• The transparency and accountability of funding sources have become crucial factors in ensuring fair elections and maintaining public trust in political parties. (fsmm2008.org)
  • The FDP, a party with an economic (neo)liberal program that is both pro-European and culturally liberal, has collapsed into virtual irrelevance both at the federal level and, since the 2013 election, at the state level wherever elections have been held. (newpol.org)
  • This phenomenon was repeated in the state-level parliamentary elections in 2014: between 15,000 and 20,000 voters who had previously supported the Left Party switched to the AfD. (newpol.org)
  • First, we do not believe that workers and oppressed people primarily move to the left through parties and elections that provide them a program from above. (newpol.org)
  • The Labour party comeback at last week's local elections raised the possibility that the current leaders of the coalition may actually be standing on shaky ground. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Commissioners at the New York State Board of Elections decided last week that the board will no longer enforce the state's $150,000 aggregate contribution limit. (brennancenter.org)
  • With less than two months until Election Day, it's that time when political parties dispense with any notion of telling the truth, in favor of an all-consuming quest to win elections. (leoweekly.com)
  • This Socialists and Electoral Politics reading list includes key contributions on contemporary politics, socialists and elections, the recent rise of the far-right, working-class history, and struggles against oppression. (versobooks.com)
  • Since 2016, political parties have benefited from $145 million in tax credits to their donors. (cbc.ca)
  • In this collection of new and previously published essays, activists and scholars from across the socialist left seek to grapple with politics in the wake of the election of Donald Trump and the surprising popularity of Bernie Sanders's primary campaign in 2016, as well as the failure of center-left parties across the world to halt the ascent of right-wing populism. (versobooks.com)
  • The meeting, held by the Party Committee , honoured the press agencies and their reporters and editors, as well as sectors and Hanoi for their performance in the communications work in the 2020-2023 period. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • Pandemic or no pandemic, political parties receive taxpayer subsidies worth tens of millions of dollars every year - a sum that will rise in 2020 when the four national parties receive the emergency wage subsidy to make up for a shortfall in donations. (cbc.ca)
  • Her dissertation The right to Soundscape the World from 2020 gave a contribution to the understanding of the relationships between music technology and girls and transgender persons in music-making from a gender equality perspective. (lu.se)
  • Scholars acknowledge the existence of intra-party divisions and the potentially negative electoral effects of disunity. (lu.se)
  • Some assume that intra-party divides are between professional politicians and grassroots members, others highlight the importance of ideological blocs. (lu.se)
  • Yet, precisely mapping factional structures, especially ideological factions, is difficult because of the "black box of intra-party politics. (lu.se)
  • At the time of his appointment, chairman of the Political Parties Financing Surveillance Committee (ERJK), Ardo Ojasalu was a member of the Social Democratic Party. (err.ee)
  • The Social Democratic Party (SDE), who appointed Ojasalu and let him remain on the committee after he left the party in September 2017, can recall and replace him. (err.ee)
  • Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDE), Jevgeni Ossinovski said that he had no idea that Ojasalu's salary has been backed by the Free Party. (err.ee)
  • Ojasalu can either step down himself, or then it is up to the Social Democratic Party to recall him. (err.ee)
  • The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) and Freedom Front Plus also say Batohi is the right person to turn the NPA around. (sabcnews.com)
  • The Democratic Party holds sizable advantages over the Republican Party on a number of major issues, ranging from the environment to foreign policy, as well as immigration and health care. (pewresearch.org)
  • But the GOP now enjoys a 9-percentage-point advantage over the Democratic Party on the economy (45% to 36%) - a significant shift from October, when neither party held an edge on economic issues. (pewresearch.org)
  • Though the public is currently split on which party could better handle tax policy, this is also a shift from October, when the Democratic Party was preferred by a 7-point margin. (pewresearch.org)
  • Overall, the public favors the Democratic Party over the GOP on seven other major issues. (pewresearch.org)
  • Four years ago, 47% of the public said the Republican Party could better handle the economy, while 39% said the Democratic Party could better handle this issue. (pewresearch.org)
  • Since 2014, the Democratic Party has held a significant advantage over the GOP on health care issues. (pewresearch.org)
  • By early 2017, however, the Democratic Party opened up an 11-point advantage over the GOP. (pewresearch.org)
