There's a learned helplessness in complaining that an undemocratic system produces undemocratic results.
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The nearness of our undemocratic past is proof of the possibility of an undemocratic future.
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The result isn't merely an undemocratic branch of government but a randomly undemocratic branch of government.
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Or finally, they could eliminate the filibuster altogether, end that undemocratic tool in an already undemocratic, unrepresentative Senate.
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We insisted on supporting the "democracy" of the Arab spring, which resulted in the replacement of undemocratic domestic tyrants by undemocratic international terrorists.
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That Israel can either be a "Jewish state or a democratic one" and that settlement-building is inherently undemocratic—and that the United States cannot support undemocratic partners.
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Tribal thinking is not just inherently undemocratic — it's perilous.
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Critics have called the disqualifications, especially Guzman's, disproportionate and undemocratic.
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Private sector forces have fundamentally undemocratic business methods and incentives.
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Lam's undemocratic election in 2017 came as a sharp blow.
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It is galling when an undemocratic government asks for sacrifices.
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At the same time, plenty of liberal institutions are undemocratic.
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The lawsuit claims that the closed primary system is undemocratic.
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Deals like this made the primary process seem especially undemocratic.
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Whatever its potential merits, it is a plainly undemocratic institution.
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New York practices its own version of this undemocratic exclusion.
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But if money is the entry fee, that's fundamentally undemocratic.
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The establishment came to seem not just unresponsive, but undemocratic.
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This sort of obstructionism isn't just a nuisance, it's undemocratic.
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While many see the Electoral College as archaic and inherently undemocratic, the very mechanism that allows electors to deviate from the popular vote may be the simplest way to reverse an undemocratic election result.
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Some critics argue that the reforms are badly drafted, or undemocratic.
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"The status quo is quite undemocratic and radical," Schatz told Vox.
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But his foes slammed PML-N's plans as dynastic and undemocratic.
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But presidential elections are only the tip of the undemocratic iceberg.
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The undemocratic thing would be not to implement your manifesto commitments.
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This undemocratic architecture increases government and corporate power over the public.
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By their nature, they're generally unaccountable and undemocratic forces in society.
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Their convoluted, undemocratic nature has been pointed out again and again.
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But according to Garland, this odious and undemocratic practice should continue.
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All of these things are bad, but they're not necessarily undemocratic.
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This is an attempt to overthrow the government in an undemocratic way.
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However, pro-Brexit groups argue that holding another referendum would be undemocratic.
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An undemocratic Turkey will export instability and more Syrian refugees to Europe.
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Democracy was the true totalitarianism because it insisted undemocratic systems were illegitimate.
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And many of these GOP leaders could find move unseemly and undemocratic.
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Tension with the West is contrasted with an openness to undemocratic leaders.
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The American people really balked at that, and saw it as undemocratic.
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Refusing to cooperate with democratically elected representatives strikes many constituents as undemocratic.
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"Thus, the taxpayers ultimately fund the settlement enacted through this undemocratic process."
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This is unjust and undemocratic and VAMOS4PR will continue to fight back.
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"You can't hold democratic elections in an undemocratic environment," Mr. Dojcinovic said.
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It's not just the president's own misbehavior that screams out as undemocratic.
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Do these judicial decisions make Germany, the United States and Italy undemocratic?
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Is there a case for a system that sometimes produces undemocratic outcomes?
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We should really think of these things as deeply undemocratic barriers to voting.
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We have to get rid of caucuses that are undemocratic, related to primaries.
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They're using checkbook diplomacy to buy influence and spread their undemocratic, atheist ideology.
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The state's Democratic governor has vowed to fight the effort, calling it undemocratic.
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International rights groups called it an undemocratic election that lacked any credible opposition.
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Critics charge the secretive nature of the Bilderberg Group annual meetings is undemocratic.
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I do think he is the most undemocratic president in modern American history.
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The big picture: Instead, undemocratic actors are likely to become only more powerful.
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What is going on now is a sham, patently undemocratic and un-American.
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The undemocratic government of China may find it easier to meet its targets.
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You're starting from a completely undemocratic cast of characters all over the place.
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" Clinton retweeted British author Brian Klaas, who called the excuse "pathetic and undemocratic.
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I congratulate Bernie Sanders on running an impressive campaign within an undemocratic primary.
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Such a strategy, on the surface, can feel strange and maybe even undemocratic.
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The primaries are dumb, along with wasteful, confusing, divisive, interminably long and undemocratic.
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A kind of quietly undemocratic America is not all that hard to imagine.
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Trump's complaint that Colorado's delegate selection system is undemocratic is beside the point.
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Manafort and Gates's job was to run cover for this clearly undemocratic prosecution.
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And how can an undemocratic art be enlisted in the cause of democracy?
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Yet they fit the earmark profile to a tee: wasteful, unfair, and undemocratic.
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Ali Rabiei, an Iranian government spokesperson, called the removals "undemocratic" in a tweet.
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And we would recognize politically-driven calls to "purge" government employees as undemocratic.
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" Jim Crow was allowed to flourish in a South that was "profoundly undemocratic.
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The idea of striking down a law in this way is almost comically undemocratic.
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This may seem shockingly undemocratic, but it's completely possible given how the convention works.
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But Trump is, Albright told me, "the most undemocratic president" in America's modern history.
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Then there's dearest Dadi, here to reform that most undemocratic of institutions, sperm storage.
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Translation: Not Brexiting after the British people voted to leave would be clearly undemocratic.
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For now though, it may still be too early to call the Philippines undemocratic.
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The problem of our undemocratic democracy is why my teammates and I started Flippable.
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Cubans, who live with undemocratic socialism, seem to find this baffling rather than attractive.
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They agree that the group needs to change the perception that it is undemocratic.
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Today, our presidential primary system, open to voters as it is, is grossly undemocratic.
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Other pro-Remain parties have accused the Lib Dems of adopting an "undemocratic" measure.
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Banning free street parking is undemocratic and misguided, and will not increase traffic flow.
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" Prabowo's campaign director, Sugiono, said that the opposition found it "ridiculous, disturbing and undemocratic.
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Silencing facts is both undemocratic and it puts business interests and lives at risk.
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If there is a recurring criticism of Barragán, it is that he was undemocratic.
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In The Crown, the inherently undemocratic monarchy is a tool used to protect democracy.
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Let's lay aside the utterly undemocratic influence that early states have over the process.
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We all agree that a coup is deeply undemocratic and won't move Turkey forward.
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The polls have also been criticized as undemocratic by rights groups and several Western governments.
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The seemingly undemocratic maneuver has enraged City Council members, some of whom attended today's rally.
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Opponents argue CETA is undemocratic and will undermine workers' rights and worsen standards for consumers.
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Maduro denies the system is undemocratic and calls the OAS a pawn of U.S. policy.
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That's undemocratic on its face and a blatant violation of the president's oath of office.
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But Rocky isn't a political hostage, and he's not in a hostile or undemocratic country.
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Additional undemocratic measures also risk accelerating the pace of radicalization already rising in the country.
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There's nothing undemocratic about asking people to look at the terms on offer to them.
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That's undemocratic on its face and a blatant violation of the President's oath of office.
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Sanders has railed against the closed primary as an undemocratic usurpation of the popular will.
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He said the move was neither authoritarian nor undemocratic because "extraordinary times need extraordinary measures".
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Liberalism's triumph was to have framed those religious and patriotic beliefs as bigoted and undemocratic.
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Laboulaye was also an opponent of his own government, which he thought was very undemocratic.
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The rural bias of the Senate is the most undemocratic feature of the U.S. government.
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Yingluck said on Monday that she accepted the result but that the charter was undemocratic.
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Perhaps the undemocratic manner of his removal at the hands of generals was not ideal.
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Diem grew tired of the American upbraiding him for undemocratic moves like closing opposition newspapers.
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What has gotten less emphasis is the fact that G.O.P. legislative control is also undemocratic.
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It seemed not just odd but undemocratic to want tech companies to police the government.
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Trump's cynical predictions of failure simply adds to that burden in an unhelpful, undemocratic way.
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Malapportionment, in other words, does not simply give Republicans an undemocratic advantage in the Senate.
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No state has been as undemocratic or unpopular as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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Groups on both sides of Thailand's political divide have denounced the draft constitution as undemocratic.
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That's an undemocratic, inegalitarian principle that was deliberately baked into the Senate from its inception.
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The alternative is undemocratic — giving Palestinians unequal rights and treating them as second-class citizens.
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My concern is that they&aposre upping the ante on the things that are truly undemocratic.
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And as he clung to power over the decades his rule became autocratic, undemocratic and oppressive.
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Those who regard Ms Rousseff's removal as an undemocratic coup are unlikely to go as quietly.
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Raab, an avowed Brexiteer, said the "undemocratic" Irish backstop had to go from the Withdrawal Agreement.
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Making the change without the approval of Congress might be illegal and would certainly be undemocratic.
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Some, like China, are undemocratic and oppose political organizing by minority groups, including Tibetans and Uighurs.
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I have always opposed, and continue to criticize, the undemocratic elements of the Islamic Republic state.
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They want us to be ruled by undemocratic, unaccountable bureaucrats in a faraway place like Brussels.
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"Boris Johnson cannot portray forcing an undemocratic No Deal on the country as patriotic," he said.
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This foot-dragging has been called unconstitutional, undemocratic, a desperate ploy to hang on to power.
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The opposition has failed to defeat the undemocratic maneuvers of President Nicolas Maduro and his party.
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"It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people," he said.
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Into the vacuum rise new, undemocratic power verticals, centered on the tech titans in Silicon Valley.
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Well, there's a lot that's unfair — or at the very least undemocratic — about the Electoral College.
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We believe federal preemption of our authority is undemocratic and contrary to our country's founding principles.
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Take Russia, an undemocratic country that goes through the motions of holding elections as an example.
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That's why many undemocratic governments insisted on maintaining democratic trappings, in particular elections and term limits.
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" In its statement, The Times responded that "calling the press the enemy is undemocratic and dangerous.
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There is nothing undemocratic or unusual about the law; it recognizes and protects Israel's Jewish identity.
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Such vigilance is crucial if we are to resist the undemocratic tide slipping across the globe.
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"And then there is an undemocratic path that is called Kalashnikov," he said with a smile.
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To the Editor: Limiting news coverage to only Senate-controlled TV cameras is outrageous and undemocratic.
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Left unchecked, partisan gerrymandering could lead to permanent and profoundly undemocratic changes to the Constitution itself.
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Maduro's re-election in May 2018, which Sanders labeled "undemocratic," was boycotted by many eligible voters.
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And there are anxious analyses of Trump's undemocratic rhetoric and impulses from people like, well, me.
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"Thus, the proponents of this absurd and undemocratic idea are deliberately trying to mislead people," Mulholland writes.
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The GOP front-runner argues the delegate system and GOP rules are undemocratic and should be changed.
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Such is the undemocratic gamesmanship at work in the legislature's systematic efforts to cling to partisan power.
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Third, it is undemocratic and un-American to try to shut down reasonable exercise of religious freedom.
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We'll either live by them or we won't, but it's kind of undemocratic not to tell us.
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More recently, the European Commission launched an inquiry into the rule of law in increasingly undemocratic Poland.
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Diana Ramirez, who led the "yes" campaign for ROC United in DC, called the council's move undemocratic.
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But here, when the DNC makes choices that influence the outcome of a primary, that looks undemocratic.
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" Lee said in a tweet the move was "underhanded & undemocratic," adding that "the people deserve a debate!
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The move drew cries of outrage from opposition politicians, who denounced it as undemocratic and possibly unconstitutional.
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This causes desperation and could lead to healthy resistance, but resistance in turn can provoke undemocratic responses.
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The GOP's complex delegate allocation rules, Trojan horse delegates and shadowy convention rules are seen as undemocratic.
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In this bizarre ideological narrative federal benefits are understood as reparations for discrimination under undemocratic territorial rule.
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Critics have said the new law is undemocratic because it differentiates between Jewish and non-Jewish citizens.
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Representatives for the station said the court's decision was undemocratic and they planned to file an appeal.
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This is hard to square with the idea that the delegates doing the work is demonstrably undemocratic.
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Now a different evil, that of Mr. Erdogan's increasingly undemocratic Turkey, aims to destroy our fledgling democracy.
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Others caution that, when it comes to cities, data-driven decision-making can be misguided and undemocratic.
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Most of protesters' wrath on Tuesday was directed at the unpopular board, which they view as undemocratic.
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Civil-society groups have charged the forum with exerting undemocratic, pro-business influence over the United Nations.
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Last Sunday, Mr. Maduro was declared the winner of an election that many countries said was undemocratic.
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Power in our current democracy is determined not by popular will but by arcane and undemocratic rules.
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As a result of Wisconsin's undemocratic elections, otherwise popular measures like gun violence prevention laws are stalled.
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The bottom line: Insofar as philanthropy has a positive effect, it does so via deeply undemocratic means.
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Russia's 2011 legislative elections, widely seen as undemocratic and uncompetitive, sparked major anti-Putin demonstrations in Moscow.
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On this view, the EU isn't just too meddlesome, it's also undemocratic and unaccountable to the public.
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With firsthand observations, timelines, charts and explanations of the semiautonomous Chinese territory's arcane political system — an uneasy blend of the relics of undemocratic British colonial rule and new elements of undemocratic Chinese rule — Mr. Ng spells out what many Hong Kong people, particularly younger ones, are chafing against.
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Stopping his campaign, Sanders said in March, would be "outrageously undemocratic" given the support he'd received thus far.
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The choice is all the more important because the Supreme Court is, itself, a strange and undemocratic institution.
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Push back against the nanny-state college administrators who subject you to authoritarian surveillance and undemocratic thought control!
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But doing something about it will require them to act in a way that to many seems undemocratic.
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Parakilas: Why Britain should stay Critics of the EU argue that it is undemocratic, overly bureaucratic and unaccountable.
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To some this may seem an eccentric, even undemocratic way to pick the leader of an advanced democracy.
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They are suspicious of market solutions because they view these solutions as undemocratic and threatening to their values.
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What opposition there is will come from the Tories' eccentric fringes and from the undemocratic House of Lords.
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There were many reasons for her loss, first and foremost the very existence of the undemocratic Electoral College.
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That, they say, leaves industry without clear answers and subjects consumers and lenders to opaque and undemocratic regulation.
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The president, through a spokesman, condemned the vandalism and violence as an undemocratic form of pressure on Congress.
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From the beginning, Twitter has reflected those values and held on to them against pressure from undemocratic governments.
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Yet each of these undemocratic faults can occur in ranked-choice voting, and not uncommonly in close elections.
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But Gorsuch worries that too much deference to regulatory agencies can make the regulatory process arbitrary and undemocratic.
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Even though the system was rigged, undemocratic governments knew it was important to at least pretend it wasn't.
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Sophisticated straight New Yorkers began to come together saying this law needed to be changed, it was undemocratic.
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"Historically and traditionally, there has been a strong voice of resistance to those that are undemocratic," she said.
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The 2014 protesters were demonstrating against what they said was the city's undemocratic way of choosing its leaders.
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The Electoral College is essentially an undemocratic system that's been jury-rigged to make it somewhat more democratic.
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A more realistic reading is that Cuba is heading for more of the same: undemocratic one-party rule.
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In congressional debate about the bill, proponents portrayed Chinese immigrants as unassimilable: too backward, too undemocratic, too foreign.
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They have argued that museums, as structured today, are undemocratic, ignoring broad public interests to favor the rich.
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It's undemocratic, because it throttles the city's ability to attack its own pollution problem in its own way.
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This is a profoundly undemocratic stance and is tantamount to the dogma of an isolated, elitist, intellectual regime.
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They began over social security cuts, and soon turned into a widespread rebuke of the increasingly undemocratic government.
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In other words, they're mostly a sham meant to provide a veneer of democracy on an undemocratic system.
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Lavrov said Maduro's future should be decided by the Venezuelan people and called U.S. pressure on him undemocratic.
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Even the existence of a Senate, which gives unequal representation to less populated states, is in fact undemocratic.
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Otherwise the whole situation might come off as a tad undemocratic — the swampy Senate ignoring the people's will.
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This was made more difficult by new allegations of graft and undemocratic behaviour by her Popular Force party.
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"UNDEMOCRATIC", "gerrymandered" and "fix-up" are good words to describe Malaysian politics, dominated since independence by a single party.
