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As the Green and feminist movements have shown, a movement can contest traditional forms of politics without claiming to represent “the real people” or the “silent majority.”
But today’s political movements also tend to be less pluralistic than the large parties that have dominated post-war European politics.
Thus, the movements that have emerged in Europe in recent years – on both the left and the right – have focused on strengthening their respective individual leaders, rather than empowering their rank-and-file members, even when they emphasize participatory democracy.
In the end, Podemos, La République En Marche!, and Momentum, the youth movement that helped Jeremy Corbyn reshape the British Labour Party’s platform, are not important because they are movements per se.
But it would be naive to think that movements alone will make European politics more democratic.
But those macroeconomic outcomes result from policy decisions abroad and the market-clearing movements of financial prices.
But, though the guests were expected to return home after two years, these controls gradually weakened as part of the general movement toward free trade and free capital movements.
Critics of neoliberalism cannot consistently exempt population movements from regulation.
However, the international outcry obscured an unintended but perhaps more troubling feature of China’s exchange-rate policy: the tendency for sporadic renminbi appreciation (even small movements) to trigger speculative inflows of “hot” money.
Simply put, exchange-rate movements do not properly correct net trade (saving) imbalances between open economies; but they can increase hot money flows.
The adjustment mechanism usually provided by exchange-rate movements could instead be delivered by wage changes.
It is only in more sluggish industrial economies, where wages are assumed to be inflexible, that policymakers advocate exchange-rate movements as a means to overcome wage stickiness.
No limits were ever imposed on players’ movements, except by Communist countries.
Those that did appear generally seem to be based on the assumption that minor fluctuations in construction costs, not massive market swings, drove the modest home price movements that they noted.
That led to income and price movements that caused the tradable sector’s scope to shrink, as lower value-added links of global supply chains moved to emerging economies.
Leaders of social movements can call forth larger visions than public officials can.
Cooperative movements took shape in the Americas, Europe, Australia, and Japan in the 1800’s.
In this context, political parties and movements criticizing or opposing the EU have gained considerable traction, particularly in Western Europe.
While these movements are nothing new, support for them has grown at alarming rates during the crisis-induced turmoil.
For example, merely viewing another person's movements activates our own motor cortex, which we normally use for precise control of our actual movements.
As sports fans, musicians, and students of body language know, watching other people's movements and postures may facilitate the viewer's own motor schemes, sometimes resulting in unintended imitation.
One can copy movements and motor acts without understanding their meaning.
Humans compute other people's intentions and emotions continuously, constantly observing their movements, postures, and gaze.
They "echo," imitating almost all movements of other people.
Likewise, protest movements like Occupy Wall Street, aimed at raising awareness of – and ultimately reforming – the culture of finance, have delivered mixed results.
The West has supported in a variety of ways democratic movements in the post-Soviet region, hardly hiding its enthusiasm for the various “color” revolutions that have replaced long-standing dictators with more responsive leaders – though not all have turned out to be the committed democrats they pretended to be.
To sustain progress in the fight against climate change and corruption, environmental and anti-corruption movements will have to work together, and play to their respective strengths.
It is hyperbole when activists call such movements "the world's other superpower," yet governments ignore them at their peril.
Corrupt rulers can use the billions they receive from oil and mining corporations for personal extravagance, or to buy arms for troops to crush democratic resistance movements.
Using its vast resources, and driven by unbridled ambition, Qatar has emerged as a hub for radical Islamist movements.
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