  • By contrast, the Republican Party is viewed by a larger share of the public as better able to deal with terrorist threats at home (43% say this, while 32% say the Democratic Party). (pewresearch.org)
  • As has been the case since 2017, views of which party could better handle trade agreements are split: 41% say the Republican Party, 40% the Democratic Party. (pewresearch.org)
  • And the preference for the Democratic Party on the environment is even wider: By a 32-point margin (57% to 25%), the public prefers the Democrats on environmental issues. (pewresearch.org)
  • The Democratic Party now holds a narrow edge on gun policy: 44% say the Democratic Party could do a better job reflecting their views on this issue, compared with 38% who say the Republican Party could do a better job. (pewresearch.org)
  • What's the Green Party, which has been railing against the Democratic Party for years, to do in the year of Bernie Sanders? (cnn.com)
  • Sanders has made changing the Democratic Party a key pitch to his voters. (cnn.com)
  • Stein said the Democratic Party, along with the Republican Party, represented corporate interests and has not allowed progressives to take charge. (cnn.com)
  • The story she told of the Democratic Party was one of a party that had used its "kill switch," in the form of packed primary days, like Super Tuesday, and super delegates, to take down "very good and principled campaigns" over the decades. (cnn.com)
  • These progressive campaigns "are invariably sabotaged by the (Democratic) party," she said. (cnn.com)
  • I think the Democratic Party is going to cut them off at the path, and then maybe it will fall to our campaign to be the Plan B for Bernie's supporters," Stein said. (cnn.com)
  • These mass militant protests, which have swept through big cities and small towns in every corner of the country and stirred similar actions throughout the world, have won more victories in a short space of time than years of electoral campaigns for politicians inside the Democratic Party. (newpol.org)
  • Written before the uprising, it defends the "Dirty Break" strategy-preparing for an independent worker's party primarily by running socialist candidates inside Democratic Party. (newpol.org)
  • We share French and Gong's rejection of the realignment strategy to transform the Democratic Party into a new workers party. (newpol.org)
  • The Democratic Party is entirely controlled by its corporate donors, party bureaucracy, and elected officials -not its unorganized members. (newpol.org)
  • Tech elites love the Democratic Party in the same way they love the health care, transportation, and education industries - as a hodgepodge of aging leaders ripe for disruption. (vox.com)
  • Josh Pacewicz, assistant professor of sociology and urban studies at Brown University, has long researched electoral politics in the Rust Belt and studied how changes to the community institutions in which American politics is rooted created opportunities for campaigns like Trump's. (brown.edu)
  • What lessons can we draw from historical attempts by socialist and working-class parties around the world to win electoral power, and what is specific about the history of socialists and electoral politics in the US? (versobooks.com)
  • Socialist Strategy and Electoral Politics is a FREE ebook, a joint project of Jacobin , Haymarket Books, and Verso. (versobooks.com)
  • At the same time, we are witnessing the almost unchecked rise of a national-conservative, Euro-sceptical and value-conservative party with ultra-right-wing tendencies: the AfD. (newpol.org)
  • This means that whilst political journalists covering the Blair-Brown feuding, or the attempts to unseat Brown, talk of failed coups, Quinn focuses in on the institutional obstacles that made removing Blair and Brown from the Labour Party leadership, considerably harder than removing Margaret Thatcher from the Conservative Party leadership. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Whilst also noting the shifts to confidence motions for the eviction of Conservative Party leaders since 1998, alongside the attempts to remove Brown in the period between 2008 and 2010, Quinn identifies the importance of the eviction rules: that which serves the interests of under pressure leaders need not necessarily serve the interests of their parties if they prevent those parties from tackling leadership weaknesses head on. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Although negotiations were well underway with Republicans regarding public funding, the discussions were derailed following a warning from the Conservative Party. (brennancenter.org)
  • Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long told Skelos that his party would not endorse Senate Republican candidates if they vote for public financing reform. (brennancenter.org)
