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By the logic of Westminster, you elect a legislature to form the executive, and when the executive does not command a secure majority in the legislative assembly, the government falls, triggering fresh elections.
India’s latest round of elections included five state assemblies.
There’s nothing statesmanlike about it, and yet it will happen again soon, with a fresh round of elections, including in Modi’s home state of Gujarat, due before the end of the year.
Fake news – and fake allegations of fake news – now plagues civil discourse, and political parties have proved increasingly willing to use xenophobia and other malign strategies to win elections.
At the same time, revisionist powers like Vladimir Putin’s Russia have been stepping up their efforts to interfere in elections across the West.
When I was a student in Delhi in the early 1970s, it was commonly assumed that the US “participated” in Indian elections.
Individual states held elections for their officials, but there were no elected officials (or parties) who ran on platforms and programs that transcended the boundaries of the sovereign state units.
Hezbollah faces parliamentary elections in the spring of 2013.
These wars are inflicting heavy punishment on precisely those peoples who have held fully free and fair elections in the region, while eroding the legitimacy of Israel’s democracy.
The enthusiasm with which the international community welcomed those changes now seems all but forgotten, which is also true of recent elections in Palestine – another longstanding international demand.
It happened in Palestine, and it could well happen in Egypt if free and fair free elections were held.
But one wonders how they might respond to spectacular results for Marine Le Pen’s National Front in next year’s French regional elections or in the presidential election in 2017.
Are they not only winning more elections, but also finally able to campaign and govern with no more – or less – scrutiny, scandal, and mockery than their males peers?
In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel, having won three general elections, is respected or resented for her austerity policies, not for her gender.
Yet he rigged those elections nonetheless: in the KGB tradition, people are simply too unpredictable to be left uncontrolled.
Still, looking beyond the 2012 elections might be worthwhile, because the economic, political, and social contexts have changed since 2004, when Putin re-elected himself, and since 2008, when he pretended to be a democrat by promoting Medvedev.
Indeed, it might be that a liberal constitutional culture is more important than the mere fact of competitive elections.
While free and fair elections are important, liberal democracy is more than “electocracy.”
Elections in the absence of constitutional and cultural constraints can produce violence, as in Bosnia or the Palestinian Authority.
Avoiding coercion, premature elections, and hypocritical rhetoric does not rule out a patient policy of economic assistance, quiet diplomacy, and multilateral efforts to support the development of civil society, the rule of law, and support for well-managed elections.
Now, somewhat ironically, a grand alliance of right-wing nationalist parties has been established to improve their chances in the May 2019 European Parliament elections.
Municipal elections have taken place, but they were partial, heavily managed, and of no consequence.
The borders of the kingdom cannot be sealed to ideas and from the desire for change, with people avidly watching Al Jazeera – officially banned in Saudi Arabia – as it reports about elections in Kuwait and democratic debates in other Gulf countries.
The Strange Normality of Polish ElectionsWARSAW: On September 21 Poland is to hold parliamentary elections that will be totally free.
What happened after the elections?
But what happens if it wins the coming elections (as seems likely at the moment)?
Small wonder, then, that so many Poles feel so depressed about the looming elections.
Elections are won or lost on topics like abortion and “family” values.
And their governments are not only large and complex, comprising thousands of agencies that administer millions of pages of rules and regulations; they are also democratic – and not just because they hold elections every so often.
Elections clearly are not enough, because they typically occur at two- or four-year intervals and collect very little information per voter.
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