Representative
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To loud cheers from the crowds, the populists damn elected politicians as thieves and looters, but in the process disparage the institutions and processes of
representative
government.
Of course,
representative
government does sometimes become unresponsive, particularly between elections, but direct democracy is not the solution.
Within the US, Trump’s decision to pursue sweeping import tariffs has been described by one industry
representative
as “the most self-destructive trade act I’ve ever seen.”
Representative
democracy is now the world’s dominant form of government.
Representative
democracy is based not only on universal suffrage, but also on reason.
To date, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been addressing the crisis through the use of his "good offices," with Ibrahim Gambari serving as his
representative
to Burma’s rulers.
Another approach championed at the Johannesburg meeting was to establish a
representative
network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), including no-take reserves.
Second, Germany’s law on the introduction of the ESM obliges Germany’s
representative
on the ESM Council to vote only after having asked the Bundestag for a decision.
On the other hand, Germany’s
representative
on the Governing Council is sworn to secrecy, which, the plaintiffs argue, precludes any accountability to the Bundestag.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s eloquent plea, “Please use your liberty to promote ours,” has special resonance for us in AIPMC, who enjoy the benefits of
representative
democracy.
The EU is, after all, the ultimate expression of
representative
democracy.
Direct votes on issues like trade rules or immigration policy will gut Europe’s
representative
democracy, just as direct votes on membership threaten to gut the EU itself.
Suu Kyi’s announcement of her intention to contest a by-election to the new parliament offers a glimmer of hope that democrats could use the fledgling political process to create something resembling genuine
representative
government.
We say this not because we don’t trust the people, but because referendums in
representative
democracies are instruments to be used very sparingly, on issues that directly affect the very core of national interests, institutions and identity.
Even though referendums are sometimes used in
representative
democracies, as when British voters elected to stay in the European Economic Community in 1975, dictators are much keener on them.
A genuinely
representative
assembly in the twenty-first century will not establish a polity that tolerates political prisoners, censorship, oppression of minorities and women, torture, disappearances, or detention without trial.
What good fortune it is that China's most sacred, encompassing, and powerful doctrine built around the triumvirate of "the interests of the majority of the people" "advanced culture," and "advanced productive forces" found one political party to be its
representative!
For example, in the aftermath of the recent government crackdown in Myanmar (Burma), the Secretary General was able to send a
representative
to the country, but with powers limited to reporting and attempted mediation.
That may be enough to influence some governments, but the Burmese junta recently expelled the UN’s
representative
after he warned of “a deteriorating humanitarian situation.”
During the years of Putin’s leadership, the Kremlin has steadily pushed citizens farther and farther from decision-making by virtually dismantling
representative
institutions.
Chinese officials hired Stanford University professor James Fishkin to draft a
representative
sample of citizens from Zeguo for an assembly using keypad polling devices and handheld computers to decide how the city should spend a $6 million public-works budget.
If internal elections become widespread, the lines of ideological disagreement within elite circles might become more clearly drawn, which could further spur calls for some kind of
representative
institutional structure.
If, reflecting the mood in the member states, the elections result in a fragmented Parliament – possibly rendered less
representative
by low voter turnout – paralysis, disaffection, and ineffectiveness are guaranteed.
The 1944 Bretton Woods conference featured a clash of two men and their visions: Harry Dexter White, President Franklin Roosevelt’s representative, and John Maynard Keynes, representing a fading British Empire.
Once again, a serious breach of
representative
democracy has occurred in Latin America, despite all the tools that have been created in recent years.
Voting budgets in parliament – a
representative
institution – ensured that the people as a whole were liable for the obligations incurred by their government.
Representative
government, and its logical outgrowth, the democratic principle, became part of the classic model of good debt management.
We know that when the same question is asked in real surveys with
representative
samples – not just Harvard students – the outcome is quite different.
While Twitter users are not a random sample of the population, they are quite representative, as their geographic footprint is highly correlated with that of the population as a whole.
Indeed, in Latin America today there are 14
representative
democracies that allow presidential re-election: seven consecutively and seven discontinuously.
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