Cynics, including myself, know that a so-called judicial activist is any judge or justice who votes to strike down a law we support, or uphold one we oppose. Both liberals and conservatives are ...

From Recognition to Reality: How States Gain Legitimacy in the International System ...

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Monday cautioned that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to. Speaking less than ...

It’s a frequent challenge for today’s marketer: How can we engage with social issues? According to Kantar, 68% of consumers say it’s important to them that brands are clear about their values. Some ...

All of this makes it important to understand what we mean when we talk about the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. As the Harvard Law professor Richard Fallon has shown, defining legitimacy takes some ...

Americans are gearing up to celebrate the Fourth of July, and their thoughts are most likely on how many hot dogs to buy for the cookout and whether a family member needs to go stake out a good spot ...

The term "performance legitimacy" emerged in political discussions following remarkable economic developments in countries such as Singapore, South Korea, and the People’s Republic of China, where, ...

Libya is frequently described as a failed state. In reality, it represents a fragmented system of negotiated legitimacy, where governance is not absent but distributed, contested, and repurposed. This ...

There’s a pernicious and persistent piece of conventional wisdom in conversations about China’s political stability that is often presented as a truism: the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) legitimacy ...

In today's context, the price of Bitcoin is no longer determined solely by scarcity. As such, investors must consider a variety of factors when making decisions in the space. That said, ...

Following the May 1-2 meeting on Afghanistan in Doha, attended by 25 countries and organisations, Taliban’s legitimacy predicament remains unchanged. Before the Doha meeting, women organisations of ...