• September 3, 2020 In 2008, Prime Minister Bruce Golding acknowledged at a Conference for the Association for Caribbean Electoral Organizations that there were a number of areas of concern in his country's election process including political financing for campaigns, the accountability of the electoral process and the impact positive or negative of the media on elections. (wikipedia.org)
  • Use this printable infographic to show your students the impact that the 2022 midterm elections have on the legislative and executive branches.iCivics en español! (icivics.org)
  • Through winner-take-all elections, ballot-access laws, and slanted media coverage, they effectively exclude alternatives. (sociology.org)
  • According to preliminary counts in the midterm primary elections in California, David Moore, the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) candidate for Senate, won 14,504 votes (0.4 percent), and Kevin Mitchell, the candidate for House of Representatives in the 51st district, received 900 votes (1.9 percent). (wsws.org)
  • Centrists there have created a third party just in time for November's elections. (newsday.com)
  • Centrists there have created a third party line to great fanfare - the Moderate Party - just in time for November's elections. (newsday.com)
  • not only do parties have minimal say in who runs for nomination, but they have ceded the decision on who wins to voters in (mostly) winner-takes-all elections. (bostonreview.net)
  • Parties' unwillingness to "play" in primary elections-whether through endorsements or financial support-removes another potential site for the type of positive action Piscopo proposes. (bostonreview.net)
  • The transparency and accountability of funding sources have become crucial factors in ensuring fair elections and maintaining public trust in political parties. (fsmm2008.org)
  • Understanding the importance of transparency in political financing sets the stage for discussing how to ensure fair and equal representation in elections. (fsmm2008.org)
  • Transitioning from the previous section, where transparency in political financing was emphasized as essential, it becomes evident that ensuring fair and equal representation in elections is another crucial aspect of a functioning democratic society. (fsmm2008.org)
  • As with the decision of Judge Cox, who was nominated for the US Eastern District of Michigan by Republican President George W. Bush, the Sixth Circuit has solidarized itself entirely with the defendants in our lawsuit: Democratic Party Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Director of the Michigan Bureau of Elections Jonathan Brater. (wsws.org)
  • In a country where the two parties of the Wall Street banks, corporations and billionaires have exercised a political monopoly over local, state and federal elections for more than a century, all talk of "ballot overcrowding" and "voter confusion" is an absurdity. (wsws.org)
  • Eighty-three percent of Black voters said they were "absolutely essential" or "very important" for the Democratic Party to win elections. (thegrio.com)
  • I mean, Mitch McConnell's ideal political system is one in which ultra-wealthy anonymous donors pour unlimited money into elections to elect Republican majorities that can gerrymander their states to insulate them from democratic accountability. (americanprogressaction.org)
  • McConnell has long been the spearhead of the Republican effort to rig the system in their favor, calling any attempt to overturn Citizens United an effort to repeal the 1st Amendment , and even praising more dark, foreign money in our elections. (americanprogressaction.org)
  • When one is trying to control the messaging about the benefits of the two-party system, the lion's share of campaign funds raised during elections goes to these relatively few media outlets. (rcreader.com)
  • As of February 2017, 77 parties were registered in Russia, 14 of them participated in the elections to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in 2016. (russiatrek.org)
  • There is tight control over the political sphere, access of opposition parties to elections and to the media is very limited. (russiatrek.org)
  • The database combines approximately 1400 parties, 680 elections with 5800 election results and 2300 governing parties in 960 cabinets. (lu.se)
  • The project is based on quantitative content analyses of parties' election programs from more than 50 countries covering all free, democratic elections since 1945. (lu.se)
  • He received more votes than John Parker, the candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party, which has a party ballot line. (wsws.org)
  • Anti-democratic ballot access laws meant that their affiliation with the Socialist Equality Party was not listed on the ballot. (wsws.org)
  • The New Jersey experiment faces another major obstacle: Unlike in New York, candidates are prohibited from running on more than one ballot line there, so anyone running as a Moderate would have to forgo appearing on a major party line. (newsday.com)
  • Gender quotas "aren't directly translatable to the United States," and "one quirk of the U.S. political system is that political parties do not control ballot access. (bostonreview.net)
  • From ballot access to debate participation to polling, the entire infrastructure is built around a two party duopoly. (mic.com)
  • On Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected our campaign's appeal of the lower court's decision denying our challenge to Michigan's decision to enforce restrictive ballot access laws in the midst of the pandemic. (wsws.org)
