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In California, many taxes were reduced by voter initiatives, demonstrating the damaging consequences of too much democracy.
Attacking a communist country has always seemed to offer American politicians a convenient way to appeal to the average voter.
European parliamentary debates rarely make it far outside Brussels or Strasbourg, and voter turnout to fill the body’s seats has typically been low.
Democratic countries’ political establishments seem to be in a permanent state of torpor, fueling voter demand for strong leaders who promise to smash through political gridlock and sweep away bureaucratic resistance to bold new policies.
US President Donald Trump capitalized on such feelings to win support, and his Republican Party is now relying on overzealous purges of “inactive” voters, stringent voter ID laws, and closures of polling places to make it more difficult for minorities to vote.
Elections clearly are not enough, because they typically occur at two- or four-year intervals and collect very little information per voter.
Some might not think that hollowing out the right of assembly is as serious as other threats to democracy, not least partisan gerrymandering and voter suppression.
The lesson is that we should think about the economic long term when making decisions that have broad social consequencesAnd, of course, voter unrest is not limited to the US.
This intuition is formalized in a well-known paper in political economy by Allan Meltzer and Scott Richard: the wider the income gap between the median and average voter, the higher the taxes and the greater the redistribution.
Given the conditions, the 60% voter turnout was astonishing.
Even worse, faced with an erosion of their voter base, many mainstream parties are playing catch-up with these destructive forces, engaging in EU-bashing of their own.
The first is to put purchasing power directly into the hands of consumers – for example, by issuing each voter or citizen with smart cards worth $1,000 each.
Turnout for the parliamentary election was 40%, which puts Poland near the bottom in voter participation among the democratic nations of the world, and about 25-30% below the European average.
May thought that she had a strong hand, because she has more information than the average voter about the country’s future prospects.
To address this, the political scientists T. Anthony Quinn and R. Michael Alvarez recommend reforming the primary process to “give voters more choices, which in turn can stimulate increased voter turnout.”
During this time, the Liberals will set their patronage machine in motion and attempt to expand their voter base enough to win an outright majority.
Navalny certainly is not perfect, and, though the Moscow election may be competitive by Russian standards, it is still outrageously unfair in terms of media access, financing, and voter intimidation.
Most of the 375 million or so people eligible to vote in the European elections on June 4-7 probably have only a hazy idea, or none at all, which explains why voter turnout throughout the European Union is likely to be disastrously low.
The AKP has largely squandered the goodwill that first brought it to power on a wave of voter revulsion at the old political elite’s rampant corruption.
Of course, politicians incite many of these conflicts, using caste, sect, and religion--not political ideas--to build voter loyalty.
They seemed to believe Brexiteer MP Gisela Stuart: “the only expert that matters” is the voter.
Trump’s protectionist campaign rhetoric may not have been meant literally, but if he fails to deliver any of the trade curbs that he promised, Republicans will suffer a backlash from what is now their core voter constituency, voters in declining industries and regions.
The left-wing party wants to redistribute wealth and incomes more, and the right-wing party less; but both need to restrain themselves, and in appealing to the median voter, they become near-identical alternatives.
As long as he controls these two bastions of voter sentiment, he is safe.
One factor fueling voter unrest is evident: many ordinary Americans think that the deck is stacked against them.
Despite the huge philosophical differences between the two parties over the appropriate size of government, there is one uncontroversial way in which the candidate who is elected in November can address voter resentment.
What prevents the median voter in a democracy from voting to dispossess the rich and successful?
One reason that the median voter rationally agrees to protect the property of the rich may be that she sees the rich as more efficient managers of that property.
The more, however, that the rich are seen as idle or crooked – as having simply inherited or, worse, gained their wealth nefariously – the more the median voter should be willing to vote for tough regulations and punitive taxes on them.
Similarly, the Brexit referendum posed a question with so many ramifications that no voter could possibly have considered them all.
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