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An even more startling fact emerges from a review of the last eight times an incumbent from one party was succeeded by a president from the other party.
The behavior of companies like Volkswagen may end up encouraging consumers to shift from the industry’s incumbent manufacturers to newcomers such as Google’s forthcoming self-driving cars and Tesla’s electric models, which challenge the very premise of emissions tests.
Second, by removing decision-making power from the national government that hosts an insolvent institution, this solution minimizes the potential distortions created by the lobbying power of the incumbent bankers.
In a liberalization package just released, the government partially redresses its early mistakes in privatization by clawing back power from the incumbent near monopolies in oil, gas, electricity, and telecoms.
The French perceive no real difference between an incumbent who has not kept his promises and a challenger whose promises are untenable.
History is replete with examples of conflicts stemming from a rising power challenging the influence and interests of an incumbent.
Incumbent directors typically nominate themselves, and the company pays their election expenses (for soliciting votes from distant and dispersed shareholders, producing voting materials, submitting legal filings, and, when an election is contested, paying for high-priced US litigation).
But some observers fear that the incumbent DPP President Chen Shui-bian will seek a pretext to prevent a defeat for the pro-sovereignty camp.
In Wisconsin, former Senator Russ Feingold is decisively ahead of incumbent Senator Ron Johnson, after having narrowly lost to him six years ago; and in Illinois, the GOP has effectively written off gaffe-prone Republican Senator Mark Kirk.
At one level, this is good news for those concerned about the prospects of incumbent workers: there will continue to be demand for workers in existing occupations.
A Global New DealNEW YORK – Recent political developments, including the defeat of incumbent governments in France and Greece, suggest that the public’s tolerance for economic policies that do not reduce unemployment has collapsed.
In a widely distributed video clip, MBS can be seen falling to his knees to kiss the just-dismissed incumbent crown prince’s hand.
Yet insulation materials and energy-efficient appliances remain expensive, owing to tariff protections for incumbent producers using outmoded technologies.
But, unlike in the 2004 US election, and despite a strong economy, voters cast their ballots against the incumbent Partido Popular government.
French governments – including the incumbent one – may have failed to respond adequately to the country’s economic plight.
The highest-ever turnout – nearly 85% – was recorded in the disputed 2009 election, when Mir-Hossein Mousavi seemed certain to win, yet Ahmadinejad, the incumbent, was declared the victor.
The incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, gained 45.9%.
For decades, both parties struggled against incumbent regimes that sought to undermine their rise.
Other BJP policy mistakes also weakened support for the incumbent administrations.
Egyptians go to the polls on September 7th to elect a president from among ten contenders, including the incumbent of 24 years, Hosni Mubarak.
In Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, is making a sustained and powerful challenge to the incumbent president in the election due in January 2012.
In 1981, there was a European framework for currency stability, the European Monetary System, which Mitterrand regarded as the personal project of his right-wing opponent, the incumbent President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
In exercising that power, Donald Trump has broken a long-standing pattern, going back almost a half-century, whereby the president reappoints (on a non-partisan basis) the incumbent Fed chair, if he or she has been seen to be doing a good job.
Governments have a vital role to play, but so, too, do incumbent fossil-fuel-based energy companies and new-entrant companies deploying or developing new technologies.
The incumbent mayor, Sergey Sobyanin, who has the full support of the Kremlin political-media machine, has been receiving personal-approval ratings above 90% in recent opinion polls.
For example, in California’s 45th district (in the traditionally conservative Orange County), University of California, Irvine, law professor Dave Min is taking on the incumbent Republican, Mimi Walters.
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.
In other words, conservative vote for Republicans and those on the left vote for Democrats on the basis of differences in the party programs, those in the middle go from one side to the other on the basis of the state of the economy and perceptions about the “competence” of the incumbent administration.
After WWII the only two incumbent presidents not reelected were Carter in 1980, who ran in the middle of a recession, and Bush (the father) in 1992, who paid for mediocre economic growth in 1990-1992.
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