  • His research and teaching interests encompass British political ideas, British public policy, Conservative Party politics and political biography. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • The standing board of the Party Committee also asked the press agencies to intensify the dissemination about the implementation of the Party's guidelines and the State's policies and laws, and resolutions and conclusions adopted by the Party Central Committee and the Party Committee, along with major festivals and political events, the protection of the Party's ideological foundation and the fight against wrong and hostile views. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • At a press conference announcing his bid for the Reform Party's nomination, Buchanan cited ideological reasons for leaving the Republican Party he had so long supported. (publicintegrity.org)
  • In fact, Buchanan's move to the Reform Party was much more tactical than ideological. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Voters who switched from the Left Party to the AfD mostly consist of two groups: those who want to "protest" at the polls by voting for the new "protest party," and ideological conservatives who feel that their views are best articulated by the populist right. (newpol.org)
  • Based on theories of party change and spatial competition, we argue for the existence of two distinct ideological factional dimensions that may differ from hierarchical factions. (lu.se)
  • Deniz Baykal, former head of the main opposition Republican People's Party ( CHP ), has urged his party not to fall into the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) "trap" over the new charter. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • An election in South Florida this week may serve as a marker for where the Republican Party stands in 2022. (ontheissues.org)
  • This week's episode shows the Republican Party could be drifting toward a new norm of refusing to concede--even in landslides. (ontheissues.org)
  • The share of the public who says the Republican Party would be better at reflecting its views about gun policy has declined 8 points since April 2017. (pewresearch.org)
  • I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are really a front group for the 1%, for predatory banks, fossil fuel giants and war profiteers," Stein said. (cnn.com)
  • Meanwhile, Johnson, a former two-term GOP governor of New Mexico who failed to win the 2012 Republican presidential nod, has been nominated by the Libertarian Party - a perch from which he could throw a wrench in the plans of both Obama and Romney in several swing states. (publicintegrity.org)
  • In politics, he chaired the Minnesota Republican Party for two years in the late 1990s and took on Democrats and even some GOP moderates. (startribune.com)
  • As one of Minnesota's biggest donors to Republican candidates and causes, Cooper upon becoming state party chairman in 1997 boldly predicted that it would retake the state House majority in the next year's election. (startribune.com)
  • There's no better example than what the Republican Party of Kentucky is trying to get away with in Northern Kentucky's 4th Congressional District, where it hopes against hope that freshman U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis (R) can hold off a challenge from former Rep. Ken Lucas (D). (leoweekly.com)
  • If the Republican Party truly wanted to do something about illegal immigration, a good place to start would be to aggressively target American businesses that hire illegal workers. (leoweekly.com)
  • Unsurprisingly, however, those very business interests, which fund the modern-day Republican Party, are the ones that want the immigration bill and a guest worker program. (leoweekly.com)
  • The CEO of Fischer Homes is top Republican Party donor Henry Fischer. (leoweekly.com)
  • First, with the Left Party, a nationwide party considerably to the left of the Social Democrats (SPD) has established itself. (newpol.org)
  • First, whereas more recent publications such as my own and that of Andrew Denham and Kieron O'Hara (2008) have been party specific and chronologically structured, Quinn offers more scope for party comparisons by incorporating the Liberal Democrats. (lse.ac.uk)
  • While Republicans received by far the largest share of his contributions, he occasionally gave money to Democrats - including Sen. Amy Klobuchar. (startribune.com)
  • Specifically, it examines how and why the policies of the 'mainstream' parties (Conservative, Labour and the Liberal Democrats) have been affected by ideas and ideologies, on the one hand, and political pragmatism, on the other. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • Good luck finding any of Fischer's contributions to prominent Democrats. (leoweekly.com)
  • Praying for peace to the departed soul, the NC leaders said Ifshan's exemplary contributions to the state's Tourism industry would be remembered for ages to come. (greaterkashmir.com)
  • Under the state's aggregate limit, a single individual could not contribute more than $150,000 combined per calendar year to all political campaigns, parties, and independent committees in New York. (brennancenter.org)
  • Though Ojasalu was quick to say that he "sees no conflict of interest" in the arrangement, the Centre, Reform, and Social Democratic parties all demanded an explanation. (err.ee)
  • If there was some issue where I feel there is a conflict of interest, for example something connected with the Free Party or my own person, then of course I would recuse myself," he said. (err.ee)
