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The West is right to insist on norms of decent government, but it risks losing its capacity to influence events in Africa when it automatically links aid to elections.
Does the United States support Putin in the elections, or, by recognizing Putin’s historic importance, do the Americans mean to convince him to leave power?
Falsification of elections became the rule.
India's Pseudo-DemocracyRecently, India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said that despite the outward appearance of health, Indian democracy appears to have become hollow, with elections reduced to a farce and the "party system eroded due to unethical practices."
Without this right, elections may not add up to democracy.
Its success will be highly consequential – not least for the political debate that will inform the outcome of Germany’s elections in 2013.
With a presidential election in France and federal elections in Germany next year, the potential political boost to anti-European forces could have serious long-term consequences.
In this sense, Germany’s recent regional elections should serve as a warning.
Because elections to the Majlis (Parliament) and the Presidency are contested, they are meaningful.
Because the Calvinists did not accept a Church hierarchy, they - like the Iranian Shi'ites who are not part of the Sunni majoritarian universalism - based their legitimacy on the community of believers and so introduced elections.
But once you hold real elections, different modes of interpretation of the Holy Book become possible and legitimate.
But, as always, elections in Iran are neither predictable nor transparent.
Likewise, Obama administration policymakers still pat themselves on the back for preventing a second Great Depression, and say they did the best they could, given recalcitrant Republican congressional majorities after the 2010 midterm elections.
Fewer than 2% of East Jerusalem’s residents vote in municipal elections, as most believe that participating would lend legitimacy to the Israeli occupation.
Such a coalition would also push the Kurds into a more confrontational posture, as the MHP would be certain to block the concessions that the AKP was discussing with Kurdish leaders before the elections.
Moreover, if Russia can interfere so thoroughly in the US democratic process, just imagine what it has been doing in Europe, where we still do not know who financed some of the online advertising campaigns in recent national elections and referenda.
With European Parliament elections due in May 2019, we must be better prepared.
Popular elections do not translate into representation in a system designed by China to ensure that its allies win a majority every time.
The results of Italy’s recent municipal elections could be a signal of an incipient electoral dynamic: it was women who voted Silvio Berlusconi’s party out of power in Milan, a city that he has long controlled (and the original seat of his power).
A possible explanation for the government’s inaction over the past two and half years is that the measures agreed upon within the coalition that won the 2008 elections were not tailored to a country entering a major recession.
And, in keeping with past experience, weak sentiment has reduced capital flows to emerging-market economies in general, especially those like Turkey, Indonesia, and Brazil that have large external financing needs or face upcoming elections with uncertain outcomes.
Germany might follow, after its next elections.
That nickname for the ACA, coined by the Republicans when the law was enacted in early 2010, was intended to be derogatory, and their opposition to the program seemed to be vindicated in that year’s midterm elections, when they swept both houses of congress.
Of course, Plato’s disdain for democracy is never far from the surface of his prose, yet he has a legitimate point: how, after all, can high ethical standards be ensured when democratic elections tend to reward self-interest and the lowest common denominator?
Among the youngest voters, indeed, this impulse is very strong, with their participation in elections falling sharply.
Every now and then, particularly before elections, caste groups demand to be placed on the list of “other backwards classes” (OBC’s), in order to benefit from these reservations.
Free and fair elections may lead to the ascendancy of a president of Iran who wants to “wipe Israel off the map of the Middle East.”
In other words, elections are not enough if one wants to bring democracy to the world.
Elections can lead to illiberal democracies and worse.
It is extremely important that Iraq held elections to a constitutional assembly.
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