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There are rows over eastern reluctance to take in Syrian refugees and Kaczynski's new policies that Brussels calls undemocratic.
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Some Democrats have argued that the Electoral College is undemocratic because it gives more weight to less populated states.
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Despite the partisan divide, most Democrats would band together with independents and Republicans to reject such overtly undemocratic decisions.
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Those who say a referendum on the three options now facing Britain is undemocratic could not be more wrong.
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Google has explicitly turned its back on matching faces to identities, for fear of its misuse by undemocratic regimes.
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These are intended to speed the process of adopting new laws, but critics say they are opaque and undemocratic.
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On Saturday the leader of a Burundian opposition coalition said he would reject the outcome, calling the vote undemocratic.
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" Representative Ocasio-Cortez responded, "So, we are discussing a currency controlled by an undemocratic selection of largely massive corporations.
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China has also been criticized for working with undemocratic regimes and bringing their own workers, instead of employing locals.
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It's in the Democratic Party that the outsized power and lack of accountability of superdelegates is supremely, well, undemocratic.
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It is significant that the most powerful actors in the modern developed economy are central banks, quintessentially undemocratic institutions.
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Some have questioned the electoral college itself as an undemocratic relic in need of change in the modern era.
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Though the request is considered typical under the UK Constitution, many British people still criticized the decision as undemocratic.
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When liberals excoriate the Electoral College for being undemocratic, we wonder if this is just because the Democrats lost.
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Other pro-Remain parties — including the anti-Brexit Green Party — accused the Lib Dems of adopting an "undemocratic" measure.
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This feels undemocratic because someone in, say, France, sees that European Union policy differs from the French national will.
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"The behavior the DNC engaged in was egregious, undemocratic and it can't be allowed to happen again," Weaver said.
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Sanders blasted one of the central pieces of the bill -- the outside control board -- calling it unacceptable and undemocratic.
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This is profoundly undemocratic — a contemporary version of the Führerprinzip — and Clinton shouldn't let him get away with it.
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The fact that a candidate can receive more votes than the other but lose the election is fundamentally undemocratic.
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Parliament Speaker John Bercow said proroguing parliament would never happen and other candidates have criticised Raab's stance as undemocratic.
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S. funds, and it would prevent the deeply undemocratic violation of free speech that results from the gag rule.
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Opponents denounced the move as undemocratic, but supporters said it signaled Mr. Sharif's popularity and hold over the party.
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"If these provisions, which touch our liberties, fall into the hands of an undemocratic government, think of our children."
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The good news, for America and the world, is that this undemocratic trend is not unfolding in a vacuum.
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"Morales's bid is an undemocratic act that trashes the Constitution," his main rival, Mr. Mesa, said this past week.
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Undemocratic governments have to develop some mixture of "output legitimacy"—giving the people what they want—and frank repression.
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Continuing to vest such destructive power in the hands of one person is undemocratic, irresponsible, unnecessary and increasingly untenable.
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By depriving them of the opportunity to debate and vote on Brexit, Johnson is acting in an undemocratic fashion.
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But there is nothing undemocratic about reviewing the pros and cons of Brexit as the trade-offs become clearer.
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But the unilateral action by Mr. Modi's Hindu nationalist government on Monday has struck many critics as deeply undemocratic.
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But the unilateral action by Mr. Modi's Hindu nationalist government on Monday has struck many critics as deeply undemocratic.
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Parliament Speaker John Bercow said proroguing parliament would never happen and other candidates have criticized Raab's stance as undemocratic.
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Given that the institutions that make up the federal government are all structurally undemocratic, that shouldn't come as a surprise.
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But it also comes from an undemocratic suppression of the opposition to him and his Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).
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As a teenager she was already a troublemaker, complaining at her convent about the undemocratic selection of the head girl.
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These laws allow European officials to monitor member states and ultimately withdraw their voting rights if they pursue undemocratic policies.
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Some yellow vests who see the European Parliament as undemocratic and a waste of money have branded her a "traitor".
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But never has she publicly admitted that her irresponsible, illegal, and undemocratic behavior made her a subject of political blackmail.
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Our message is as simple now as it was back in 1776: Our current tax system is broken and undemocratic.
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Rights groups and members of the opposing Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) said the vote was a "sham" and "undemocratic".
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The Remain campaign failed to deal with the inherently undemocratic nature of the EU. So is post-EU Britain doomed?
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For many Americans, purported consent based on what appears to be an unfair, undemocratic electoral process conveys no such legitimacy.
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Ultimately, the rules that are effectively enforced will be those defined by undemocratic regimes, at the expense of civil liberties.
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Until now, public attention has focused on how undemocratic actors use various social media platforms to undermine democracy or security.
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Instead, Sanders blasted one of the central pieces of the bill — the outside control board — calling it unacceptable and undemocratic.
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A promising approach to reducing partisan conflict and gridlock, therefore, is to counteract those undemocratic, polarizing influences on the parties.
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To acknowledge that most people are bad at what they haven't spent years learning to do feels undemocratic, even reactionary.
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Decades later, as Ho Chi Minh, he would remember how undemocratic it had felt to be in Paris in 21919.
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Ms. Le Pen has promised to impose restrictions on Muslims and immigrants that critics have called undemocratic or even authoritarian.
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For too long, Senate Republicans have used the arcane and undemocratic filibuster to thwart the will of the American people.
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Democrats want to get this behind them and it's worth noting there were already concerns about the caucuses being undemocratic.
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Indeed to remove Mr Trump, the Republican senators who are already settling on this line will suggest, would be undemocratic.
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It would be particularly fitting for an archaic, undemocratic policy like the Electoral College to be undone by direct democracy.
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"That is undemocratic BS. It's wrong, and that's the kind of thing that should piss off Republican voters," he added.
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On the face of it, failing to carry out the wishes of British voters expressed in the referendum is undemocratic.
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Despite being favored by the Italicum, the 5-Star is also clamoring for change, saying the current law is undemocratic.
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The plan — to basically get a special election do-over with a different candidate — has the whiff of the undemocratic.
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It is the most unnatural and undemocratic thing that we literally never have had a woman president or vice president.
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Gerrymandering, voter suppression, and uncontrolled campaign spending will continue to result in elections skewed in an unrepresentative and undemocratic direction.
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Caucuses are undemocratic in that they require hours of participation that only those with the freedom not to work can afford.
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Seeing the government's actions as an undemocratic betrayal, Kashmiris took to the streets to vent their anger at the security forces.
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Say what you want about shadowy contested convention maneuvering, the most flagrantly undemocratic delegate games are being played in plain sight.
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Brexiteers argue a second referendum would be undemocratic, an attempt to undo the will of the people as evinced in 2016.
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Thailand is currently under military rule and the regime is widely criticized by human rights groups for being oppressive and undemocratic.
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Brexiters now say it would be undemocratic to hold a People's Vote as that would overturn the "will" of the people.
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Ms Zavala criticises the Front's candidate-selection process as "undemocratic" (the Front says it has not yet agreed on a process).
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There's a kind of brotherhood of undemocratic leaders, and you can see it in the flattery they give to each other.
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But they're everyday occurrences in corrupt, undemocratic countries like Azerbaijan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or even Vladimir Putin's Russia.
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Of course, the (imaginary) state of affairs Trump railed against as undemocratic in 2012, has won him the presidency in 2016.
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So despite Maher's view, history tells us that a strong economy is actually our best hope against Trump's worst, undemocratic instincts.
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"Over the years, I've seen Republican leadership deploy every manner of undemocratic, underhanded tactics in Congress," she said in a statement.
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He had promised to end France's state of emergency, imposed after the Bataclan attacks, over criticism that its provisions are undemocratic.
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When it comes to international relations, Trump and Amlo verge on isolationism and show a disturbing inclination to support undemocratic power.
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No. Cooperating with party leaders to anoint an insider using undemocratic means would be a profound violation of Cruz's value proposition.
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But even as a deliberately undemocratic body, the Senate has slipped further out of alignment with the American population over time.
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Van Grieken said the exclusion of Vlaams Belang and its predecessor for the past 40 years had been abnormal and undemocratic.
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Liberals, of course, would never oppose these undemocratic aspects of our government, because they more often than not advance their agenda.
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He has used the pardoning power as one of his few unfettered prerogatives, in just the undemocratic way Enlightenment thinkers feared.
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The laws show that Republicans are willing to mess with the rules governing elections to give themselves an unfair, undemocratic advantage.
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I'm glad that Abrams used her concession message this weekend to call out the undemocratic behavior of her opponent, Brian Kemp.
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No democracy can be immune to running an undemocratic system of oppression for a half-century in territory under its control.
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A number of observers are even willing to concede that "illiberal democracy" might be a somewhat legitimate reaction to undemocratic liberalism.
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Like my Indian relatives who tired of living under British colonial rule, Palestinians are asking for noncooperation with their undemocratic overlords.
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Like my Indian relatives who tired of living under British colonial rule, Palestinians are asking for noncooperation with their undemocratic overlords.
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In use of force and other areas, Trump is exploiting traditions of presidential deference that are undemocratic, and must finally change.
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The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program is an attempt to help disentangle the undemocratic bonds between wealth and rights and opportunities.
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Embrace of strongmen Trump's embrace of the Saudis is consistent with his admiration for strong, often undemocratic leaders around the world.
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But there is something fundamentally unfair and undemocratic about the media driving a Trump message as conventional wisdom to damage Biden.
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In every other Western democracy, the political parties retain the right to have an internal undemocratic or semi-democratic selection process.
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Critics, on the other hand, say this measure is undemocratic and essentially enshrines two separate classes of citizens: Jews, and everyone else.
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They expand the franchise or make undemocratic institutions like the Senate more representative while, at the same time, helping Democrats' electoral chances.
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Conclusion: the two most powerful nations in the world that call themselves democratic have election systems that are undemocratic to the core.
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With the connivance of the mainstream media, Democrats in power have been scheming to doom this presidency by every undemocratic method conceivable.
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The presence of unelected superdelegates at a convention of the "Democratic" party has become something of an embarrassment: It just seems undemocratic.
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"You can erase from the map any kind of [undemocratic] action by Bolsonaro," Mr Mourão said in an interview with The Economist.
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India may be the world's largest democracy, but it's got an increasingly undemocratic approach to enforcing public safety: turning off the internet.
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She was not a candidate that ran in the European elections in May, leading some lawmakers to suggest her nomination was undemocratic.
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But we should be very wary of any attempt to do this because it will only further the interests of undemocratic powers.
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In short, a lame duck consideration of the unpopular TPP would be undemocratic, and would wildly exacerbate frustrations about a rigged system.
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This was a much more united front, a hopeful sign for those worried that Republicans would always support Trump's most undemocratic moves.
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CNN's Jake Tapper asked Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz why the Democratic Party would embrace such a plainly undemocratic process.
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They will not make life easy for Mr Temer, whom they paint as a "coup-monger" engaged in an undemocratic power-grab.
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America looks to be falling into the grips of an undemocratic plutocracy, he says, which is dependent on an expanding security state.
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Among those who said they had been stirred by Europe's perceived undemocratic ways was Sammy Ennis, a 153-year-old history graduate.
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The health care legislation proposed by Senate Republicans is a moral abomination—one that leadership is trying to pass through undemocratic means.
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Groups of all political stripes have denounced the draft constitution as undemocratic, with one major political party urging supporters to vote "no".
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But Aim added, "the very foundation of the political system will be undermined by a number of undemocratic clauses" in the constitution.
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Yameen's plans to run for a second five-year term in 2018 have been dogged by allegations of corruption and undemocratic behavior.
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Of course, any move to de-emphasize the role of primary elections in the nomination process will be denounced as undemocratic elitism.
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Cuba is, of course, an authoritarian undemocratic country, and I hope very much as soon as possible it becomes a democratic country.
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Quitting the sclerotic, undemocratic EU, the Brexiteers say, would set Britain free to reclaim its sovereign destiny as an outward-looking power.
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The announcements have prompted the three challengers to pen an opinion column in The Washington Post condemning their party for being undemocratic.
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What makes Mr. Trump's sabotage especially undemocratic is that Congress has repeatedly considered repealing the law — and repeatedly declined to do so.
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Such undemocratic practices and legacies have acquired an ominous new life with the ascendance of Mr. Modi and his Hindu nationalist party.
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Since May 2017, the Trump administration has placed ever-increasing sanctions on the Maduro regime, citing issues like corruption and undemocratic practices.
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Garnet argued that women had "the same human intellectual and spiritual capabilities as men," making it undemocratic to deny them the vote.
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But we hope it will do so eventually; failing to elect a candidate that a majority prefers over every opponent seems undemocratic.
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Populists justify these undemocratic measures by claiming to act on behalf of the people, while undermining legislatures the people put in power.
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The claim is so undemocratic and absurd that my first reaction was not a legal rejoinder but a question: Was he serious?
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The complex, twisting border between these two Senates, each undemocratic in its own way, now has an outsize importance in American politics.
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They were concerned that cancelling Brexit without consulting the public would be seen as undemocratic and risked alienating thousands of potential voters.
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They believe the United States should act to defend freedom, prevent human rights abuses, and stand against the actions of undemocratic regimes.
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Jerusalem (CNN)In 1988, extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane and his political party were banned from Israel's parliament for being racist and undemocratic.
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However, the military's involvement has led many to see the transfer of power as fundamentally undemocratic and describe it as a coup.
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Or they might tilt in the direction of undemocratic outcomes if such candidates promise, let alone deliver, a reprieve from these plagues.
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Kazakhstan: The police detained about 500 people in the country on Sunday who were protesting a presidential election that they called undemocratic.
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Abrams has argued that the handling of the election was simply undemocratic, and sought to prevent a similar situation from unfolding again.
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Why didn't they protest the unspeakably undemocratic Turkish electoral system, which excludes all parties that have less than 10% of the votes?
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Instead, the focus has been on who's included in debates, whether superdelegates are undemocratic, and whether participation rules like closed primaries are fair.
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After last weekend's Turkish constitutional referendum that granted sweeping new powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, international observers called the election potentially undemocratic.
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Some online took to Twitter to vent, with many calling her win undemocratic — as she was the only candidate qualified for the election.
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It's so far ahead of the others that it would seem undemocratic that it not be in government – indeed, not lead a government.
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If anything, Trump's conservative allies are matching him step for step in presenting the House inquiry as fundamentally undemocratic, if not un-American.
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Even in Eurasian countries that are undemocratic, a desire for economic growth acts as a moderating force in their relations with one another.
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But it's much harder to believe that that they didn't foresee the undemocratic implications of bolstering the "decision-making power" of party leaders.
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It's not unusual for leaders to involve themselves in intra-Senate affairs so Monday's action does not make the Philippines undemocratic, she explained.
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Regardless of your position on the union, this is undemocratic," a memo circulated internally stated, referring to management's counter-offer as "unusually hostile.
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The "Catch 22" is that it would be undemocratic to turf them out, but are they ready to play by the same rules?
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But today "we are seeing the rise of illiberal democracy, or democracy without rights, and undemocratic liberalism, or rights without democracy," Mounk writes.
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"Providing governments are responsible fiscally they can get away with a lot of undemocratic measures," said Renaissance Capital global chief economist Charles Robertson.
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Freedom to dissent and the peaceful transfer of power between opponents are supposed to be what sets the US apart from undemocratic societies.
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The terms of ISDS may have changed for other sectors, but the real details of this unnecessary and undemocratic mechanism are still unknown.
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Martin suggested the idea while members representing different minorities argued passionately that taking away the superdelegates vote on the first ballot was undemocratic.
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Johnson rejects that demand as "undemocratic" and says Britain will leave the EU with no deal at all unless the EU drops it.
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They repeatedly said that was undemocratic, but I told them it is not democratic to bring people from other provinces to cause violence.
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Brushing off a questioner who suggested that the diplomatic cables portrayed Russia as undemocratic, Mr. Putin used the opportunity to bash the West.
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He is increasingly revolted by what he thinks of as the democratization of culture, but he refuses to think of himself as undemocratic.
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If the party chooses to disregard the results, then they should pay back every dime We the People wasted on their undemocratic scam.
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Frank also said he would like to see the national party push states away from holding caucuses, calling them undemocratic compared to primaries.
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One Massachusetts housewife and bird-watcher, Olga Owens Huckins, who called the programs "inhumane, undemocratic and probably unconstitutional," wrote a letter to Carson.