  • Since we filed our case on June 18 seeking an injunction against Michigan's ballot access law in the 2020 presidential election, it has become clear that both the Democrats and Republicans have refused to change the unconstitutional requirements to collect thousands of signatures throughout the state during the pandemic in order to block to the SEP from appearing on the November ballot for US president. (wsws.org)
  • As Chris Hayes said last night, "Nothing to me is more revealing of the core pathology of the modern Republican Party than the way that it sees widening access to the ballot and higher turnout as a threat. (americanprogressaction.org)
  • State ballot-access laws, corrupt courts, little to no scrutiny of election equipment and technology, and big special-interest money prevent third-party or independent candidates from gaining significant ground. (rcreader.com)
  • This Article presents a comprehensive overview of the Supreme Court's ballot-access jurisprudence as it relates to minor political parties, and challenges the conventional "structuralist" view that ascribes shortcomings in the Court's approach to the doctrinal constraints of an individual-rights-based analysis. (ssrn.com)
  • Structuralist critics correctly observe that the Supreme Court's ballot-access rulings almost always disfavor minor parties and protect the two dominant parties. (ssrn.com)
  • But in the U.S., arguments in favor of a center-right or center-left party continue to proliferate, as the GOP moves to the populist right and the Democratic Party moves to the woke left. (newsday.com)
  • No gerrymandering or intentional manipulation of district lines should occur to favor any particular party or group. (fsmm2008.org)
  • At that time, there was an intense mobilization from the political parties, unions, health professionals, among others, in favor of an extension of the concept of health and the definition of the corresponding institutional acts (1) . (bvsalud.org)
  • They have been purged of any anti-capitalist leadership and now serve the same function on the economic front that the Democrats serve on the political front: to convince the working class to accept the dictates of capital. (sociology.org)
  • The fall in support for both the Democrats and Republicans, as well as the established "third parties," alongside a small but growing vote for the SEP, is a reflection of the initial stages of a political radicalization of the working class and widespread hostility to the Republicans and the Democrats. (wsws.org)
  • Some believe that a middle-ground party would force Republicans and Democrats back into the center. (newsday.com)
  • The ruling is a blatant attack on the democratic rights of the Socialist Equality Party and voters in the state of Michigan seeking a socialist alternative to the Democrats and Republicans in the 2020 presidential election. (wsws.org)
  • Even though Black voters have a clear preference for the Democratic Party, relatively few (22%) said that Democrats represent their interests very well. (thegrio.com)
  • Unless we are organized and militant, a viable alternative to the capitalist parties won't emerge. (sociology.org)
  • The alignment of the reactionary Judge Bush with Governor Whitmer-a leading figure within the Democratic Party and a campaign chair for the Biden/Harris ticket-makes it clear that, whatever the differences between the two capitalist parties over tactical political considerations, they always come together against the working class and its party. (wsws.org)
  • I sometimes close my eyes and imagine my story making the rounds like a fearsome plague of countless conservative cocktail parties, with an ideological life of its own to which I have no access, and over which I exercise no control. (ratical.org)
  • Article 13 of the Constitution says that political and ideological diversity, multi-party system, equality of public associations before the law are recognized in Russia. (russiatrek.org)
  • The results also demonstrate that the perceived threat influences behavior related to climate change, and that threat mediates the effect of party positions. (mdpi.com)
  • In this article we analyze the impact of party identification on electoral behavior in Brazil. (researchgate.net)
  • One of the more useful of the hundreds of definitions of culture is this one from the anthropologist Christie Kiefer (2007): "a complex integrated system of thought and behavior shared by members of a group - a system whose whole pattern allows us to understand the meanings that people attach to specific facts and observations. (cdc.gov)
  • While I am slightly more pessimistic about the possibility of establishing women's political representation as a positive right in the United States, I am slightly more optimistic than Piscopo about the efforts already underway to promote gender parity in government. (bostonreview.net)
  • From this ground, the study focuses on women's political representation in the Bangladesh parliament with the trends of VAW. (slideshare.net)
  • The two parties were founded in 1938 and 1943 and first contested the 1944 election. (wikipedia.org)
  • Though the years are fixed due to the five-year term of the prime minister, the date of the election is traditionally announced by the ruling party one month in advance. (wikipedia.org)
  • Get election updates and access to new tools and resources from your inbox. (ifes.org)
  • Overall, the election saw a fall in voter turnout, an expression of widespread disaffection with the political system. (wsws.org)