  • Factors including a long-brewing conflict between establishment Republicans and party activists and voters' loosening attachment to both political parties have contributed greatly, Pacewicz has found. (brown.edu)
  • The party system in the Federal Republic is thus in motion as it has not been since the early 1950s, a fact that points to fundamental changes in the societal lines of conflict in the country. (newpol.org)
  • The Business of Peace: Understanding Corporate Contributions to Conflict Management " 2021. (luc.edu)
  • China will not provide weapons to relevant parties of the conflict, and manage and control the exports of dual-use items in accordance with laws and regulations. (princegeorgecitizen.com)
  • Finally, we support their argument that DSA is the primary vehicle to advance that project, and their call for DSA to spearhead discussions among socialists and workers organization about forming a new workers party. (newpol.org)
  • Programs that were created to avoid the bankruptcy of businesses and individuals serve today to finance the two richest parties in Canada,' he said. (cbc.ca)
  • Super PACs are allowed to collect unlimited contributions from individuals, unions and corporations to produce political advertisements that are not coordinated with any candidate. (publicintegrity.org)
  • By providing platforms through which individuals can articulate their ideologies and interests, parties foster dialogue and negotiation among various societal factions. (fsmm2008.org)
  • Module Codes: M13115 (20 credits) Suitable for study at: undergraduate Level Dr Andrew Denham, School of Politics and International Relations Dr Denham holds a 1st Class degree in Applied Social Sciences, an MA in Political Thought and a PhD in Politics from the University of Southampton, where he was supervised by Professor Raymond (now Lord) Plant. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • Not only did various Communist parties group together in the United Left Front (ULF), but they also cooperated with parties such as Nepali Congress (NC). (wikipedia.org)
  • Comrade Hill's pamphlet, Class Struggle in the Communist Parties is, from first to last, an appeal to blind faith. (marxists.org)
  • Certainly, the extensive repetition of general truths about the existence of class struggle in the communist parties has this reassuring effect and is presumably intended to do so, although it tells us precisely nothing about the particular class struggle in the particular communist party. (marxists.org)
  • But was it possible that someone who was secretary-general of one of the largest and most effective European communist parties could have somehow found the time and energy to write a believable novel peopled by real human beings? (workers.org)
  • Conservative leadership candidates Erin O'Toole (left) and Peter MacKay (right) have both voiced their opposition to their party applying for the emergency wage subsidy program. (cbc.ca)
  • These reimbursements are worth 50 per cent of eligible expenses for national parties that receive at least two per cent of the vote, and 60 per cent for individual candidates who obtain at least 10 per cent of the vote in their constituency. (cbc.ca)
  • The reimbursement to parties for the 2015 federal election (the last for which data is available) totalled $60.7 million, while another $42.7 million was paid out to individual candidates. (cbc.ca)
  • Third-party candidates like Goode have no chance of winning the White House, but one only need look to the 2000 presidential election to be reminded of their potential impact. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Against this perspective, we argue that a new working-class party will be built primarily through mass struggles like the current uprising and the strikes and workplace demonstrations that took place amidst the pandemic, and through running candidates locally on independent ballot lines as a complement to, not substitute for, these struggles from below. (newpol.org)
  • We too think that we need to build a new party, a mass workers party, whose purpose is to lead struggle, run candidates on its own ballot line, politically educate worker activists, and fight for socialism. (newpol.org)
  • In addition to his assessment on the increasing security of tenure of party leaders, Quinn also argues that the processes of democratisation that have occurred have not made a significant difference to the types of candidates that have been selected. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Together with Deborah Cameron, he co-edits the Routledge series The Politics of Language . (lu.se)
  • In 1989, two groups, the Nepali Congress, a pro-communist group and the largest illegal political party in the country, and the United Left Front, a coalition of communist and leftist parties, joined to launch a campaign to achieve a multiparty democracy in Nepal. (wikipedia.org)
  • His research interests are history of leftist movements and comparative party politics. (boell.org)
  • Green Parties in Europe includes individual case studies and a comparative perspective to bring together international specialists engaged in the study of green parties. (routledge.com)
