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A possible drawback is that once a president-elect has been elected, another person cannot be elected president unless the president-elect resigns or is removed from office. [15] The position of president-elect is different from someone who was elected president and is called "president-elect" between the time of election and the start of the term.
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
Election is the fact of electing, or being elected. To elect means "to select or make a decision", and so sometimes other forms of ballot such as referendums are referred to as elections, especially in the United States .
Over the same time period, 15 left-wing populist governments were elected; of these, the same number, five, brought about significant democratic backsliding." [36] A December 2018 report by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change concluded that populist rule, whether left- or right-wing, leads to a significant risk of democratic backsliding.
Many municipalities in Canada elect part or all of their city councils at-large. In most, the mayor is elected at-large as well. Municipal election at-large is widespread in small towns to avoid "them and us" cultural dissociation produced by partition of voters into wards and their representatives thus being seen to represent only a specific part of the city.
According to political analyst James Fallows in The Atlantic (based on a "note from someone with many decades' experience in national politics"), bipartisanship is a phenomenon belonging to a two-party system such as the political system of the United States and does not apply to a parliamentary system (such as Great Britain) since the minority party is not involved in helping write ...
The term republic has many different meanings, but today often refers to a representative democracy with an elected head of state, such as a president, serving for a limited term, in contrast to states with a hereditary monarch as a head of state, even if these states also are representative democracies with an elected or appointed head of ...
The Roman model of governance would inspire many political thinkers over the centuries, [9] and today's modern representative democracies imitate more the Roman than the Greek model, because it was a state in which supreme power was held by the people and their elected representatives, and which had an elected or nominated leader. [10]