the epitome of Thaksin s sophisticated corruption and a betrayal of his proclaimed nationalism, thus exhausting his moral authority and political legitimacy.

Indeed, it is probably the only player with the universal political and intellectual legitimacy to find a way forward on collective action to address financial globalization.

Given the lack of political freedoms, the Chinese government s legitimacy rests on its ability to deliver improved living standards and increased economic opportunity to the masses.

During the political dialogue, the Special Envoy repeated that the position of the United Nations with regard to the legitimacy of the January elections remained unchanged.

But he has lost the battle for political legitimacy. The benefit of the doubt that had been granted to his administration up to now has been forfeited.

Legitimacy and validity of documents

Jettisoning the Manichean rhetoric of that war allowed the US to regain the political legitimacy that former President George W. Bush had lost, without diminishing its strategic credibility.