Word: populists
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...nonresident Indians who live beyond the clutches of the bureaucratic establishment. But much of it also has to do with us. We are still a society that does not prize excellence and one that demands too little from our bureaucrats and politicians. Elections are still won and lost on populist slogans. Voters seldom reward good governance with renewed mandates. And Parliament and state assemblies are full of legislators with criminal records who neither believe in ideology nor bother about performance. So while I am thrilled that the world is flocking to India, and pleased that Mittal is straddling the global...
...Canada's center-left political parties have taken note of the trend: the Boxing Day shooting in Toronto left even the New Democrats scrambling to articulate a tough-on-crime policy. Jason Clemens, an economist at the conservative Fraser Institute, predicts that Harper will have little trouble passing his populist legislative agenda, which includes, among other things, the proposed sales-tax cuts and direct child-care payments of C$1,200 to families for each child under age 6. If, as expected, the polls turn up sustained postelection backing for such measures, Harper will "get wide support across the board...
...their frustration about California's gerrymandered political system, which only two years ago returned to power every single state legislator. When those same politicians balked at his early efforts to balance the $80 billion budget, he put on a golf shirt and a leather jacket and made his populist case in California's open-air shopping malls. There was some of that same Reaganesque flair in his State of the State speech last week, as he invoked the tradition of Californians dreaming big. Now in this election year, his opponents must be worried that if they break the olive branches...
...like Boston and New York, where the Venezuelan government--owned company Citgo is providing low-income residents with cheap heating oil this winter. Chávez has surpassed his good friend Fidel Castro as the anti-U.S. idol of the Latin American masses--and as a model for other populist leaders in the region, although few have his petroleum resources to use as a cudgel...
Ayman Nour earned a place in Egyptian history in September by emerging as the strongest challenger to incumbent Hosni Mubarak in the country?s first-ever presidential contest. The 42-year-old lawyer?s populist performance made him a future star of Egyptian politics, the leader of a potentially influential liberal bloc in parliament and a serious contender to succeed Mubarak in the next election in 2011. To U.S. officials pushing democracy in the Middle East as well as to many Egyptians demanding change, Nour and his Al Ghad (Tomorrow) party offered a promising liberal, secular alternative to authoritarian Arab...