Robert Dallek Quotes
After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water.
Dallek, Robert. Quoted in The Washington Post, 2008.
She had been a Republican Governor and Republican politician for her whole career before her appointment to the court. However the Republican party was moving constantly to the right and at that time it was very close to extreme right.
The Eurozone economy was in recession as part of the Great Recession and nationalist, racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic minority parties were becoming stronger and more popular as a reaction against Muslim militancy and the number of immigrants which, with the exception of the United Kingdom the European people were not used to.
Italy had a parliamentary system with a number of parties. The result was that almost all governments had to be coalitions in order to have a majority. However, the smaller members of the ruling coalition would often insist upon certain laws to be passed, and if they were not, they would withdraw from the coalition and cause the government to fall. Few Italian governments lasted even 2 years. Renzi advocated a referendum to change the Constitution to make governments more stable.
The "It" referred to the fact that when he won the Gambian Presidential election, his predecessor refused to step down and had enough control of the military to prevent anyone else in the Gambia to force hium out. However a few neighboring Afriucan States sen troops into the Gambia. The Army did not want a way and so they stopped supporting the ex-president and he left the country in disgrace.
Robert A. Dallek is an American historian specializing in the presidents of the United States, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. He retired as a history professor at Boston University in 2004 and previously taught at Columbia University, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Oxford University. He won the Bancroft Prize for his 1979 book Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 as well as other awards for scholarship and teaching.
