Sentences with phrase «electoral cycle»

Ultimately, the only route to its successful end is regulation through institutional mechanisms, which means elections, whether early or within the normal electoral cycle.

Thus, we need to decide whether predictable electoral cycles are a good thing or not, independently of any objections to PM's discretion.

The correct decision to pick candidates earlier than we have in previous electoral cycles makes these pressures greater.

The last time a major intrusion into the last electoral cycle occurred, the petition period was shortened, and the number of required signatures reduced.

While only a few electoral cycles in, it is clear that public financing is a fundamental step towards a more representative legislative process that is more responsive to constituents.

It will take many electoral cycles and all major countries to address the problems associated with climate change.

Such a commission can stay with a complex issue over several electoral cycles and provide a corporate memory for the next group of legislators.

Local government's four - year electoral cycle means that the baseline with which to compare these elections was 2011, when most of the actual council seats up this year were last won and lost.

Here's where the Republicans» late start in the current electoral cycle really starts to matter.

Farlington Blade writes «I think the balanced nature of this line - up is a consequence of a favorable electoral cycle for Democrats (Republicans did well in 2004 and have more to defend) and an unfavorable economic climate.»

«Second elections are vital to consolidate democratic peace gains in the country, complete a full electoral cycle and strengthen democratic institutions», says Thierry Vircoulon, the International Crisis Group's Africa Director, calling them the «ultimate test» for the DR Congo (cf ICG 2011).

«It is clear that these will not be the last attempts that we will see,» Warner wrote, «and the next electoral cycle in 2018 will provide further targets for hackers.»

I think the balanced nature of this line - up is a consequence of a favorable electoral cycle for Democrats (Republicans did well in 2004 and have more to defend) and an unfavorable economic climate.

It then falls immediately following the contest, with parties» reverting to their core staff team, until the election drum - beat sounds again later in the new electoral cycle.

Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers» constitutional reforms have been criticised from the start, as the Fixed Term Parliament Act deliberately linked the establishment of a five - year electoral cycle with the mechanics setting up the 2011 electoral reform referendum.

Recognizing those grim realities does not, though, lead to the conclusion that the Democratic ticket offers Catholics informed by the Church's social doctrine a safe haven in this dreadful electoral cycle.

It's important to remember that as we head into a crazy electoral cycle... our online communities aren't an ATM... engage with them genuinely and they'll show you the love in the all the ways.

In the long run over two whole electoral cycles (20 - 25 years), the Conservatives would lose out in my opinion.

According to her, «From this weekend up to yesterday, Nigeria was involved in a presidential electoral cycle that was successful.

Part of the reason for the large number of serving national politicians standing in these EU elections has to do with Finland's national electoral cycle.

«It's actually more European than I expected,» he reflects, agreeing that the product's undeniably cheap and apparently impartial nature will certainly appeal in countries like the UK that have shorter electoral cycles — you can get a «Nation» up and running in a few hours — and with less money sloshing around in politics than the US has (you can use it for $ 19 a month).

This occurs successively over multiple electoral cycles until all diversity and subtlety of opinion collapses into two parties - each full of sweeping useless generalisations and ideological cant.

This training also seeks to support the FOISECON in order to build their capacity to conduct free and credible elections at the local government levels and how well - implemented electoral process can bring about peaceful change of power and improve their leadership skills and take on board means for preventing or mitigating the escalation of electoral violence and conflict throughout the respective electoral cycle.

That's because, for the second electoral cycle in a row, Republicans are banking on a large number of House members running for Senate seats in key states.

NSW premier Mike Baird's proposed changes to the state's electoral funding laws could cost taxpayers more than $ 10 million extra per electoral cycle.

The Tories» million pound Get Out The Vote operation saved many of our councillors by energising many more of our voters to go to the polls than in a normal mid-term electoral cycle.

The YouGov local election poll in the Sun today is based on just repondents in those areas that actually have local elections in May — that is, excluding London, Scotland, Wales and the 13 or so councils who do not have elections this year (primarily Cornwall, Durham, the Isle of Wight, Northumberland, Shropshire and Wiltshire, with a handful of district councils with unusual electoral cycles).

«This is INCS Action's third electoral cycle, and we are proud of the gains we have made.

Extensive deliberations at various levels of the Commission and input from broad consultations with stakeholders, including PWDs, led to the development of the second Strategic Plan, covering the current electoral cycle (2017 - 2021).

But she criticised the government for failing to demonstrate a commitment to pursuing the target, blaming the short - termism of the five - year electoral cycle.

Given that the present parliament is unliely to last the full electoral cycle, any «jump start» that Labour can achieve could prove useful for the party later on.

In the U.S. market, business leaders count on predictable electoral cycles and domestic peace when they calculate risk - reward ratios.

That is why the electors, betrayed and hurt, must take specific notices of such errant and irresponsible behaviour; and punish hard, whoever is culpable, at the next electoral cycle.

E-mail lists — which President Obama famously used to powerful effect in the last electoral cycle — could be combined and applied even by people with little to no advocacy experience, said Evan Sutton, a spokesperson for the Washington - based New Organizing Institute.

The frenetic changing that accompanies each new electoral cycle can result in good programs being abandoned in favour of «new» programs that repeat the mistakes of the past.

Investment decisions require longer time - frames and planning than is the case for electoral cycles.

I simply think it might provide a moment's healthy respite from the tumultuous urgency and banality of this or any electoral cycle because, in its general and fabulous way, it encourages perseverance in hope and political virtue simply by reminding one that there are eternal harmonies that can not be silenced by the din of contending interests, and that one is best able to act «politically» in good conscience when one preserves a proper sense of proportion.

For the aggregate - level data this relationship is tested across the past four electoral cycles (from 2005 to 2017), while individual - level data comes from an extensive cross-national survey done in 2003 - 2004.

And of course, as any model based in historical data, its effectivity relies in that the situation in the current electoral cycle is not very different from the situation in the previous electorals cycles.

Multiple chambers elected by different electoral systems at different times in the electoral cycle would provide such safeguards, as I have outlined before.

Though one stated aim of the Fixed - term Parliaments Act was to reduce instability and short - termism, unpredictability does have some benefits, preventing both incumbents and opposition parties from attempting to «game» the electoral cycle.

Putin's decision to return to the Kremlin acted as the trigger for underlying discontent, which focused on the 2011 - 12 electoral cycle.

After Theresa May's shock decision to call a snap election, Johnson said: «Every day has been a privilege and a pleasure but it can't go on for ever and the electoral cycle means that each incumbent has to think again about what's best for them, the constituency and the Party.»

Miliband dismissed opinion polls showing him performing worse at this stage of the electoral cycle than Neil Kinnock, saying irritably: «Let the polls take care of themselves.»

But if we were at a different point in the electoral cycle it would have been more prominent.

This is the year in the electoral cycle where traditionally Labour do well and the Tories nosedive.