  • Panelist spoke about the independent voter movement and how election reforms efforts would impact political culture. (c-span.org)
  • The first election in which a third party candidate has real impact in the dialogue and in the results will begin to break up that duopoly. (mic.com)
  • We respectfully urge the Supreme Electoral Council as the maximum electoral authority to conduct, with full participation of political parties and national observation groups, a transparent review of the electoral results on a national scale to restore confidence in the system and renew credibility in the election. (cartercenter.org)
  • The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission declared Jubilee Coalition Party candidate Uhuru Kenyatta had won re-election as president over opposition candidate Raila Odinga. (state.gov)
  • Which is why I hoped that the Norwich North by-election would provide an opportunity for the public to express their disgust at the party system by voting for an independent candidate. (craigmurray.org.uk)
  • But the by-election showed that the political parties have an unbreakable grip on the electoral system - not least through their monopoly of media access. (craigmurray.org.uk)
  • While some political pundits and journalists attributed Georgia going Democrat to white suburbs, Black voters were the real key," said an analysis of the 2020 election by the Brookings Institution. (thegrio.com)
  • Political Data Yearbook captures election results, national referenda, changes in government, and institutional reforms for a range of countries, within and beyond the EU. (lu.se)
  • The European Journal of Political Research (EJPR) Political Data Yearbook documents election results, national referenda, changes in government, and institutional reforms. (lu.se)
  • The work presented here looks at a simple model of political polarization amongst agents which influence their immediate locality and how a entropy trace of the political discourse can be produced. (nature.com)
  • From the start, the Maldivian democratic project tried to combine democratic liberty with Islamic normativity within its political discourse. (lu.se)
  • Lawmakers in both political parties agree that Michigan must reform its mental-health system to improve access to care. (bridgemi.com)
  • The spokespersons of the main political parties realize that a profound reform can no longer wait. (newswire.ca)
  • The traditional escalating governmental focus on qual- · 11 countries had a policy on ac- collegial model of accreditation is mov- ity health care, or to health system regu- creditation (of which most were a ing towards a semi-regulatory model of component of health care reform lation, or all three. (who.int)
  • They also included examples of how preparations for health reform in Suriname in the late 1990s and early 2000s, influenced by global neoliberal reforms, led to expectations that disparities in health status, design of health system components, and service provision related to differences in power and historical context (e.g., the influence of medical professionals, political parties/ethnic groups, and wealthier populations concentrated in urban areas) would be addressed. (bvsalud.org)
  • Given the focus on primary health care in the Americas and the notable developments that have occurred in Surinamese health policy and health care, particularly in health care reform, the paucity of published research on CPHC in Suriname was an unexpected finding that may be partly due to prioritizing research on disease control rather than health policy and systems research. (bvsalud.org)
  • From this model an isolated system representation can be formulated in respect to the changes in the entropy values across all variables of the system over simulation time. (nature.com)
  • One of the major obstacles in accessing justice, is the cost of legal advice and representation. (lu.se)
  • January 1, 2020 - Back in 2008, Scott Serota and the Blues figured out America needed a more affordable, improved, and sustainable health system. (blogspot.com)
  • Political polarization as a media narrative: the Swedish case, 2011-2020. (lu.se)
  • Jamaica effectively has a two-party system: there are two dominant political parties, and it is difficult for other parties to achieve electoral success. (wikipedia.org)
  • Why are two parties so dominant in the political system? (mic.com)
  • They have designed a political system in the USA that ensures their power monopoly. (sociology.org)
  • The Early Access service lets users access peer-reviewed articles well before print/regular issue publication, significantly reducing the time it takes for critical findings to reach the research community. (who.int)
  • Each of us should examine the parties and organizations on the left, find one that matches our orientation, and actively support it. (sociology.org)
  • Organizations committed to women's political empowerment in the United States have sought solutions that match their country's reality-just as the global activists Piscopo praises have done. (bostonreview.net)
  • many newer pro- and supported by legislation, 7 were national and international accreditation grammes, for political, economic or tech- voluntary systems but only 3 were organizations summarized the drivers nical reasons, have failed to meet initial directly linked to health insurance or for health care providers to participate expectations but others have flourished. (who.int)
  • Whatever is the trigger for tion organizations in the region and grammes are active in the Region - but embarking on an accreditation system, concluded that the principal challenges only in the high-income countries. (who.int)
