Representatives
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First, if institutions are structured in the right way, political
representatives
can articulate programs and policies that, as Madison put it, “refine and enlarge public views.”
To accomplish this, it must be in representatives’ self-interest to reconcile their constituents’ diverse interests, rather than represent homogenous groups.
Madison thus advocated creating positions at the local, state, and federal levels, and in diverse social capacities, as well as ensuring incentives and opportunities for
representatives
to combine and reconcile different interests at all levels of public policymaking.
As a result, nationally elected
representatives
are responsible for making crucial EU-level decisions.
These
representatives
know that their states are net winners of the union, ultimately benefiting from giving two dollars to some of the weaker states for every dollar that they pay in federal taxes.
Representatives
of the armed forces announced that, as defenders of the constitution, they could not support the president.
Yesterday, three years into the process, the UK convened an important EITI conference in London attended by
representatives
of governments, business, and civil society.
When
representatives
of developing nations asked Bush senior to put the over-consumption of resources by the developed countries, especially the US, on the agenda he said that “the American life-style is not up for negotiation” - no matter what, or so it seemed to his audience, the costs to others might be.
Its
representatives
understand that they must win the battle against corruption or leave the country, as they would have no future in Russia otherwise.
When a decision is deemed so vital that it cannot be trusted to the representatives, the principle that underlies the entire political order is challenged.
In all of these areas, elected
representatives
are well-placed to adjudicate the trade-offs required.
For example, foreign aid could be placed under the stewardship of a committee of
representatives
from different social factions, including the civil-society groups at the center of the uprising and the Muslim Brotherhood, with the clear understanding that if the committee fails to agree, the aid will not be disbursed.
For example, since 2008, it has hosted the annual Bali Democracy Forum, at which
representatives
of established and aspiring democracies share their experiences.
At least for now, the rest of the world has seemingly unbounded confidence – reflected in very low borrowing rates – in America’s capacity to put its house (of representatives) in order.
Poland is making its own direct contribution, above all by helping senior Burmese decision makers, opposition leaders, and business
representatives
to understand the “technology of transition” – that is, the sequencing of technical reforms, which has helped to make Poland one of Europe’s healthiest economies today.
Our business
representatives
came with me to present large-scale investment projects.
The goal is peace, stability, and the rule of law, not geopolitical advantage, its senior
representatives
guilelessly maintain.
The latest returns, indeed, show quite the opposite – in France, Italy, Poland, Denmark, and even Germany, where the CDU had won a large number of
representatives
in the 2004 elections.
To date, there has been nothing similar to the Contact Group plan that was hammered out in the summer of 1994 by
representatives
from Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States, and implemented the following year in Dayton, Ohio, after months of on-the-scene diplomacy.
If money-market funds had to maintain capital reserves, industry
representatives
argued, yields to investors would decline and the industry’s profits would suffer.
If there is no free press in Hungary, how can we even know if the country’s
representatives
in the European Parliament have been democratically elected and are acting in good faith?
Even the European Central Bank chipped in, buying government bonds of over-indebted countries, using a loophole in the Maastricht Treaty and overruling the Bank’s German
representatives.
One solution could be to provide national
representatives
a venue to convene for European-wide debates.
The joint budget, which would make investments and provide a cushion during economic downturns, would be overseen by a eurozone finance minister, who would answer to eurozone countries’
representatives
in the European Parliament.
UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown has pointed out that there is distrust between
representatives
of populous developing nations and those from wealthier states – a stand-off he calls “numbers versus pocketbooks”.
That, I believe, is because agribusiness is able to put tens of millions of dollars into the pockets of congressional
representatives
seeking re-election.
The self-declared
representatives
of French society’s deep frustration did not touch on European issues at all.
As well as happily receiving requests from individual social, political or military
representatives
within the target areas, the USAID-sponsored program invited NGOs to submit their own proposals.
Such forces rail against “identity politics” (while speaking to predominantly white crowds who insist that they are their nation’s true representatives).
Despite all that had gone before, the public and their
representatives
were stunned to learn that bankers had systematically undermined the foundations of a global market benchmark – one with London in its name to boot – for personal gain.
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