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“Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.”

Political Wealth Generations Information Flow Remains China Enormous Despite Elites Ruling Legitimacy Younger Generation

Author:Tom Lantos

“Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.”

Political Political Power Legitimacy Elixir

Book:The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition)

Source: The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition)

“In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation should not separate the power holders from the rest.”

Should States Political Given Principles Cutting Particular Theory Boundaries Nationalism Excluded Legitimacy Contingency

Book:Nations and Nationalism

Source: Nations and Nationalism

“Whether the proposed constitution is approved or rejected . . . it is a process and a text largely crafted and imposed by U.S. occupation authorities and their Iraqi dependents, and thus lacking in legal or political legitimacy.”

Political Process Authority Constitution Occupation Rejected Lacking Approved Legitimacy

Author:Phyllis Bennis

“Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.”

States Political Justice Virtue Claims Legitimacy

Author:Alan Ryan

“The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy of European democracies - not just directly by threatening the livelihoods of so many people and pushing the economy into a downward spiral, but also indirectly by undermining the legitimacy of the political system through this backdoor rewriting of the social contract.”

“The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.”

Ends Political Process Cities Violence Increase Absence Genuine Pursue Reform Regimes Resentment July Sanctions Legitimacy Hamas Erode Political Reform Senseless Violence

Author:William Hague

“We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority.”

Thinking Political Actors Justice Decision Struggle Imagine Authority Court Myth Supreme Branches Imagine That Supreme Court Umpires Legitimacy

Author:Noah Feldman