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Encouraging ethnic and religious polarization for electoral gain is of course not unique to the BJP or India.
Short-term goals must have priority, because many Islamist parties are being pressed to produce positive results within a single electoral cycle.
Muslim Anxieties and India’s FuturePHILADELPHIA – A couple of weeks ago, Narendra Modi was celebrating his biggest electoral triumph since becoming India’s prime minister in 2014.
A bigoted chief minister running India’s largest state might well help the ruling party’s short-term electoral prospects, but it could have serious consequences for the country over the longer term.
The confusion has been made complete by the existence of relatively strong nationalist and populist parties that use the numerous Polish farmers as their electoral base.
Instead, the major powers will weaponize their interconnections, giving rise to more trade wars, cyber attacks, sanctions regimes, and electoral interference.
That seems to be the case in Mexico, which recently passed new tax and electoral laws – but not the ones the country needs.
Opposition legislators wanted electoral reform, but no new taxes; the administration wanted more revenues, but no new election laws.
Meanwhile, the three main parties – the National Action Party (PAN), the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) – united in order to keep newcomers out of the electoral arena.
The one positive feature of the reforms – a scheme aimed at ensuring equal radio and television airtime for parties during electoral campaigns – was tainted by serious legislative omissions.
Although independent central banks have been crucial in helping the region achieve macroeconomic stability over the past two decades, they, like electoral authorities, are being subjected to increasing pressure.
Likewise, electoral commissions there and in Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and, according to some accounts, in Argentina are being packed with political loyalists.
Moreover, it would be useful to synchronize budgetary decisions with the Parliament’s electoral terms.
Israel today is governed by the most fanatically right-wing administration in its history, and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has consistently refused to disengage from his nationalist electoral base for the sake of peace.
He has intimidated the judiciary into ignoring institutional checks on his power, so that constitutionally independent agencies, such as the electoral commission and the central bank, are now under his direct control.
Pandering to populists may be attractive in terms of short-term electoral gains, but the long-term cost in terms of credibility, both their own and that of the EU, will be very high.
Let us hope that Mubarak is more serious about electoral reform.
The result was that its electoral support plunged from 44% to 12%.
Yes, it was a clear symptom of deep political dysfunction, stemming from the politicized demarcation of electoral districts and the distorting effects of America’s campaign-finance system.
In Europe, despite the media focus on the success of xenophobic politicians in Hungary and Poland, the pendulum is swinging away from economic nationalism in the countries that really matter: France, Germany, Spain, and Italy, where the two populist parties that recently achieved electoral breakthroughs are now vying to show their devotion to the euro.
Klaus, Zeman and their parties also agreed to work together to limit presidential power and the independence of the Central Bank by changing the Constitution, as well as to change the electoral law in their favor.
Yet, for red-state politicians, this hypocrisy has been a winning electoral strategy for three decades.
Paradoxically, by monopolizing the centrist position, the UMNO-led coalition soon became vulnerable to electoral attacks by Malay- and non-Malay-based opposition.
The first-past-the-post electoral system concealed the exodus of numerous Malay voters from the UMNO-led coalition to the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS).
Meanwhile, despite failing to increase their overall level of support, Chinese-based opposition parties increased their seat count, as the system rewarded them for better electoral coordination.
The election outcome distorted the actual electoral swing and fueled Malay fears that their political dominance through UMNO had been weakened.
The current winner-takes-all electoral system tends to favor regional opposition parties that are identity-driven and not prone to political compromise.
Given the huge premium accorded to the winner by Italy’s new electoral law (Renzi was sure he would be the one to benefit), such a prospect is truly frightening.
The AKP’s electoral victories since 2002 (as well as comparable developments in other Muslim countries) were, in a way, the return of the repressed.
These voters formed the basis of the AKP’s electoral victories and democratic legitimacy.
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