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What keeps him in power — as in other failing, deeply corrupted, or profoundly undemocratic systems — is the loyalty of economic and military elites.
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Do they think these index scores could reliably determine which districts are drawn in an undemocratic, or unconstitutional way, and which ones aren't?
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And in "A Case for the Electoral College," Ross Douthat counters: Is there a case for a system that sometimes produces undemocratic outcomes?
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Today, this diversity, or what political scientists are calling the new oligopoly of state violence, is what undemocratic regimes and failed states prefer.
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Conservatives are often unmoved by complaints that our system is undemocratic, arguing that America was intended not as a democracy but a republic.
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"Julius Caesar can be read as a warning parable to those who try to fight for democracy by undemocratic means," Mr. Eustis wrote.
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Cox, he backs organizations like Hope Not Hate, who masquerade as being lovely and peaceful but actually pursue violent and very undemocratic means.
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Six weeks into the presidential nomination process, it's already abundantly clear that the caucus system is an undemocratic anachronism that needs to die.
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" The aim of the constitution was "to keep watching or controlling the government's actions (to) make sure they aren't doing anything that undemocratic.
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The undemocratic structure of the E.U. and the drive for a United States of Europe with its own army also make me uneasy.
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Either way, the renewed public interest in the Electoral College underscores the need to do away with this antiquated and fundamentally undemocratic institution.
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But those achievements gloss over criticisms that the president has consolidated power and used what some say are undemocratic tactics to sideline opponents.
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And what we have been is violent, disordered, undemocratic, and illiberal on a scale far beyond anything the United States is undergoing today.
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A coup is undemocratic and I couldn't support it under any circumstances, but the images of the riled masses are no less terrifying.
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We must also support the political candidates — Democrat or Republican — who embrace voter enfranchisement, and condemn voter suppression for the undemocratic practice it is.
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"Attempts by the Tories to block Scotland's right to choose our own future are undemocratic and unsustainable," Sturgeon said in response to the poll.
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So if the vice presidency is a powder keg of risk and undemocratic outcomes, then why shouldn't presidents just appoint VPs like Cabinet members?
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Undemocratic practices are on the rise in, among other places, Turkey, Hungary, Poland and the Philippines, each a treaty ally of the United States.
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Yet depictions of corporate China as just an undemocratic, state-run monster, thieving and cheating to get ahead, are crude and out of date.
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The global spread of a technosystem conceived in, and to an unknown extent controlled by, an undemocratic, authoritarian regime could have unprecedented historical significance.
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The truly undemocratic course would be to deny voters the chance to vouch that, yes, they are content with how it has turned out.
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Both Yingluck's Puea Thai Party and the Democrat Party say the draft constitution is undemocratic and will do little to soothe Thailand's political instability.
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"We want a good deal with EU partners and friends but that must involve the abolition of the undemocratic backstop," Raab told the BBC.
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" Di Maio also criticized the then-proposed law, saying that "all Italian parties are trying to defeat us by approving an undemocratic electoral law.
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Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly called to eliminate the Electoral College, which she and a growing number of Democrats argue is an undemocratic, racist system.
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" Albright has previously called Trump the most "undemocratic" U.S. president in modern history and said he is "the gift that keeps giving to Putin.
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Trump's silence on Manila's deteriorating rule of law or the silencing of critics in Hanoi and Beijing could exacerbate the spread of undemocratic policies.
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In a somewhat paradoxical way, the basic tool of democracy — elections — are the best way to gauge the effectiveness of that rather undemocratic spell.
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That is a fantastic turn of events for Putin and other undemocratic leaders who worry about their citizens demanding the democracy they see abroad.
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" The University of Texas law professor Sanford Levinson has been trying for a decade to stir discontent with what he calls "our undemocratic Constitution.
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Mr. Erdogan's response has proved risky: Not all the mayors were unpopular and all were elected, prompting opponents to condemn the moves as undemocratic.
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It has produced a whole host of undemocratic actions, at both state and federal levels, that amount to a systematic threat to American democracy.
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Jerusalem Memo JERUSALEM — Arabs, peace activists and Israel's left wing have long challenged as undemocratic the right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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After voting was held in March — after many delays, under a new undemocratic constitution and with many irregularities — a new government, nominally, was elected.
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We take a look at the candidates — including the moderate incumbent, Hassan Rouhani — and our Interpreter columnists explain how Iran became an undemocratic democracy.
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A strong external oversight board is admittedly undemocratic and will certainly draw opposition, but the current situation demands technocratic attention free of political pressures.
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In such a system, even steps like Mr. Sharif's removal, which nominally reinforce accountability and the rule of law, can deepen decidedly undemocratic norms.
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Many Pakistanis quickly noticed something that suggested Mr. Sharif's removal might perpetuate, rather than end, the undemocratic norms that have plagued Pakistan for decades.
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Furthermore, prominent left-wing parties in several countries became embroiled in corruption scandals and engaged in undemocratic behavior that eroded their bases of support.
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Both reject social hierarchies as undemocratic and eschew the political parties as hopelessly corrupt, according to interviews with a dozen anarchists around the country.
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After all, governments in institutionally weak countries like Mexico, or undemocratic countries like China, tend to stay in power by lifting national living standards.
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" And on Sunday, Sanders told "Face the Nation" that the Democratic nominating process was "stacked" against him and has told others it is "undemocratic.
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Veterans of prior administrations have been alarmed by the charge, arguing that it suggests an undemocratic nation where legal and moral norms are ignored.
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Republicans hold the power in both chambers of the state legislature because of district lines that a state court has deemed unconstitutional and undemocratic.
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The problem: "Leave" supporters in the UK would feel betrayed and very, very angry — and even some "Remain" supporters might see it as undemocratic.
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The United States has said Venezuela's election plan is undemocratic, and it and Colombia have said the results will not be accepted as legitimate.
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Looking at the wasteful, sclerotic and undemocratic grouping that it has become, only a Euro-enthusiast of the deepest hue could think that we would.
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For weeks, Sanders has denounced the Democratic Party's "closed primaries" — which exclude Sanders-supporting independent voters — as undemocratic obstacles to the will of the people.
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Acting just like the "establishment elites" Trump's supporters believe them to be, they're pushing for some kind of undemocratic coup at the convention next month.
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China's formula was intended to reassure Hong Kong that it could keep its capitalist economy, its independent courts and its politically liberal (if undemocratic) culture.
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The mask ban was quickly interpreted as another undemocratic move, and it once again puts the Hong Kong government in direct opposition with the protesters.
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The order was aimed at ensuring that U.S. investors did not help to finance Maduro's expansion of a rule that Trump has described as undemocratic.
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I'd add to that list the Electoral College, which many of us see -- and have long seen -- as an undemocratic bastion of a racist era.
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Sanders is hoping to fight Clinton's delegate lead by calling for changes to what he views as the Democratic Party's "rigged" and undemocratic primary system.
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STRASBOURG — The German nominee to take on the EU's top job is facing a critical test Tuesday, amid criticism of back-door and undemocratic deals.
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In its 2017 report, the group singled out countries like Poland and Hungary, who have used democratic means to achieve undemocratic aims in recent years.
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This deeply undemocratic process is an arrogant attempt by the Obama Administration to enact by regulation what they could not pass through the people's Congress.
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Some say that giving two otherwise unimportant states so much influence over the process to fill the most powerful job in the world is undemocratic.
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His show criticized the administration of Muslim Brotherhood-backed President Mohamed Morsy, addressed social taboos and used humor to call out authorities for undemocratic practices.
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He has been widely criticised for dealing with undemocratic governments, including that of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, whose human rights records have come under fire.
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Churchill vehemently opposed this, in a hateful, long-running campaign that raised eyebrows—even back then—as verging on the undemocratic and verging on totalitarianism.
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The firm also found a high correlation between ESG factors and economic growth, with undemocratic countries able to make greater progress before reaching a ceiling.
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But it looks like decisions have been to choose TPP, to choose an undemocratic negotiating process and to charge ahead with an uncertain approval process.
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On Monday, Senator Orrin Hatch neatly outlined the totally undemocratic nature of his party's strategy to Talking Points Memo: A pretty honest answer from Sen.
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Today, black Americans still are kept away from the polls by an insurgence of restrictive, undemocratic laws such as one passed in Tennessee this year.
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Eugene Kontorovich of the Kohelet Policy Forum explains that there is nothing undemocratic about this legislation and that it is quite commonplace among Western democracies.
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That vexed history revisits us presently, although it is not clear whether the period we are entering threatens to bring illiberal democracy or undemocratic liberalism.
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Though Wall Street seems to be thrilled with the idea, the proposal has been rejected by most other sectors as being undemocratic and outright colonial.
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Maduro's critics worry that the new body would further sideline the current opposition-led legislature and pave the way for undemocratic changes to the constitution.
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Trump's not wrong to point out that these sorts of hail Mary strategies are panicked and vaguely undemocratic, not to mention unprecedented in contemporary politics.
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"The undemocratic and megalomaniac style of stopping government advertisement is a message to media from this government to toe its line," Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said.
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Many would-be voters believed the referendum itself was an undemocratic measure imposed upon them by a slim majority of secessionists in the regional government.
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He has denied the charges and his party says they are part of an undemocratic conspiracy by the political establishment to keep him from power.
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But if this was true at the founding, it's probably not how most Americans understand their country today, when "undemocratic" is considered a political epithet.
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"An enemies list is ugly, undemocratic and un-American," Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the senior Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said on Twitter.
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She urged the critics to shift their aim toward the Democrats' super-delegate system –– an approach she has condemned for decades as unfair and undemocratic.
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Maduro's government recently ordered the country's elections to be moved up to later this month, a move the U.S. and other countries have labeled undemocratic.
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She quotes John Adams, who suggested, in a letter to a friend, that there was something both undemocratic and unwise in the lionization of leadership.
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Where MacLean accuses Buchanan and those he influenced of undemocratic schemes for political entrenchment, they saw themselves as engaging in a strategy of counter-entrenchment.
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European leaders have also threatened a new round of sanctions against Venezuela&aposs top officials, after what it considers President Nicolas Maduro&aposs undemocratic re-election.
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The brazenness of Netanyahu's argument — that it would be undemocratic to prosecute him for his efforts to undermine Israeli democracy — is matched only by its danger.
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Pro-Brexit groups argue that holding another referendum would be undemocratic, arguing that the government should work to deliver the result of the 2016 referendum instead.
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The PiS government rejects accusations of undemocratic behavior and says its reforms are needed because courts are slow, inefficient and steeped in a communist era-mentality.
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Comey, however, was also leading the FBI's investigation into alleged ties between the Russian government and Trump's presidential campaign, casting an undemocratic shadow over the firing.
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He is also pushing a narrative that dark forces on the left—including journalists, police officers and prosecutors—are conspiring to remove him by undemocratic means.
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It also highlights the undemocratic nature of our electoral rules: Votes are weighted by where you live, so a diffuse minority can defeat a concentrated majority.
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"This amendment is illegal and undemocratic, and is an attempt to strengthen rule in an unconstitutional way," Ali Kerimli, an opposition Popular Front leader, told Reuters.
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However opponents of Vladimir Putin's regime argue the Russian president uses claims of combating terrorism as an instrument to consolidate his own undemocratic grip on power.
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Alternatively, there could be a second referendum, despite the rather surreal assertion from many that it would be a betrayal of the 2016 vote and undemocratic.
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There was a time when one could imagine the instability in flashpoints across the globe reaching India and sending it into undemocratic chaos or nuclear war.
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That undemocratic electoral majority, much more than any poll result, is the real key to Trump's hold on his party — and his party's hold on power.
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"The best way for the press to react to Trump's undemocratic behavior is to continue trying to do their jobs the best they can," Ladd wrote.
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Still, the nomination of a party favorite who didn't compete in a single primary or caucus would be viewed by many as absurd, outrageous, and undemocratic.
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No recent move has so clearly highlighted the undemocratic, Berlin-dominated nature of European decision making and the gulf between the elite consensus and popular opinion.
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However, if the Senate does not reflect the will of most Americans, it is because the Senate is a fundamentally undemocratic institution that exercises minority rule.
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In this, foundations resembled super PAC s: in both cases, money gave rich people the means to exercise an outsized and undemocratic influence on American life.
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" Another friend, a software developer, claims to have leaked a set of documents that served as "an indictment of undemocratic activity perpetrated by the very rich.
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"Julius Caesar can be read as a warning parable to those who try to fight for democracy by undemocratic means," he writes on the Public's website.
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After the start of his second term in January, the opposition-controlled legislature declared its leader, Juan Guaidó, the country's rightful president, calling the election undemocratic.
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While candidates and some of their supporters decry the undemocratic nature of the superdelegates, closed primaries, and even delegate allocation formulas, parties have a few defenders.
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In the end, he is who the voters chose, and going against the popular winner would surely be met with intense backlash and accusations of being undemocratic.
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By labeling impeachment a "coup," Trump is attempting to label it illegitimate — arguing that it's an attempt to nullify the will of the voters, and thus undemocratic.
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Scotland voted to remain in the EU last June and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said after May spoke that blocking an independence referendum would be undemocratic.
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Eurosceptic supporters of Brexit say the divorce is under threat from what they cast as an undemocratic plot that risks undermining political stability in the United Kingdom.
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Since Obama attended his first UN as president in 2009, several authoritarians, dictators and other undemocratic leaders who have at times vexed America have departed the scene.
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ACLU and other groups criticized the General Assembly for spending the money on a special session to pass the legislation, which they called rushed through and undemocratic.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has also been critical of international efforts to monitor Russian elections in the past, often blasting the U.S. Electoral College system as undemocratic.
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Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform, another think-tank, says it is unwise to talk too soon about a second referendum, since that looks undemocratic.
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Lam, who if elected would become Hong Kong's first female leader, said she would not rush into "extremely controversial" issues like reforming Hong Kong's largely undemocratic system.
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They were overruled by the majority, which reckoned that they would either win a lot of governorships or have further grounds for attacking the regime as undemocratic.
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday called for eliminating the Electoral College, saying that it is "undemocratic" and "forces candidates to ignore" the majority of voters.
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The proper remedy to this undemocratic trend is an amendment to the constitution, the place we have shaped our current election and voting practices throughout our history.
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And whoever is going to be the Democratic nominee is going to have to embrace the analysis that this inequality is absolutely unjust and unsupported and undemocratic.
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Ever since annexing Crimea in March 2014, Russia has heightened a disinformation campaign in the West, painting it as violent, disorderly, flooded with immigrants and inherently undemocratic.
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"The global spread of a technosystem conceived in, and to an unknown extent controlled by, an undemocratic, authoritarian regime could have unprecedented historical significance," the magazine wrote.
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But it seems a pretty scary line of reasoning to me that the only way to defend democracy is by having something inherently undemocratic at its core.
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Democrats have long rightly criticized labor rules in Mexico whose workforce is characterized by undemocratic, employer-dominated unions which negotiate collective bargaining agreements that hamstring their workers.
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As Johnson played Brexit chess with lawmakers, opponents cast his tactics as undemocratic, including an order to suspend parliament for more than a month beginning next week.
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Advocates counter that more democracy isn't undemocratic, and that Brexit is so divisive that the only way to legitimize the process is to offer a public vote.
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Zoltan Mucsi, the head of steelmaker Dunaferr's Vasas trade union, said it was undemocratic that the government did not discuss the labor code changes with the unions.
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American leaders should remain consistent in their public and private criticism of Mr. Erdogan's undemocratic behavior, rather than withholding or deploying it selectively as a diplomatic tool.
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Across all four countries, leading politicians agitate against the European Union, portraying it as an imposing, undemocratic force, even as the second coming of the Soviet Union.
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Solicitor General Noel Francisco argued to the court that the arrangement is undemocratic, because a director who operates under such protections is not answerable to the president.
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To the Editor: I have read a few pieces in The Times since the election that speak of the Senate as representing a minority and being undemocratic.
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Yet, nearly 700,000 Americans who live in the district should not stand for it and should do everything possible to remedy this patently undemocratic, un-American condition.
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As another election looms, popular disillusionment has spiraled over the undemocratic rule of le pouvoir, or the power, as the establishment clique propping up Bouteflika is known.
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This undemocratic model of dealing with border disputes or independence movements sets a precedent that will inflame territorial problems around the world, validating institutional violence against minorities.
