But they were voters, not fighters.

Eventually, the voters will have the final say.

Tomiris shows how a typical meeting with voters looked like

But in politics the electorate s perception of reality can be easily manipulated.

A bond between party and voters a bond based on policy took root.

They take it for granted and are more concerned with their domestic constituencies.

In a non democracy, officials are held accountable to their superiors, not to voters.

Cameron has succeeded in this delicate balancing act and has been rewarded by voters.

One consequence is erosion of support for the EU among its member states electorates.

His only mass meeting in Moscow drew no more than 5,000 people.

Local lawmakers are even opening WhatsApp based reception offices to talk to their constituencies.

But as voters, they must wait before they see any results delivered by the choice they made at the ballot box. Sometimes they never see the desired results.

But as voters, they must wait before they see any results delivered by the choice they made at the ballot box.

The fights and scandals between voters which haven't found themselves in the voters' lists were observed.

While officially professing European values when speaking to their constituents, these parties often spread Euro skepticism and Europhobia.

Voluntary compliance in turn depends on the perception and acceptance of rules by domestic constituencies in the country that imported a law.

Nor was any particular promise made in response to the hard questions raised by FN voters just a week earlier.

Clinton's advantage with Democratic voters under age 50 has evaporated, and she and Sanders are now even.

Part of my thinking concerns personal style, but also something deeper the relationship between professional politicians and voters.

Politicians who come to power by winning a free and fair election are accountable primarily to voters. This does not necessarily lead them to work solely for the public good.

Politicians who come to power by winning a free and fair election are accountable primarily to voters.

There are greater forces at work than his exotic private life and inability to connect with voters.

In fact, Hollande s victory was underpinned not by a leftward shift among the electorate, but by voters rejection of Nicolas Sarkozy.

A concomitant of such Kurzschluss between mainstream leaders and voters has always been the politics of accentuated ethnic identity, ultra nationalism, and outright bigotry.

He also behaved, when talking to voters and citizens, as if he was tirelessly running for office for a fourth time.

The combination of high politics and grinding technical detail makes EU policymaking a much less interesting spectacle than national politics, and of course there s the added problem that so many of the players are unknown foreigners.

The rejection of the European Union s Constitution by French and Dutch voters forces us to think well beyond that treaty. That much is clear from the current debate on the Community budget.

But, even when the parliament does make an effort to connect with voters, the ponderous bureaucratic culture of its permanent officials tends to spoil things.

The rejection of the European Union s Constitution by French and Dutch voters forces us to think well beyond that treaty.

The rejection of the European Union s Constitutional Treaty by French and Dutch voters was, according to all evidence, more a rejection of unregulated globalization than it was a rejection of Europe.

Political parties that call themselves Conservative, and that are perceived as Conservative by voters, continue to win elections and assume power. But democratic Conservatism as a world view, as a conceptual framework, and as a way of behaving whether in power or as a form of political opposition is increasingly difficult to articulate.

Political parties that call themselves Conservative, and that are perceived as Conservative by voters, continue to win elections and assume power.

As citizens and voters, we are not interested in gutter politics we are interested in policies that affect the nation.

For example, Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia and a vocal supporter of the Clinton campaign, credited Moscow with manipulating Americans into voting for Trump.

I couldn t square Trump and his voters with the folks I got to know during my time in Phoenix.

It can be ensured only by an electorate that respects reality and punishes politicians who lie or engage in other forms of deception.

NEW YORK The outcome of the Italian elections should send a clear message to Europe s leaders the austerity policies that they have pursued are being rejected by voters.

These points are not entirely insignificant, but I would not care to explain them to a meeting of ordinary voters puzzled about Britain s new European policy.

Indeed, the only elections in China in which truly independent voters choose candidates occur at the village committee level, but this democratic mummery is staged mainly for the benefit of outside observers.

Saturday afternoon's event in Holyoke was her 36th meeting with constituents using the town hall format since Trump took office.

Tony Blair and George W. Bush are having huge problems with their electorates, also because they lied about the reasons they gave to justify their war in Iraq.

They're still bounded by legal goals and principles The teacher is accountable to the principal, the judge is accountable to an appellate court, the president is accountable to voters.

Europe s economic struggles are reflected in its political situation, with many European electorates now mired in a sense of hopelessness and sliding toward ideological extremes.

Executive governments, on the other hand, are creatures of decision a popularly elected president is ultimately responsible to his voters, not to his party colleagues.

He's also been pretty deft at using Facebook as a primary means to connect with his constituents, playfully debuting his hairless head after chemo treatments on his page.