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In particular, how will it respond to the irreversible shift in the global economy’s center of gravity toward Asia, and to the technological innovations that are revolutionizing industries and occupations – and thus increasing voters’ anxieties about their employment prospects and future livelihoods?
In every case, voters said, “no” – outcomes that can be blamed, particularly in the UK, on national leaders’ habit of blaming the EU for domestic problems.
European voters’ resolve to preserve the EU will be tested this year in the Netherlands, France, and Germany.
But if their reforms ignore or alienate too many voters, they could be reversed.
After that, German voters will either reelect Chancellor Angela Merkel, or give the job to the pro-EU Social Democrat Martin Schulz.
Of course, Trump, too, might ignore protests against his trade war if he is convinced that taking on China will please his core voters and win him re-election in 2020.
In Europe, the concerns of voters about animal welfare have been effective in influencing members of national parliaments, as well as members of the European Parliament, resulting in national legislation and EU directives that respond to those concerns.
In US electoral politics, money counts for more than the opinions of voters.
In Switzerland, a substantial majority of voters decided in 2004 to ratify the Stem Cell Research Act, which regulates how human embryonic stem cells are produced and used in research.
But India’s national politics has long been skewed toward the Hindi-speaking northern heartland, and Uttar Pradesh has far more voters than the other four states combined.
Voters need to learn that their electoral and consumption decisions can fundamentally alter the nature of the game that corporations and politicians play.
Macron’s method is also marked by a strong reliance on an intergovernmental approach, which most likely reflects his understanding of French voters’ current mood.
Nor could you infer it from the behavior of voters, who seem poised to re-elect President Cristina Kirchner in October.
So has democratic politics around the world reached the point where voters judge politicians, male or female, strictly on their merits?
In the latest caucus, in Nevada, Clinton’s presumed advantage among non-white voters, who are a far greater factor in Nevada than in Iowa or New Hampshire, seems to have served her well, with Sanders failing to win enough African-American voters, in particular, to defeat her.
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.
But he quickly assembled a strong team, and has rallied support among younger voters.
The opinion polls are currently bouncing wildly, owing to the Fillon scandal and a surge in support for Hamon among left-wing voters outside of the Socialist Party.
Likewise, they won over newly enfranchised women voters by portraying themselves as the defender of traditional German womanhood and the family.
Given such "clear" choices, you would think that Polish voters should feel empowered.
But in Poland voters feel cheated because the configuration of parties that will enter the various coalitions is entirely unpredictable.
When such coalitions of convenience are not only possible but common, voters who try to behave rationally are forced to confront the irrational outcomes of their own behavior.
Voters are given their formal right of democratic choice, but are denied its substance.
So voters cannot stroll to the right unworried about falling over the edge.
Voters would treat the elections as they had in the past: an opportunity to protest – though not against Europe so much as against their own national governments.
Indeed, in many countries, including some of those most severely hit by the financial and economic crisis, voters turned out to endorse both their governments and the European project.
In Eastern Europe, Poland’s governing Civic Platform outperformed the nationalist opposition, while voters in the Baltic states, where the economic effects of austerity were the most severe in the entire EU, endorsed centrist European Parliament candidates.
BRUSSELS – The surprise result of the United Kingdom’s general election, which will return Prime Minister David Cameron and the Conservative Party to power for another five years, suggests that Britain’s voters prefer the devil they know to the devil they don’t.
The main message of the election result is that British voters do not welcome the fragmentation of the political system and the rise of smaller parties leading to a new era of coalition governments.
For British voters, this election was all about Britain.
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