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The PTP’s supporters are happy with a system that grants them a political voice – indeed, predictable electoral majorities – and that safeguards their rights.
Its legitimacy and influence depend not on winning electoral majorities, but on its strong alliances with the military, bureaucracy, and judiciary in defense of a traditional hierarchy that places the king at its apex.
At the same time, majorities should not view an electoral victory as a license to act without regard for minority concerns.
While Parliament majorities in other EU member states like Britain, France, Italy and Spain are clear, they are not in Germany.
With strong majorities in both houses, he should be able to secure whatever reform legislation he needs – that is, provided that he can maintain the LDP’s internal discipline (his enormous popularity will help him).
At one level, Poles are aware of this, with large majorities describing financial conditions in their own families, workplaces, and social environments as either “good” or “very good.”
The dissonance is that equally large majorities also describe Poland’s economic situation and the “direction in which the country is moving” as either “bad” or “very bad.”
At the same time, overwhelming majorities of Kurds, Sunnis, and Shi’ites – more than eight out of ten – preferred to be seen as Iraqis first, believing that “Iraq will be a better society if people treat one another as Iraqis.”
Strong majorities also endorsed the idea of a democratic system for Iraq.
Leaders themselves need the nerve to take often precarious parliamentary majorities through the troughs of popularity.
The region’s first generation of elected leaders, like former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, often proved to be no more than elected autocrats who used their majorities to crush their opponents and suppress technologies that could be used as tools for change.
America must push for a solution that can garner the support of significant majorities of all the peoples between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean.
Rather, the problem is rooted in the period from the 1930’s to the 1970’s, when bipartisan majorities enacted – or supported the expansion of – the popular Social Security and Medicare programs, which provide, respectively, pensions and health care to senior citizens.
Perhaps most importantly, Mexico must devise a French-style semi-presidential system whereby a designated Prime Minister is responsible for building majorities in Congress, and must be ratified by the latter.
Islamist groups won majorities in both the Tunisian and Egyptian parliaments.
Highly motivated minorities can and do overwhelm the general interests of majorities who are not seized with an issue.
Here, prospects for Congressional approval look more promising, owing to strong voter support, with surveys showing that large majorities of Democratic, independent, and Republican voters support an increase.
That suggests that the problem may not be with US citizens’ attitudes, but rather that, at the federal level, the US political system allows industries with large campaign chests too much power to thwart the wishes of popular majorities.
The International Barriers to Trump’s Economic PlanDUBAI – US President-elect Donald Trump should have a relatively clear road ahead at home for the implementation of his economic program: with Republicans holding majorities in both houses of Congress, he seems likely to benefit from a break in the political gridlock that has paralyzed the body for the last six years.
It is rarely put on behalf of individuals, but it regularly arises for sub-groups, such as national minorities, who see themselves as oppressed by majorities.
After all, he is personally popular, and his Democratic Party holds commanding majorities in both houses of Congress.
In Nixon’s time, there were solid adversarial Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, and there were also some Republicans, especially in the Senate, who put concerns about the Constitution ahead of concerns for their party.
Today’s Republican congressional majorities, however, have seemed singularly devoted to slowing and narrowing any serious inquiry into the thoroughly substantiated reports of Russian efforts to throw the 2016 election to Trump.
Such a deep political restructuring aimed at building new progressive majorities will be difficult, and it will not happen overnight.
Indeed, a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that majorities in 44 of 47 countries supported tighter immigration restrictions.
Prime ministers will be able to rule full-term with comfortable majorities.
What nobody anticipated was that the crushing defeat of the Communists at the polls for all but one of the seats we were allowed to contest made it impossible for the Communists to form a new government, even if the numerical majorities were still on their side.
He gave me approximately the same answer when I referred to the need to change Israel’s electoral system based on proportional representation, which produces weak majorities at best and near-paralysis at worst.
Racial and gender equality are now backed by clear majorities in the US, Britain, and most European countries, and even apparently popular policies such as trade protectionism and strict immigration controls rarely muster more than 30-40% support in opinion surveys.
But the social conservatives inspired by such atavistic and authoritarian sentiments do not make up majorities in any Western country.
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