“No matter if it is propaganda or military intimidation, cognitive warfare or fake news, they are employing it all.” The British Election Study presents respondents with a short preamble (SP) before asking them if they voted or not. Such SPs state that some people abstain at elections, and that they do so for a variety of reasons. The CES fielded an experiment in its online survey following the 2015 federal election to answer this very question.
It’s a close race, but before polling was suspended more than a week before the vote, as required by Taiwanese law, Lai’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was running a few points ahead of its rivals. To save this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Google Drive account. To save this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account.
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Read more about Media and Social Media Advocacy here. And in many, curbs on opposition candidates, weary electorates and the potential for manipulation and disinformation have made the fate of democracy a front-and-center campaign issue. From Russia, Taiwan and the United Kingdom to India, El Salvador and South Africa, the presidential and legislative contests have huge implications for human rights, economies, international relations and prospects for peace in a volatile world. “Still, by signaling the durability of the DPP’s hold on the electorate, the election outcome may force mainland leaders to reconsider their policy of complete freezeout,” Wildau wrote in a note.
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Clients don’t expect consultants to be on-site all the time, and the consultancies have the technology and now proven model to support home-working. HR initiatives focused on equity are also leaving the door open for parents and care-givers to continue their career progression. “We want to accept all democratic principles. We want to defend democracy, human rights, rule of law—this is what we are advocating for,” he says, speaking by phone from Senegal, where he will remain until it is safe to return to Gambia. (The U.S., for instance, had suspended the country from some aid and trade benefits.) Under Barrow, maybe some of that will change. “We will be looking for support. We don’t have natural resources, the economic situation is very, very serious, so we want everybody to have their hands on deck, Gambians and Gambia’s friends, to help Gambia stand again,” he says. Democracy-building groups that receive government funding, like the National Democratic Institute, have a long history of bipartisan support among U.S. lawmakers, and others are privately funded. Autocratic governments in Africa often use money, graft, and restriction of information to hold onto power, says Feldstein , which makes outside help essential for opposition parties to run viable campaigns.
A possible rematch between President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump looms large in the election calendar; a Trump victory in November is perhaps the greatest global wildcard. Yet high-stakes votes before then also will gauge the “mood of dissatisfaction, impatience, uneasiness” among far-flung electorates, said Bronwen Maddox, director of the London-based think-tank Chatham House. The Biden administration is sending a delegation of former officials to Taiwan following the election, in a move that a senior administration official earlier this past week said was standard. The Congress has seen a steep decline – it’s share of votes and seats falling since the mid-1980s. In 2019, it picked up 20% of the popular vote, won a paltry 52 seats and lost its second consecutive election.
Beijing seems likely to continue to shun exchanges with the DPP-led government of Taiwan, according to Gabriel Wildau, an analyst at the consultancy Teneo. China has “very significant economic challenges and I don’t think that they are ready [to use] any military options to resolve this issue,” he said.
The issue of paper leaks, crimes against women and the red diary, highlighting corruption, came up dominantly and the BJP spokespersons were told to drum these up. The BJP realised that the local media was not very supportive but the party’s leaders stayed on this. Nine months earlier, he had helped launch Vanguard Africa, a D.C.-based nonprofit organization that supports pro-democracy politicians in Africa. In retrospect, progressivism’s social and cultural impact was always bound to be disproportionate to its modest policy achievements.
— Republican Adam Laxalt, who unsuccessfully ran for Nevada Senate, is chair of Never Back Down. — Duty and Honor PAC, a Democratic group affiliated with the Senate Majority PAC, is investing early in the race for West Virginia Senate. Last week, Republican group One Nation, which is aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, put out an ad hitting Manchin. … Former state Sen. Curtis Hertel and Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum, both Democrats, are considering campaigns to succeed Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin in MI-07 as she runs for Senate, per the AP’s Joey Cappelletti. The Eurasia Group ranked the violence in the Middle East as the second greatest global risk, with the Israel-Hamas war “likely to be only the first phase in an expanding conflict in 2024.” Meanwhile, a second-term Trump would be expected to “weaponize” the US government to go after rivals and crush dissent, it added.
You gradually swapped engagement management and focus on project delivery, for business and practice development. Now most consultancies have a parallel track which allows consultants to remain as subject matter experts in project-delivery roles, while still progressing their careers toward an equity-ownership position. Beijing strongly opposes Lai, the current vice president and a member of the governing Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP.
Acting on the complaints, the government issued 2.6 million such certificates in six weeks. Cobbling together a third opposition alliance is neither “doable or sustainable” because a rag-tag coalition does not bring, which has not already been tested and rejected by voters, to the table,” Mr Kishor said.