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On Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer admitted that Trump was "demoralized" by the nation's negative reaction to his undemocratic ascension to the nation's highest office.
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Europe's supporters -- liberals, conservatives, social democrats, greens -- are thus in a no-win position: if they defend the union's undemocratic structures, they look hypocritical and illiberal themselves.
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She contended that the board's election procedures were undemocratic, the organization was spending too much on management and the group's financial reporting needed to be more transparent.
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Caucuses are largely undemocratic because they give disproportionate power to left-leaning activists, making thousands of Democrats in Kansas more influential than millions of people in Florida.
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In this nationalistic vision of European geopolitics, the EU is portrayed as an invading force: dictatorial, aloof and undemocratic, hellbent on the formation of a continental super-state.
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One thing that tends to trip people up about contested conventions is that the idea of tossing out a candidate chosen by the people seems a little undemocratic.
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MORE FROM REUTERS COMMENTARY Scott Lemieux: Blame the Constitution for Trump's undemocratic executive orders Paul Wallace: How money will divide Europe after Brexit For one, things got personal.
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For the first century or so after the American Revolution, the idea that the dead would have much control over the resources of the world seemed very undemocratic.
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Counting man-made famines and genocides, colonial and undemocratic powers have caused 250m premature deaths since 1900—five times the death toll from combat in all wars combined.
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In theory, Trump might address these undemocratic trajectories, but there's not much hope that he will — especially as, on migration in particular, he basically agrees with Poland's choices.
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called President Donald Trump the "most undemocratic president in modern American history" in an interview Sunday with BBC's The Andrew Marr Show.
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"There are 3,000 in my group who have been slamming these guys as politely and nicely as we can...basically saying, look this system is undemocratic," Renquist said.
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We're dancing around a giant elephant right now, so I'll just address it: In the book, you call Donald Trump "the most undemocratic president" in modern American history.
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Maduro says the street protests earlier this year were a mask for a U.S.-backed coup plot, and accuses opponents of wanting to oust him by undemocratic means.
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Politics is defined by a growing battle between illiberal democracy, or democracy without rights, on the one hand, and undemocratic liberalism, or rights without democracy, on the other.
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He also reiterated vows made in the most recent debate to jail the democratic nominee should he win the presidency, a move which pundits have labelled historically undemocratic.
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From the beginning, McConnell did everything he could to make the process as opaque and undemocratic as possible—to the public, to Democrats, even to his own caucus.
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But protests over voter fraud, an international audit of the elections concluding they had been undemocratic, and the Army's call for his resignation forced him out of office.
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"There's nothing undemocratic about trying to get to the bottom of whether Russia hacked our elections and had the help of people inside the White House," she said.
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While he panned the Castro regime as "authoritarian" and "undemocratic," he didn't directly address whether he has had a change of heart on his characterization of Castro's regime.
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Johnson has moved to suspend Parliament starting Monday evening for the longest period in the modern era, in what opponents have dubbed an "undemocratic" move by the government.
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As long as the European Union is strong enough to put them in conflict but too weak to create a solution, it will feel, in some sense, undemocratic.
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Then, return to the question raised earlier: Do students think a simple proportionality test could be used to create a "workable standard" for determining undemocratic, or unconstitutional, gerrymandering?
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan — The police detained about 500 people in Kazakhstan on Sunday who were protesting a presidential election that they called undemocratic, with the outcome all but certain.
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I voted remain, but like most Britons it was not out of any love for the European Union, which I see as a fundamentally flawed and undemocratic institution.
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Today we tend to emphasize how undemocratic the founding era was when judged by our values — its exclusion of women, enslavement of African-Americans, violence against Native Americans.
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The lower house of parliament on Thursday approved a legislative amendment reversing changes it had made at the Supreme Court that the European Union had condemned as undemocratic.
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The takeover in Egypt raised tensions between the U.A.E. and the United States, which danced clumsily between censuring Sisi as an undemocratic strongman and quietly continuing some cooperation.
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However, as another election looms, popular disillusionment has spiraled over the undemocratic rule of le pouvoir, or the power, as the establishment clique propping up Bouteflika is known.
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He takes office thanks to the obsolete and undemocratic Electoral College, as the second Republican president in a row to be rejected by a substantial majority of voters.
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Mr. McConnell, like President Trump, simply wanted a "win" no matter how unprecedented and undemocratic the process, how nonexistent the "legislation," and how cruel and deadly the results.
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The usual commentary about the military's supposed veto over constitutional amendments tends to point to that power as the ultimate proof of just how undemocratic this Constitution is.
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The report identifies other key problems ripping at NATO, including "a potentially cancerous threat from within" from the increasingly undemocratic governments of its members Hungary, Poland and Turkey.
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But the party's willingness to diminish their role confirms what many feel: that the superdelegates amount to a hard-to-defend undemocratic piece of an otherwise democratic process.
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And it's not just one losing gubernatorial candidate pulling an undemocratic fast one during the lame duck session — it's the near-unanimous decision of two different state legislative caucuses.
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This is linked to the situation with French Judo who have the ear of France's Sports Minister, resulting in the recent ban on MMA competition through an undemocratic process.
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This could be compounded if Trump follows through on his campaign comments about Putin's Russia, a country criticized by watchdogs as an undemocratic human-rights abuser that silences dissenters.
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The problem is that many Sanders fans have seen the superdelegates as out to get Sanders, thus giving the impression that their undemocratic will is the reason he's losing.
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When asked if having another vote was therefore undemocratic, Blair said it wasn't because the electorate's knowledge of what Brexit means has been "hugely enlarged" since the first referendum.
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And investment bets on undemocratic countries can turn sour - as they are now in Venezuela amid Nicolas Maduro's latest power grab and did recently in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
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Theresa May has resisted a second referendum, basically saying it would be undemocratic and that the country has already voted and she's delivering on the will of the people.
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Earlier this week, President Obama named seven unelected and unaccountable members to Puerto Rico's Fiscal Control Board, the undemocratic body that will govern the island for the foreseeable future.
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Germany has seen the creation of the far-right Alternative for Germany, which is creating an alliance with the decidedly undemocratic youth wing of Vladimir Putin's United Russia party.
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To have an individual who took that oath literally say that they work every day to frustrate the president advancing the agenda he was elected to advance is undemocratic.
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As for the likes of Grenell, evicting him from the country would only serve the far right's purposes, enabling it to portray Europe's "elites" as high-handed and undemocratic.
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They've given Republicans in many states free rein to gerrymander and pass restrictive voting laws that provide them with an artificial and undemocratic advantage in elections on every level.
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Until a critical mass of current members of the president's own party and administration publicly reject his undemocratic behavior and disregard for the rule of law, nothing will change.
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Especially in undemocratic systems, scheduled leadership changes can also placate the people, by allowing a new leader to adjust policies in order to correct a predecessor's mistakes or overreach.
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Imamoglu - whose election in June dealt President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party (AKP) a shock defeat - has labelled the move illegal and undemocratic and called for it to be reversed.
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"What President Sirisena has done is illegal and undemocratic," said Rishad Bathiudeen, a Muslim lawmaker and leader of a party that has often played kingmaker in Sri Lankan coalitions.
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"This is at best bad cultural criticism and at worst an undemocratic smear [against] the ideals and the ideas of the band," said Firas Abou Fakher, the band's guitarist.
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But you don't have to be a supporter of either of those candidates or their plans to get behind the general idea that great concentration of wealth is undemocratic.
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Such a statement could affect the outcome of the elections, they argued, with some of Netanyahu's key political allies saying it could result in an "undemocratic" change in government.
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This nation's white founders set up a decidedly undemocratic Constitution that excluded women, Native Americans and black people, and did not provide the vote or equality for most Americans.
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This nation's white founders set up a decidedly undemocratic Constitution that excluded women, Native Americans and black people, and did not provide the vote or equality for most Americans.
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He denies all claims of wrongdoing against him, including old tax evasion and money laundering charges which kept him in jail on election day, calling them an undemocratic plot.
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The elected members of Parliament have the authority they need even under this very undemocratic Constitution to change the text itself — and to start changing the country — right now.
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Go deeper: Trump challenger Joe Walsh has an inflammatory record of his own Editor's note: This story has been corrected to show that Walsh said "undemocratic" in his quote.
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Because no-deal is not a credible threat... Prorogation ... may not be illegal but I can assure you it is undemocratic, it is unconstitutional and it is profoundly offensive.
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Many eligible voters boycotted the vote, believing the referendum itself was an undemocratic imposition by the Catalan secessionists who hold a whippet thin majority in the Catalan regional parliament.
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They voted in part because they wanted to take back control from an undemocratic Europe, and in part because they considered the British establishment a collection of self-dealing incompetents.
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The terms on which the emerging undemocratic superpower invests in the outside world are of interest to all countries—particularly if other things, such as foreign policy, may be affected.
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"EU is uneconomical, undemocratic and controlled and run by one particular country," he told CNBC before taking stage as the main speaker for the 'exit' case in the evening's debate.
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Those who would suppress them all make three errors: they claim Islamists are all the same; they say they are fundamentally undemocratic; and they think the solution lies with strongmen.
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In a rare show of unity, political parties on both sides of Thailand's divide have said the draft constitution is undemocratic and will enshrine military power and hobble civilian politics.
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He has spent 17 years as an MEP highlighting the absurdities of undemocratic governmental bodies in Brussels, to the point where the public decided they had had enough of them.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu criticized German and Dutch restrictions on such gatherings as undemocratic, and said Turkey would press on with them in the run-up to the vote.
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The United States asked Hungary to suspend the implementation of the law, and the European Union on Wednesday threatened Orban with legal action for moves that it saw as undemocratic.
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"Julius Caesar can be read as a warning parable to those who try to fight for democracy by undemocratic means," director Oskar Eustis wrote in a note about the production.
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Many people would like it to be an organisation defined by shared values rather than an imperial legacy which it it isn't: its members include undemocratic, human-rights violating governments.
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But surely the most undemocratic feature is the lack of public engagement, far lower in the United States than other comparable democracies (58 percent turnout in the last national election).
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" A statement from Oskar Eustis on the theater's website said: "Julius Caesar can be read as a warning parable to those who try to fight for democracy by undemocratic means.
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While The Gambia was positive in the end, at a similar time, terrible things were happening in Gabon and the DRC, South Africa is becoming more undemocratic by the day.
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The idea that a U.S. citizen — whether Donald Trump, Jesse Jackson or anyone else — does not have a right to dialogue with officials of foreign governments is pernicious and undemocratic.
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When General el-Sisi overthrew the democratically-elected Morsi government in July of 2013, I was a lonely voice in Congress willing to condemn an unlawful and undemocratic coup d'etat.
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"(These) individuals and organizations are either dishonest, or they have a poor understanding of economics, since democracy and prosperity are closely linked and the EU is clearly undemocratic," he said.
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NAIROBI, Kenya – Opposition groups in Burundi say Thursday&aposs referendum on extending the president&aposs power was undemocratic as the country awaits the electoral commission&aposs announcement of the results.
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There's been a lot of complaining this election cycle about the "rigged" rules of the game, and not without reason: Our presidential primary process can be a confusing, undemocratic mess.
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It's sort of in my family to be aware of when the government is doing things that are undemocratic, that are really against what America is supposed to be about.
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Trump's premise in this section appears to be that President Obama engaged in a wide array of criminal, undemocratic, and negligent behaviors but his attorney general protected him from justice.
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It's that they're democracy-indifferent, unconcerned with the fact that their pursuit of power echoes some of the undemocratic practices we've seen in both American history and failing democracies abroad.
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I now realize that this is fundamentally undemocratic and wrong, and I was wrong, but I didn't want to die in some far-off place for reasons I couldn't understand.
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" Philip Hammond, who, like Johnson, is a member of the Conservative Party and was the Chancellor of the Exchequer under previous Prime Minister Theresa May, called the suspension "profoundly undemocratic.
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Whenever lawmakers in either country have attempted to bring the two men back to earth, Trump and Johnson have resorted to undemocratic tactics in order to circumvent and delegitimize them.
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Walsh and Weld have complained bitterly that several states have scrapped their primaries, calling it undemocratic and part of a broader effort to rig the nominating contest in Trump's favor.
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China, India and Turkey remained silent while more than a dozen countries that had not recognized Mr. Guaidó, including Mexico, protested Mr. Maduro's undemocratic and violent conduct toward the legislature.
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And that is when you have undemocratic needs, when you suppress people's votes to get elected, those are the very people you're going to come after when you're in office.
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Attorney General Luisa Ortega, who recently broke ranks with Mr. Maduro and has criticized his plan to convene a constituent assembly as undemocratic, stopped by an opposition-run voting station.
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And that is when you have undemocratic means, when you suppress people's votes to get elected, those are the very people you're going to come after when you're in office.
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" In the same statement, Gillibrand also cast the Electoral College as undemocratic, saying it "has distorted the outcome of elections and disenfranchised millions of voters, and I think that's wrong.
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Demographics dictate that this, in turn, will spell the end of the Jewish state — unless Israel wants to be an undemocratic pariah state ruling over a vast disenfranchised Palestinian population.
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Lastly, the law creates an undemocratic election system for organizations that represent public employees, the lawsuit claims, because it counts votes based on population instead of number of ballots cast.
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Trump's parade was about more generally celebrating the American military and its collective arsenal — something members of Congress from both parties argued was unseemly at best and undemocratic at worst.
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They are elected by a selection of politicians and religious leaders, but the process has been widely criticized as undemocratic (there are few women involved in the process, for one).
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The second reason is that for months leading up to the primary, Sanders's supporters have argued that the superdelegates should be ignored as an undemocratic usurpation of the popular will.
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Given the gravity of impact on our lives, businesses and the future prosperity of our children; it would, in my humble opinion, be both undemocratic and immoral not to do so.
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"I do not accept the exclusion or talk of excluding our party, a party that represents now a quarter of the electorate, and I think that is fundamentally undemocratic," she said.
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And the move to cashless stores — among them, Dos Toros, Bluestone Lane, and Milk Bar — has miffed officials in places like Philadelphia, where city councilman Bill Greenlee says it's fundamentally undemocratic.
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They ignored him, delivering a surprise outcome that reflected anti-establishment sentiment and deep disenchantment with an EU that the Leave campaign portrayed as bureaucratic, undemocratic and mired in permanent crises.
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He is simply publicly lamenting that he let American citizens out of an undemocratic regime's prison system because the father of one of them did not personally thank him for that.
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Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu criticised German and Dutch restrictions on such gatherings as undemocratic, and said Turkey would press on with them in the run-up to the April 16 referendum.
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It has remained defiant despite multiple legal cases opened against it by the Commission, as well as a special probe that could see it formally denounced by the EU as undemocratic.
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Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu criticized German and Dutch restrictions on such gatherings as undemocratic, and said Turkey would press on with them in the run-up to the April 16 referendum.
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The White House cited the slow pace of institutional reform, an anti-Israel bias, and the election of undemocratic governments in Cuba, Congo and Venezuela, among others, to the council itself.
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Toxic internal forces have made the Afghan political scene increasingly predatory, operating as an undemocratic patronage machine, where turf battles among factional leaders for money and muscle is a common occurrence.
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Erdogan's creeping authoritarianism has made him increasingly unpopular among many Turks, but journalist Mustafa Edib Yilmaz says the public response to the coup attempt suggested little support for an undemocratic alternative.
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It's that they're democracy-indifferent, unconcerned with the fact that their pursuit of power echoes some of the undemocratic practices that we've seen in both American history and failing democracies abroad.
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Next May, we can wave goodbye not only to liberal democracy and the liberal undemocratic system that has been built on its foundations but also to the entire élite of '68.
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The Democrats are favored to take back at least one house of Congress in the 2018 midterms, which would give them the power to check Trump and the GOP's undemocratic inclinations.
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More recently, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost his majority in Parliament and united his fractured opponents by trying to yank the U.K. out of the European Union by undemocratic means.
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For decades, successive generations of Thai generals have deposed elected governments, rewritten constitutions and passed undemocratic laws — and all of that was then legitimized with a stroke of the royal pen.
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A huge state bureaucracy, of course, can be just as alienating and undemocratic as corporate boardrooms, so we need to think hard about the new forms that social ownership could take.
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"In itself, this marginality on the part of some groups is inherently undemocratic, but it has also been one of the factors which has enabled democracy to function effectively," Huntington wrote.
