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With the inflow of cheap money, public spending rises, and politicians thrive on distributing subsidies and preserving inefficient jobs to broaden their electoral appeal.
Immediate electoral or economic imperatives will never alter the fact that global warming will be as damaging for the rich world as it already is for the poor.
A perceived change in American “behavior” under the Obama administration may facilitate Khamenei’s support for, or at least acquiescence in, an electoral victory by Mousavi.
The result represents a sea change for Turkish politics, for it marks the first time that a primarily Kurdish party has cleared the 10% electoral threshold to enter the parliament.
Indeed, the HDP’s electoral success is the main reason that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was unable to retain its parliamentary majority.
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).
Obama’s electoral triumph arrives at a symbolic moment in Palestinian history.
The electoral math is stark.
While 40% of Ukrainians, based mainly in Yanukovych’s electoral heartland in the east and south of the country, would prefer to join the Customs Union, 60% of voters see their future with or in the EU.
Even allowing for widespread electoral fraud (which would hardly endear him to Brussels), Yanukovych would still struggle to win a majority.
But America’s misbegotten democratic message has ended up alienating both its conservative regional allies, as it gave a new lease on life to political Islam, which can use the ballot box as a route to power, and the Islamists, whose electoral gains are then rejected by the US.
And, judging from the tone of the other candidates, standing up for globalization constitutes electoral suicide in the current political climate.
Given these precedents and the widespread instability exposed by this year's elections, perhaps Asian policymakers should consider the merits of doing away with "cohabitation" and adopting systems where electoral victory translates into real power.
Like price in economics, a single electoral choice compresses a lot of information.
Some worry whether Bush will use his electoral mandate to engage in more ventures.
Within Hamas, which is also strongly influenced by Syria and Iran, a fundamental debate had arisen as to whether, in the aftermath of electoral success and the ensuing mandate to govern the Palestinian territories, the organization should recognize Israel?
In addition to replacing the multi-member-district, single-vote electoral system with a single-member-district, two-round voting system, the amendment reduces the number of seats in the Yuan by half.
Similarly, a higher electoral threshold for winning seats should counter vote buying by candidates.
The reasons have nothing to do with the rise of political Islam, but everything to with poor electoral practices by elected incumbents and international indifference.
Today, what might be considered electoral democracies are found throughout the region.
Their first inclination is to defend these electoral democracies on the grounds they no longer engage in killing or in torture.
Our first challenge is to recognize that electoral government has failed to lead to a true democracy of the people.
Despite its name, which means “Together,” it refuses to enter into any kind of alliance with the mainstream parties, including SLD, even though both parties failed to meet the electoral threshold in the last parliamentary election.
Yet the Chinese authorities are determined not to introduce electoral democracy in any way, shape, or form.
The most fundamental challenge facing China’s leaders, then, is to find a governance model that fulfills these demands while continuing to exclude electoral democracy.
The question, then, is whyHungarians and Poles shouldn’t face the consequences of their electoral choices.
Electoral dictatorship.
Opposing migration contradicts their ideals, while supporting it means electoral defeat.
Croatia's course will be tested by the consequences of Tudjman's death and the forthcoming electoral rounds.
Yet Mousavi’s defeat by the hardliner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in what looked like a rigged electoral process, was greeted by some neo-conservatives in the US with relief.
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