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Another reason for rising corruption is the soaring expense of elections, with politicians raising money from business as part of a quid pro quo.
Both India and the US have little public financing of elections, and large business donations that are legal in the US are often illegal (and hence given underhandedly) in India.
This is particularly true for India, where elections are vigorous and common people participate in them more enthusiastically than in the US, but other democratic institutions remain weak and sometimes dysfunctional, and the judiciary is too slow and occasionally corrupt.
Of course, representative government does sometimes become unresponsive, particularly between elections, but direct democracy is not the solution.
This would open the door for the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, which recently won local elections in Rome and Turin, and has called for a referendum on Italy’s eurozone (but not EU) membership.
Disclosure may help democratize political donations, preventing them from having an undue influence in elections.
Berlin is consumed not with the question of what Europe might need in this historical situation, and what Germany’s role should be, but with fear – of the conservative and tabloid press, of further losses in state elections, and of the possibility that the German constitutional court will intervene and overturn the existing programs to contain the euro crisis.
CAMBRIDGE – For a “managed democracy,” Iran holds remarkably unpredictable presidential elections.
Wolfensohn made some progress, but it was not enough, especially when the United States, Israel, and the European Union chose to starve the Palestinians financially after Hamas won its unexpected victory in the January 2006 Palestinian elections.
Even the success of free elections in Iraq is threatening to divide rather than unite the country.
The recent elections in America were a referendum on the war in Iraq.
Monetary policymakers, the argument goes, should be independent from the political system, because, when elections near, politicians will likely pressure them to “buy” temporarily higher employment at the cost of permanently higher inflation.
In July, the US Congress approved sweeping sanctions against Russia, partly in response to its alleged sponsorship of disinformation campaigns aiming to influence US elections.
Now it is Putin’s turn to call the tune, dismissing Mikhail Fradkov and dissolving the government that had served him throughout his second term in order to prepare for the parliamentary elections looming in December and the presidential ballot in March 2008.
The outgoing Fradkov, surprisingly, put the matter best when he explained why he had resigned: with elections approaching, Putin needed a free hand.
With national elections approaching, India’s government cannot afford to sacrifice these benefits, especially at a time of rising skepticism about its ability to maintain fiscal discipline and implement difficult reforms.
Years of Western-backed repressive authoritarianism nipped in the bud any potential growth of a liberal alternative to the incumbent Arab regimes, and turned any abrupt move to free elections into a dangerous exercise in Islamic democracy.
Given Syria’s bloody civil war, the rise to power of Islamist forces through free elections, the ever-deepening political and economic crises in Egypt and Tunisia, increasing instability in Iraq, uncertainty about the future of Jordan and Lebanon, and the threat of war over Iran’s nuclear program, the bright hope of a new Middle East has vanished.
But, regardless of their performance, these parties continued to win elections (some fairer than others), based on the view that they were leading the way toward economic progress.
But, with Congressional elections in 2006 and a presidential election in 2008, five years is too long.
Three elections have produced some degree of legitimacy for the Shia-dominated Iraqi government, but without a sense of community and effective institutions, elections merely create a tyranny of the majority.
They created direct primary elections, empowering citizens to choose which candidates to nominate, thereby undermining the power of party “machines.”
In many other states, voters have approved public financing of elections, the adoption and preservation of Medicaid expansion, and marijuana legalization.
Realizing a long-term vision is more difficult than ever when so many short-term imperatives – reviving growth and employment, winning elections, and re-engaging a distrustful public amid growing populist sentiment, to name just a few – materialize simultaneously.
At first glance, the results of recent elections in France and England might give the impression that European migration is on the wane as a hot-button issue.
The French National Front did badly in regional elections compared to the mainstream and pro-European right.
Elections are obviously one method, though campaign financing can be a source of corruption.
Politicians around the world trade favors for cash needed to win elections, and they often use that cash to buy the votes of desperately poor people.
Clear electoral rules and procedures can help ensure transparency, but accountability also comes from the broad society in between elections.
The last straw was the blatant falsification of December’s parliamentary elections, which reinforced citizens’ sense that the regime regards them with contempt.
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