... , which has largely consensual policies on offer from the competing parties. Putting turnout at the top of the list of legitimizing factors in elections has a negative history. The cult of large turnouts is more often associated with attempts to legitimize one-party regimes than proof of the solidity of a parliamentary democracy. In fact, observing more than 70 elections in the OSCE countries, flexible registration rules ... for a politician to 'bite the hand that feeds him'. However, John Major did experience trouble with his Cabinet and Tony Blair has been accused of by-passing his Cabi...

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