And yet the unexpected closeness of the vote also means populism will live on in America. With this election it has become clear that Mr Trump’s astonishing victory in 2016 was not an aberration but the start of a profound ideological shift in his party (see Lexington). Defying expectations...
In both cases, clear wins for the victors were not picked up in advance by the pollsters. And then, in June 2016, came the entirely unexpected vote in favour of "Brexit" during the UK's referendum on membership of the European Union.Arash Barfar...
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People turn out to vote and choose from mediocre candidates one election after another, but until when would someone spot the elephant in the room and shout out: wait, is that what democracy really means, by definition? (The author is a commentator on international affairs, writing regularly ...
“They wouldn’t have the same leverage if they weren’t a part of it. They wouldn’t have the vote, which is absolutely key,” saidGavas, who has worked for the UK aid agency and the European Parliament. Tony Blair’s global role ...
There has been renewed talk lately of “Parliament” (meaning the House of Commons) somehow “blocking” a so-called “no-deal Brexit”, the outcome for which Parliament (meaning both houses) has already legislated, unless the Commons, in a “meaningful vote”, approves a withdrawal agreement...
“the economic costs of the Brexit vote are already visible and quite large. In the third quarter of 2017, the output loss due to the Brexit vote amounted to approximately 1.3%, and the cumulative loss in GDP was close to 20 billion” (Born et al., 2017). The slow down in the ...
· Government Introduction Contemporary politics is marked by increasing turbulence (Margetts et al. 2015), from sur- prise election results, such as Theresa May's slender majority in 2017, to seismic political shifts, such as the Brexit vote in 2016, and party schisms, such as the 11-MP...
And yet the unexpected closeness of the vote also means populism will live on in America.With this election it has become clear that Mr Trump’s astonishing victory in 2016 was not an aberration, but the start of a profound ideological shift in his party (see Lexington). Defying expectations...