Globally, there’s no concrete evidence on whether political parties got re-elected (or elected) on the back of governance issues; at the moment, it’s an open debate, says A. Sandeep
y this mentality, Europe stands divided. Alina Mungio-Pippidi, celebrated political analyst at Scoala Nationala de Stiinte Politice si Administrative, Bucharest, says, “It is pretty difficult to club Europe in one league. While in Western Europe, people do give more importance to issues such as economic policy, the same cannot be said of Eastern Europe; issues in the latter region are more related to race and ethnicity that play a role in election results.”
Truly so, while countries like Finland – ranked by The World Bank amongst the global top three on various governance factors – might stand pristinely tall, countries like Poland are ready to take the hit. In 2005, the fundamentalist grandiloquent Kaczynski twin brothers in Poland came to power; one became President and the other Prime Minister. Though the supposed election promise was fighting ‘crime and corruption’, they actually came to power on nationalistic rhetoric like protecting Poland from the beast that is EU, and visible church driven hyperbole like opposing gay marriage, abortion, and promoting family values in an obsessively Catholic country. But interestingly, the same Polish people threw out the party from power in late 2007 because of minimal change on development front. But at the same time, in countries like Netherlands and Denmark, as Alina confirms, “Issues other than good governance – immigration and xenophobia – are increasingly gaining grounds, with recent election results being scary.” Noelia Rodrigues, Governance Expert, John F Kennedy School of Government, added her take on the situation in the West and especially in the US, “In the West, development has been the most important election plank. We have voted here on issues such as medical policy, insurance policy, and labour policy. A party that has neglected these has been bound to suffer defeat.”
y this mentality, Europe stands divided. Alina Mungio-Pippidi, celebrated political analyst at Scoala Nationala de Stiinte Politice si Administrative, Bucharest, says, “It is pretty difficult to club Europe in one league. While in Western Europe, people do give more importance to issues such as economic policy, the same cannot be said of Eastern Europe; issues in the latter region are more related to race and ethnicity that play a role in election results.”
Truly so, while countries like Finland – ranked by The World Bank amongst the global top three on various governance factors – might stand pristinely tall, countries like Poland are ready to take the hit. In 2005, the fundamentalist grandiloquent Kaczynski twin brothers in Poland came to power; one became President and the other Prime Minister. Though the supposed election promise was fighting ‘crime and corruption’, they actually came to power on nationalistic rhetoric like protecting Poland from the beast that is EU, and visible church driven hyperbole like opposing gay marriage, abortion, and promoting family values in an obsessively Catholic country. But interestingly, the same Polish people threw out the party from power in late 2007 because of minimal change on development front. But at the same time, in countries like Netherlands and Denmark, as Alina confirms, “Issues other than good governance – immigration and xenophobia – are increasingly gaining grounds, with recent election results being scary.” Noelia Rodrigues, Governance Expert, John F Kennedy School of Government, added her take on the situation in the West and especially in the US, “In the West, development has been the most important election plank. We have voted here on issues such as medical policy, insurance policy, and labour policy. A party that has neglected these has been bound to suffer defeat.”
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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