Sentences with phrase «electoral choices»

I believe this provides us with the opportunity to revise the way we think about political engagement and ready ourselves for a future of similar electoral choices.

But if the process really does draw in lots of voters, it is more likely in general to pull parties to the centre and further diminish electoral choice.

«Unless we apply the break and uphold the rule of law and democratic conventions and practices in all ramifications, our greatest losses, moving forward, will not be economic recession, lack of critical infrastructure, among others, but an irredeemably deteriorated civilian rule where the decisions of the courts, letters and spirit of the law, resolutions of the legislature, electoral choices of Nigerians as expressed through the ballot no longer count.»

Alas, as Buhari has proved, the potential for buyer's remorse is always there in electoral choices.

There's also still uncertainty around what electoral choices these primary voters will have, with the seemingly likely candidate John Catsimatidis and the seemingly unlikely candidate Eric Ulrich still floating around outside the circle of declared candidates.

The problem with contemporary politics is that there is a lack of meaningful electoral choice (see, for example, Colin Hay's superb book, WHY WE HATE POLITICS).

The Ekiti experience, that propelled Ayo Fayose to power, for fury against Kayode Fayemi's person, if not policy, is a living example, of rash electoral choices.

Indeed, a politician like Fayemi, victim of bad electoral choices, only grieves for days, or months.

The court denied that it had the authority or the ability to guarantee people «the most effective speech or the most informed electoral choice.»

The first point that needs to be noted is that what Cambridge Analytica has been accused of doing — creating profiles based on individual data and using that to influence individual electoral choices — is in fact happening on the Internet every day.

I don't see this development as a sign that evangelicalism as a whole is on the decline (we seem to be holding strong with a decades - long 20 - to - 25 percent of the population), but I do believe it provides us with the opportunity to revise the way we think about political engagement and ready ourselves for a future of similar electoral choices.

For example, Ward Berenschot and Lisa Bjorkman show the electoral choices of Gujrati Dalits and Mumbai's slum - dwellers to be geared towards securing identifiable material benefits, i.e. choosing leaders who «get things done» to meet their everyday needs.

Our general point is that an insider - outsider dilemma complicates the electoral choices that center - left parties face.

Voters dislike this type of government because it defeats the purpose of electoral choice.

If swing or dormant voters base their electoral choices on gun issues, vulnerable elected officials must follow their preferences to get re-elected.

Democracy is not safe when we question the wisdom of electoral choices.

The three - time flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) said the November polls are about the future of the Ghanaian youth, explaining that the electoral choice they make this year will affect their future and that of successive generations of Ghanaians.

Seldom has an electoral choice been so easy.