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A vibrant civil society will mobilize when the rule of law is violated, and it can also check the illiberal inclinations of democratic majorities.
Since the global crisis erupted in the fall of 2008, both Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have been faced with threats that their political majorities might disappear if they put aside their national interests in favor of a European compromise.
Moreover, there were clear majorities in favor of free movement in every sub-group of the sample, whether categorized by age, region, or political-party support, with one exception: the small minority of voters who supported the anti-immigrant UK Independence Party.
In both countries, majorities voted against adopting the euro because they feared that national welfare norms would become curtailed.
Republican majorities in both houses of Congress reinforced the positive sentiment, as they signaled that Trump would not face the kind of paralyzing gridlock that Barack Obama confronted for most of his presidency.
The Hague Tribunal: Belgrade's ViewBELGRADE: Opinion polls in Serbia show that large majorities believe the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to be a political instrument to bash Serbs.
While only 3-4% of voters admit to changing their minds about Brexit, large majorities want to keep most of the benefits of free trade, easy travel, immigrant labor, and strong environmental, consumer, and health regulation.
Egypt needs a constitution that enjoys broad support – and that includes checks and balances that make it difficult for minorities (even those who command the support of a plurality of voters) to rule majorities.
Many have advocated the use of “double majorities” – which require a majority of votes according to two separate criteria, population and economic output – to elicit action from a manageable number of states while enhancing weaker states’ influence in decision-making.
Two years into his term, Ortega needed to win majorities in the local elections in order to impose a constitutional reform that will allow him to seek a second consecutive term.
If forced to choose, they preferred single-market membership by large majorities.
Both had been unstable for a long time, ruled by secular Ba’athist dictators who faced popular majorities that adhered to a rival Muslim sect, in addition to a large population of Kurds, who have long dreamed of independence.
Significantly, these majorities existed in Muslim countries as well.
This acceptance of collective responsibility should come with abandoning US veto power in the IMF by lowering required voting majorities, as well as abandoning Europe’s prerogative of appointing the Managing Director.
Moreover, the Republicans now control 33 governorships, compared to 16 for the Democrats, and have expanded their already-large majorities in state legislatures.
Incorrupt independent judges are even more influential than politicians elected with massive majorities.
They are intrinsically time-bound attempts to come to terms with issues, and they should be allowed to run their course if they are based on deliberations by elected majorities of representatives.
Large majorities, meanwhile, agree that “migrants generally help address labor-market shortages.”
In fact, since 1985, fifteen Latin American presidents – most without legislative majorities – have not finished their term.
Moreover, each of the seven judges on Mexico’s Federal Election Tribunal was individually approved by two-thirds majorities in the Senate, which included the PAN and the PRD.
These majorities are often constituted by complex coalitions of three or more parties that concur on a minimum program.
In these circumstances, the model functions as classic presidentialism (even if it does not produce legislative majorities).
Such limits should be applied in the UK, with referenda requiring not just an overall majority, but also separate majorities within England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
For many Palestinians and Israelis, as well as for the international community, the shape and details of what would be a settlement acceptable to majorities on both sides is well known.
Although overwhelming majorities voted in favor of membership in virtually all candidate countries where membership referendums have taken place, many people did not turn out to vote.
But the country's bitter and divisive presidential campaign will leave bad blood, and whoever becomes president will be unable to count on Cardoso's large and cohesive majorities in Congress.
A recent transatlantic survey by the German Marshall Fund found that, while majorities in all countries were worried about illegal immigration, anxiety about legal immigration was low – with only 26% of European respondents expressing concern, and just 18% doing so in the United States.
According to a recent poll by the German Marshall Fund, majorities in France, Germany, and the United States favor maintaining existing trade barriers, even if doing so hampers economic growth.
Nor does France seem ready to endorse a first-past-the-post electoral system, which gives governments strong parliamentary majorities, as in the UK.
Thailand’s Democratic DisorderBANGKOK – From Thailand to Turkey to Ukraine, the relationship between ruling majorities and electoral minorities has become combustible – and is threatening to erode the legitimacy of democracy itself.
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