Sentences with phrase «government opportunism»

But how do considerations of fairness affect voter responses to government opportunism?

The project's findings will lay the foundations for a better understanding of electoral responses to government opportunism, and will contribute to debates about retaining or introducing fixed election dates (which restrict strategic elections) in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

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Survey experiments that I have conducted in the UK together with Professor Margit Tavits of Washington University consistently show that voters perceive the opportunism inherent in elections, which incumbent governments call for partisan political advantage.

These attempts to frame the election matter because research shows that voters take the government's opportunism into account, as well as policy performance and leadership when they respond to strategic election calls.

Miliband has come out today criticising the government for its outsourcing of police and security services «on a scale and at a speed never before seen», and has hence been under attack from furious government bods, police minister Nick Herbert today calling the Labour leader's remarks «cheap opportunism.»

Cameron dares Labour to vote against the government as an act of «naked opportunism.

No laws or police leaves the residents easy prey for crime and opportunism, and the residents would spend an inordinate amount of their own time providing the services and protection from crime that a government normally provides.

The health minister, Simon Burns, accused Labour of stooping to a new low of political opportunism today after it claimed the government had cut a routine flu vaccination for under - fives.

Cheekily accepting at face value the government's demotivational horror stories about LSD usage, writer - director Jeff Lieberman effectively interrogates the counterculture's mythic appraisal of its own legacy, while at the same time sticking it to middle - class conformism, suburban anomie, and political opportunism.

Whether by collusion or opportunism, the Saudi government was first to call for an investigation, not of the data thieves, but of the climate scientists.