"They are like a divorced couple who cannot talk civilly with one another, or refuse to do so for fear of recognizing one another's legitimacy or point of view," said Ted Henken, a Latin American studies professor at Baruch College.
He dismissed the idea that Italy's technocratic government led by Mr. Monti lacked democratic legitimacy, a point some commentators have made as they questioned the new government's ability to push through austerity measures.
The analysis uses Beetham's multidimensional approach of legitimacy as point of departure.
This vote has no constitutional legitimacy, they point out – a mere fishing expedition.
Chinese leaders have tried to bolster their waning legitimacy by pointing to the ancient ideals of Confucianism, as evidenced by the ubiquitous presence of state-sponsored Confucius Institutes around the world.
The display at that UNHRC hearing -- where Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia, among others, targeted Denmark for its treatment of migrants and refugees -- suggests that at least some Middle Eastern regimes may be eyeing an opportunity to claim political legitimacy by pointing fingers at Denmark.
Democratic legitimacy aside, the point is that there is just such heavy symbolism of retrograde brutality ingrained into the reintroduction of fox-hunting.
He told me, "The mainstream media has lost so much legitimacy at this point that if they reported, 'We just saw Trump beat the shit out of a guy on the street,' skeptical people like my readers would go, 'Really?
Shimon Peres's surprising willingness to act as foreign minister in such a government gave Mr. Sharon a coalition majority and, more to the point, legitimacy for a string of actions that undermined, stage by stage, all elements of the peace process that had been painstakingly built by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Mr. Peres himself in the 1990's.
These positive social impacts must be documented and reflected upon to give the sharing economy increasing legitimacy, to the point where these statistics would be an official statistics line in China's census/GDP.