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This is not only hypocrisy of the first order, but also a highly undemocratic way of approaching an incredibly important piece of legislation, whose final composition will affect millions of Americans.
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"It's now at a stage where a lot of Americans have such a loyalty to their political tribe that they are willing to go along with deeply undemocratic behavior," he said.
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In fact, she's beaten him just about everywhere Democrats came out to vote in numbers — of the nine states the Vermont senator has won, five have been low-turnout, undemocratic caucuses.
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Americans believe their elections are far more democratic than they actually are, and that's because the most undemocratic institutions — like superdelegates and the Electoral College — tend to follow the popular will.
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Poland's ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) rushed a legislative amendment through parliament on Wednesday reversing changes it had made at the Supreme Court that the European Union had condemned as undemocratic.
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Sanders himself has stoked fears of superdelegates, railing against them as undemocratic elitists who subvert the voters' will while also bizarrely petitioning them to ignore the public and give him the nomination.
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If there are large demonstrations or other forms of major public outcry when a leader takes undemocratic actions, then the would-be authoritarian can't get away with their attempts to consolidate power.
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" Kjetil Røed, a critic for Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, has been one of the people mobilizing sentiment against "Memory Wound"; in an article published last year, he called it a "state undemocratic memorial.
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At the same time, a fearful population will be more tempted and willing to elect a hardline government that promises to throw the hammer down on perceived threats—even overtly undemocratic regimes.
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In a meeting at the White House on Monday, Trump told visiting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi that he had done "a fantastic job" despite criticisms of the leader's undemocratic actions.
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"Julius Caesar can be read as a warning parable to those who try to fight for democracy by undemocratic means," the play's director, Oskar Eustis said in a statement promoting the performance.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) have always refused to deal with the Left party, heir to East Germany's Communist party, or the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD), regarding both as undemocratic.
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Over the past week, President Trump repeatedly weaponized the office of the presidency to attack four sitting congresswomen — all of whom are women of color — with violent and exceedingly undemocratic rhetoric. Reps.
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Kuczynski, a 77-year-old former World Bank economist who endorsed Fujimori during her first presidential run in 2011, said it would be "undemocratic" for him to join calls to stop Fujimori.
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But we're at a grave juncture in national politics—one that rightfully draws comparisons to President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, and to the behavior of authoritarian leaders in undemocratic nations.
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Not only was the old system undemocratic but the elites completely cocked things up, opting for a disastrous war in Iraq and allowing the financial sector to crash the economy in 2008.
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Senate Republicans' new attempts to defund a system that has lowered healthcare costs and expanded coverage for millions of Americans is bad policy, bad politics and an undemocratic assault on representative government.
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The Northern League called for a new electoral law to be introduced by emergency decree so a snap general election could be held, but this was opposed as undemocratic by most parties.
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Since the nineteen-nineties, when oil and gas were discovered in Equatorial Guinea, it has been one of the world's most corrupt and undemocratic nations, where dissidents are routinely jailed and tortured.
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His iron grip on the Senate's flow of business amid the current shutdown shows how Republicans' structural advantage in one legislative chamber gives them an undemocratic veto on the country's political agenda.
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Shakespeare's play, and our production, make the opposite point: those who attempt to defend democracy by undemocratic means pay a terrible price and destroy the very thing they are fighting to save.
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The national association of federal prosecutors, the ANPR, said the appointment was undemocratic and called on its members to stage a nationwide protest on Monday to defend the independence of the PGR.
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Speaking of disenfranchisement, to see something truly undemocratic, look at North Carolina's Ninth Congressional District, where a Republican political operative is accused of mishandling mail-in ballots, in violation of state law.
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He was referring to the right-wing governments in those two countries, which now both have a strained relationship with the European Union over moves that critics in Brussels see as undemocratic.
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"Instead of trying to beat President Trump at the ballot box, Democrats are resorting to unconstitutional, undemocratic, and just plain desperate tactics," Republican National Committee spokesman Steve Guest said in a statement.
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Their influence caused substantial tension two years ago when supporters of Mr. Sanders zeroed in on superdelegates as "undemocratic" and said they created an unfair and even rigged system favoring Mrs. Clinton.
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Shakespeare's play, and our production, make the opposite point: Those who attempt to defend democracy by undemocratic means pay a terrible price and destroy the very thing they are fighting to save.
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Protests fueled by 'power' propping up Bouteflika Popular disillusionment had spiraled over the undemocratic rule of "le pouvoir," or the power, as the established clique propping up Bouteflika has become known as.
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Partisan gerrymanders are quite simply undemocratic and that is why Common Cause has fought them in the courts whether the lines were drawn by Republicans in North Carolina or Democrats in Maryland.
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" The Washington Post's executive editor, Marty Baron, described the White House's decision to close off the briefing from some outlets as "appalling" and accused the administration of traveling down "an undemocratic path.
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Since this interview was part of our season on how philanthropists shape the world around us, often in undemocratic ways, we were also interested in the funding that the Federalist Society receives.
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In Nevada, the powers that be attempted to counteract some of the undemocratic nature of this process by organizing special caucuses for shift workers in the casinos on the Las Vegas strip.
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And as Trump continuously attacked the RNC rules as being undemocratic, disenfranchising to voters, and creatures of out-of-touch Republican-party regulars, he put Cruz in the position of backing the establishment.
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But Macau pro-democratic activists, mainly in their 20s and 30s, say the city has a broken and undemocratic political system and called on the international community to support Macau's efforts for democratization.
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Blaine: And if no one ever does do the thing that most people asked them to do, it will be undemocratic and if any one ever does do it, it will be awful.
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The first is to further expose the evidence of presidential wrongdoing to the mass public, giving people a broader and deeper insight into the undemocratic and potentially criminal elements of the president's character.
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Every dress, bag, shoe, lip color and earring is a potentially decisive factor in how a woman's image and career is perceived by a shadowy, decidedly undemocratic cabal of producers and casting directors.
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" He disagreed with the U.S. sanctions against Iran, saying: "This kind of play of applying sanctions and forcing other countries to comply with the big power's decision is totally undemocratic ... This is bullying.
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Continuing to punish people who have paid their debt to society by stripping their rights as citizens to vote is both unfair and undemocratic, and has huge implications for who runs the country.
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The shah undoubtedly ran a repressive and undemocratic regime, but his vilification by human rights activists and the press in the seventies provided a new wave of revisionist historians with an easy foil.
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Even if the Treasury Department has the legal authority, it would be undemocratic for anyone other than the American people, through their elected representatives in Congress, to make such a major policy change.
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ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan showed no retreat from a diplomatic row with the United States on Saturday, castigating Washington for what he said an "undemocratic" indictment against his security detail.
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The latter is being investigated by European authorities for implementing changes, relating to the independence of its judiciary and freedom of speech, that are perceived as undemocratic and against the rule of law.
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During his tenure, President Obama implemented bans under this authority 19 times, mostly to members of corrupt and undemocratic governments (along with their relatives) both on and off his seven-nation terror-list.
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If Israel chose to annex the territories, it would be obliged either to disenfranchise their Palestinian inhabitants, making Israel undemocratic, or extend the vote and watch Israel's Jewish majority turn into a minority.
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Moore, like other despairing souls, rails against the Electoral College, and also against what he views as the Democratic Party's undemocratic scorn for the preferences of its own members at the county level.
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The seven-member oversight board, which at least initially will include four Republican and three Democratic appointees, was criticized as undemocratic for giving too little representation to the 3.5 million Puerto Rican-Americans.
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They have depended on its conservative justices to curtail voting rights, to permit an unlimited flow of unaccountable corporate money into the political process and to allow the drawing of undemocratic congressional gerrymanders.
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"The draft charter creates undemocratic institutions, weakens the power of future elected governments and is likely to fuel political instability," the International Federation for Human Rights said in a report released this week.
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Earlier this year, Poland's Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski summoned the German ambassador in Warsaw after some German politicians suggested imposing EU sanctions on Poland over media and justice reforms they said were undemocratic.
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In contrast, Diaz-Canel was selected in a sham pro forma vote, where he was the only candidate, and even the people voting, members of the National Assembly, were chosen by undemocratic means.
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During news conferences and on the floor of the Assembly this week, Mr. Vos defended the legislation as a necessary check on executive power and brushed aside claims of an undemocratic power grab.
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Abrams, Brown and Booker, by contrast, criticized blatantly undemocratic behavior: the attempts by Republicans in Georgia (and elsewhere) to win elections by making it hard for many people, especially African-Americans, to vote.
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Evidently she believes that, in a country with one of the world's most open, transparent and free political systems, should the people vote to reelect President Trump, it is on an undemocratic path.
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Our aim is to show through peaceful means how the iron resolve of Chinese people who want democracy will in the end demolish an undemocratic order that maintains itself with bayonets and lies.
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He is calling for a boycott of the election, saying it is an undemocratic farce, and deploying supporters to collect evidence of anyone rigging the ballot to inflate turnout and support for Putin.
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As you note, the compact enjoys widespread popularity, but it is stymied by stubborn state legislatures, especially those in swing states that would prefer to maintain their undemocratic electoral leverage in presidential contests.
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Hirak has mobilized huge street protests since February demanding a full clear-out of a shadowy, long entrenched ruling elite that it sees as corrupt and undemocratic, and the army's withdrawal from politics.
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The GOP has revealed itself to be so far gone — through undemocratic behaviors that go far beyond Trump — that the only viable remedy appears to be defeating the party at the ballot box.
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In an article in the journal Foreign Affairs, Cas Mudde, a professor at the University of Georgia who studies populism, blamed the "undemocratic liberalism" of mainstream politics for the loss of voter support.
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Brexit supporters say that, while there may be some short-term disruption, in the long-term the UK will thrive outside what they cast as an undemocratic and excessively bureaucratic project dominated by Germany.
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I think we need to distinguish very clearly between policies that we think are illiberal, undesirable, and bad on the one hand, and actions that are undemocratic and destructive to the institutions of democracy.
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As Seth Masket, for example, has pointedly argued: I'd like to suggest that this year, more than any other in recent memory, is the time to make an affirmative case for undemocratic political parties.
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If this dangerous and undemocratic turn to mob rule is not called out immediately by responsible Republicans, and reacted against by an outraged citizenry, the foundation of our democracy will be seriously at risk.
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Related: The Prosecutor Investigating Peru's Powerful First Lady Has Been Fired Keiko's other problem is that the corruption and undemocratic conduct that marred her father's administration keeps rearing its head in Popular Force today.
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Mrs May and other critics argue that holding another referendum would be undemocratic (never mind that Mrs May is prepared to ask MPs to vote on her deal a third or even fourth time).
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Since coming to power in October 2015 the nationalist-minded, eurosceptic PiS has come under fire at home and abroad for what critics say are undemocratic moves designed to tighten its grip on power.
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This anti-speech coalition of nonprofits will continue to spend millions of dollars each year telling Americans that our political system is corrupt and undemocratic because other citizens are also spending money on speech.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's parliament on Tuesday approved changing the constitution to ease nationality rules for presidential candidates, a move the government says will end prolonged instability but which the opposition says is undemocratic.
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To quote the title of one of the academic articles that inspired the control board idea, it is a "dictatorship for democracy" in the form of a temporary, undemocratic institution designed to restore order.
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The process by which they're negotiated is undemocratic, they uplift investor rights over sovereign rights, they reverse the order in which certain challenges should be tackled, and they fail to deal with currency issues.
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Darren Walker: President, Ford Foundation Many debate whether philanthropy is undemocratic by its nature — whether it too often benefits the pet causes of the wealthy rather than systemic change on behalf of the many.
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As the British vote showed, many people feel no connection with what began as an idealistic peace project after World War II, but is now widely viewed as a meddling and undemocratic bureaucratic machine.
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"It would make no sense for the queen to back this deeply undemocratic, unconstitutional and fundamentally political maneuver from the government," Naomi Smith, the CEO of the pro-EU group Best for Britain, said.
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Republican parties in four states are planning to cancel their 2020 primaries and caucuses — South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, and Kansas — and President Donald Trump's GOP challengers are decrying the move as undemocratic, Politico reports.
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WARSAW — When President Trump visited Warsaw in the summer of 413, the Polish government was busy setting up a transformation of the nation's judicial system in ways that critics found deeply troubling and undemocratic.
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In 20043, he refused to join the round-table talks that laid the groundwork for the end of Communist rule in Poland because of what he viewed as an undemocratic selection of Solidarity's negotiators.
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A reaction to violence in 1968 Iowa has come first since after the 1968 Democratic convention, when violence erupted in the streets of Chicago amid complaints from those who felt the process was undemocratic.
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Over the past few days, stunned opposition members argued in India's Parliament that change was needed in Kashmir, but that the government's move was undemocratic and a disturbing attempt to undermine India's secular identity.
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Iran's government spokesperson, Ali Rabiei, said on Twitter that Instagram's actions are "undemocratic," and state media reported there's government website portal for the app's users to submit examples of posts that the company removed.
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The government argued it was to prepare a fresh legislative program while critics claimed it was an undemocratic move designed to avoid scrutiny in the run-up to Britain's exit from the European Union.
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Farage and pro-Brexit entrepreneurs such as billionaire Peter Hargreaves say such fears are unfounded and that Britain can prosper outside a bloc they say is undemocratic and burdened with far too much regulation.
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He also insisted that the eventual choice of Commission president should be determined by the parliamentary elections, arguing that this would respond to many Europeans' perceptions that the Union is an undemocratic, elitist club.
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Over the past few days, stunned opposition members argued in India's Parliament that change was needed in Kashmir, but that the government's move was undemocratic and a disturbing attempt to undermine India's secular identity.
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There is a strange comfort in recognizing that for all Trump's illiberal antics, it was the very architecture of American politics, not just the president, that was deeply illiberal and undemocratic in living memory.
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John Bird used the magazine's anniversary to promise that he would use his seat in the Lords to fight child neglect—which he sees as being the major driver of Britain's "undemocratic" poverty crisis.
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"Patronage is typically characterized as a malignant system of graft, corruption, and undemocratic politics," University of Richmond historian Eric Yellin writes in his history of racism in government employment, Racism in the Nation's Service.
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Undemocratic Socialist governments tend to replace economic elites with elites who are connected to the sources of power, and, according to Gomez, people with connections in the government eventually took over the Bitcoin mining space.
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In anticipation of this crucial election, the Iowa Democratic Party was charged with providing three different vote counts in an effort to increase transparency about a caucus process some believe to be antiquated and undemocratic.
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But in fact, Trump would not be president at all if it were up to the "mob" (that is, the majority of the American public), as opposed to the undemocratic constitutional mechanisms designed by Madison.
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They are the products of an undemocratic Constitution that enumerates their powers, and the sooner that Democrats begin questioning its basic assumptions, the sooner we can begin a serious debate on how to fix them.
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"I do not accept the exclusion or talk of excluding our party, a party that represents now a quarter of the electorate and I think that that is fundamentally undemocratic," McDonald told journalists in Dublin.
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The story has ruffled feathers in the Netherlands, which holds local elections next week, and among the Eurosceptic British press, always ready to pounce on signs that the EU is a den of undemocratic crooks.
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And he tweeted out today: I don&apost know if folks realize how extraordinary and undemocratic small D it is for the president of the United States to run down a civil servant like this.
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told African leaders on Saturday they should not use legal loopholes or undemocratic constitutional changes to "cling to power", and that they should respect term limits.
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"It would be extraordinarily undemocratic to the tell the people in half the states in America, 'Oh, you don't have a right to get involved in the nominating process for the Democratic candidate,'" he said.
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"This is our last chance to remove ourselves from the undemocratic Brussels machine ... and it's time to take it," The Sun, which is owned by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, declared in a front page editorial.
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Brexit supporters admit there may be some short-term disruption but that in the long-term the United Kingdom would thrive outside what they cast as an undemocratic and excessively bureaucratic project dominated by Germany.
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Polarization largely reflects undemocratic influences on the parties, including donors and activists driven by ideology who push the parties to take policy positions — sometimes very extreme policy positions — that are far apart from each other.
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And, while these words were written over 70 years ago, well before the age of the internet, this declaration challenges the very concept of the splinternet and the undemocratic digital boundaries we see developing today.
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Serving the national interest often means working with leaders who are undemocratic, corrupt, adversarial or all three, and for decades there was no alternative to dealing with whoever had the top job in the Kremlin.
