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Obama has already put spending cuts on the table – probably to a greater extent than would please his electoral base (he does have a tendency to do this).
Of course, Ireland’s decision to cut taxes because of the huge surplus its robust economy has generated may have had electoral, rather than economic, motivations.
Vladimir Putin’s decision to serve as prime minister should Dmitri Medvedev become Russia’s next president has made their electoral success in March a virtual certainty.
Through this electoral legitimacy (no matter how rigged the elections), Russia's governors secured enormous weight in the political system.
By adding the governors to his electoral machine, Primakov has stolen the men who turned the last presidential elections Yeltsin's way.
But, because of the electoral deals just completed, as yet president Primakov may find himself in a weaker position than that occupied by Yeltsin.
It is hardly likely that such a program - presented in these terms - can ever command massive electoral popularity.
We should expect to see only more electoral success for populist politicians and projects like the United Kingdom’s “Brexit” referendum.
With three contending parties, a terrible electoral law, no run-off, and condiderable frustration with 12 years of center-right, often ineffective governments, the outcome is highly uncertain.
To address the dismal under-representation of women in Latin America’s legislatures, a series of reforms must be adopted, reforms that depend in part on a country’s existing electoral legislation.
Such legislation must also have rigid compliance standards that are reviewed and enforced by the state’s electoral authorities and courts.
Though the government’s program is likely to be less ambitious and qualify many of her campaign promises, the poor and lower middle class – her main electoral base – expect that she will move swiftly, for example, to end for-profit elementary and secondary education and offer free universal tertiary education.
When the generals in Rangoon (Yangon) suppressed a popular uprising in 1988, overturned the NLD’s overwhelming electoral victory, shot students, and arrested the new democratically elected leaders, India’s government initially reacted as most Indians would have wanted.
To its credit, the British electoral system at least establishes a more or less direct relationship between MPs and the people who vote for them.
The crackdown on freedom of the press, the rule of law, and electoral processes in Venezuela – as reported by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and, most recently, in a damning, 300-page report by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission – has been steadily worsening.
The OAS can involve itself in domestic electoral, political, or human rights issues only if a majority of its members mandates it to do so, and countries like Mexico and Brazil are fearful of picking fights with Venezuela.
Originally scheduled for October 2007, the election was brought forward to break a deadlock between the parliament and the government over the number of electoral districts in the country.
The electorate focused almost entirely on the question of electoral districts.
It can go along with electoral reform, or it can find an opportunity to dissolve the new parliament.
After ignoring the universalist principle for too long, world leaders finally seem to be acknowledging the magnitude of the problem – as well as their responsibilities to people far beyond their immediate electoral constituencies.
Some prominent Nigerians have also suggested that if the electoral crisis is not resolved before Obasanjo steps down on May 29, the chief justice should take over as interim president and organize new elections.
Moreover, both major US parties routinely use their power when they win to redraw electoral districts’ lines to favor themselves and hurt their opponents.
But the American election’s implications for immigration run deeper than electoral expediency – with lessons for governments around the world.
More important, electoral politics aside, they would be helping to craft better societies whose politics are shaped by reasonable debate among citizens, not distorted by the community-destroying behavior of smugglers and extremists.
These countries share other weaknesses as well: excessive fiscal deficits, above-target inflation, and stability risk (reflected not only in the recent political turmoil in Brazil and Turkey, but also in South Africa’s labor strife and India’s political and electoral uncertainties).
The prospect that the Party could come to power in an electoral alliance with the Socialists struck fear in opponents.
No country is ready to cede political sovereignty to outside powers or electoral monitors.
Kohl's last years, for example, were marked by electoral corruption.
With the rich and powerful pulling the strings, ordinary people feel that they have no influence on electoral outcomes.
Less promising is the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), where a general election is set to take place on October 7, despite the fact that the country currently lacks an effective electoral law.
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