Sentence examples for responsible electorate from inspiring English sources

He was vigorous in opposing the idea that voters' preferences are socially determined, and in his posthumous work, The Responsible Electorate: Rationality in Presidential Voting 1936 60 (1966), he analyzed public opinion data and electoral returns to show what he believed to be the rationality of voters' choices.

Local authorities argue, not unreasonably, that they are responsible to their electorate for all local services including policing, particularly as they raise local taxes.

Even though the justices are not elected by the public, don't the citizens have the right to be educated on the workings of a co-equal branch, whose members are placed there because of the actions of presidents and senators who are responsible to the electorate?

"Our democracy presupposes the deliberative process as a condition of thought and of responsible choice by the electorate".

The main element of the report was the recommendation that control over some aspects of provincial government be passed to Indian ministers responsible to an Indian electorate.

Its main recommendations were embodied in the Government of India Act of 1919, by which, for the first time, control over some aspects of provincial government passed to Indian ministers responsible to an Indian electorate.

He welcomed the Government of India Act of 1919, by which, for the first time, control over some aspects of provincial government passed to Indian ministers responsible to the Indian electorate.

"Every sheriff is responsible to their local electorate," Thompson said.

The owners of the news surely reject the 1977 British royal commission on the press definition on the crucial role of newspapers: "To advance the public interest by publishing facts and opinions without which a democratic electorate cannot make responsible judgments".

Everyone -- politicians, pundits, media, and the electorate -- are responsible for what we have become: a petty nation.

"But the electorate is also responsible for depositing their vote in people who are not up to governing".