• Tunisians no longer believe that parties can provide solutions for the country's problems and are again turning to the streets to seek redress of their grievances. (wilsoncenter.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)
  • In this, they are encouraged by Iraq's neighbors, as well as the United States, all of whom worry about what might happen if, at this sensitive stage in the country's development, one party is left out and turns again to insurgency, setting off a new round of civil war with unpredictable consequences for the region. (nybooks.com)
  • Riyadh has always wielded greater influence in Yemen than other countries, yet while it remains a big aid donor, the chaos following the country's 2011 uprising has left it with many potential foes there and few trusted friends. (yahoo.com)
  • An unknowable but significant number moved onward to other EU countries, but increased identification measures and reinforced border controls by Italy's northern neighbors over the past two years mean that many remain in Italy, either as undocumented migrants or as asylum seekers in the country's burgeoning but still overwhelmed reception system. (hrw.org)
  • His 2000 election victory as leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) ended almost two decades of Jerry John Rawlings' rule and was hailed by various commentators as pivotal to the country's transition to democracy and as such was seen as a historic moment for the African nation. (jrank.org)
  • Ghanaian politics coalesce around two political traditions deriving from the country's pre-independence period, the Nkrumah and the Danquah-Busia traditions. (jrank.org)
  • Kwame Nkrumah (1919-1972)-later to become the first leader of an independent Ghana-was general secretary of Joseph Boakye Danquah's United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), but in 1949 he broke away to establish the country's first mass political organization, the Convention People's Party (CPP). (jrank.org)
  • It is not even certain that the two old machine parties, with their tentacles in the country's all-important petroleum industry and deep links to the military, would have allowed Obi to take office had he managed to win the most votes. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Meanwhile, the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) has vowed to adopt the Bio-Circular-Green (BCG) economy model and the environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles as drivers of the country's competitiveness. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Speaking at a forum attended by business and political representatives at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Mr Sontirat stressed the party would work to sharpen and sustain the country's competitiveness by means of applying the BCG model and the ESG principles. (bangkokpost.com)
  • During 2013-2014 she conducted a study of 192 Cambodians including civil servants, political activists, factory workers and farmers, to investigate their perceptions of donations from political parties, a practice which has marked the country's democratic era. (lu.se)
  • As a direct consequence of the accident, the Italian government decided to begin to shut down the country's nuclear power plants in 1988. (lu.se)
  • The BJP has often used its double-engine government - the party's governments both at the Centre and the state - pitch ahead of state elections. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Aoun said the party's priority for the incoming government is "stopping the financial collapse" through a bailout agreement with the IMF, forensic audit, and other reforms. (aljazeera.com)
  • Members favoring cooperation constituted a majority of the PUP's Central Party Council and the party's representatives in the legislature. (countrystudies.us)
  • Second, the party's split in 1956 saw the departure of the PUP's other top leaders, enabling Price to begin building a political machine in which local leaders were personally loyal to him. (countrystudies.us)
  • Turning to politics, Mr Sontirat said PPRP leader Prawit Wongsuwon was best suited to lead the country out of longstanding political and social divisions, which is the party's campaign motto. (bangkokpost.com)
  • I find that strategic considerations related to how the political system concentrates power in the United Kingdom affected the Labour Party's attitude towards the value-added tax and its decision not to adopt the tax. (lu.se)
  • I took part in the Centre Party's local government days, meeting members from up and down the country and supporting the newly elected leader Muharrem Demirok, then I travelled to my family and was completely off that weekend. (lu.se)
  • It is not out of place to say that the IPP (king's party) will be the 'new PTI minus Imran Khan' in the next general elections likely to be held in October 2023," former PTI leader Firdous Ashiq Awan told the Press Trust of India on Thursday. (telegraphindia.com)
  • Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Norway and Denmark are just some of the countries that rely on the proportional representation system for elections. (dawn.com)
