president-elect

Examples of president-elect in the following topics:

• The Transfer of Authority

  • In the United States, transfers of authority generally occur after presidential elections.
  • A presidential transition refers to the period of time between the end of a presidential election and the inauguration of a new president.
  • During a presidential transition, the outgoing president, also known as the "lame duck," has lost many of the intangible benefits of a presidency.
  • That being said, the incoming president-elect is not yet legally empowered to enforce policy.
  • This ambiguity, between the president-elect and outgoing president, creates the potential for a leadership vacuum, which may be most acutely felt during wartime or times of economic crisis.

• Democracy in the U.S.

  • The executive branch is headed by the President and is independent of the legislature.
  • All states and the District of Columbia contribute to the electoral vote for president.
  • Within the federal government, officials are elected at the federal (national), state and local levels.
  • On a national level, the President is elected indirectly by the people through an Electoral College.
  • All members of Congress and offices at the state and local levels are directly elected.

• Democratic Socialism

  • France subscribes to a democratic structure of free elections and the country recently elected a socialist president.
  • Debs made five bids for president: once in 1900 as candidate of the Social Democratic Party and then four more times on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America.
  • In 2012, French voters elected the Socialist Party candidate, François Hollande, into office with the expectation that he will meet his campaign promises to introduce greater socialist policy.

• Democracy

  • Citizens over the age of 18 may vote in elections to choose their representatives.
  • For example, at the local level, citizens elect mayors; at the state level, they elect governors and state legislators; and at the national level, they elect the president, representatives, and senators.
  • An essential process in representative democracies is competitive elections that are fair both substantively and procedurally.
  • But in reality, in most democracies, citizens are represented by elected lawmakers charged with drafting and voting on laws.

• Oligarchy

  • This lasted until the arrival of democracy in South Africa in 1994, punctuated by the transition to a democratically-elected government dominated by the black majority.
  • Today's multinational corporations function as corporate oligarchies with influence over democratically elected officials.
  • In 1994, Nelson Mandela became the first president of South Africa elected in a fully representative election, which marked the end of oligarchic apartheid in that country.

• Types of States

  • States vary based on who holds power, who elects the empowered, and how authority is maintained.
  • The United States is a democratic presidential republic: a democratic government headed by a powerful elected executive, the president.
  • Hereditary rule is often a common characteristic, but elective monarchies are also considered monarchies (e.g., The Pope) and some states have hereditary rulers, but are considered republics (e.g., the Dutch Republic).
  • Blue represents full presidential republics, while green and yellow are presidential republics with less powerful presidents.

• The U.S. Political System

  • The United States is a representative federal democracy driven by elections in which citizens' and lobbyists' diverse interests compete.
  • Constitution in the Congress, the President, and the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, respectively .
  • Citizens elect representatives to national, state, and local government; those representatives create the laws that govern U.S. society.
  • With rare exceptions, elections are decided between the two major parties: Democrats and Republicans.
  • Although individual citizens are the only ones who can cast votes, special interest groups and lobbyists may influence elections and law-making with money and other resources.

• Gender Inequality in Politics

  • Dilma Vana Rousseff is the 36th President of Brazil.
  • In 1996, President Bill Clinton appointed Madeline Albright to be the first female Secretary of State, a post later given to Condoleezza Rice by President George W.
  • Women in politics took center stage in the 2008 election.
  • President, she was the first female candidate to have a significant chance of winning the nomination of a major party and the general election.
  • Commentators noted that because she was a woman, Clinton had a sexual power that would make her too intimidating to win the national election.

• Rational-Legal Authority

  • In the United States, for example, presidential power is passed on through elections.
  • Although individual voters may choose which candidate they favor based on a candidate's charisma or family background, the election itself must follow rational-legal requirements.
  • When election results are disputed, they are decided by referring back to those rules.
  • Thus, for example, when the 2000 election between Bush and Gore came down to a very close vote, it was decided by a careful review of ballots and voting procedures, not by anything having to do with the qualifications of the candidates.
  • Barack Obama, President of the United States, derives his authority from a rational-legal system of laws outlined in a formal document, the Constitution of the United States of America.

• Political Parties

  • In partisan elections, candidates are nominated by a political party or seek public office as an independent.
  • Each state has significant discretion in deciding how candidates are nominated, and thus eligible to appear on the election ballot.
  • Each of these two parties shares a degree of national attention by attaining the mathematical possibility of its nominee becoming President of the United States - i.e., having ballot access - for its presidential candidate in states whose collective total is at least half of the Electoral College votes.
  • A party really cannot prevent a person who disagrees with the majority of positions of the party or actively works against the party's aims from claiming party membership, so long as the voters who choose to vote in the primary elections elect that person.
  • Once in office, an elected official may change parties simply by declaring such intent.