Word: populist
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...fellow shareholders and make the case for being able to vote on the firm's compensation practices. Smith's gambit is just the latest salvo in the ongoing battle over executive pay, but this time there's a crucial difference: the pressure isn't coming just from politicians and populist crusaders, but also from big institutional shareholders like mutual funds, pensions and foundations - a constituency companies often find difficult to ignore...
...climbed further to 60%.) In a recent survey, moreover, 42% of Poles identified themselves as being on the right in terms of their economic outlook, as against just 22% on the left. Even some rural areas in northern and western Poland that have traditionally backed the left or the populist right voted for Tusk this time, in the hope that a stronger economy would help improve their lot. Says veteran pollster Krzysztof Zagorski, "People expected Tusk to win, but not by this margin...
Tusk needs the cooperation of the opposition - and of Poland B - to push through the legislative changes he believes Poland needs. The opposition, both on the left and the populist right, is not disposed to tolerance. A failure to deliver on promises, PIS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski warned recently, could produce "serious social conflict" and "social depression." Certainly Poland has had more than its share of both those ills. "I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts," says Tusk. "But for me conflict was not the main principle." His central task is to heal the ideological divisions...
...removing Thaksin from power, the junta may have thought it could unite an increasingly polarized country. But even after the military regime publicized a litany of complaints against Thaksin-alleged corruption, abuse of power and even disrespect for the country's beloved monarch-his populist policies still resonated with many rural poor. Samak's victory came precisely because of support from these voters, who still believe that Thaksin-or, failing that, his proxy-is the only person who will help them with microfinancing or affordable healthcare...
...Obama's straight-talk approach has not played as well with crucial white union voters as Clinton's hopeful populist pronouncements, which helped her win neighboring Ohio by more than 10 points. As McCain discovered in Michigan, not too many workers want to hear there's little hope of getting their old jobs back. "If there aren't major policy differences, it's about perceptions, it's about who is feels your pain," said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Stanford Washington Research Group, which tracks economic policy issues. "Hillary is slightly better; she appeals to beer drinkers, Obama appeals...