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By speaking openly about migration and addressing voters’ legitimate concerns, politicians in these countries also have helped to ground public debate in reality.
The World’s Ins and OutsLONDON – As the United Kingdom’s debate about whether to withdraw from the European Union has heated up, “in” and “out” have come to define the stark choice facing voters in next week’s “Brexit” referendum.
And, as we’ve seen in both the UK’s Brexit debate and the United States’ presidential election campaign, neither facts nor reason will dissuade voters with an “out” mindset.
The Democrat Party, which headed the previous government, claimed that it offered similar reforms and cannot understand why the voters rejected them.
In this context, Renzi’s observation that voters have given him an “extraordinary responsibility” is wholly accurate.
To meet voters’ expectations, Renzi must work to fill the gaps that have opened in post-crisis Europe.
Voters entrust politicians with becoming informed – making full use of public servants, information, and analysis – and weighing alternatives with a long-term, big-picture perspective.
They are held accountable for their choices by voters, other elected officials (in the form of parliamentary scrutiny), and independent media.
That was the case in a February 2014 referendum, in which a majority of Swiss voters and cantons expressed their preference for limiting immigration through quotas.
In the UK, terms like “Brexit,” “no deal,” and “remain” have become heavily loaded, with campaigners for each priming voters to support their view.
One way to help counter that priming – supported by past surveys – could be to direct voters, first, to consider what they actually know about the topic, including what they understand by the key terms.
But winning the support of the millions of voters who fervently back Sanders poses a serious challenge.
Her campaign is counting on Donald Trump to unite the party, and that might well happen; but she will have her work cut out, particularly among young and first-time voters, who have overwhelmingly backed Sanders.
Lastly, the purely technocratic approach is a recipe for pushing older voters into the arms of populists.
Enlightened politicians should appeal to older voters’ sense of fairness.
As Donald Trump prepares to succeed Obama, analysts are suggesting that Hillary Clinton lost last month’s election because she lacked empathy with white Americans, particularly Rust Belt voters yearning for the days when the US was a manufacturing powerhouse.
More and more, populist leaders regard their election by the majority of voters as a license to crush all political and cultural dissent.
Why?Russian voters tend to vote according to three main sentiments: anti-liberal, anti-oligarchic, and anti-Western (more precisely, anti-American).
In addition, Rogozin is a pro-Putin politician, which is also very important to the bulk of voters, and he has managed to confirm this not only verbally, but also bureaucratically, by his work as the president's special representative for Kaliningrad Oblast affairs.
In the United States, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the budget deficit is on course to triple over the next 30 years, from 2.9% of GDP in 2017 to 9.8% in 2047, owing to the effects of tax cuts and other budget-busting measures implemented to appeal to voters (or, equally important, to appease donors).
Greece’s voters were right to demand a change in course, and their government is right to refuse to sign on to a deeply flawed program.
And, second, Trump’s dysfunctional administration is a model of how not to govern, and voters could punish those, like French National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who continue to emulate it.
Disaffected voters reject the systems that produced the deficiencies.
It may be too late to persuade voters not to reject the existing systems, but there is still time to build effective alternatives.
She did not “triangulate” in an effort to find the middle point between opposing views; she deplored the idea that the middle ground of politics, where most voters dwell, was pre-determined by a wishy-washy elite consensus.
Tough and expensive law-and-order campaigns, for example, though appealing to voters, generally have little effect on underlying crime rates.
I was also reminded of June 1992, when a narrow majority of Danish voters rejected the Maastricht Treaty in a referendum – a close parallel to what happened in Britain last month.
The day after Danish voters rejected the treaty, the foreign ministers of all 12 countries met with European Commission President Jacques Delors to discuss how best to respond.
In a second referendum, held in May 1993, Danish voters accepted the limited-scope arrangement by a solid majority.
And, indeed, when it comes to China, Trump is betting that a hostile tone, backed by reckless but impressive threats, will divert American voters’ attention from serious domestic problems ahead of November’s midterm elections.
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