  • Rich case studies and broad comparative analyses trace and explain the evolution and practices of Europe's Green parties as members of a common political family shaped by distinctive national contexts. (routledge.com)
  • These findings have important theoretical, conceptual, and methodological implications for comparative politics. (lu.se)
  • Forskningsgruppen Komporativ politik (Comparative Politics Research Group) täcker alla större forskningsområden inom området, inklusive institutioner, demokrati och politisk utveckling, partier och röstbeteende, politisk ekonomi, politisk psykologi, allmän opinion och allmän politik. (lu.se)
  • Comparative Politics Lunch Seminar: Esther Calvo, Lund University - Emotional Swings? (lu.se)
  • For my research, I interviewed Iowans in two cities during the 2008 and 2012 election cycles with a particular interest in people's intuitions about politics and how those who represent them should act. (brown.edu)
  • R.K. Carty, The University of British Columbia, Canada 'Party research from the 1980s on has shown clearly that the greens are truly a new party family. (routledge.com)
  • Subsequent research zoomed in on particular cases and on particular aspects of the green parties, providing sharp but partial pictures of some of the family members. (routledge.com)
  • This book is the culmination of a wider research project on party leadership selection and ejection that has been evident in academic journals. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Ekklesia is pleased to work with independent researchers and academics, educational institutions, NGOs and other partners in making high-quality research and comment available as part of an expanding public conversation about beliefs, values, ethics, politics and public life. (ekklesia.co.uk)
  • In 2007, he received the PSA's Richard Rose Prize for his distinctive contribution to research in British Politics. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • On the politics of empirical audience research. (lu.se)
  • This paper is the first study that draws on a range of primary sources not consulted before to research the political and social contributions of the triumvirate during the period of 1937-1953. (lu.se)
  • It has addressed the underlying factors of this change through military modernization, Party-military dynamics, regime politics, the regime's process of taking decisions, and the complexity of the Chinese economic growth. (idsa.in)
  • Separately, each chapter of this book has tried to offer a pragmatist assessment and granular insight into the particular issues they address in Chinese politics of State transformation, and identify numerous specific evolving dynamics worthy of policy relevance. (idsa.in)
  • The liberal intellectuals' narrative and how they construed the central sociopolitical dynamics illuminate why they endorsed the Islamic governmental party AKP. (lu.se)
  • Secretary of the Party Committee of the Central Agencies' Bloc Nguyen Van The commended press agencies, sectors and Hanoi for their contributions to national achievements over the past time, while addressing a meeting in the capital city on June 8. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • President Vo Van Thuong appreciated outgoing Spanish Ambassador to Vietnam Pilar Méndez Jiménez's contributions to Vietnam-Spain strategic partnership during her tenure in Vietnam at a reception in Hanoi on December 11. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • For Jill Stein, 2012 Green Party presidential nominee and current candidate, the answer seems to be keep on going. (cnn.com)
  • Constitution Party presidential nominee Virgil Goode at a SPCA fundraiser. (publicintegrity.org)
  • The conservative Constitution Party, which seeks to "restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations," has nominated Goode, a former congressman from Virginia, for president, potentially taking votes away from Romney in what has become a presidential swing state. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Yet with the exception of John Edwards, none of the leading presidential contenders in either party has made this a serious campaign issue. (motherjones.com)
  • Pat Buchanan's switch to the Reform Party on Oct. 25, 1999, was a dramatic change in the fiery commentators political life. (publicintegrity.org)
  • The aim of this module is to explain and assess the nature and role of ideas and ideologies in British politics. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • It also explores the ideas and ideologies of minor parties and 'new social movements' and their role and significance for the study and practice of politics in Britain today. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • A source involved in the negotiations is out with the key details of the coalition agreement after the German party leaders reached a breakthrough in coalition talks. (fxstreet.com)
  • In the wake of this year's election, Pacewicz shared his insights on how the economic decline of Rust Belt cities transformed grassroots political parties and the way that voters think about politics - topics he explored in depth in " Partisans and Partners: The Politics of the Post-Keynesian Society ," published in October. (brown.edu)
