To date, there has been little fuss over this, perhaps because the Obama Department of Justice likes the flexibility of being able to engage in similar slush-fund arrangements that fund favored special-interest constituencies outside of the spotlight of legislative appropriations.
The survey shows little interest at constituency level in deselection.
The key challenge for reform in democracies today, as these suggested reforms illustrate, is finding a way to be responsive to the electorate while not sacrificing the long-term general interest to constituency politics of the moment.
We are just doing this to make it much easier for people to see what interests their constituency MPs or politicians in the news have.
Political parties marry interests to constituencies.
AARP, founded in 1958, needs to get its groove back and narrow a policy agenda that has become too broad, too busy and too ambitious, with multiple and competing identities, interests and constituencies.
A Byzantine process, in which most members of the election committee are chosen by sectoral interests ("functional constituencies"), ensures that the committee has a majority ready to toe the line.
("We basically won outright in 2011, so why not try to go for Obamacare repeal this time around?") The reality, though, is that sequestration really was a genuine, almost old-fashioned sort of compromise — one that bit deeply into a lot of Republican interests and constituencies, and left the liberal ringwall around entitlements unbreached.
Ghani has many rivalries, competing interests, tribal constituencies and a GDP entirely dependent on external largesse to balance.
It is essential to generate and communicate evidence in a way that enables decision-makers to understand the value of investing in prevention while taking into account their priorities, interests and constituencies.
Advocating for a broad-based health promotion fund that includes many neglected priorities is likely to receive more support from politicians with diverse interests and constituencies.
