incumbent politicians
collocation in Englishmeaningsofincumbentandpolitician
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incumbent
adjective
uk/ɪnˈkʌm.bənt/us/ɪnˈkʌm.bənt/
officially having the ...
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politician
noun[C]
uk/ˌpɒl.ɪˈtɪʃ.ən/us/ˌpɑː.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/
a member of a government or ...
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According to him, incumbent politicians in democracies have to fear that challengers mobilise disaffected voters.
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There is simply too much at stake for incumbent politicians inside the beltway.
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In settings where responsibility for policy making is most clear, incumbent politicians are held accountable for macroeconomic performances.
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The incumbent politicians have to trade them off against the short- and long-term benefits associated with the choice.
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First, according to our theory about the expected and unexpected components of growth and inflation, expected changes are irrelevant to evaluations of incumbent politicians' performance.
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Voters who wish to assess the competence of incumbent politicians face a difficult task - namely, finding objective, trustworthy information about government performance.
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The efforts to include women do not threaten incumbent politicians or male aspirants.
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First, incumbent politicians, both leaders and rank-and-file, care about individual wealth and re-election.
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The key term of interest in the utility function is since it shows to what extent an election outcome is factored into the social welfare calculations of incumbent politicians.
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For decades - if not centuries - observers have believed that incumbent politicians try to manipulate the macroeconomy to increase growth or disposable income in the period before elections.
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Whether they see and feel it directly or rely on media reports, voters seem to use information about the economy to assess the performance of incumbent politicians.
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When the expected marginal net benefits from such opportunistic policy-making behaviour is negative, incumbent politicians will forgo votes and instead place a premium on economic stability.
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The term generally isn't applied to incumbent politicians who successfully defend their seats repeatedly.
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