A democratic mandate is not, by itself, sufficient to secure legitimacy for the government in Gaza – or anywhere else.
To secure legitimacy on these aspects, Beetham's dimensions of shared beliefs and consent are of paramount importance.
This crucial need has to be sufficiently anticipated in order to secure legitimacy, efficiency and acceptability of an integrated world-scale governance of the oceans.
Democracy, as a set of procedures, can secure legitimacy in the absence of more substantive commonalities between citizens and achieve social integration.
When it comes to business, social capital is the primary resource entrepreneurs may rely upon to find new business opportunities, manage resources, and secure legitimacy from external stakeholders (Stam et al. 2013).
Lacking a background in Marxist theory, and desiring to secure legitimacy for "mass art" or "popular culture," too many of Adorno's anglophone critics simply ignore the main point to his critique of the culture industry.
Women, despite comprising 45percentt of football fans and making increasing inroads as scouts, reporters and coaches, don't move anything in football as much as they seek to secure legitimacy in an overwhelmingly conservative establishment.
I will know President Obama is serious about economic recovery for ordinary Americans when he ends his persecution of truth-tellers and acknowledges the damaging distance between what W. Michael Reisman calls the "myth system," an outward script designed to secure legitimacy from the public, and the "operational code," the true protocols governing any given profession.
But the very process of securing that legitimacy can undermine its effectiveness - as we saw, for example, in the Balkans.
