Incumbency
in example sentence
His failure to win a second term, despite the numerous advantages of
incumbency
, will send a signal to ambitious politicians that populism and demagoguery are not the keys to victory.
More example sentences with word incumbency
India’s national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political
incumbency.
Although this stance cost the Social Democrats many votes, it was hardly enough to offset their main electoral advantage: the unseemly control over key public goods that the party has accumulated during its long
incumbency.
Five years ago, Pan Yingli of Shanghai Jiao Tong University projected that, without accounting for other currencies’
incumbency
advantage, the renminbi’s share of foreign-exchange reserves worldwide could reach 26% by 2025 (about the current level of the euro).
Accounting for the
incumbency
advantage, the share falls to 10%.
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