  • The 2011 uprising marked the beginning of multiparty competition in Tunisia-the country had a de jure multiparty system since 1987, but the government party, the Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique (RCD) dominated all elections, banning potential competitors like the Islamist Ennahda Party. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • However, after the 2019 elections, the assembly elected as speaker Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Ennahda and one of the major political figures in the country, creating a third center of power, causing more tensions. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • They were essential to elections for the constituent assembly and in the formation of the troika, the three-party alliance that governed the country until 2013. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Six Russian panellists give their views on how their country has changed under President Vladimir Putin, ahead of parliamentary elections in December. (bbc.co.uk)
  • 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)
  • These realities make applying solutions from other countries not only difficult, but also unlikely without a wholesale restructuring of how elections are run. (bostonreview.net)
  • Was the current head of government or other chief national authority elected through free and fair elections? (freedomhouse.org)
  • 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)
  • The primary goal of the US lobby in Australia is to insulate the alliance from changes of government after elections and leadership movements within the major political parties. (theage.com.au)
  • In a setback to Pakistan's beleaguered former prime minister Imran Khan, scores of disgruntled leaders on Thursday launched a new political party - believed to be backed by the powerful military - to fight the general elections likely to be held in October. (telegraphindia.com)
  • In the next elections, it is said the king's party will emerge strong and have a share of power. (telegraphindia.com)
  • For now, such fearful fantasies shape and distort both politics and policies, as the leading Iraqi political parties seek to fashion a coalition government out of the contested results of last March's parliamentary elections. (nybooks.com)
  • More than four months since the elections, a new government has yet to take shape. (nybooks.com)
  • The two earliest landmarks in political party history was most likely that of the first free and fair Nepal elections which were held in 1991 and that of all Nepalese citizens of 18 years and older becoming eligible to vote in the elections. (nepal.com)
  • On the other hand, another political party founded just less than forty years ago, and, that too, under the umbrella of a military dictator, embarks upon mega projects including installation of industries, every time it wins elections. (com.pk)
  • The entry of third political party as another major game-changer in politics of Pakistan after General Elections of 2018, which has come into power with the slogan of "Insaaf aur tabdeeli," is now the subject-matter of attention and concern for people. (com.pk)
  • Current polls suggest that no single party is likely to achieve a clear victory in the elections on March 4 and it is anyone's guess what strange deals may be struck to form a government. (hrw.org)
  • For the first time, the democratic opposition came close to victory over the ruling party in the 2013 national elections. (lu.se)
  • The Cambodian government has also introduced new laws enabling the dissolution of political parties - a move which could result in the main opposition party being dissolved before the national elections in 2018. (lu.se)
  • The fieldwork, which was completed right before the elections on March 31st, revealed how far politics in general, and local politics in particular, to gender, just by looking at the commonalities across and divergences among female local politicians from AK Party, CHP, HDP and MHP/İyi Parti. (lu.se)
  • ParlGov contains data on elections and governments for all EU and most OECD members for the entire post-war period. (lu.se)
  • The database combines approximately 1400 parties, 680 elections with 5800 election results and 2300 governing parties in 960 cabinets. (lu.se)
  • Releases at regular intervals will provide up-to-date empirical information including recent elections or changes in government, coding suggestions from country experts as well as extensions to more countries and time periods. (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)
  • Regularly updated voter turnout figures for national presidential and parliamentary elections since 1945, as well as European Parliament elections, are presented country by country using both the number of registered voters and voting age population (VAP) as indicators. (lu.se)
  • Even Ennahda, once a well-organized party with a clear ideology, is facing a crisis of leadership and is torn between its president's drive to rebrand it as a "Muslim Democratic Party" and its deep Islamist roots. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • How far have the former two parties been able to accomplish the ideology of equality in more than three decades is a big question. (com.pk)
  • The centrist ideology of the PUP seems to reflect the personal outlook of George Price, who has consistently called the orientation of the party 'Christian Democratic,' endorsed 'wise capitalism,' and rejected both 'atheistic communism' and 'unbridled capitalism. (countrystudies.us)
  • Thus, this period is crucial for our understanding of the effects of political institutions and ideology on policy making. (lu.se)
