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   "text": "The evidence assembled in this study supports the conclusion that non and deferred prosecution agreements can play a legitimate role in addressing corporate governance shortcomings, contrary to the broad legitimacy critique in the literature.",
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   "text": "Confluence factors help move the hedge fund industry from the fringes of finance into recognition as part of mainstream finance, aided by increased oversight under Title IV of the Dodd-Frank Act and the JOBS Act.",
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   "text": "The delegation of technology policy to politicians advised by experts rested on public trust that has since eroded: consistent empirical evidence shows that trust in both government and experts has declined in recent years.",
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   "text": "The post truth diagnosis is self defeating as a basis for regulation: if there is no objective basis on which to act, the conclusion is inertia or reproduction of the status quo, which is precisely the regulatory paralysis the diagnosis purports to describe.",
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   "text": "The sandbox generates legitimacy as well as information: because the tested technology remains open to discussion and democratic supervision, public entitlement to participate in regulatory debates creates a renewed sense of legitimacy that justifies the regulation.",
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   "text": "Real world court decisions on smart contract disputes, even where attainable, may not carry the same legitimacy and authority for the parties as intra-blockchain dispute resolution mechanisms.",
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   "text": "Aragon appears not to post even a summary of its arbiters' reasoning, which may cause the losing party to second guess the legitimacy of the entire Aragon dispute resolution mechanism.",
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   "text": "The disillusionment with political institutions after the 2008 to 2009 financial crisis inaugurated a new form of technological decentralization, of which the 2009 Bitcoin protocol is the leading result, conceived as an alternative to the shortcomings of the financial system.",
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   "text": "Trust created by law is often limited because it is only indirectly democratically legitimized, inflexible, untimely, resistant to change, dependent on fallible human centric decision processes, and constrained to human speed.",
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   "text": "Trust in decentralized legal solutions can be more democratically legitimized than legally created trust because it runs through microdemocratic, individualistic yet technology centric autonomous decision processes, coded guarantees, and machine speed.",
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   "text": "Decentralized voting pools can become supplemental voting systems that help overcome the legitimacy deficit of representative democracies, but installing them as upgrades to existing representative democracies would require constitutional or democratic support that is dubious at best.",
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   "text": "Centralized organization of society has reached its limitations, evidenced by weakening public sector legitimacy, economic decline, disillusionment with existing institutions, inadequate response to geopolitical problems, and pressure on overly centralized systems.",
   "abstract": "Other indicators suggest that centralized organization of society has in many ways reached limitations: the general weakening legitimacy of the public sector; increas- ing economic decline; disillusionment with existing business, political, and social in- stitutions",
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   "text": "Legitimacy requires members to believe the governance process is binding and will persist, which puts legitimacy directly at odds with a dynamic structure whose rules members know will change; in the presence of that tension stability requires the system to be balanced.",
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   "text": "Failing to maintain a healthy balance among the polar value pairs, one that faithfully reflects the people's own values, is what topples empires and leads to social catastrophe.",
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   "text": "Legally created trust is limited because it is only indirectly democratically legitimized, and is therefore arbitrary, inflexible, untimely, resistant to change, dependent on fallible human centric decision processes, and confined to human speed.",
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   "text": "Delegating one's vote to a third party whose ethics and belief system the voter does not truly know produces suboptimal outcomes, and delegated voting on issues that cannot be foreseen is corrupting.",
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   "text": "No existing legal order, whether national, supranational, or private, can evolve at the speed of exponential technological change without sacrificing either legitimacy or enforceability.",
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   "text": "Internal and external layers reinforce each other: a more robust and meritocratic internal reputation system increases the legitimacy the Codex commands before national courts, and broader jurisdictional acceptance in turn strengthens the indirect economic incentives for high-quality contributions.",
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