  • ElectionGuide is provided by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), an international non-profit dedicated to strengthening electoral democracy. (lu.se)
  • SOUTHFIELD-Whatever their politics, whatever their role - parent or provider, lobbyist or lawmaker - on this they agree: Michigan's complex mental health system needs fixing, fast. (bridgemi.com)
  • Two Republican state lawmakers, Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and Rep. Mary Whiteford, have proposed ways that would dramatically reshape the bureaucracy of Michigan's mental health care system. (bridgemi.com)
  • In short-hand, Shirkey's plan has been described as the plan that would privatize Michigan's mental-health system. (bridgemi.com)
  • In a June Gallup Poll survey, 27% of Americans self-identified as Republican, 27% identified as Democrat, and 43% said they were political independents. (newsday.com)
  • Johnson became the preferred choice of the Liberty Movement after Ron Paul declined to run on a third-party ticket after being defeated by Romney for the Republican nomination. (mic.com)
  • There will be all kinds of dancing around the issue of why progressives lost the recall campaign against union-busting Tea Party Republican Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin on Tuesday, with the Obama campaign trying to claim that it was not a reflection on him or his popularity, the Democratic Party saying it was not their battle, and the labor movement, sadly, blaming it all on right-wing money. (counterpunch.org)
  • Yet both Obama and the Democratic Party looked at the Republican attack on the right to organize that began in Wisconsin, spreading to Ohio and other states, and instead of standing and fighting with the people of Wisconsin, they made a "tactical" decision to stand aside and let the Republicans win. (counterpunch.org)
  • As Chris Hayes said, McConnell is "the soul of the modern Republican Party. (americanprogressaction.org)
  • To break free of their political control and build genuine democracy, we must delegitimize in particular the Democratic Party, which exists to channel potentially radical discontent into dead-end streets. (sociology.org)
  • The Democratic Party is the graveyard of social movements, capturing people's hopes for fundamental changes, then burying them. (sociology.org)
  • Labor unions, like the Democratic Party, have become merely reformist. (sociology.org)
  • This year we have seen a surge of working class struggles, particularly among teachers, who have sought to break free from the stranglehold of the Democratic Party and the unions. (wsws.org)
  • Immigrant workers know that the Democratic Party offers no alternative, having gone through the experience of the 'deporter-in-chief,' Obama. (wsws.org)
  • The Democratic Party has collaborated with Trump to fund the border wall with Mexico, inflate the military budget and cut corporate taxes," Mitchell added. (wsws.org)
  • When pushed by Gallup, 46% of those independents said they lean toward the GOP, while 45% lean toward the Democratic Party. (newsday.com)
  • In recent years, the issue of political financing has gained significant attention due to its potential impact on democratic processes. (fsmm2008.org)
  • The Wisconsin battle was hugely important - an existential struggle for the US labor movement and working people in general, and a critical litmus test of the real nature of both President Obama and of the Democratic Party. (counterpunch.org)
  • What they lacked was any significant support from the Democratic Party and the party's standard-bearer, President Barack Obama - the man who as candidate back in 2008, when he won Wisconsin, promised to put on a pair of "comfortable shoes" and to "walk the picket line" with struggling workers everywhere. (counterpunch.org)
  • If the Democratic Party was a real party, fighting to protect the right of workers to organize and bargain would be one of those core principles. (counterpunch.org)
  • As for the Democratic Party, it did exactly nothing to help progressives and labor unions in Wisconsin in this fight. (counterpunch.org)
  • Among Black voters who identify or lean Democrat, there is a near-even split on whether Biden should run again, with 49% saying the Democratic Party should renominate Biden in 2024 and 50% saying they should nominate someone else. (thegrio.com)
  • Haim Saban, the Israeli (technically, a dual citizen of Israel and the U.S.) Hollywood mogul who unleashed upon us the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ("five retards in spandex" according to to their owner), is the leading fundraiser for the Democratic Party. (blogspot.com)
  • In 2002, he contributed seven million dollars toward the cost of a new building for the Democratic National Committee-one of the largest known donations ever made to an American political party. (blogspot.com)
  • Bruck lists his key donations as $7 million to the Democratic Party, $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, and $13 million to the Brookings Institute. (blogspot.com)
  • The Institute of Democracy conducts research about democratic development and political communication between citizens, media and parties. (lu.se)
  • Republicans disenchanted with Trumpism have been trying for more than six years to put a viable center-right party together. (newsday.com)
  • The former New York City mayor and his talented political team could find no viable independent path to the White House. (newsday.com)
  • Jackie Salit and other independents spoke about their movement and strategies to build a viable independent party. (c-span.org)
