Voorbeelden van unelected

• And it extends a well-recognized debate over how (and how carefully) elected politicians delegate authority to unelected bureaucrats.

• Presumably, decentralised constituencies will vote for representatives who will represent their interests to the central government better than the unelected civil servants of the past.

• Finally, our data show that unelected peers are over-represented at lower levels of government in comparison to higher posts.

• At the same time, however, the judiciary is expected to perform these functions in accordance with the views of the unelected head.

• In these countries, sovereignty is divided between elected executives and unelected ones who act as guardians of the regime.

• Surprisingly, however, the failure of the courts to produce popularly acceptable decisions contributes to the continued division of sovereignty between elected and unelected institutions.

• The unelected head, despite its privileged position, cannot ignore the results of elections or the powers of the elected head.

• On balance, we find that unelected peers are as durable as any other ministers in our sample.