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Majorities as high as 90 percent and greater in Egypt, Indonesia and Iran told us in 2005 that if they were to write a new constitution for a theoretical new country that they would guarantee freedom of speech as a fundamental right, especially in Egypt.
The first has been to rely on the Republican majorities in the two houses of Congress to pass legislation in the face of strong popular opposition.
On the contrary, they make it possible for majorities to exploit minorities.
Another lesson is that we should not worry too much about shifting political majorities.
In any case, Republicans have majorities in both houses of Congress, so they don’t actually need the Democrats’ support to pass legislation.
Nor were there any states with Jewish majorities that were hostile to the West.
In the US, Trump’s victory, coupled with Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, paves the way for tax cuts and increased defense spending.
The main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, triumphed in the northwestern state of Punjab and won pluralities in Goa and Manipur (though the BJP formed governments in the latter two states anyway, by assembling coalitions to ensure legislative majorities).
We need restraints on the exercise of political power to prevent majorities (or those in power) from riding roughshod over the rights of minorities (or those not in power).
Leaders on both sides ignore strong majorities that crave peace, allowing extremist-led violence to preempt all opportunities for building a political consensus.
But this is not true of Scotland or Catalonia; nor, despite Russian propaganda, does it appear to be the case for those regions of Ukraine with ethnic Russian majorities.
The role of politics is to elect majorities that can abolish regulations and regulatory bodies.
But, if independent technocrats are allowed to determine long-term policy and set objectives that cannot be influenced by democratic majorities, democracy itself is in serious jeopardy.
The regime has specifically targeted countries with Shia majorities, such as Iraq and Bahrain, and those with significant Shia minorities, such as Kuwait, Lebanon, and Yemen.
For to convince the world that they would continue reforming, Poland and Hungary’s postcommunists formed coalition governments despite winning overwhelming parliamentary majorities.
Moreover, in many countries, large majorities of Muslims say Sharia should be the official law.
Another possibility is to turn razor-thin majorities into one-sided governments that remain centrist in policy.
As long as winners with razor-thin majorities, once in office, steer a middle course, they are more likely to remain acceptable to an electorate that is more volatile than divided.
Arab governments’ policies will become more reflective of their peoples’ wishes, even when these are represented, as we now see, by Islamist majorities.
This seems to be the case in Europe, as clear majorities of voters are saying in all eurozone countries, including Germany and Greece.
That, however, was out of the question: the AKP benefited from the rules put in place for the 2002 and 2007 general elections, in both cases converting pluralities of the popular vote into large parliamentary majorities.
With the backing of Catholic majorities in western and southern Germany, the CDU and the CSU have been the traditional governing parties in the post-war German Federal Republic since the days of Konrad Adenauer.
As a rule, German presidential elections are highly charged events, because they can be an early indicator of emerging new political majorities.
This makes all majorities against a governing chancellor highly dramatic, because they reflect his or her declining power.
The only way out of this political trap is progressive internationalism, based on solidarity among large majorities around the world who are prepared to rekindle democratic politics on a planetary scale.
And, while weighted majorities can overrule it on some issues, everyone acknowledges that little can be done in the eurozone unless Germany agrees.
The government of Hollande and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has strong majorities at all executive and legislative levels, giving it a rare opportunity to act.
Likewise, Obama administration policymakers still pat themselves on the back for preventing a second Great Depression, and say they did the best they could, given recalcitrant Republican congressional majorities after the 2010 midterm elections.
None of the structural reforms essential to improving Italy’s growth potential – for example, labor-market and unemployment benefit reforms, product market liberalizations, improvements of the education system, reforms of the public administration in the South – has been carried out, even though Berlusconi could count on solid majorities in both chambers of Parliament.
Troubled by the president’s apparent soft spot for (or perhaps fear of) Vladimir Putin, overwhelming bipartisan majorities in both chambers passed a bill to impose more sanctions on Russia and – most unusually – to prevent the president from lifting any such penalties.
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