  • Political polarization has become an alarming trend observed in various countries. (nature.com)
  • As a result the simulation respects the second law of thermodynamics and provides insight into political polarization as a basin of entropy within an isolated system without making assumptions about external activities. (nature.com)
  • Over the past decade, political polarization has increased in the Western world, a polarization that threatens to erode democracy, undermine confidence in its institutions, and weaken the power of the state. (lu.se)
  • Worldwide, women's political participation is a sign of equal access to politics and decision-making at the state-level level. (slideshare.net)
  • Women's political participation is a valid indicator of democracy (Nelson & Chowdhury). (slideshare.net)
  • Such as Delaporte and Pino (2021) show that political participation in Brazil has a positive impact on curve violence against women. (slideshare.net)
  • Based on secondary literature, the paper first assesses why political participation is necessary. (slideshare.net)
  • In fact, independent candidates only ever win - or even score over 5% - when one or more of the major parties stands down in their favour. (craigmurray.org.uk)
  • Albeit Muslims associations inform citizens about the political system, the parties and the political issues, they remain neutral in terms of any recommendation. (euro-islam.info)
  • The limited amount of scientific literature on this topic 1) prevents clear understanding of CPHC development and implementation in Suriname and 2) underscores the need to strengthen the national health research system to better inform policies for moving the country toward universal health access and coverage to improve the health of all of its citizens. (bvsalud.org)
  • In 1996, roughly the first 500 of these reactions were published by Greenwood Press as Native American Political Systems and the Evolution of Democracy: An Annotated Bibliography . (ratical.org)
  • The idea that the Iroquois helped shape democracy has lost none of its power to evoke horror stories of "political correctness" on the Far Right. (ratical.org)
  • Because these decisions appear to rely on an unduly narrow understanding of the expressive value of voting and on a misunderstanding of the role played by minor political parties within the context of a predominantly two-party system, scholars have proposed a number of alternative frameworks to guide the Court's inquiry. (ssrn.com)
  • I argue that in the context of novel party politics in the Maldives it is less the conjuncture of religion and nation that is disputed, but rather the degree to which normative or moderate interpretations of Islam are evoked in the name of the nation. (lu.se)
  • This book offers a critical analysis of access to justice from international / Islamic perspectives to highlight various aspects of access to justice previously not discussed in the body of literature in the context of Iran. (lu.se)
  • Through embracing transparency in political financing, societies can take important steps toward building fairer electoral systems. (fsmm2008.org)
  • a fairer, more credible and effective justice system. (corrections.govt.nz)
  • Following the development of the justice sector end outcomes of safer communities and a fairer, more credible and more effective justice system, the core sector agencies developed two sets of more specific intermediate outcomes. (corrections.govt.nz)
  • they are made up of diverse groups with different histories, social structures, value systems, and cultural understandings of the world. (cdc.gov)
  • Second, we show that party identification does not work in the same way on all voters identified with the same party. (researchgate.net)
  • These end outcomes reflect the importance of crime reduction priorities and ensuring the justice system continues to meet the needs of society. (corrections.govt.nz)
  • Community organizing refers to the unit of analysis and action, shifting the focus from individuals to systems, rules, social norms, or laws to affect health behaviors and outcomes (2). (cdc.gov)
  • During the course of this project I aim to localize and conceptualise digital capitalism within these systems and consecutively disaggregate their role and meaning at the regional level as well as exemplify them in case studies. (lu.se)
  • Committee Experts commended the State party on abolishing the death penalty. (ohchr.org)
  • Our campaign marked an important advance and makes clear there is a strong foundation for expanding the political influence of the SEP throughout the state and beyond. (wsws.org)
  • Occupying the area around Moscow, they are the people around whom the state of Russia (and the Soviet Union ) was built, and most histories of the area focus on them and their political, social, and cultural patterns. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Protecting policyholders and providing them access to affordable coverage is fundamental to the prosperity of our entire state," said Whitmer. (michigan.gov)
  • The PS and PSD have been the only two parties to agree to include in the Constitution the deprivation of liberty for seriously ill and 'contagious' patients, even without a State of Emergency, with the remaining parties considering that the current legal framework should be maintained. (portugalresident.com)
  • The state system of the Russian Federation is defined by the Constitution adopted by the popular vote on December 12, 1993. (russiatrek.org)