  • Chesdata estimate party positioning on European integration, ideology and policy issues for national parties in a variety of European countries. (lu.se)
  • Election results includes the percent of vote and/or number of seats held by each party in the last election. (nationmaster.com)
  • Organizations with leaders involved in politics, but not standing for legislative election. (nationmaster.com)
  • As some members of parliament have since switched political camps, the number of seats for each party has fluctuated since the election, though the PSD has retained the largest number of seats. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Imagine a country where election boundaries are redrawn without proper consideration for demographic distribution or with biased intent. (fsmm2008.org)
  • Similarly, Allawi, a secular Shiite whose followers are mostly Sunni, cites the post-election spectacle of leading Shiite and Kurdish politicians flocking to Tehran, ostensibly to celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in late March as convincing proof that the Iranian regime is steering the course of Iraqi politics at their expense. (nybooks.com)
  • One of the major political parties, founded on the slogan "Roti Kapra Aur Makan" in the 1960s, jumps into every general election with the same rhetoric. (com.pk)
  • Italian politics are never boring, and election campaigns are always times of particularly strident debate. (hrw.org)
  • With its shambles of a national election last month, Nigeria has traversed what might have been a decisive crossroads for the country-only to land in a muddle as complete as the one the country has been staggering through for the last 20-plus years. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Africa's most populous country has a new president, at least provisionally, pending legal challenges to the election by Nigeria's two major opposition parties. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The PUP swept the 1954 election, the first one to be held after the introduction of full literate adult suffrage, easily defeating the National Party, a rival sponsored by the colonial government. (countrystudies.us)
  • His name was put forth by the party as one of its three prime ministerial candidates, alongside Chadchart Sittipunt and Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan, in the 2019 general election. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Together with the fact that the election of new parties to the Swedish parliament is exceptionally rare - the MP's election to parliament in 1988 was the first time since 1932 that a new party entered parliament, this makes the setting in the paper interesting also for Swedish political history. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • She was not going to take part in the 2026 election as party leader, but still had her sights set on a good election result and being able to work in government for a few years or in Parliament under a confidence and supply arrangement. (lu.se)
  • The opposition says the polls will not be fair, as the electoral system has been engineered to boost parties loyal to the president. (bbc.co.uk)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The large influx of people from oppressed nations into world capitalist centers has created social tensions manifested in electoral politics. (workers.org)
  • Through embracing transparency in political financing, societies can take important steps toward building fairer electoral systems. (fsmm2008.org)
  • In countries using majoritarian/plurality electoral systems the left relies more on income tax, and in countries using proportional representation systems the left relies more on consumption tax. (lu.se)
  • For instance, if the NA was just 200 seats, a party securing 25 percent of the national vote would get 50 seats in the parliament. (dawn.com)
  • The party makes a list of 200 candidates based on priority and the top 50 get sent to the parliament based on the vote share. (dawn.com)
  • For instance, a party needs to secure at least five percent of the national vote to have representation in parliament. (dawn.com)
  • This would be extremely effective to get voices like the Awami Workers Party into parliament or other smaller, specialised regional parties. (dawn.com)
  • The pro-Putin United Russia party is expected to emerge as the dominant force in the lower chamber of parliament, the Duma. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Parliament in the country is unicameral. (orangesmile.com)
  • After the Parliament passes any law, the bill passes to the government. (orangesmile.com)
  • In October, the government was dismissed in a vote of no confidence by the parliament. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The president appoints the prime minister in consultation with the parliamentary majority, and the prime minister's government requires the confidence of Parliament. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Members of the bicameral Parliament, consisting of a 136-seat Senate and a 330-seat Chamber of Deputies, are elected to four-year terms in a closed party-list proportional system. (freedomhouse.org)
  • In Lebanon's political system, the post of prime minister has to be held by a Sunni Muslim, the presidency is held by a Maronite Christian, and the speaker of parliament is a Shia Muslim. (aljazeera.com)
