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These voters are understandably angry that politicians and EU technocrats so badly mismanaged the crisis in the eurozone, unjustly bailing out banks while imposing austerity on everyone else.
Then as now, only a minority of voters bothered to vote, and a mere 54% of those who did participate, then as now, voted no.
I cannot help but recall the situation in the summer of 1992, when a small majority of Danish voters rejected the Maastricht Treaty.
One recent poll found that 66% of Republican voters backed Trump’s threatened tariffs against China.
His voters expect him to deliver on that promise, and he knows it.
Even in the Philippines, where the People Power Revolution overthrew Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, voters have just elected as their president Rodrigo Duterte, an avowed populist strongman and trigger-happy warrior against drug lords.
After winning over voters with their apparent decisiveness and directness, such leaders capture enough authority to make quick decisions and demonstrate short-term results – thereby keeping voters on their side as they claim still greater authority.
Voters surrender freedoms for that promised prosperity, as Russia under Putin illustrates.
If that were not enough to convince voters of the dangers posed by populist autocrats, one might also consider the human toll of living under their rule.
In the latest US mid-term elections, the turnout rate among younger citizens was less than 20%, compared to more than 50% for senior voters.
Concentrating on egalitarianism would appeal to liberals, of course, but it should not alienate moderate voters either, because more equality would be good for the economy.
Indeed, while there were some grievances about transparency during the campaign process, democracy prevailed, with a stunning 86% of eligible voters turning out – a rate rarely seen in Europe.
That is what voters want, that is the fashion, that is what looming social security deficits require.
Throughout the crisis, European leaders have tried to respond to the gaps in the monetary union without proposing a new treaty, because they fear that any new treaty proposing more centralization of authority in Brussels would be rejected, either by national parliaments or by voters in a referendum.
With expectations about the future being undermined by such deep-rooted and multifaceted forces, perhaps it should not be surprising that voters in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere are expressing anger toward the establishment.
This suggests that online voting may simply encourage regular voters to change how they cast their ballots, rather than encouraging additional voters to participate.
Such technology doesn’t reduce costs only for voters; it also reduces costs for the state, making it easier than ever to conduct elections.
But, in a representative democracy, referenda undermine the relationship between the voters and their political leaders, who have been entrusted to make policy on citizens’ behalf.
The outcome was driven by voters’ recognition of their country’s fundamental problems – starkly apparent in the tents that remain on Maidan Square, the loss of Crimea, and the separatist violence in Donbas – and their desire for an effective government to address those problems.
Nonetheless, a sense of nostalgia drove many voters’ decisions.
To be sure, Ukraine has a strong partner in the EU – particularly if its government responds effectively to voters’ call for improved governance.
Indeed, in the early years of the democratic transition that followed, most post-communist voters did not succumb to the temptation to elect extremists who promised to end the hard times they were enduring.
As life has gotten easier, with people’s material expectations largely met, voters have increasingly favored neo-autocrats who promise to “protect” the people from this or that threat.
Democracy will be decisive because it generates investments in education, health, and economic empowerment that reward ordinary voters.
Political parties in the democracies, with no force at their disposal, faced the challenge of actually persuading voters.
What is perhaps harder, they must first persuade the media-glutted voters to tear themselves away from entertainment - or, these days, "infotainment" - long enough to attend to a political message at all.
In order to persuade voters, candidates mount multi-media pageants costing tens of millions of dollars.
But there are few signs that voters feel well-served by the blizzard of new technology, though in the last few years thoughtful people have been trying to devise more fruitful forms of coverage.
Meanwhile, right-wing parties, like the Republicans in the United States, paid lip service to the social conservatism, and sometimes outright bigotry, of less privileged voters in rural and provincial areas, while doing what was best for big business once they were in power.
During the campaign, the question on many people’s minds was, “How could voters give such an unpredictable and inexperienced person control of the nuclear codes?”
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