  • First of all, the sustainability of our state independence was ensured and political stability was established inside the country. (who.int)
  • The foundation of the comprehensive institutional changes aimed at replacing the administrative- command system inherited from the Soviet period with new free competitive relations, purposeful policy measures to form a market economy system, important changes such as the privatization of state-owned property and the formation of new property relations was laid precisely in that period. (who.int)
  • The nation-state is undoubtedly the most important political formation in the world today. (lu.se)
  • It would take tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars to establish an organization capable of challenging the Big Two, they've learned - think mom-and-pop startup challenging Coke and Pepsi - and existing political donors are generally locked into one side of the aisle or the other. (newsday.com)
  • Such work helps establish that social system models can be designed to respect the arrow of time since a decrease produces the Gibbs paradox due to an incomplete system definition 26 , 27 , 28 . (nature.com)
  • His "three ways to be influential in American politics," he said, were: make donations to political parties, establish think tanks, and control media outlets. (blogspot.com)
  • To establish baseline knowledge of tuberculosis surveillance systems used by ICS-TB member jurisdictions. (cdc.gov)
  • PSD leader Luís Montenegro has already stressed that if the process is 'only to change the fundamental law as the PS wants', his party won't play ball - and the revision will fall by the wayside. (portugalresident.com)
  • When a right is violated or damage is caused, access to justice is of fundamental importance for the injured individual and it is an essential component of the rule of law. (lu.se)
  • While some officials, including President Biden, have downplayed the damage from the leak, it will take months to learn whether U.S. intelligence loses access to important methods of collection because of the disclosures. (outsidethebeltway.com)
  • The argument that the Portuguese Constitution should not be altered during a political crisis has seemingly fallen by the wayside. (portugalresident.com)
  • The political system in general, the constitution, the government and the political parties are discussed in a historical as well as in a contemporary perspective. (lu.se)
  • The common objectives across systems are to detect outbreaks, and inform the evaluation/planning of public health programmes and policies. (cdc.gov)
  • Sometimes that intervention is women-focused, such as efforts to encourage women to run for office in spite of the social, structural, and political hurdles. (bostonreview.net)
  • The multilateral system is essential to coordinate and support national and multinational pandemic preparedness and response. (who.int)
  • The diversity of organizationsandallcountriesfortheobjectivesofhealth multilateral agencies working in health distracts from the equity,access,andcoverageasprioritiesbeyondtheMil- lenniumDevelopmentGoalsareset. (cdc.gov)
  • Social physics has laid out an interesting set of goals where natural sciences and social sciences would come together in order to help model human based systems 1 , 2 (that the "verbal reasoning" in the humanities would be assisted by science and technology). (nature.com)
  • In general there is the question, "does the second law of thermodynamics apply to social systems or not? (nature.com)
  • These factions may include interest groups, social movements, or even marginalized communities seeking greater visibility and advocacy within the political realm. (fsmm2008.org)
  • In doing so, political parties contribute significantly to bridging gaps between different segments of society while striving towards achieving consensus on important matters such as economic policies, national security strategies, or social welfare programs. (fsmm2008.org)
  • The arrest raised questions about why such a junior enlisted airman had access to such an array of potentially damaging secrets, why adequate safeguards had not been put in place after earlier leaks and why a young man would risk his freedom to share intelligence about the war in Ukraine with a group of friends he knew from a video game social media site. (outsidethebeltway.com)
  • The deep crisis of the socialist public-political system and the breakup of a huge country like the Soviet Union in the early 1990s resulted in political chaos, economic paralysis and social collapse in Azerbaijan like in other post-Soviet countries. (who.int)
  • The WHO African Region faces many health and related social, economic, political, and environmental problems whose intricate solutions require actions spanning sectors. (who.int)
  • This meaning-centered approach can also help reveal how community conditions are determined by social, economic, and political forces rather than simply by individual choices (Carpenter-song et al. (cdc.gov)
  • this is a significant challenge to the types of electoral reforms that have been implemented globally in party-centered systems to promote gender parity. (bostonreview.net)
  • More broadly, radical reforms of policing and the entire criminal justice system are in order. (cpusa.org)
  • These things were acknowledged in front of the CEO of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, the Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States and the Electoral Office of Jamaica. (wikipedia.org)
