Mr. Cable and the other ministers involved have struck back at The Daily Telegraph, saying its tactic of sending the reporters, who posed as single mothers seeking help with welfare claims, to constituency meetings with hidden tape recorders, undermined lawmakers' ability to develop trust with voters.
Hezbollah has evolved from a shadowy organization blamed for two attacks on the American Embassy and the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks here, killing 240 soldiers, into an expansive movement with an armed militia more powerful than the Lebanese Army and a sprawling infrastructure that delivers welfare to its Shiite constituency, Lebanon's largest community.
But the global manufacturing principles are all about protecting workers; as it developed, there is another constituency whose welfare has been put at risk by Mattel's operations in China: namely, the consumers who bought and the children who played with what was made there.
Or are they only interested in the welfare of their own constituencies, so that funding them would be divisive?
In June 2002, during a budget crisis in Illinois, a state senator from Chicago's West Side, Rickey Hendon, made a desperate plea for a child-welfare facility in his constituency to be spared the axe.
The centre left has opted to keep generally quiet on immigration even though it may be the key to its central dilemma – how to secure welfare systems for its traditional constituencies in a time of low-growth austerity and neo-liberalism.
Thank you for driving a deep wedge into the Republican Party, so the country could see how many elected officials would choose self preservation over the welfare of not just their constituencies, but the entire country.
Since it has succeeded in halving welfare rolls in five years, the constituency for radical change seems modest.
That depends on Congress, which has to reauthorise the welfare laws by October 2002.There is no constituency for a radical overhaul.
Because it focused exclusively on welfare recipients, however, NWRO's narrow constituency base guaranteed that it would remain a marginal force in the nation's politics.