  • In North Carolina, following Barack Obama's successful 2008 campaign, Republicans slashed early voting from 17 to 10 days and curbed or eliminated Sunday voting due to popularity of "souls to the polls" campaigns that encouraged black voters to turn out en masse after church. (ontheissues.org)
  • In the federal election of 2013, this party was able to attract two million voters from all other parties, including more than 340,000 Left Party voters. (newpol.org)
  • According to your investment theory of party competition, it's not voters that influence policy results. (inthesetimes.com)
  • But my approach to politics is that the costs facing ordinary voters when they try to control the parties is very high. (inthesetimes.com)
  • There's just been a study by Martin Gilens , a politics professor at Princeton University, that shows that upper-income public opinion predicts policy outcomes pretty well, but there's absolutely no impact for middle-class and lower-class voters' public opinion. (inthesetimes.com)
  • Notwithstanding high levels of electoral stability in Northern Ireland, our findings show that party supporters vary greatly in their levels of political sophistication, perhaps allowing elites greater freedom of action than if all voters were highly politically informed. (bris.ac.uk)
  • The most significant is the tax credit donors receive for their contributions - 75 per cent of the first $400, 50 per cent for the next tranche up to $750, and 33.5 per cent for the remainder, up to $1,625. (cbc.ca)
  • The state also has a role in encouraging personal decisions that help maximize contributions to society. (vox.com)
  • In order to make people obedient and compliant, addressing them in their languages and thus displaying inclusiveness through a certain politics of recognition, was considered to maximize the immigrant population's trust. (lu.se)
  • However, as the book Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders in Britain argues, parties have moved to make it harder to evict their leaders. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Those interested in understanding how secure they are from the threat of eviction, would be well advised to read Thomas Quinn's recently published book Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders in Britain . (lse.ac.uk)
  • This paper investigates what people in Northern Ireland think that parties stand for in their home jurisdiction, in Great Britain and in the Republic of Ireland, using open-ended questions in a survey of 1,008 Northern Ireland residents. (bris.ac.uk)
  • Today we see that it's apparently also possible to put the committee to work for one's own goals," Mõlder commented Ojasalu's newly public connection to the Free Party. (err.ee)
  • This report shows how to ensure a fair funding system which provides parties with the funds they require while assuring the public the system is irreproachable. (ippr.org)
  • This report argues that ethnic minority political hopefuls are losing out and shows how ethnic representation in politics has to be at the heart of the debate about civic renewal and public engagemen. (ippr.org)
  • Political parties in Parliament have welcomed the appointment of Advocate Shamila Batohi as the new National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP). (sabcnews.com)
  • But that isn't even the only source of public funding for parties. (cbc.ca)
  • Public distrust increases when money becomes a driving force behind politics. (fsmm2008.org)
  • By revealing financial contributions, preventing corruption, and promoting a level playing field, political parties can regain public trust. (fsmm2008.org)
  • A roundup with the latest news highlighting the corrosive nature of money in New York State politics - and the need for public financing and robust campaign finance reform. (brennancenter.org)
  • The governor is facing pressure from the progressive Working Families Party, which might not endorse him on the party's ballot line if he doesn't achieve public financing reform. (brennancenter.org)
  • The tobacco industry has built and strengthened networks of third party allies, including the Tobacco Wholesalers Association, North Dakota Grocers Association, ND Petroleum Marketers Association, North Dakota Retail Association, and the Greater North Dakota Association to fight the public battles against tobacco control policy allowing the tobacco industry to remain behind the scenes. (who.int)
  • Recent trends in portrayals and their contributions to public attitudes toward science. (lu.se)
  • I conclude that the public sphere can be construed as a central site as well as object of the politics of human rights. (lu.se)
  • The board's announcement came after recent court rulings concerning aggregate contribution limits. (brennancenter.org)
  • In early April, the U.S. Supreme Court declared federal aggregate contribution limits unconstitutional in McCutcheon v. FEC . (brennancenter.org)
  • We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture marked by dignity and respect for each other as well as recognition of individual contributions and privacy of all. (who.int)
  • Assistant professor of sociology at Brown finds that as local political leaders try to leave partisan politics behind, grassroots activists drive local parties to more extreme positions. (brown.edu)