  • While some say they agree with pieces of one proposal or another, they have long opposed any restructuring of the system that ultimately could lead to its handover to a non-government, possibly for-profit, organization. (bridgemi.com)
  • Atlanta,Georgia,USA coordination of multiple parties, rather than direction by DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1908.130121 one organization or discipline. (cdc.gov)
  • This information is used to measure the number of visitors to the various sections of our site and improve organization, coverage, system performance or other problem areas. (medlineplus.gov)
  • To achieve successful collaboration with a community, all parties involved need to strive to understand the point of view of "insiders," whether they are members of a neighborhood, religious institution, health practice, community organization, or public health agency. (cdc.gov)
  • The Department of Health Systems and Services, Unit of Medicines and Health Technologies of the Pan American Health Organization is organizing the Seminar "Advance HTA Project and its Implications for the Region of the Americas" to be held on January 21st, from 2:00 pm to 5:30pm, Washington, DC. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, existing multisectoral actions in the Region are disease- specific strategies with poorly defined mandates, siloed implementation modalities, and weak monitoring and accountability systems. (who.int)
  • The three selected articles provided partial overviews of CPHC in Suriname and examples of its implementation, with a focus on the service delivery network in the interior of the country, which was designed to improve rural access to basic health care services by training community members as service providers. (bvsalud.org)
  • I examine the practice of EU states allocating responsibilities in the internal and external dimensions of EU asylum policy, and I consider jurisprudential developments concerning the interpretation and implementation of relevant EU mechanisms (the Dublin system, relocation, and safe third country rules). (lu.se)
  • By combining analysis with recommendations, model laws, and case studies that span the European, Inter-American, and African systems, as well as the UN treaty bodies, From Rights to Remedies offers both a political and legal roadmap to more effective domestic implementation. (lu.se)
  • The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association proposed four starting points for a more financially sustainable system - eliminating 30% "waste" within the system, cutting prevalence of pre-diabetes, then numbering 57 million Americans, ceasing payment for avoidable hospital complications, and reducing costs so that everyone, private and public, could afford health care, thus assuring more premium revenues. (blogspot.com)
  • In Ready to Run programs, organizers lobby party leaders to financially sponsor participants to attend the program, with varying degrees of success. (bostonreview.net)
  • However, if the problem is indeed one of the Justices' faulty background assumptions about the political process, it is unlikely to be solved by the wording of any particular test, structuralist or otherwise. (ssrn.com)
  • Thandiwe Daka-Oteng, Permanent Secretary for Administration in the Ministry of Justice, and head of the delegation said in opening remarks that Zambia recognized that there was an urgent need to draft corresponding legislation to the instruments to which the country was party, as well as to support victims of human rights violations, but progress had been made. (ohchr.org)
  • By using individual-level and country-level data, I examine if this variability in public opinion is partially caused by political party elites. (mdpi.com)
  • Second, O'Brien called for the belligerents in each country to facilitate access by humanitarian actors. (alternet.org)
  • Even US counter-insurgency experts have long known the surest harbingers of revolutionary ferment in any country is the growth of a population of unemployed and impoverished college graduates: that is, young people bursting with energy, with plenty of time on their hands, every reason to be angry, and access to the entire history of radical thought. (outsidethebeltway.com)
  • This book explores legal empowerment and gender and presents the findings of a survey study on the perceptions of Iranian women toward the justice system in their country. (lu.se)
  • One compelling example that highlights the significance of transparent political financing is the infamous Watergate scandal that occurred during Richard Nixon's presidency in the United States. (fsmm2008.org)
  • The circumstances could hardly get more auspicious for an independent than they were in Norwich, with the expenses scandal plus all the main parties supporting an unpopular war. (craigmurray.org.uk)
  • 2012-05-03T23:26:34-04:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvZTI5XC8zMDU3MDUtbS5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ== Participants spoke about independent political movements, the challenges of being an unaffiliated candidate, and the two-party system of American politics. (c-span.org)
  • Health system deficiencies are due to the increased demands by the growing populations and changing patterns of disease accompanied by reduced resources. (who.int)
  • Marge Mitchell, a long-time advocate for disability rights and executive director for Michigan Universal Health Care Access Network, a statewide network promoting healthcare for all, said if the Shirkey or Whiteford proposals were to go into effect, it would result in a "lack of accountability" that she called "just appalling. (bridgemi.com)