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Johnson's government said it would appeal the court ruling on the suspension, which has been criticised by opposition lawmakers as undemocratic, suggesting the prime minister would stick to his Brexit plan and keep parliament shut.
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But you're not hysterical: This is an undemocratic looting by telecom monopolists and an FCC commissioner who has shown no interest in engaging with the people of this country, let alone serving their best interests.
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As it stands now, the Senate is highly undemocratic and strikingly unrepresentative, with an affluent membership composed mostly of white men, who are about 30 percent of the population but hold 71 of the seats.
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I'm born and raised a Democrat, I mean, it's undemocratic to have a small elite select someone and then try to rig the primary against the other people running, and that's basically what's been happening.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May has continued to reject the idea as undemocratic, insisting that the UK already made its decision during the 2016 referendum and that it's her job to deliver on that result.
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The new Congress is full of untried deputies, but, despite serious losses, the opposition Workers' Party is still the largest party in the lower house, with the potential to block Mr. Bolsonaro's more undemocratic initiatives.
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Moreover, why not follow the current constitution, long described as the crowning achievement of Hugo Chavez, and submit the proposal of a constituent assembly to a true national referendum, instead of Sunday's rigged, undemocratic vote?
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The American left looks sees their country as a place with a dangerously undemocratic political system, one that overweights the voices of the country's historically privileged white Christian population while further marginalizing the historically marginalized.
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Antifa supporters worry that if these groups' views aren't completely robbed of any kind of platform, they could gain legitimacy — and take advantage of democratic ideals like free speech to, ironically, promote their undemocratic messages.
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Photo: APThe effort to pass a strong open internet law in California was killed off Wednesday morning by a handful of state legislators in a process described by many net neutrality advocates as corrupt and undemocratic.
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The Brexit vote and a rise of anti-EU parties across the continent has been partly driven, EU leaders believe, by public perceptions that Brussels is undemocratic and run by elites in hock to global capital.
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He also lambasted the DNC after getting excluded from the debates, calling its criteria for inclusion "undemocratic" and saying it and Chairman Tom Perez were "rewarding celebrity" and "stifling debates" with the polling and fundraising rules.
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On the one hand, this looks undemocratic; on the other hand, giving delegates autonomy can save the party from choosing a candidate who, because of scandal or otherwise, could be a great loser in the election.
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Lords Lawson and Lamont, both former Tory chancellors, attacked as undemocratic the idea of amending a bill that had not only passed the Commons unscathed but also reflected one of the biggest votes in British history.
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With the Middle East ravaged by religious radicalism and sectarianism, the European Union and the United States can't afford the Turkish government's brutal military efforts against the Kurds or its undemocratic war on academics and journalists.
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There's one answer to this question that squares with what many of Sanders's supporters believe: that undemocratic, elite influence is more to blame for Sanders's failure to win the nomination than anything related to his message.
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Brexit supporters admit there may be some short-term effects but say that in the long term the United Kingdom would thrive outside what they cast as an undemocratic and excessively bureaucratic system dominated by Germany.
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It is worse than that; it has discredited EU ideals of co-operation, and strengthened those who say it is an undemocratic, out-of-touch bureaucracy, incapable of governing efficiently in the interests of its citizens.
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In doing so, the justices left open the chance to revisit the matter in the future; the court could still establish a standard by which the judiciary can reverse undemocratic partisan gerrymanders at a later term.
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Charles M. Blow There are two prominent features of the Democratic Party's presidential selection process that are thoroughly undemocratic and undermine faith in the party: superdelegates (which favor Hillary Clinton) and caucuses (which favor Bernie Sanders).
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She called it "undemocratic" and blamed the industry for at least 590,000 job losses over the past 10 years before starting to question Giovanna De la Rosa, a progressive advocate and former Toys R Us employee.
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But the party's convention rules, in all their anachronistic, undemocratic and highly-negotiable intricacy, are also a line of defense, also a hurdle, also a place where a man unfit for office can be turned aside.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "2 States in West Propel Sanders in Caucus Wins" (front page, March 27): What I don't understand is why caucuses are part of the democratic process, as they are inherently undemocratic.
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Given that the First Amendment is the cornerstone of self-governance, political redistricting would seem to pose a grievous threat to representative democracy, entrenching undemocratic legislative majorities by penalizing voters who openly support the minority party.
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Morsi's decree was most likely an attempt to pre-empt a ruling by Egypt's Mubarak-era high court that could cripple his presidency — grossly undemocratic for sure, but no more so than the judges' clear partisanship.
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If that were ever true, the debacle of this year's Iowa caucuses should put an end to what is fundamentally an undemocratic process that disenfranchises those who cannot devote several hours to the process of voting.
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It would not yet put Israel in the company of faux-democracies like Hungary and Turkey, but it would push the country in that direction — continuing Israel's slide down what feels like a very slippery undemocratic slope.
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This gives these undemocratic bodies the ability to redistribute wealth, from savers to borrowers, and from cautious types who keep the bulk of their money in cash to the better-off who own equities and corporate bonds.
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BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's highest court on Monday approved an initiative by President Ilham Aliyev to extend the head of state's term of office to seven years from five, a step his critics see as illegal and undemocratic.
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Last week, Judge Gustavo A. Gelpí of the United States District Court in San Juan upheld the prohibition, saying Congress has the power to legislate over the territories, even if an "undemocratic predicament" exists in Puerto Rico.
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Zeman, who has fostered warmer relations with Russia and China, described the protests as undemocratic because they fail to respect a decision to drop fraud charges against Babis and parliament's rejection of calls for his own impeachment.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - The runner-up in Venezuela's election, which was widely condemned by other countries as undemocratic, will formally challenge his loss to President Nicolas Maduro after refusing to recognize the result, his campaign said on Wednesday.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Nineteen U.S. states have introduced bills that would curb freedom of expression and the right to protest since Donald Trump's election as president, an "alarming and undemocratic" trend, U.N. human rights investigators said on Thursday.
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Ironically, for a bill with the word "democracy" in its title, the WDA brings back an extremely undemocratic concept—eliminating the opportunity for employees to vote through a secret ballot on whether they will have a union.
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" He said on Twitter, "In an undemocratic and unashmed [sic] action,Instagram has blocked an innocence [sic] nations' voice protesting to the assesination [sic] ofGeneral [sic] #Soleimani,while the real terrorists have been given an open voice.
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Liberals frequently critique both the electoral college and the Senate as undemocratic: a means of disempowering the country's more diverse urban and suburban majority while giving undue weight to the voices of a rural, heavily white minority.
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The quality of American government is being eroded, slowly but surely, to the point where the kind of corrupt, undemocratic behavior that's typically found in fragile young democracies is becoming a regular feature of the world's oldest.
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"If the Supreme Court fails to set limits on this undemocratic practice," he said in a statement, "we will see a festival of copycat gerrymandering in 2020 the likes of which the country has never seen before."
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"We condemn and reject the undemocratic and totalitarian attitude of the Spanish state ... it has crossed the red line separating them from a repressive regime," Puigdemont said in a hastily-called press conference in the city of Barcelona.
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EDINBURGH, March 16 (Reuters) - Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Thursday that any attempt to block a second independence referendum would be undemocratic and evidence that Prime Minister Theresa May fears the verdict of the Scottish people.
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But what strikes me about the case is how utterly mainstream Tseytlin's theory became in GOP circles very quickly, and how brazenly undemocratic Republicans have been in pursuit of their goal of depriving people of their health insurance.
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In a 2006 piece for the Nation, MacKinnon questioned the decision of US companies to censor at the behest of undemocratic foreign governments, and suggested that such actions help to legitimize political censorship as an accepted business practice.
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MILAN, May 20 (Reuters) - Italians must retain control of sensitive data, such as their personal finances or health conditions, and prevent an undemocratic country like China from gaining access, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Monday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Britain wants to do a swift Brexit deal but the "undemocratic" Irish border backstop must be axed in full to prevent a no-deal exit, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday.
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Going up against another candidate with negative approval ratings, he was beaten decisively in the popular vote but had a run of luck in three marginal states that allowed him to be selected by an undemocratic electoral system.
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He said them about a president who was elected despite receiving fewer votes than his opponent, thanks to the counter-majoritarian workings of another antiquated and intentionally undemocratic institution that he, obviously, would fight any effort to reform.
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At the risk of oversimplifying—the book comes in at more than 800 pages—Klarman argues that the Constitution is undemocratic because it was designed to protect wealthy merchants and landowners from the redistributive tendencies of popular government.
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So it is in this undemocratic fortress, of all places, that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, long the world's champion of democracy, spends her days, contemplating a spectacular fall from grace: the dishonored icon in her ghostly labyrinth.
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These regional allies are among the 50 countries, including the United States, that have recognized him as president, not Mr. Maduro, who swore himself in in January for a second term after an election widely viewed as undemocratic.
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At the Athens Democracy Forum, hosted by this newspaper, I listened to the Greek foreign minister, Nikos Kotzias, allude to "undemocratic liberalism" as a catalyst to the current wave of "illiberal democracy" in places like Poland and Hungary.
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Many who support singling out Israel will actively encourage academic contacts with Russian, Cuban, Saudi, Venezuelan, Chinese, Belarusian and Palestinian universities, despite the horrid human-rights records of these undemocratic countries and the discriminatory policies of their universities.
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And in his most undemocratic of initiatives designed to "save" the city, a term-limited Bloomberg persuaded the city council to fast-track a bill that would allow him to overturn the voter referendum imposing mayoral term limits.
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It's hard to argue about the harm of something that hasn't happened yet (which is why all reforms to Medicare are so difficult), but IPAB represents a loaded gun that threatens the program in the most undemocratic way.
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During Brexit, the Lords have taken on outsized importance, demanding fundamental and worthwhile changes to the government's fitful efforts to negotiate Britain's departure from the EU. Farcical by-elections can only undermine an undemocratic yet still effective second chamber.
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The unpopular Maduro has cast the release of dozens of opposition members as a peace gesture following his re-election to a new six-year term last month, which was condemned by most Western nations as an undemocratic farce.
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While Legco is dominated by pro-government lawmakers due to the city's undemocratic functional constituency system, at present, pro-democracy parties do possess enough seats to block certain laws that require a more than two-thirds majority to pass.
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But Cockburn is all but assured of the nomination here as the Fifth opted for an undemocratic party convention instead of a primary open to all voters, and Cockburn has enough pledged delegates to win it on May 2000.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition said on Friday it would challenge a decision by parliament to strip MPs of immunity at the constitutional court, casting the move as undemocratic and a bid to boost President Tayyip Erdogan's powers.
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When one of America's two major political parties moves outside of accepted democratic practices, showing contempt for core liberal values, the possibility that they could push the system toward democratic backsliding (or its historically undemocratic norm) becomes significantly greater.
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Johnson, who was a figurehead for the Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum, when 52 percent of voters backed Brexit, has rejected opposition complaints that he was denying parliament the right to debate Brexit in an undemocratic way.
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Connolly's detailed accounts, meanwhile, drew ire from House Republicans, who amplified their previous attacks that the Democrats' close-door impeachment strategy is undemocratic, denying the public a window into everything that's said — even as some Democrats leak select details.
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Ranging from the politically opaque — like Russia's election, which has been widely criticized for being undemocratic — to more free and fair, the bank presented its base cases for the contests' outcomes and how they might impact those country's assets.
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Regardless of these differences, the upcoming state visit is a rare opportunity in terms of communications: the two most outspoken leaders of the liberal world can silence undemocratic rivals by speaking in unison on essential areas of international cooperation.
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The increasingly undemocratic NATO member has cozied up to Moscow, bought Russian military equipment and conducted a widely condemned incursion into Syria that has led some US officials to charge that war crimes are being committed in Turkey's name.
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Her point, I think, is this: You Israeli liberals label me a fascist, but there's nothing undemocratic about lambasting the Supreme Court's powers, vowing to dismantle its oversight of the Knesset or accusing it of a "coup" against democracy.
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"This idea that if you are undocumented that you don't have a voice on one of the major platforms is undemocratic," said Angel Padilla, the policy director for the progressive group Indivisible, which has been especially active advocating for Dreamers.
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First, caucuses are undemocratic anyway, because anyone who can't afford to or is unable to spend hours on one specific day in a gym or hall — the elder, the infirm, the poor, the struggling — is frozen out of the process.
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BERLIN, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Britain wants to do a swift Brexit deal but the "undemocratic" Irish border backstop must be axed in full to prevent a no-deal exit, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday.
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The irony is that Brexit was sold to British voters as a means to take back parliamentary sovereignty from an undemocratic Brussels, but the European Parliament will probably play a more proactive role in the coming negotiations than will Westminster.
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A handbook produced by YesCymru, a pro-independence group, reads like a Brexit manifesto, arguing that the constitutional set-up of the union is undemocratic and that a Wales unshackled would be richer and able to do its own trade deals.
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Jan-Werner Müller, a politics professor at Princeton, argues that the term both flatters the undemocratic tendencies of leaders like Mr Orban, and cedes to them the terms of a culture war that they are only too happy to wage.
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The US, surprised by the coup and long concerned about Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian tendencies, is trying to strike a tricky balance between opposing an undemocratic attempt to topple the government and pushing the government to ease up on its counter response.
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It means the party can leap over the undemocratic barriers to ballot access for independent parties in many states, and help us lay the groundwork for a truly competitive challenge to the two-party system and the corporate rule it perpetuates.
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Thus, white Americans who exhibit social intolerance may actually prefer undemocratic alternatives because democracy provides the political pretext for persons belonging to "undesirable" out-groups to accumulate resources or power that undercut the perceived well-being of the intolerant person.
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MANCHESTER, England, July 27 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned the European Union on Saturday that the Irish backstop, which he said was undemocratic and divisive, needed to be ditched if they were to strike a Brexit divorce deal.
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Another objection might be that this reformed system would be less democratic than what exists now, a problem given that the current system already has many undemocratic features—such as the existence of the electoral college, and the Senate's unequal representation.
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But given that anti-Americanism in Turkey is one of the few sentiments uniting an increasingly undemocratic and destabilised country, American troops will have to tread carefully: they are likely to become bigger, not smaller, targets as internal tensions mount.
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" The "natural world" it describes notably omits humans, while its undemocratic underpinnings are clear in the final line: "These museums have their origins in the cabinets of curiosities built up by prominent individuals in Europe during the Renaissance and Enlightenment.
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While he applauds the philanthropic work of billionaires including George Soros and Charles Koch, Riffle explained that the real issue is that it is inefficient and undemocratic for billionaires to use philanthropy to decide how to solve the world's problems.
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Its dysfunction has been on display in its fitful handling of the Greek debt and refugee crises, its bureaucracy is pathetically slow to recognize or correct its failings and it often acts like an out-of-touch and undemocratic elite.
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The vote was parliament's last act before Boris Johnson suspended it until mid-OctoberMPs also voted to force Downing Street to hand over private communications between officials which relate to Johnson's decision to shut down parliament, which opponents have called undemocratic.
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An article on June 30 about reasons that the European Union seemed undemocratic to those leading the British campaign to leave it misidentified the body whose members are appointed by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.
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He began a fade to black after accepting establishment support in Wisconsin; then, three weeks later, was crushed by Trump in Indiana after voters viewed Cruz as conspiring with the party to stop the real estate mogul through undemocratic means.
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" He turned the question back on Reagan: "If his power includes something as monstrously undemocratic as the ability to order a thermonuclear war, I ask you, who then is more of a dictator, the president of the United States or I?
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In addition to being the author of several books such as "Undemocratic: How unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats are stealing your liberty and freedom," Sekulow is the chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, a politically conservative Christian organization.
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In the 2013 election — the first after Mr. Monti was installed as prime minister at Germany's insistence — the Five Star Movement, which presents the entire Italian political class as undemocratic and corrupt, took the single largest share of the vote.
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Tensions rose in the final days before Sunday's vote as Mr. Erdogan excoriated the opposition candidate while never uttering his name, and blasted the Republican People's Party as undemocratic and the source of years of discrimination against religiously conservative citizens.
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Gail: The idea that state legislatures have the right to design weirdly shaped voting districts to make sure their favorite party gets the advantage is so undemocratic, it — O.K., it makes perfect sense to come out of the Mitch McConnell era.
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His supporters say his arrest shortly before the start of the campaign over a tax fraud case that was initiated years ago is evidence of undemocratic behavior on the part of the authorities, who they say are trying to silence him.