  • Attempting to establish an absolutist government along European lines, Charles I of England viewed Parliament as unnecessary, which would ultimately lead to the English Civil War (1642-51) and his execution . (wikipedia.org)
  • However, parliament elected Prayut Chan-o-cha, the sole candidate of the Palang Pracharath Party, as prime minister. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Despite the increase in the number of women in the Parliament from 4.7 to 17.4 percent in the past decade, women's political participation, particularly in local administrations, remains very low. (lu.se)
  • In this paper (Mehic 2023a), I use data from the 1986 Chernobyl accident to evaluate the voting outcomes of the Swedish Green Party (MP), which was founded in 1982, and elected to the national parliament in 1988, two years after the disaster. (lu.se)
  • After eleven years as the leader of Sweden's Centre Party and sixteen as a member of Parliament, Alumna Annie Lööf will finally get the chance to recharge her batteries this summer. (lu.se)
  • He, too, came up via the machine system, once serving as governor of Anambra state and as the vice presidential candidate of the other big traditional party (and rival to Tinubu's APC), the People's Democratic Party, in 2019. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • For example, in the UK, the monarch is the chief of state, and the prime minister is the head of government. (nationmaster.com)
  • Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali argued that the Ennahda-led cabinet should step aside in favor of a broader one, but he was rebuffed and resigned from the party. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Though Mr Putin steps down as president next year, he has indicated he could remain in politics by applying to become prime minister. (bbc.co.uk)
  • As a rule, the leader of the ruling party or the leader of the coalition party becomes the new Prime Minister of the Antilles. (orangesmile.com)
  • The government led by Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) leader and a presidential candidate, was marked by frequent changes in its composition. (freedomhouse.org)
  • It was the first such gathering that the Syrian regime permitted to take place in public, and the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and his Shiite supporters saw it as an undisguised signal that Syria and the remaining Iraqi Baathists were supporting Maliki's main rival, the former prime minister Iyad Allawi, in his quest to lead the next Iraqi government. (nybooks.com)
  • What is holding things up, however, is the fear among many Iraqis that whatever party wins the right to form the government and appoint the prime minister will proceed to concentrate power around itself, using gaps and ambiguities in Iraq's new constitution to its advantage. (nybooks.com)
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday urged the people of Karnataka to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party to help bring the state out of what he called was the "politics of manipulation", as he hit out at the Congress for having treated the state as "an ATM" that fills its treasury. (hindustantimes.com)
  • The first job should be to bring Karnataka out of the politics of manipulation and take it forward at a fast pace," the Prime Minister added. (hindustantimes.com)
  • His appointment comes just 11 days after Saad Hariri resigned as prime minister-designate, following nine months of political deadlock and dispute with President Aoun and his son-in-law MP Gebran Bassil. (aljazeera.com)
  • If Mikati successfully forms a government, this would be his third stint as Lebanon's prime minister. (aljazeera.com)
  • He was briefly caretaker prime minister for several months in April 2005, and then headed a full-fledged government in 2011 for three years. (aljazeera.com)
  • The businessman from the northern city of Tripoli received votes from most of Lebanon's major political parties, including the Future Movement led by former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Hezbollah and fellow Shia party the Amal Movement, as well as the Druze-led Progressive Socialist Party. (aljazeera.com)
  • However, Free Patriotic Movement MP Alain Aoun told Al Jazeera that he is more optimistic of a government formation with Mikati as prime minister-designate than previously with Saad Hariri, which resulted in a nine-month political gridlock. (aljazeera.com)
  • We have decided that no one, no matter how decent, powerful, and influential the prime minister, within the political system and the ruling elite, he or she will not be able to do anything in this country," Nassar told Al Jazeera. (aljazeera.com)
  • Head of government is the Prime Minister who exercises executive power. (nepal.com)
  • Some Knesset members and government officials called for reversing the policy of banning non-Muslim prayer and the government's ban on Knesset members at the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly repeated his support for both bans. (state.gov)
  • Since 1979, the country has been dominated by the Cambodian People's Party and its prime minister Hun Sen - whose 32 years in power make him one of the longest-serving political leaders in the world. (lu.se)
