source of legitimacy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsourceandlegitimacy
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source
noun[C]
uk/sɔːs/us/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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legitimacy
noun[U]
uk/ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mə.si/us/ləˈdʒɪt̬.ə.mə.si/
the quality of being ...
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(Definition ofsourceandlegitimacyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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With the regime's popularity and legitimacy discredited by these events, it sought ways to find a newsourceoflegitimacy.
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Moreover, the inclusion of sectoral governance actors is asourceoflegitimacyfor policy results.
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First, technological innovation, while historically thesourceoflegitimacyand authority for the medical profession, also threatens established hierarchies and interests within the profession.
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In his inquiry, he searched for thesourceoflegitimacyand demonstrated the way in which the arbitrary will of rulers was justified.
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It is the citizens of this country who are the basicsourceoflegitimacyin our constitutional arrangements.
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Yet another modernsourceoflegitimacyis trust.
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Europe'ssourceoflegitimacyand its ultimate destination are its people.
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What we in the political class say and do can have a large impact on the evolution of public opinion, which is the ultimatesourceoflegitimacyin democracies.
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It is the first attempt to conceive a form of sovereignty completely enfranchised from laws, being itself thesourceoflegitimacy.
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The theoreticalsourceoflegitimacyof a tory corporatist culture is tradition and hierarchy of birth.
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Figurehead monarch, assourceoflegitimacyand possibly divine reign, has been the used form of government in several situations and places of history.
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Deliberative democracy differs from traditional democratic theory in that authentic deliberation, not mere voting, is the primarysourceoflegitimacyfor the law.
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This raises issues regarding the difference between rights and services, the sources of legitimacy and efforts to enhance accountability, among others.
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The existence of multiple oracular sources of legitimacy meant that a claim of divine right could always be challenged.
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The latter, however, may have f unctioned as supplementary sources of legitimacy for the shah.
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The word was first founded in the 17th century by a group of scientists who challenged the conventional thinking and advocated reason as the primarysourceoflegitimacyand authority.
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As the village committee and the party branch are different organizations with different sources of legitimacy and power, they tend to come into conflict over the handling of village affairs.
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But even the co-existence of 'legal-rational' and 'charismatic' sources of legitimacy can only be a source of tension and conflict, potentially of a seriously dysfunctional kind.
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The dispersal of power creates new sites for social action: in our case studies, the process of modernisation was offering a new organisational environment and new sources of legitimacy.
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Decisions of this nature could be times when the two sources of legitimacy do not coincide.
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