  • Spoiler alert: No.) Use this mini-lesson to show your students that there are lots of different political party systems around the world. (icivics.org)
  • What will be Russia's position, and so the position of our descendants and successors, or future Russian generations among other nations - in the world system of the division of labor, in the system of international relations, in the world culture? (rt.com)
  • He remains keenly interested in the world of business, but he is most proud of his role as political power broker. (blogspot.com)
  • Health systems around the world are facing many deficiencies. (who.int)
  • The fact that the two most important 19th century secular ideologies that still dominate our contemporary world, namely communism and liberalism, pose as trans-or inter-national modes of political practice shows that nationalism is always to be understood in relation to "the other" and "to the world. (lu.se)
  • The four main political parties were represented by Lise Thériault, MNA for Anjou-Louis-Riel and Minister responsible for Consumer Protection and for Housing (Québec Liberal Party), Mario Laframboise , MNA for Blainville (Coalition Avenir Québec), Carole Poirier , MNA for Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (Parti Québécois) and Simon Charron , candidate for Sainte-Rose (Québec Solidaire). (newswire.ca)
  • This morning, representatives of the main political parties demonstrated that they understand the issues. (newswire.ca)
  • Both new systems and regulation - driven largely sector, and 8 did not require periodic and old programmes are increasingly by national governments and interna- relicensing) linked to health care funding, or to an tional donor agencies ( 1 ). (who.int)
  • As I have pointed out on my campus tour, millennials are frankly getting screwed by both of the major parties and their control of the federal government. (mic.com)
  • In the US, the depredations of the student loan system simply ensures such budding revolutionaries cannot fail to identify banks as their primary enemy, or to understand the role of the Federal Government-which maintains the student loan program, and ensures that their loans will be held over their heads forever, even in the event of bankruptcy-in maintaining the banking system's ultimate control over every aspect of their future lives. (outsidethebeltway.com)
  • thus, empowering individuals and communities to increase control over the health determinants through the creation of policies, and educational components in a broad dimension of interlinked interpretations and systems. (bvsalud.org)
  • For all the endless statistical data available on every aspect of our economic system, I have been unable to find any economist who can tell me how much of an average American's annual income, let alone life income, ends up being appropriated by the financial industries in the form of interest payments, fees, penalties, and service charges. (outsidethebeltway.com)
  • In their respective races, Moore and Mitchell advanced a socialist and revolutionary program to mobilize the working class against inequality, war, censorship, the attack on immigrants and the capitalist system. (wsws.org)
  • Muslim immigrants have the opportunity to access information about the parties and their programs. (euro-islam.info)
  • This is mostly thanks to a brilliant two-party political system that so expertly marginalizes third-party alternatives. (rcreader.com)
  • Telephone lines were open for comments on the role of third parties in American politics. (c-span.org)
  • Jennifer Piscopo defines a pervasive problem in U.S. politics: women's full inclusion in political power is stunted by their persistent underrepresentation as officeholders. (bostonreview.net)
  • The role of outside (non-party and nongovernmental) money in U.S. politics means it is not possible to use campaign finance to enforce gender parity in candidate selection. (bostonreview.net)
  • For example, the Center for American Women and Politics' (CAWP) Ready to Run training program focuses on giving women tools to successfully navigate the electoral system as it is . (bostonreview.net)
  • I am considering whether the only way to have any practical impact on politics in the UK is to join a political party. (craigmurray.org.uk)
  • Given that both have very low approval ratings, why is it that third parties can't seem make much headway? (mic.com)
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  • I'm happy to report the U.S. health system has finally developed a sustainable health system. (blogspot.com)
  • He and other critics say they are once again fighting efforts that would ultimately privatize at least parts of the state's $3.6 billion mental-health system and shift local decision-making powers to distant, for-profit insurers. (bridgemi.com)
  • critical to success than the "soil" of the developments in health health system. (who.int)
  • Thus, in 1987 it was created the Unified and Decentralized Health Systems (SUDS), which a year later became the Unified Health System (SUS). (bvsalud.org)
  • In 6 months, the project demonstrated that targeted enhancements resulted in substantial improvements to the ability of Uganda's public health system to detect and respond to health threats. (cdc.gov)
  • With regard to its South Asian neighbours, the significance of the Maldivian case is that the conjuncture of religion and nationalism is hardly challenged, but rather evoked, played out and reinforced in the political realm. (lu.se)
  • Ready to Run also offers training for women to become party officials themselves. (bostonreview.net)