  • A new party could be registered easily, and the lack of a minimum vote threshold in the proportional representation system encouraged endless proliferation. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The United Socialist Party in Venezuela is facing profound challenges to its authority by a U.S.-supported opposition coalition. (workers.org)
  • The leaders of the four lists that emerged with the most seats all appear to recognize that the only workable way forward is through a broad-based coalition government. (nybooks.com)
  • Karnataka has seen a long period of opportunistic and selfish coalition governments. (hindustantimes.com)
  • By providing platforms through which individuals can articulate their ideologies and interests, parties foster dialogue and negotiation among various societal factions. (fsmm2008.org)
  • 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)
  • Astrid Norén-Nilsson is interested in investigating perceptions of democracy and citizenship in a country where many political ideologies have left a profound impression, but the same party has been in power for four decades. (lu.se)
  • Tareen, who played a major role in the formation of the Imran Khan-led government in 2018, said that he joined politics to play his role for the betterment of the country. (telegraphindia.com)
  • A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. (state.gov)
  • UGTT, with its large membership and chapters all over the country, was the most important organization. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The quartet was a self-appointed, non-representative organization, but the political parties were at a loss, so they acquiesced. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • In the decades prior to the upheavals, Hezbollah had experienced an extraordinary evolution from being a relatively marginal guerrilla force, conducting sporadic attacks against its arch-enemy Israel in reaction to the latter's military aggression on Lebanon in the late 1970s to early 1980s, into a mature organization, social movement and political party. (lu.se)
  • This entry lists in alphabetical order by abbreviation those international organizations in which the subject country is a member or participates in some other way. (nationmaster.com)
  • Significant political organizations and their leaders. (nationmaster.com)
  • In 2013, however, the parties lost their influence on the political process, ceding the initiative to civil society organizations, and they never fully re-established it. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • With confidence in the elected Constituent Assembly and the parties at a low point, the initiative for solving the impasse passed to the civil society organizations in the Quartet for National Dialogue. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The second created a U.S.-Soviet Joint Commission which, "in order to assist in the formation of a provisional democratic Korean government," would "consult with democratic political parties and social organizations" north and south. (libcom.org)
  • In contemporary Sri Lanka Sinhala nationalistic organizations like Bodu Bala Sena have made a great impact on the debate on what role religion should have in the country. (lu.se)
  • Especially since the political climate has hardened in large parts of Southeast Asia, even in countries which have long been considered economically and politically stable, such as Thailand and the Philippines. (lu.se)
  • So I studied, partied with friends and beyond that I travelled the country being politically active. (lu.se)
  • How do women in local politics contribute to policy making at the local governments? (lu.se)
  • The smaller parties that were allowed to function merely added a façade of democracy to a de facto single party regime. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The number of parties is a threat to Tunisian democracy. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The crisis of the parties is turning into a crisis of democracy. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • It did however provide a foundation for the newer political theories and movements that emerged to oppose liberal-democracy, such as Legitimism and Carlism in the early 19th century, or " integral nationalism " in the early 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Assembly advances democracy and mitigates many of the issues that have plagued the political process. (californianewswire.com)
  • As an institution whose members are not selected by political parties, the Assembly is a solution that can both improve democracy and unify the country. (californianewswire.com)
  • According to Latinobarómetro (2008), 77 percent of Argentines consider democracy, although it has faults, to still be the best form of government. (americasquarterly.org)
  • Like many other countries in Southeast Asia, Cambodia is formally a democracy but characterised by a regime with authoritarian traits. (lu.se)
  • Previously, democracies such as the US and countries in Europe could be seen as polar opposites to authoritarian regimes - they could also be an inspiration for the inhabitants of these countries, even if Western democracy needs to be defined and adapted to an Asian context. (lu.se)
  • Through my research, I can contribute to identifying the political ambitions of various groups - and build up a theory about perceptions of democracy and citizenship in non-liberal states. (lu.se)
