Word: majoritarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...treat this service activity as apolitical on the ground that it follows indigenous values. The officials with whom HIID deals in countries like Haiti and Indonesia are not in a position to speak for the desires of their people. Even if they were, the decision to support the majoritarian choice would be no less political. It is not much of a consolation to think that HIID's practical effects may be close to nil; it still stands its local ideological allies in good stead...