This combination promises frequent situations in which presidents are unable to enact their agendas, infuriating their own partisans (George W. Bush post-2006, Barack Obama post-2010), unlike Westminster systems where governing leaders always have legislative majorities.
I wonder how much of the cooling off of support for Moktada al-Sadr in favor of governing leaders like Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of the Dawa Party has to do with the machinations in Tehran.
But the coalition has struggled to agree on a slate of governing leaders that would unite what is still a loosely allied organization, trying to weave together local councils, splinter organizations, disparate opposition groups and the loyalties of the armed units fighting the forces of President Bashar al-Assad.
How much autonomy elites have—and should have—are questions that have long dogged discussions of "democratic elitism". In his seminal book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942), the American economist Joseph Schumpeter argued that democracy is simply a method by which voters select governing leaders and elites, who should then be left alone to get on with the business of governing.
In many ways the history of Congress resembles the history of the country it governs: leaders or tyrants pushing at the limits of power (like the Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon at the turn of the 20th century, or Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s), rivals confronting each other, advocates championing populism and democratic sensibility.
This chapter will discuss cases where particular unions were aligned with the governing leaders or party.
In reality he and Clegg are the most trapped governing leaders since those that tried to rule in the late 1970s.
President Moi, 77 one of Africa's longest governing leaders, is not eligible to run again and seems eager for his party, the Kenya African National Union, to retain power.
The citizens of the developed world also have the responsibility to be aware of what's going on in the world and to demand that our governing leaders make political decisions which bring an end to such terrible situations as these.
Valery Y. Komissarov, a former host on a state channel who is now a governing party leader in Parliament, said television coverage was a convenient scapegoat for opposition politicians and antagonistic commentators.
CHARLOTTESVILLE — The University of Virginia's president and governing board leader have, in public, maintained an air of united collegiality for the past eight months, hoping to move beyond the summer's leadership crisis.
