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Although all the formal trappings of a true electoral contest are in place, important aspects of authenticity are glaringly absent.
Protectionism may, in fact, be an electoral dinosaur.
The emergence of Congress as the largest single party and its alliance as the biggest grouping with 219 seats, is the most astonishing result in the history of Indian electoral politics, as was the Left's stunning tally of 63.
But why did the NDA, which had changed India so much, suffer such an electoral debacle, getting drubbed almost everywhere in he country?
That system was replaced by a new electoral law that obliges political parties to include at least one woman on their candidate lists.
Macron may have won the day in France, but Trump’s electoral victory was no accident.
During December's Duma elections, for example, the government – in violation of existing electoral laws – used its influence to give both covert and overt support to the "party of power," Unity (Yedinstvo).
A free electoral process brought Hamas to power in Palestine, and the unfortunate episode of the Danish newspaper cartoons illustrated the almost combustible nature of relations between Islam and the West.
But the SNP’s likely electoral gain is too large to be explained by secessionist sentiment alone.
Moreover, the asylum battle that Merkel has courageously fought is being lost: two years after claiming that Germany was strong enough to open its borders, she suffered a severe electoral setback, followed by tensions within her coalition and retreat on the European front.
And, as a corollary, smaller parties seeking an electoral foothold have had to target political minorities, many of whom have strongly held preferences and beliefs.
Because the CDU and the SPD lost support in the recent election, with the latter deciding to spend the coming electoral term in the opposition, Merkel will need to form a coalition with such parties.
One key step, I believe, is to remove these issues from short-term electoral politics.
By Freedom House’s count, more than 60% of the world’s countries are electoral democracies – regimes in which political parties compete and come to power in regularly scheduled elections – up from around 40% in the late 1980s.
The second ensures that groups that win electoral contests can assume power and choose policies to their liking – provided these policies do not violate the other two sets of rights.
But these bargains, by their very nature, produce electoral democracies rather than liberal democracies.
Of the three leading electoral coalitions that are challenging each other, the forces that supported the Orange Revolution seek a modern and democratic future for our country.
The lesson that politicians in Europe, the US, and elsewhere should draw from the judgment is that they are playing with fire in seeking electoral advantage by attacking Muslims.
Given these precedents, perhaps Asian policymakers should consider the merits of doing away with “cohabitation” and adopting systems where electoral victory translates into real power.
Bush/Gore: There is a DifferenceBOSTON/ROME: Any reader of non-US newspapers could draw two conclusions about America’s electoral campaign: 1. that there is little difference between the two candidates; 2. that a mere detail – a slip of the tongue, a false step, a piece of gossip – could decide the election.
The story of presidential elections in the twentieth century goes like this: if a foreign observer had only the following two pieces of data: 1. economic growth during the electoral year and 2. the name of the incumbent president, the observer could foresee with precision the results of presidential elections, independently of the entire campaign.
An incumbent president running for a second term (like Clinton in 1996) has an advantage; beyond that, strong economic growth in the electoral year favors the party of the incumbent president.
Eisenhower in 1956, Johnson in 1964, Reagan in 1984, Bush in 1990, and Clinton 1996 (all incumbent presidents or vice presidents) with an economy in good shape would have won even if they hadn’t opened their mouth for the whole electoral campaign.
If this is really a “new” economy maybe the economy’s impact on electoral results is also “new”.
Indeed, by alienating big business and letting his wily chief of staff, Alexander Voloshin, resign, Putin has deprived himself of crucial electoral resources.
The ballot will include dozens of competing parties, most of which will not win parliamentary seats, owing to a 2005 electoral law requiring at least 4% of the national vote to enter the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house) and 8% on a regional basis to enter the Senate.
Most observers believe that Bersani will carry the day, thanks to the much-criticized electoral law, which will give him control of the lower chamber if he wins a majority – regardless of how many people vote or how slim the margin.
Instead, the Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau, ended up obtaining the second-largest parliamentary majority in its history – 184 seats – despite having started the electoral campaign in third place.
National interests must be placed above electoral considerations.
With its public image tarnished by infighting and corruption, Fatah is looking toward its August 4 convention as an opportunity to unify for the electoral campaign.
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