Following the fall of a military dictatorship in 1958, he was one of the signatories to an agreement between the three largest political parties intended to ensure the soundness of the country's democracy, in part by having the electoral victor share government positions with the other two parties.
Most of the American electorate shared King's fear; Goldwater lost to incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson in one of the greatest landslides in electoral history.
Each riding then gets 100 "electoral points", shared out among the rivals according to each candidate's share of the local vote.
Mr Cameron's opposition to electoral reform, shared by the bulk of his party, may look like a deal-breaker.
For the more embattled Sunni kingdom of Bahrain, a similar pact of electoral power-sharing with the Shiite majority may be the only way, in the long run, for Bahrain's dynasty to survive.
The electoral stage is inevitably shared with brilliant, disruptive protest candidates, ranging from William F. Buckley, Jr., to Norman Mailer and Al Sharpton, and with representatives of humorless left-wing shards like the Socialist Workers Party--whose Party--whose Party--whose, Olga Rodriguez, pitched her appeal to the "workers and farmayoralf thopeful.
I disagree with your assertion that the election proves that America today is politically center-right ("An Electoral Affirmation of Shared Values," news analysis, front page, Nov. 4).
But through a deal made for two politicians with pressing political needs, shared electoral constituencies and eyes on the history books, Gov. George E. Pataki and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg have each carved out a piece of Manhattan on which to fasten their economic development visions, with one another's blessing.
In the paper we consider that there is a function that maps electoral outcomes (vote shares) into a probability distribution over the set of government outcomes (single-party governments and coalition governments).
The article was headlined, "An Electoral Affirmation of Shared Values".