  • During this period modern parliamentary democracy developed and spread, and it is during this period that the contemporary party systems crystallized and the broad lines of conflict between the left and the right emerged. (lu.se)
  • The Institute of Democracy conducts research about democratic development and political communication between citizens, media and parties. (lu.se)
  • Every bomb attack, every visit by a political leader to a neighboring capital, every killing of a politician provokes a profound dread that the horrors of the pre-2003 past survive in a diminished but still potent form-whether they derive from the mayhem of the murderous Baathist regime or from Iranian attacks during a senseless war fought more than twenty years ago. (nybooks.com)
  • Finally, the Chernobyl accident, being one of the major events of post-World War II Europe, had profound political consequences in most Western countries. (lu.se)
  • In a federation like Pakistan, we are stuck with a parliamentary system even though majority of the governance is now with the provincial governments. (dawn.com)
  • For a country like Pakistan, where electables are by default assumed to be corrupt, this change could give an aura of change to the system that a small, yet loud segment of our society believes is the end all evil in Pakistan. (dawn.com)
  • The role of parties needs to be understood in the framework of the formal system created by the constitution. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • 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)
  • But it is also working on creating a network of women that can function as an alternative to a biased party system, and which can push that biased party system to do better at supporting women. (bostonreview.net)
  • The country, he further said, needs a new political leadership which could put it on a path of progress saying that people have lost all hope in the current political system. (telegraphindia.com)
  • The old monarchy has given way to a republic that features a multi-party system . (nepal.com)
  • The government cannot discount the effects of its policies on some of its subjects based on parochialisms such as provincialism, class system based on consideration of wealth or political power and political affiliations. (com.pk)
  • The absolutist system of government saw its high point during the late 16th and the 17th century, associated with a more autocratic form of rule under figures such as Louis XIV of France and Philip II of Spain . (wikipedia.org)
  • But Obi broke with the old machine system to head the Labour Party in this race, and with a competitive, official third-place finish, mounted the most serious challenge to the two-party system that Nigeria has ever seen. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Belize has a functioning two-party political system revolving around the PUP and the UDP. (countrystudies.us)
  • To build a more cohesive political system we must restore the original premises that guided the creation of our parties. (americasquarterly.org)
  • There is a broad consensus on the work-first principle and no party has fought to keep the higher rates of benefits in the social insurance system", says Hans Swärd. (lu.se)
  • Liberation struggles, anti-colonial movements and political parties aimed to end colonialism and imperialism. (workers.org)
  • These factions may include interest groups, social movements, or even marginalized communities seeking greater visibility and advocacy within the political realm. (fsmm2008.org)
  • A sweeping new history of the country focuses primarily on elites, rather than the grassroots movements that overturned apartheid. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • 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)
  • Concurrently, these countries in Europe and North America are undergoing structural unemployment and rising poverty rates. (workers.org)
  • The dataset is unprecedented in both temporal and geographic scope and includes countries from Europe, North America, South America, as well as Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. (lu.se)
  • With the cooperation of the president, we will form a government according to the French initiative," Mikati told the press after his appointment, referring to a road map of economic and structural reforms French President Emanuel Macron introduced to Lebanon in August 2020. (aljazeera.com)
  • We believe that politics is the instrument of socioeconomic reforms, and hence, the Centre is developing logistics clusters worth Rs 2 lakh crore across the country. (newkerala.com)
  • This becomes clear when you see that all the countries except Sweden and Italy have carried out major reforms to combine their social insurance and benefits systems. (lu.se)
  • Globally, governments are looking towards achieving universal health coverage (UHC) to ensure the attainment of health right by all. (who.int)
  • A national symbol is a faunal, floral, or other abstract representation - or some distinctive object - that over time has come to be closely identified with a country or entity. (nationmaster.com)
  • A party will produce a list of candidates that it wishes to send to the NA and based on the national vote share of each party, it will get that percentage of seats in the NA. (dawn.com)
