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Above all, voters and politicians must beware of seductively simple approaches to today’s debt problems.
Europe’s Anti-Ideological ElectionPARIS – In each of the 27 states of the European Union, the campaign for the just concluded elections for the European Parliament occurred in an atmosphere of indifference, with voters, candidates, and the media focusing mostly on domestic issues.
When it comes to managing a deep and complex crisis, indeed, European voters tend to prefer the experience of conservative politicians.
He was wrong to assume that French voters elected him to reform the EU.
The May government now must demonstrate to voters that it is doing something about migrants and foreign workers in the UK.
As a result, disillusioned and disaffected voters in advanced economies are challenging established political parties to find solutions or cede power, while millions of people from poor countries, unable to envision a future at home, are risking their lives by crossing deserts and seas in search of economic opportunity.
Common European direction cannot emerge from the calculus of national interests by governments and parliaments that are accountable only to national voters.
With the defeat of Scotland’s independence movement – not to mention Québécois voters’ stunning rejection of the province’s largest separatist party in last April’s election – that hope may be waning.
But politicians also have a duty to let voters know when their fears are excessive or unfounded.
Her ultimate objective is to survive as Prime Minister, and she believes that controlling immigration – a longtime personal obsession – will endear her to “Leave” voters, and that ending the European Court of Justice’s jurisdiction in Britain will pacify the nationalists in her Conservative Party.
The result may be a self-fulfilling prophecy, in which market and political instability drive British voters to reject the EU – an outcome that would be highly dangerous for them and their European counterparts alike.
The question is whether that will turn voters against the government’s pro-EU campaign, causing them to choose Brexit, or against the damaging referendum that the government has introduced, thereby spurring a pro-EU outcome.
The risk is that UK voters, angry about the government’s damaging actions, will succumb to the pro-Brexit camp’s false claim that leaving the EU will restore the UK’s economic dynamism.
A British Test of ReasonPARIS – If voters in the United Kingdom decide in the country’s referendum on June 23 to leave the European Union, it will not be for economic reasons.
If British voters decide to leave the EU, it will indicate that rational economic arguments carry less weight than emotional appeals.
To oppose such forces and policies, mainstream political parties will have to address their failure, even with the facts on their side, to offer a narrative compelling enough to convince voters to choose economic openness.
How voters decide will be an important test of whether democratic choices in advanced countries are governed by economic rationality or popular passions.
And whether Schumpeter or Gordon is right is irrelevant for politicians facing angry voters whose standard of living has declined.
Still, the hope is that faster US growth and rising wages will quell voters’ populist rebellion.
During the campaign, he proclaimed that even if he stood in the middle of Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue and shot somebody, he wouldn’t lose any voters.
And, for once, his claim wasn’t mere bluster: a recent poll indicated that 45% of Trump voters would still support him if he shot someone.
But German voters had other plans.
Thus, the two candidates’ campaigns are focusing heavily on a dozen or so states in which voters are closely divided and could sway the electoral college outcome.
Whether that will sway American voters wary of financial turmoil on November 4 remains to be seen.
Yet the largest bloc of voters in the December 1993 democratic elections, which were weighted in favor of traditional political parties, supported Refah, or Welfare, Turkey's largest Islamist party.
One proposal is a shift from a parliamentary system to a presidential system; another seeks to cut back the number of major parties from seven to two or three--aimed partly at consolidating voters in secular parties that would outnumber Refah,.
Such actions would effectively disenfranchise 21% of voters.
While many voters selected Refah because of its platform, others turned to a religious party as a means of rejecting the traditional parties and their exclusionary tactics.
Indeed, prolonged delays are likely in implementing the voters’ decision to leave the EU.
The fourth uncertainty arises from voters’ concerns over immigration and the extent to which any new EU trading arrangement must be conditional on restricting the free movement of workers.
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