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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.
In sum, an incumbent vice president who loses with an economy such as exists in America today should retire to private life.
Mutualizing the risks of protecting the world’s poor is not only financially feasible for wealthier countries; it is also incumbent upon them in fulfilling their international obligations, including human-rights commitments.
The incumbent chief minister, Mayawati, whose Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won an absolute majority last time by forging a “rainbow coalition” composed of her Dalit (formerly “untouchable”) constituency and upper castes, was summarily ousted.
Alas, Greek voters, unimpressed by this rejoicing, ousted the incumbent government and, in January 2015, voted for a new administration in which I served as finance minister.
When Rajapaksa decided last November to call an early election to help cash in on his war-hero status with the Sinhalese, he had a surprise waiting for him: anticipating the move, Fonseka submitted his resignation so that he could stand against the incumbent as the common opposition candidate.
As the incumbent with control over the state machinery and media support, Rajapaksa has the edge in the election.
If, in the meantime, the political system has not acquired more institutional cushioning, and the presidency’s unique legitimacy remains – like today – based merely on the public’s approval of an incumbent surrounded by shady and bickering Kremlin factions, there would be a high risk of chronic destabilisation.
A political party infused with a normal instinct for self-preservation would produce a fresh face to run in a proper presidential election, replacing an unpopular incumbent and his cronies.
In many Arab countries, incumbent public and private firms – especially in critical sectors like financial services, telecommunications, and energy – enjoy significant advantages, including outright protection, onerous regulations that deter market entry by new players, and inadequate limits on natural monopolies.
Excessive regulation that protects incumbent firms and other vested interests undermines market competitiveness and limits prospects for improved productivity and efficiency.
The survival of artisanal retailers should not be used as an excuse to introduce or uphold business regulations that ultimately protect the incumbent rich.
Even incumbent governments in the region are altering their course.
A large chunk of the Republican base, including many of the party’s largest donors, believes that any Democratic president is an illegitimate enemy of America, so that whatever such an incumbent proposes must be wrong and thus should be thwarted.
The charismatic and workaholic President Uribe was allowed – for the first time in Colombia's modern history – to stand for a second four-year term as an incumbent, winning outright in the first round with an absolute majority of 62% of the popular vote.
Airbnb and Uber have demonstrated that disruption from another industry is particularly powerful, because it involves enabling efficiency-enhancing structural changes that draw on core competencies and strategies that the incumbent firms lack.
Xi enjoys the backing of incumbent PSC members associated with the Shanghai faction once led by ex-president Jiang Zemin, as well as the majority of party elders.
The Shanghai faction, now led by incumbent Standing Committee member and Vice-President Zeng Qinghong, is more interested in preserving the Greater Shanghai Region’s status as the “dragonhead” of China’s economy.
Chinese growth is unlikely to accelerate and lift commodity prices; the Fed has increased the pace of its QE tapering; structural reforms are not likely until after elections; and incumbent governments have been similarly wary of the growth-depressing effects of tightening fiscal, monetary, and credit policies.
Roth’s story unfolds in 1940, and depicts the heroic aviator and Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh triumphed over incumbent President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The current period of relative calm coincides with the approach of Germany’s federal election in 2013, in which the incumbent chancellor, Angela Merkel, will be running as the woman who saved the euro.
For example, incumbent workers will be much more concerned with social-security reforms in a poorly performing economy than in a booming economy.
Political resistance to structural reforms – especially from older incumbent workers – will be stronger in a low-output, high-unemployment economy, because it is worse to be laid off in such conditions.
Hollande is the incumbent, but his performance has been disappointing on nearly all fronts, especially when it comes to tackling unemployment.
In Brazil’s upcoming presidential election, both of the incumbent Dilma Rousseff’s main opponents are advocating policies that hark back to the good old days.
And the ongoing Karmapa saga, with its shadowy politics and intrigue, could turn out to be only the opening act – a foretaste of what may come when two dueling Dalai Lamas emerge after the incumbent passes from the scene.
The incumbent, Abdoulaye Wade, formerly a leading advocate for democracy, has, at almost 90 years old, become its gravedigger.
Rigid labor markets and a corporate governance culture that protects incumbent managers, make it hard to reap the benefits of new technologies.
Also, goods market regulations favor incumbent firms and discourage new entrants: while firm profits in Europe are high, investment is not, at least when compared to the US.
True, a multilateral system may help the incumbent hegemon and the rising power avoid falling into the so-called “Thucydides’ trap” of military confrontation.
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