  • Nepal had underwent a civil uprising in 1950-51 of a parliamentary democracy under a constitutional rather an absolute monarchy, however the consitutional period soon ended following a 1960 coup led by King Mahendra that led to the banning of political parties, and executive power over the cabinet and parliament being effectively placed in the power of the monarch. (wikipedia.org)
  • Parties want to transform ESM bailout mechanism into European monetary fund under parliamentary control. (fxstreet.com)
  • Noting that increasing membership participation might be expected to lead to the election of more radical leaders, Quinn actually explains how party members basically operate to the same criteria that informed selections made by parliamentary elites. (lse.ac.uk)
  • In this context Quinn argues that members are just as concerned with the overarching party goals of internal unity and external appeal as parliamentary elites. (lse.ac.uk)
  • That means that the Left Party has lost a measure of its effectiveness as a protest party to a right-wing populist competitor, which even boasts that the Left Party holds similarly Euro-sceptical positions to its own. (newpol.org)
  • But the analyses presented in this book reflect upon three broad, related themes in contemporary Chinese politics: political transition, nation building through military transformation and evolution of China as a State . (idsa.in)
  • In a statement, NC spokesperson said on the instructions of party president Dr Farooq Abdullah, a delegation of the party comprising provincial secretary advocate Showkat Ahmed Mir, state spokesperson Junaid Azim Mattu and YNC provincial president Salman Ali Sagar visited the residence of Dr. Ifshan at Gulshan Nagar, Nowgam on Wednesday and expressed solidarity with his family on his demise. (greaterkashmir.com)
  • First, the Pirate Party achieved success at the state level in 2011 and 2012, although it may now be headed for oblivion. (newpol.org)
  • From 2003 to 2008, Cormann was the state senior vice-president of the Liberal Party in Western Australia, and ran for a Senate seat in 2007. (ames.net.au)
  • Tobacco Free North Dakota was in existence throughout the 1990's but became progressively less effective in promoting state level tobacco control policy due to increased tobacco industry involvement in state level politics. (who.int)
  • The mobilization of health advocates for tobacco control led to an increase in tobacco industry involvement in state politics and subsequent decrease in state level tobacco control policy. (who.int)
  • Wisely, tobacco control leadership at the State Health Department including Dr. McDonough and Jeanne Prom, State Health Department Tobacco Prevention and Control Administrator(1992-2001), shifted the focus to local level politics where the force of the tobacco industry was less powerful. (who.int)
  • The central argument of the book is that the traditional economy of these cities reinforced people's identification with haves versus have-nots, whereas contemporary realities increasingly lead people to understand politics as a contest between partisans and partners. (brown.edu)
  • This volume stands as a major contribution to the study of Green parties and their place in contemporary European democratic politics. (routledge.com)
  • For much of the Obama administration, neither party held a significant advantage in dealing with immigration issues. (pewresearch.org)
  • Cooper continued to donate money to politicians after leaving party service. (startribune.com)
  • Parties are prepared to boost German contribution to EU budget. (fxstreet.com)
  • Stein's third party bid for the presidency is centered on student debt, climate change and opposition to the economic and political establishment - also focal points for the Sanders campaign, a similarity Stein readily acknowledged. (cnn.com)
  • Stein had many positive words for the Sanders campaign but said he was constrained by a political party with a history of coopting progressive campaigns. (cnn.com)
  • Campaign Contributions from Credit Card Companies? (motherjones.com)
  • The leaders of the most prominent parties are typically upper class citizens who are rarely concerned or associate with the larger section of the Nepal population, in which the typical voter had a high probability of being illiterate and high ethnic attachment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ojasalu in particular has been one of the key figures in substantial penalties imposed on the Centre Party in the course of the investigation and trial of the party's former long-time chairman, Edgar Savisaar. (err.ee)
  • The Reform Party's secretary-general, Kert Valdaru, told ERR on Friday that they expect Ojasalu to explain himself, but at the same time stressed that in his work Ojasalu had been reasonably fair to all of Estonia's parties. (err.ee)
  • He added that he always taken into account that the Free Party could cut him off at any time, but that he sees this as an internal matter of the party. (err.ee)
  • The current 9-point GOP edge on dealing with the economy is the first time a party has held a clear advantage on this issue since July 2014. (pewresearch.org)