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Although digital technology, through blogs and social media, has created new ways for citizens like those of the Grenfell Action Group to represent their rights and interests, the traditional way of doing politics looks more archaic and undemocratic than ever.
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I know that many people are still trying to convince themselves that the incoming administration will govern normally, despite the obviously undemocratic instincts of the new commander in chief and the questionable legitimacy of the process that brought him to power.
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"North Carolina Republicans yet again run out the clock on fair maps, denying justice to North Carolina voters and forcing our state to go another election using undemocratic district lines," the state's Democratic Party Chairman Wayne Goodwin said in a statement.
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And there is a sense of alarm: If Mr. Modi was willing to drown dissent and subvert national institutions when his government enjoyed popular support, how far down an undemocratic path might he and his party go to ensure a victory?
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"Geopolitics have opened possibilities for Israel to get away with undemocratic behavior and exclusionary behavior that would have been unthinkable, I think, a generation ago," says Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and the co-author of How Democracies Die.
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You don't have to be a fan of Beijing's particular brand of undemocratic central planning, (I'm not), but that doesn't mean the materials and new inventions being used should be ignored just because they're being utilized by a government program.
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More recently, Bouteflika has been a largely absent ruler and many Algerians have grown tired of the undemocratic rule of "le pouvoir," or the power -- as the clique of military and civilian elites propping up the former President has become known.
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But she has to strike a very delicate balance — and pursue a broad reform agenda, partly in the hope of amending the undemocratic Constitution, while making sure not to antagonize the Tatmadaw, which has the most to lose from further liberalization.
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What is clear is that the party has replaced its early innocence with a killer instinct, with Mr. Grillo reversing his views on positions that his party once denounced as an undemocratic invitation to authoritarianism to improve his party's electoral prospects.
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If reelected, his first priority will likely be to immunize himself from prosecution — an undemocratic power-grab that would be the latest in a string of Netanyahu policies that have weakened constraints on the executive and protection for minority rights.
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It's unlikely that a national unity government would allow Netanyahu to keep going down this undemocratic road; in fact, Blue and White might force Likud to dump Netanyahu from the top job as one of the terms of a unity coalition.
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Democracy, Mounk argues that liberal democracy — "the unique mix of individual rights and popular rule that has long characterized most governments in North America and Western Europe" — is decomposing into warped incarnations of its constituent elements: illiberal democracy and undemocratic liberalism.
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WikiLeaks' overriding ideology, at least publicly, is one of "radical transparency": a deep belief that modern politics is undemocratic, with the important decisions made behind closed doors by elites and bureaucrats, and that the public deserves to know what's actually going on.
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Brexiteers accept there is likely to be some short-term economic pain but say Britain will thrive in the longer term if cut loose from what they see as an undemocratic and costly experiment in European integration they say is doomed to fail.
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The nature of multinational "extractive" industries, like oil and gas, often entails controversial financial relationships with often-undemocratic and nontransparent regimes, many of which, such as Russia, pursue agendas directly at odds with those of the United States, making the industry unique.
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In a democracy, of course, the many should rightfully prevail over the few—so any political battle in which the left suffers defeat is easy to dismiss as the product of an undemocratic process rather than revealing the limits of liberalism's popular appeal.
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The case that the US is not a democracy is almost clichéd at this point, but briefly: An undemocratic electoral college has awarded the presidency to the less popular candidate twice in the last five elections, in both cases to a Republican.
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Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee told parliament in 1950 his party was "not prepared to accept the principle that the most vital economic forces of this country should be handed over to an authority that is utterly undemocratic and is responsible to nobody".
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein is ready to enter government in Ireland and it would be undemocratic to exclude it, leader Mary Lou McDonald said on Sunday after tallies indicated her party narrowly secured the most votes in a national election.
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While the histrionic laments of Bernie-or-Bust Sanders supporters who say Sanders's defeat is somehow "undemocratic" is false—she's won a clear majority of Democratic votes, delegates, states, and super delegates—this remorse, which could easily turn to bitterness, is understandable.
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Political analysts and journalists have begun to argue upholding the agreement has prevented Merkel from speaking out more vocally about Erdoǧan's increasingly undemocratic policies, including the detention of journalists and political opponents, suppression of public dissent, and quest for near-absolute power.
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What Linz couldn't have possibly foreseen was that a knavish autocrat would win the U.S. presidency through technically-legitimate-though-undemocratic means, and that he'd be allowed to arson the government by a coequal branch—Congress—that has the power to stop him.
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"MoveOn members believe, as we have long advocated, that the nomination should go to the winner of the majority of pledged delegates, and that undemocratic superdelegates should not overturn the will of the voters," said MoveOn Political Action executive director Ilya Sheyman.
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From central Africa to the Himalayan mountains, the first-person shooter series Far Cry has always been about vicious guerrilla warfare in undemocratic countries ruled by murderous autocrats, so it's only natural that Far Cry 5 brings the series to modern-day America.
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In addition, the EU is divided and distracted by a lack of consensus on migration and immigration, a German coalition running out of steam, increasingly undemocratic governments in Poland and Hungary, and an Italian government both illiberal and in many ways anti-European.
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Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu - who dealt President Tayyip Erdogan the biggest defeat of his career when he defeated the ruling AK Party (AKP) in June local elections - has slammed the move as illegal and undemocratic and called for it to be reversed.
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But the Democratic Party's attempt to insert the judgment of "superdelegates" at the end of the nominating process, after primary voters have already had their say, has generated bitter complaints about "undemocratic" elites overriding the will of the party rank and file.
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But in response to growing demonstrations against the marches and the politicization of the tragedy, the government passed a law limiting where protesters could gather — a law widely criticized as undemocratic — and added hundreds of police officers to the route of future marches.
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For the men who became draft resisters and for their supporters, the realization that they were compelled to play an undemocratic game that privileged some Americans over others only reinforced their sense that the United States had strayed from its most cherished values.
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Sae-eun said she didn't realize that TikTok was made in China, which raises what might be the most interesting question about Bytedance: How did a company that is further democratizing self-expression come out of sternly undemocratic China in the first place?
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Mr. Trump will be more agreeable to offering the full weight of the federal government's resources to a state with a friendly governor, Mr. DeSantis insisted, an assertion sharply rejected by Mr. Gillum, who said that any sort of loyalty test was undemocratic.
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Macron will finally visit Poland next week, hoping to reset ties with a country he has loudly criticised over reforms of the judiciary, which he sees as undemocratic, and a climate change policy at odds with many of Warsaw's European Union partners.
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But with its recent moves to shut down the Qatari-backed broadcaster Al Jazeera's operations in the country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has chosen some strange, decidedly undemocratic bedfellows and sent a worrying message about its commitment to a free press.
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The center-right is suspicious of the latter not only because it is undemocratic and in conflict with the separation of powers — the Constitution explicitly grants all legislative power to Congress – but also because courts lack the necessary policy expertise to competently legislate.
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And in the birthplace of democracy, Taylor traces how the debt crisis put Greece in a bind between the national will and the meta-democracy of the European Union, which itself, the movie suggests, was beholden to the decidedly undemocratic whims of finance.
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Scholarship of mass violence suggests that the US history of large-scale violence against minority groups, combined with the recent rise in rhetoric from political leaders targeting minorities, has created an environment ripe for public acceptance of other exclusionary, undemocratic, or oppressive measures.
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This is a dangerous and undemocratic argument that ignores decades of settled legal precedent (as I have detailed elsewhere, including in a bipartisan brief filed by five law professors, including one who was the architect of a previous major challenge to the ACA).
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LG: It's not only about people in certain markets getting their news entirely from Facebook, but it's the way that certain governments are able to manipulate Facebook data and the messages that are being shown to people in a very undemocratic way.
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Though he doesn't work in the visible part of politics — ad-making, messaging, communications, yelling at people on Twitter or cable news — Berman is America's leading expert on the strange and at times undemocratic machine that is crucial to how parties select their candidates.
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" The mechanics of the selection process so disgusted one of Ms. Cancel's opponents, Yuh-Line Niou, the chief of staff to Assemblyman Ron Kim, Democrat of Queens, that Ms. Niou dropped out of the running in her nomination speech on Sunday, calling it "undemocratic.
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"Any bid by the UK Government to block the people of Scotland from making a choice will be untenable, undemocratic and totally unsustainable – and clearly shows that the UK Government recognizes it is out of step with the Scottish people," she said in a statement.
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As an alternative to these approaches, which Warren describes as "undemocratic and obviously corrupt," she would mandate that trade negotiators publish a draft of their proposals in the Federal Register and let the public offer comments on the draft before a policy is made law.
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Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of the separatist umbrella All Parties Hurriyat Conference, denounced in a post on Twitter the authorities' "illegal and undemocratic tactics" and said they would not stop demands for a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute "in accordance with people's will".
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As assessments of quality are increasingly crowd-sourced—through the Facebook "Like" button, the Yelp review, and algorithms predicting preferences based on previous purchases—the professional critic is marginalised as at best irrelevant and at worst the embodiment of an elitist and undemocratic patriarchy.
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"We have been clear we want to get a deal, but it has to be a different deal, a good deal, one that abolishes this undemocratic backstop, and if we cannot remove that backstop then we have to leave with no deal," he said.
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The historian Eric Foner told me, "In the sense of who decides, and how do you decide what goes up and what comes down, it should be a sort of democratic process," to compensate for the undemocratic process that created the monuments during Jim Crow.
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"Undemocratic countries are able to make substantial progress on human capital without necessarily becoming 'free', but may come up against limitations as the level of wealth increases — for example, it may be more difficult to eradicate corruption in a non-democratic country," Harrison added.
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If the government is unable to fulfill popular demands and show signs that the country is making progress, the government could be destabilized by undemocratic actors seeking to take advantage of power vacuums, in the same way that ISIS has essentially colonized Libya from within.
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Like their village neighbors, volunteers feel sidelined by self-serving Western and local elites who capture the $60 billion per year aid business "for Africa" by promoting undemocratic, top-down, short-term "fixes" over the kinds of messy political reforms needed for lasting, democratic change.
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Common Cause closed the federal courts to anyone seeking review of this undemocratic practice, despite those bipartisan panels of judges who repeatedly found they had all the tools and standards they needed to evaluate when district lines egregiously favored one side over the other.
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"DNC Chair Tom Perez's blatant attempt to silence the growing momentum behind a climate debate is offensive, undemocratic, and a disservice to the very voters he's supposed to represent," Varshini Prakash, co-founder and executive director of the Sunrise Movement said in a statement. .
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Secessionists hold a slim majority in the Catalan parliament, but those who want to remain a part of Spain feel the decision to hold a referendum, let alone break away from Spain, is itself an undemocratic move that doesn't represent the will of the people.
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" The signatories went on to state that they "believe that this undemocratic and arbitrary decision of withdrawal is a clear example of the shrinking space for freedom of speech, a key constitutional commitment and core value of the spirit of Liberation War of Bangladesh.
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This Election Day should be nothing more than a painful reminder of a deeply undemocratic reality, one that the Trump administration seems pleased to perpetuate — and which the rest of the international community will continue to allow until it finally stops looking the other way.
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Some of those running for a seat in the Parliament even vow to do away with it altogether: The far-right Alternative for Germany party, for one, says it wants to shut down this "undemocratic" chamber and repatriate all legislative powers to national capitals.
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The corrupt, undemocratic and faction-riven South Vietnamese government — both under President Ngo Dinh Diem, who was assassinated in a 1963 coup, and under the military cliques that followed him — proved incapable of providing its people and armed forces a cause worth fighting for.
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After the hearing, the judge, William Hoeveler, an eighty-year-old senior judge in the Southern District of Florida, released an extraordinary court order, arguing that the law not only potentially violated the consent decree but had been passed in a shamelessly undemocratic way.
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In trying to clear the primary field for the more moderate candidate they think will be the strongest in the general election, party leaders have drawn the anger of some progressive Democrats who think that the mere attempt to do so is corrupt and undemocratic.
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But as we Democrats work to protect democracy from Republicans who seek to exclude voters, we must also look inward, because our own party's system of nominating a presidential candidate is both undemocratic and harms our ability to prepare for -- and win -- the general election.
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A country that regards itself as the foremost exporter of liberal democracy around the world is also now a country whose leader goes around making illiberal, undemocratic requests of its apparent allies—and has a pliant crew of partisans back home to defend every move.
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"The parties do not need laws to make them sensitive to the wishes of the voters any more than we need laws compelling merchants to please their customers," the political scientist E. E. Schattschneider argued in 22012, countering criticism that the process was undemocratic.
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But the party's later decision to embrace an explicit "cancel Brexit" platform has made some voters queasy, as just outright canceling the results of a referendum does sound pretty undemocratic compared to holding a second referendum in which all voters would get another say.
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At the same time, though, the conviction that the Trump administration is a fundamentally undemocratic regime makes it extremely easy to treat "people who disagree with the administration" as a threatened and marginalized group that deserves as much vigilance as anyone who's currently being targeted.
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The only thing that could dampen Putin's poll triumph is if voter apathy at a predictable contest leads to a low turnout, or if the minority of Russians who vocally oppose him take to the streets to protest against what they see as an undemocratic farce.
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"If there is any sniff that they are trying to use Henry VIII powers, that would be profoundly unparliamentary and undemocratic, and I would seek legal advice, because what you are doing is setting a precedent that government could bypass parliament," she told BBC Radio 5 Live.
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READ: Democrats are going after their biggest impeachment witness yet: John Bolton House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) slammed it as "Soviet-style" on the House floor, while House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) accused Democrats of "running an unprecedented, unfair and undemocratic" process.
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" David Gergen, a CNN political commentator and political insider for the modern era, defended the Democratic Party process on CNN Wednesday, saying its free agent and undemocratic "superdelegates" are akin to "checks and balances in the constitutional system" and offer a sort of corporate-style "peer review.
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" The National Partnership for Women & Families — which publishes data on paid sick day laws by state, city, and county — called it "an unfair, undemocratic, underhanded attempt to thwart the will of the voters and the state and local lawmakers who have passed paid sick days laws.
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Civil rights advocates like Democrats Paul Douglas and Hubert Humphrey blasted the filibuster as an "undemocratic technique" where a small majority in a chamber that already gave disproportionate power to senators from small states used their right to talk to stop action on key social justice issues.
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And as you rightly say, it's unloved Seoul that is actually the model, where you align the games to this gigantic program, I mean really gigantic program of urban development, done to a great extent in pretty inhumane, undemocratic ways, and funded by the public purse.
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Three books — Anand Giridharadas's Winners Take All, Rob Reich's Just Giving, and Edgar Villanueva's Decolonizing Wealth — made the case that giving by wealthy elites can be undemocratic, a distraction from the unjust ways that wealth is created, and do more good for the givers than the receivers.
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British voters understood that behind prognostications about the pound's exchange rate and behind the debates of financial experts, only one question, at once simple and fundamental, was being asked: Do we want an undemocratic authority ruling our lives, or would we rather regain control over our destiny?
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He was helped into office by an antiquated and undemocratic electoral college system, by loyal Republican voters, and by the flaws of the Clinton campaign, which spent more effort trying to capture a slice of the Republican base than appealing to disaffected voters in the Rust Belt.
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The highly popular PiS government, which rejects accusations of undemocratic behavior and has defended the reforms as being necessary because the courts are slow, inefficient and steeped in a communist era-mentality, said it regretted that an Irish court had delayed the punishment of a dangerous criminal.
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Aliyev cemented his position in power with two referendums, one in 2009 which scrapped a two-term presidential limit, and another in 2016, in which he extended the head of state's term of office to seven years from five, steps his critics saw as illegal and undemocratic.
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The spread of voter ID laws illustrates how Republicans have become so comfortable with undemocratic practices at the national level: What starts as legislation in a few GOP-controlled states quickly spreads across the country, becoming, in effect, a part of the party's national policy agenda.
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"Bernie will restore self-rule in Puerto Rico by ending the reign of greedy Wall Street vulture funds that have a stranglehold on Puerto Rico's future and the undemocratic fiscal control board that has imposed austerity on the people of Puerto Rico," Sanders' campaign told VICE News.
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President Trump, during a lengthy call-in interview with his favorite Fox News host on Thursday evening, repeatedly called special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election to a "coup" — echoing the sort of rhetoric people are accustomed to hearing in undemocratic countries.
