Sentences with phrase «democratic legitimacy»

Since people disagree about which electoral system is in principle the most democratic, some people will see the second chamber as having greater democratic legitimacy.

Business depends in many ways on government, and effective government action requires democratic legitimacy — requires that citizens believe in their government, and in the commitment of politicians to act with integrity.

Having won three free and fair elections, it has full democratic legitimacy.

Nonetheless, a quest for enhancing democratic legitimacy seems to be the red line connecting the contributions.

This will definitively keep open the fundamental question of democratic legitimacy of the new EU economic governance.

The complete collapse of democratic legitimacy in Europe is not a price we could possibly be willing to pay.

8) Make democracy matter on the global stage A public citizen's campaign should put on the agenda the idea that voting rights at the UN general assembly should depend on democratic legitimacy at home.

Of course SH had a «first instinct» to enter a coalition with Labour, but as he makes clear in his email there was no choice because: a) Labour lost the election — supporting them would have contradicted everything we believe about democratic legitimacy; b) the numbers didn't add up; c) the Labour tribalists in the Cabinet had no intention of taking coalition seriously.

But rather than appeasing the critics this just attracted new ones, for different reasons: after years of arguments about the need for democratic legitimacy, the chamber was considered too democratic.

There may be a conservative and also an uncomfortable pragmatic utilitarian defence of the status quo — where liberal ends are often achieved by these undemocratic means — but the Lords» increasing influence makes the question democratic legitimacy, whether by election or other means, can not simply be ducked.

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

To say that the worst abuses of human rights have come from the least democratic branch of government» the judiciary» is true, but of increasingly questionable relevance to the crisis of democratic legitimacy brought on by judicial action in the cause of abortion and euthanasia.

Those that decide to hold referendums will claim that they do so in order to provide democratic legitimacy to an issue.

[107] To firmly establish democratic legitimacy, the National Transitional Council is attempting to draft a new constitution.

Nobody was happy, some finding that the national parliaments were losing too many powers, others retorting that the European Parliament had to recover the rights of control necessary to ensure democratic legitimacy at the supranational level.144

But what democratic legitimacy does the president of Nestlé have?

As a result, actors without democratic legitimacy secure unjust, disproportional, or even illegal advantages on behalf of particularistic interests.

Having forcefully deposed a democratically elected president, the current parliamentary leadership has yet to establish its own democratic legitimacy, and there is a serious question mark over whether new elections will actually alter the political situation very much.

Therefore they have the most democratic legitimacy.

On the other hand, the presence of legislators in the chamber who have not received «positive» votes provides a check on the popular democratic legitimacy of the reformed body.

Both were widely rubbished as too timid, for not proposing a chamber with adequate democratic legitimacy.

Domestic pushback and questionable democratic legitimacy?

Where is Browns democratic legitimacy for mangling the constitution of this country?

He predicted «the two chambers would end up duelling with one another, flaunting their rival democratic legitimacies and producing legislative paralysis».

«Sir David also said another brilliant comment: «Democratic legitimacy demands the way new methods of intelligence gathering are to be introduced should be on a firm legal basis and rest on parliamentary and public understanding of what is involved».

By the same token, the members of the eurozone should accept that we, and indeed all member states, will have changes that we need to safeguard our interests and strengthen democratic legitimacy.

If democratic legitimacy implies substantial popular endorsement, then the democratic mandate of recent British governments rests on weak foundations.

«There would be absolute democratic legitimacy behind an arrangement between Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

This blog has pointed out, however, that environmentalism is at least as much an attempt to circumnavigate problems of democratic legitimacy as it is a response to environmental problems — that it is easier to take moral authority from scientific experts than it is to elicit from the governed the consent to govern in lieu of a convincing argument.

There is, however, a perceived risk that it might open the doors of the Court to «special interests» seeking to annul acts adopted by EU institutions that benefit from a certain democratic legitimacy.

One argument traditionally advanced for not electing the Senate is that if it were elected, it would have equal democratic legitimacy with the Commons, and would have a claim to be equal in power too.

In his September 7, 2006, appearance before the Committee, Prime Minister Harper argued that the government's broader accountability and democratic legitimacy objectives can not be met without some form of electoral process for senators.

Back in 2009, Miliband, conscious of the fact that the government's climate policies lacked democratic legitimacy, asked the environmental movement to come up with some bodies,

«Whether these future voters can be persuaded that voting matters will have a major impact on democratic legitimacy and participation levels across the decades to come.»

And it has the additional benefits of eliminating the need for tactical voting while conferring greater democratic legitimacy on the elected MP.

Mind you what would Browns Labour Party know about democratic legitimacy.

It's heartening to see Zuckerberg recognizing that Facebook needs real democratic legitimacy and accountability — and that it's considering more binding procedures.