  • At the same time, the Liberal Party, the FDP, appears to be making its final bow on the political stage, although that is not yet certain. (newpol.org)
  • One can only assume that during the more than 15 years that Cunhal spent isolated in prisons - including from 1949 until the famous Peniche maximum security prison break that liberated 10 top-level political prisoners in 1960 - during that time when he was unable to do what party leaders do every day, Cunhal/Tiago planned out his novels, or so I imagine. (workers.org)
  • I believe these lessons are important for anyone active in the movement today, at a time when the ruling class has succeeded in demonizing even the idea of a disciplined workers' political party. (workers.org)
  • About half of the money MTÜ Korruptsiooniradar receives from the Free Party is spent on his salary, Ojasalu said. (err.ee)
  • Professor Ferguson, you've been researching the influence of money on U.S. politics for years. (inthesetimes.com)
  • Although the path of tobacco industry money in North Dakota is difficult to trace due to poor reporting requirements, piecing together reported political contributions, tobacco industry budgets, and media reports provides evidence that tobacco industry funds have influenced the political process in North Dakota. (who.int)
  • Contributions to the fund are voluntary, where countries can choose to contribute money. (lu.se)
  • The expressed his hope that the agencies will maintain their role as information channels disseminating directives and resolutions of the Party in general and the Party Committee in particular, and reflecting aspirations and opinions of officials and Party members, thus contributing to consolidating confidence and consensus in the entire Party and the whole society. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • We test our expectations by triangulating evidence from three unique datasets from Sweden: a survey of party members, a media content analysis, and interviews with politicians. (lu.se)
  • A committee made up of party representatives that keep an eye on their competitors can under no circumstances be completely fair. (err.ee)
  • Major contributions to jazz writing were made by veterans of this era. (canadiandimension.com)
  • Since we have an open and decentralized party system, it's a match made in heaven. (inthesetimes.com)
  • An analysis of fundraising in March and how it compared to previous years suggests the Liberals, Conservatives and NDP might have missed out on as much as $2 million in contributions in that month alone . (cbc.ca)
  • One might say that a new party first established itself to the left of the SPD, and now the same process is occurring to the right of the conservatives. (newpol.org)
  • There's an independent senator - a democratic socialist, no less - with climate change on the brain making a real play for the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton, who exudes establishment politics. (cnn.com)
  • That cannot be done inside of the corporate, establishment political parties. (cnn.com)
  • Now it turns out that an anti-corruption nonprofit organisation run by Ojasalu receives €5,000 a month from the Free Party-and that half of this sum is allocated to Ojasalu's monthly salary. (err.ee)
  • The house was ideal venue for secret activities of the party organisation back then thanks to its unique structure with a small alley leading to another street. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • Quinn writes from an academic background, and has an established record of publishing on party organisation, although his audience in this case should be broader than solely the academic. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Though little different from the Democratic Party's advantage on this issue last year, this is among the widest advantages the party has held at any point over the past eight years. (pewresearch.org)
  • With an evidently keen eye for politics, he moved into federal politics by working for two years as a senior adviser to then Minister for Justice and Customs Chris Ellison. (ames.net.au)
  • She has had numerous roles as a member for the Australian Labor Party over the years, with Gillard, Rudd and now Shorten. (ames.net.au)
  • After more than 30 years on the political scene, green parties have proven to be more than just a temporary phenomenon. (routledge.com)
  • The eighth vote cited was a party-line vote on whether to extend an immigration pilot program from six years to 11 years - hardly backing the assertion that "Lucas opposed measures that would strengthen enforcement of our immigration laws. (leoweekly.com)
  • Unless someone has spent decades engaged in this kind of project, it is hard to understand what a sublime task those who build a communist party have to perform: Start out with human beings, with all their strengths and weaknesses, fears and courage, foibles and talents, and wind up with an effective implement to struggle against an oppressive ruling class that has centuries of experience dominating society. (workers.org)
  • A really annoying petty bourgeois, a lawyer, who despite his weaknesses and fears makes important material contributions. (workers.org)
  • The primary strength of his contribution to the party leadership selection literature is as follows. (lse.ac.uk)