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Foreign policy is about whether we continue to champion the values of freedom, democracy and justice, values which have been a beacon of hope for people throughout the world, or whether we support undemocratic, repressive regimes, which torture, jail and deny basic rights to their citizens.
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The party depends on undemocratic institutions like the Electoral College and the Senate — ones that give disproportionate weight to voters in Republican-dominated states — to maintain power, and thus needs to prevent reforms that would move the country towards a truer form of one person, one vote.
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The only way for stability to return is for Beijing to grant us free and fair elections Our anger is not just against the extradition bill itself; it is directed all the more against the undemocratic government that continues to ignore the will of the people.
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A review of the M100 on the watch website Hodinkee called the sales method "elitist and undemocratic," with many of the 85 comments that followed criticizing Mr. Cochrane, calling the revival a "marketing trick" and the watch's price "laughable" (vintage Vertexes sell for a few hundred dollars).
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Editorial To Americans who vividly remember the nonstop coverage of the leak of Hillary Clinton's emails, the silence in France last weekend about leaked emails of the Emmanuel Macron presidential campaign — imposed by law and willingly accepted by the news media — seemed not just curious but undemocratic.
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Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, was not so reticent in her joint news conference with Mr. Putin on Tuesday, questioning the prosecution of civil society groups, homosexuals and religious sects while pooh-poohing Mr. Putin's stance that the change of government in neighboring Ukraine had been undemocratic.
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Walsh blasted the Republican Party on Friday for allowing state parties to cancel the contests, calling it "undemocratic BS." Trump's campaign has worked with several state Republican parties to hold off the possibility of a primary challenger and to install pro-Trump leaders in state party roles.
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"It's fair to say the last election was undemocratic, but there are still democratic operations taking place in that country," Sanders told an audience at a CNN town hall in Washington after being asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer why he wouldn't use the term to describe Maduro.
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But Nadler acknowledged that the House should not go forward with impeachment unless it has the public's support — not just because the public would view it as undemocratic and it would "tear the country apart," but also because the votes won't be there without public support.
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Lawmakers across parties cite worries about prolonging uncertainty and increasing division as reasons for opposing a vote, while the most common argument is that it would be undemocratic to seek to overturn the result of a vote in which more than 30 million people took part.
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Instead of suddenly and dramatically altering the American legal landscape, conservative judges — certainly joined by Kavanaugh — have mostly hacked away at bits and pieces of economic regulation, seeking to bring us asymptotically closer to the undemocratic liberal economic order Thomas and Epstein advocate without creating any single dramatic moment.
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That the Electoral College system should result in a president who did not win the popular vote is not a failure of democracy; rather, it's the expected effect of a system that was always supposed to be undemocratic, and it's functioning as intended (if not quite as designed).
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Article 7 would see Poland's government denounced as undemocratic and could lead to the suspension of Warsaw's voting rights in the EU. The latter, however, is unlikely as it would require the unanimous backing of all the other EU states, something PiS ally Hungary has vowed to block.
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Black and minority voters have consistently been intimidated from going to the polls and before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 those that did try to cast a ballot were often thwarted by undemocratic and racists tactics — known as the Jim Crow laws— to prohibit them from voting.
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Orbán's political party, Fidesz, was suspended in March by the European People's Party (EPP) for being undemocratic and undercutting the rule of law, in addition to having mounted an anti–EU campaign that targeted EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, a senior member of the EPP and George Soros.
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"Erdogan and his allies have mounted an assault on the rule of law, particularly using sweeping state of emergency authorities to stifle fundamental rights including free speech, undermine the independence of the judiciary, and quash any opposition to their undemocratic actions," said the letter signed by Florida Republican Sen.
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The presidential nomination process laid bare a litany of problems with the current system — from a primary calendar that unfairly advantaged two non-representative rural states, to a punitive system that restricted the number of debates, to exclusionary caucuses, to an undemocratic superdelegate system that bred anger and resentment.
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Michael Kazin, author of "The Populist Persuasion", comes close when he describes populism as "a language whose speakers conceive of ordinary people as a noble assemblage not bounded narrowly by class, view their elite opponents as self-serving and undemocratic, and seek to mobilize the former against the latter".
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Since coming to power in late 2015, Poland's PiS-led government has repeatedly come under fire at home and from Brussels for what critics say are undemocratic moves designed to tighten its grip on power, including taking greater control of state media and changes to the constitutional court.
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"The FCC's net neutrality repeal ignored the voices of millions from across the political spectrum, in what ended up being one of the biggest and most undemocratic giveaways to the telecom industry we've ever seen," Mark Stanley, a spokesman for the group Demand Progress, said in a statement.
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Also, the Iranian currency has lost 80% of its value since last year, mainly reflecting the collective sense of fear caused by the increased sanctions and the decertification of the Iran nuclear deal, as well as the increasing empowerment of the most undemocratic factions of the Iranian state.
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That image of confrontation was replaced Monday night by his smiling handshake with contrasted with an openness to undemocratic leaders, as with his historic meeting with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and the vague promises to denuclearize the Korean peninsula and end US "war games" there.
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How did white people in a part of the country that was virtually destroyed by war contrive to take political control of their states, install manifestly undemocratic regimes in them, maintain those regimes for nearly a century, and effectively block the national government from addressing racial inequality everywhere else?
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The Taliban's unwillingness to compromise, paired with a fractured Afghan political elite that has so far not agreed on principles for the country to follow in intra-Afghan negotiations, will mean that a best-case scenario would be an undemocratic return of the Taliban to the political realm.
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On the Chinese side of the border, Dandong recognized her as one of 10 outstanding women in the city; in 2013, she was selected as a delegate to the provincial People's Congress, a ceremonial post in an undemocratic country, but one that indicated her connections to the political elite.
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If the checks and balances of our tripartite system have failed, it's not only because of bad people acting in venal and unethical ways; it's because those people were elected through undemocratic means of gerrymandering, party politics, voter suppression and intense injections of money, and they know where their incentives lie.
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This has broadened interest in the Lucia case, and, along with the underlying issues, placed it at the centre of a debate over the "deep state"—the structure that some see as ensuring a competent, disinterested public service and that others see as protecting an undemocratic, incompetent, self-serving elite.
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While the party is moving to curb the power of appointed superdelegates, it is doing nothing to get rid of the undemocratic caucuses or to change the order of the first nominating states, thus leaving in place a process that gives progressive leftist activists too much power relative to their numbers.
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Now, liberals freaking out about the current Republican Party's undemocratic advantages are under no obligation to abjure the Warren Court or J.F.K. or the achievements of, say, the 1974-76 Congress (where the Democrats enjoyed a two-thirds supermajority in the House despite winning only 57 percent of the popular vote).
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On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it forges an elite that has an aristocracy's vices (privilege, insularity, arrogance) without the sense of duty, self-restraint and noblesse oblige that WASPs at their best displayed.
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But official Israeli and Palestinian population statistics indicate that Jews have been a minority in the territory Israel controls for several years now, and with no repercussions: A majority of the world's nations still speak of undemocratic rule by a Jewish minority as a hypothetical future, not an unacceptable present.
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Independent voters constitute 27.2% of the New York electorate, yet New York is one of the many states that remains wedded to an antiquated and undemocratic closed primary system in which only voters affiliated with the Democratic or Republican parties may cast a ballot in the primary of their respective party.
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The undemocratic nature of the EU has real consequences for Britain The principle at issue in the referendum — whether Britain should be controlled by the votes of its own people or whether that power should be diluted by Brussels — has real-life consequences for the way we build our society in the future.
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These moral failures included the Electoral College, an inherently undemocratic system that has proven its ability — not to prevent a demagogue from winning the presidency, as its apologists have perpetually insisted — but to enable the most vilified and unpopular candidate in recent history to assume power over the future of the planet.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's gaffes grew ghastlier and more undemocratic by the week.
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"When a person running for president continually compliments brutal, undemocratic dictators and their methods, I think it's fair to have some concerns that those are methods that they might be interested in deploying if necessary," adds Miller, a former Jeb Bush aide who has played an active role in the anti-Trump movement.
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But, then, Gandhi had a broader experience of the world than the moral economists, the Christian humanists, or even the German refugees from Nazism; he had been forced to assess modern Western democracies very early in the twentieth century, and from the vantage point of their profoundly undemocratic Asian and African outposts.
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As a result, the right-wing government — which has chafed under international criticism that its moves to marginalize the country's constitutional court amounted to an undemocratic attack on the rule of law — hopes that Mr. Trump's victory will create an atmosphere in which it can resolve that crisis more to Warsaw's liking.
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In his impressive new book, The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, Bancroft Prize-winning legal historian Michael J. Klarman seeks to understand why the Framers produced such an undemocratic plan in the first place, and how they managed to get it approved over strong opposition in the state conventions.
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" In a blistering statement explaining his withdrawal, he said: "Let the authorities take away the fig leaf of 'democracy' and present themselves as they are: an authoritarian and undemocratic order that has usurped power for a clan of big bourgeoisie that has no connection with the interests and views of the working people.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE faces impeachment for conduct every other generation of Americans would consider to be both abhorrent abuses of power and inherently undemocratic.
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Let a thousand satellites bloom, a trillion sensors sense "Internally, firms are planned economies no different to the Soviet Union: hierarchical, undemocratic planned economies," write Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski, two leftist activists, in "The People's Republic of Walmart" (2019), a highly readable romp through the history and possible futures of planning.
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While totalitarian and undemocratic societies have suppressed art and demonized artists, burned heretics and tortured dissenters, I hope you will agree that we are fortunate to be living in a country where the use of religious symbols in art, whether approved by church dogma or not, is protected under the First Amendment.
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Giebel, who has a personal interest in the topic because one of his grandfathers was part of a firing squad while the other hid a Jew, said he also wanted the exhibition to show how quickly a democracy could be abolished and make clear that undemocratic movements needed to be nipped in the bud.
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They argue that the E.U. is undemocratic, run by unaccountable bureaucrats, and that Britain can somehow reinvent itself, overcome geography and defy several authoritative predictions of economic disaster — most recently from the International Monetary Fund — by linking with fast-growing parts of the emergent world after it turns its back on a stagnant Europe.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), the city's non-voting representative in Congress, decried the legislation as denying the preference of the 700,85033 residents of D.C. "It is profoundly undemocratic for any member of Congress in the 21st century to declare that he has authority over any jurisdiction except his own," Norton said during House floor debate.
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Leadership analysis might give clues Russian defense minister: 'We won't do anything' in Europe unless US places missiles there MORE, decried the decision by the Congressional Radio and TV Correspondents' gallery to pull credentials for RT. "Such hostile and undemocratic decisions can't be left without an answer," he said, according to The Associated Press.
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It's also a triumph for the tens of thousands of protesters who have taken to the streets daily since late March to show their discontent with the government's undemocratic rule — and for the growing number of Latin American leaders calling for the release of political prisoners and an end to repression against these protesters.
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Clinton also sounded off on the Iowa caucuses — which will be held on Monday and which Mr. Sanders leads in some polls — as "undemocratic," because the voting is limited to a single winter evening, making them hard to attend for people with night shifts at work, like nurses, or parents who need child care.
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According to this — admittedly contrarian — theory, the fact that the Electoral College produces chaotic or undemocratic outcomes in moments of ideological or regional polarization is actually a helpful thing, insofar as it drives politicians and political hacks (by nature not the most creative types) to think bigger than regional blocs and 51 percent majorities.
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And if voting rights and election integrity become a core plank of the progressive agenda, those pushing for change need to be prepared to battle not just Republican voter suppression, but also Democratic machine politics that at times make elections in blue strongholds a comedy of errors at best, and an undemocratic exercise in disenfranchisement at worst.
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For that to happen, May has clearly tried to frame the options in front of lawmakers in as narrow a manner as possible; it is, she has been at pains to repeat, "my deal or no deal," with the third option being no Brexit at all — one that she has categorically ruled out as being fundamentally undemocratic.
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This research fills an important gap, because while many post-election analyses have highlighted the causes of our undemocratic moment — the Electoral College, gerrymandering, and the diffusion of "fake news," among them — it is much less clear what action the majority of Americans should take, as they find themselves governed by politicians pushing an agenda they do not support.
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But the Supreme Court's conservative bloc doesn't just reflect the outcomes of America's undemocratic electoral rules; it is writing and, in some cases, rewriting them, to favor the Republican Party — making it easier to suppress votes, simpler for corporations and billionaires to buy elections, and legal for incumbents to gerrymander districts to protect and enhance their majorities.
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The reason this op-ed feels so disconnected from reality is that it describes the administration McMaster and Cohn wish they were serving in — one that embraces conventional American grand strategy, acts in a unified and coherent fashion, doesn't put unqualified family members in top diplomatic and advisory roles, and avoids bizarre dalliances with hostile and undemocratic regimes.
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Eurosceptics across Europe are moved by dissatisfactions similar to those of Britain's Leave voters: resentment of globalisation; estrangement from elites; a sense that the EU is distant, undemocratic and overbearing; and, above all, a conviction that the cherished openness of the EU has let in too many foreigners who take away jobs, benefits and national identity (see chart 1).
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Born overseas and having lived most of my life in undemocratic or authoritarian societies, I see Europe as a place that contributes progressive social policies, excellent scholarship, the rule of law and, by and large, responsible political behavior to the world, qualities that people living in it perhaps don't value as much as people living outside it.
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But consider another irony: Here is Israel, the one country in the Middle East that has an independent judiciary, a separation of powers, regularly and unregularly held elections that are fiercely combatted, a critical press corps, a lively civil society, and an unmistakable rule of law—and it is being challenged for being undemocratic and discriminatory.
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Much like previous undemocratic regimes that have hosted World Cups and Olympics -- Argentina's odious military regime in 1978 comes to mind -- Putin can point to the fact that the world comes to play in Russia as a sign that he, his government (and Russians generally) are respected by the international community, thus silencing any domestic critics.
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READ: Germany's spy chief ousted from job over alleged far-right sympathies Knobloch's suggestion that the AfD is undemocratic hit on a sensitive issue for the party, following the announcement by the country's domestic intelligence agency last week that it was putting the AfD under increased observation over concerns it is drifting towards outlawed forms of extremism.
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A great majority of Indians, forced to inhabit the vast gap between a glossy democratic ideal and a squalid undemocratic reality, have long stored up deep feelings of injury, weakness, inferiority, degradation, inadequacy and envy; these stem from defeats or humiliation suffered at the hands of those of higher status than themselves in a rigid hierarchy.
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On August 28th Mr Johnson made the extraordinary move of asking the queen to suspend Parliament from September 11th to October 14th, in an attempt to reduce the number of days that MPs have to prevent a no-deal exit on October 31st—a move that Mr Hammond described as a "constitutional outrage" and "profoundly undemocratic".
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Mr. Bolsonaro's victory will most likely be denounced by many on the left as the undemocratic outcome of an election that excluded the towering politician in recent Brazilian history: former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a rousing former steelworker and union leader who rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s opposing the military dictatorship.
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Although we, too, have our demagogues who would whip up popular resentments to advance their own bids for power, this skepticism has given rise to a series of campaigns and political movements that are beginning to serve as a bulwark against the anti-intellectual and undemocratic tendencies of South Africa's deeply compromised president, Jacob G. Zuma.
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The so-called Article 7 procedure would shame Orban by denouncing his government as undemocratic and could even lead to the maximum - though practically highly unlikely - sanction of stripping Hungary of its voting rights in the EU. Hungary's case has been the first time the European Parliament has called for the launching the Article 7 mechanism.
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Tulsi's answer demonstrates that while she is no fan of Trump and is running to defeat him, she fundamentally recognizes that it's undemocratic to try and impeach a duly elected president of the united states if the majority of the country does not support it and especially if the so-called crime is very much up for dispute.
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Vindman and most of the other witnesses who have defied Trump administration orders not to testify, have -- one after the other -- explained their unquestioning commitment to their country; to a policy in Ukraine that was meant to promote democratic reforms, freedom; a policy meant to help Ukraine come into its own against a rapacious, aggressive, undemocratic, corrupt Russia.
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The lack of trust in the city's leader and legislature due to their undemocratic selection is at the root of the protests -- Lam was not trusted to oversee extraditions, and elected lawmakers cannot exercise effective oversight of police -- but convincing Beijing to allow any changes to this system is perhaps the most difficult of all the demands.
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