  • Because there is no longer constituency politics for the national level and there are not even the limited development funds at play anymore, political parties can talk policy and long-term planning to the electorate and put forth genuine experts and newer faces without the fear of being beaten out by electables. (dawn.com)
  • Instead, they help give a political party a chance to send one more person from their list to the national assembly. (dawn.com)
  • On May 3, during the celebration of the World Press Freedom Day, the president of the national journalist association OJM, which provides accreditation to journalists, stated there was not yet a free press in the country. (state.gov)
  • The minister of communication and culture responded free expression and free press still existed in the country and that only programs that undermined public order and national unity had been suspended during the declared national health emergency. (state.gov)
  • Dozens of parties now exist on paper and over twenty are seated in the 217-member National Assembly. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The president then appointed the head of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Ludovic Orban, to form the new government, which took office in November. (freedomhouse.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)
  • But in Bola Tinubu, the victor, it also has a winner of dubious legitimacy because of widespread irregularities -at a time when the country desperately needs to rally toward a new sense of national purpose. (foreignpolicy.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)
  • This is reflected in the fragmentation of national politics. (americasquarterly.org)
  • Older people's political concerns include national superannuation (their pension), housing, mobility, future care, elder neglect and age discrimination. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Importantly, in several countries, green parties were elected to national parliaments, and in France, Finland, and Germany, these parties were junior members of government coalitions already by the mid-1990s. (lu.se)
  • In addition, it recognized experts on the politics of each country provide commentary on these events, as well as on the principal issues in national politics during the year. (lu.se)
  • The PARLINE database contains information on the structure and working methods of 271 parliamentary chambers in all of the 193 countries where a national legislature exists. (lu.se)
  • NGOs has been increasing considerably that they grew to become prominent actors directly impacting the national economy of countries by contributing significantly to their GDP (Eakin L, Richmond T., 2009). (who.int)
  • Ever since then, the Nepal governmental arrangements have tended towards instability and no government has lasted for more than two years. (nepal.com)
  • Civil liberties are generally respected, but they have come under growing pressure as entrenched political interests push back against civic and institutional efforts to combat systemic corruption. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Right-wing governments and political parties have made substantial gains in industrial states fueling institutional racism, intolerance and violence. (workers.org)
  • I argue that how left-wing governments tax depend on the institutional environment. (lu.se)
  • The left-wing government in Sweden on the other hand, operating in a different institutional context, decided to introduce a similar tax. (lu.se)
  • Green parties in Finland and Sweden. (routledge.com)
  • Håkan Johansson, who like Hans Swärd is a Professor of Social Work, is involved in a major EU project to compare welfare policy in six European countries: Sweden, Germany, Poland, the UK, Italy and Norway. (lu.se)
  • The issue of poverty is not particularly hot in any of the countries, but Sweden stands out as the country where the issue receives least political attention. (lu.se)
  • Last but not least, Astrid Norén Nilsson thinks that we in Sweden also have something to learn from the political systems in Cambodia and other countries in Southeast Asia. (lu.se)
  • Due to rainfall and adverse wind conditions, Sweden was the second-most affected country by Chernobyl fallout, after the Soviet Union. (lu.se)
  • But when the results arrived and there was a majority enabling the Sweden Democrats, Moderates, Christian Democrats and Liberals to form a government, the time had come. (lu.se)
  • For three years, from 1967 to 1969, Kufuor was also chief legal officer and city manager of Kumasi, a position that, according to his biographer Ivor Agyeman-Duah, exposed him to the practical realities and power politics of public policy. (jrank.org)
  • Finally, it is important to note that Belgium is a country of two linguistic and political realities. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • The popular argument would be that a government lacks a moral title to coerce the governed unless it respects their dignity. (com.pk)
  • NGOs have been known for their role in gap filling for the government. (who.int)
  • A positive relation between the government and NGOs is an indispensable to help in reaching a higher level of health care provision and accessibility. (who.int)
  • This study aims at determining the factors affecting the relation between the government and NGOs working in the health sectors in Palestine for better health sector performance. (who.int)
  • A positive relation between governments and NGOs is indispensable to help improve health care provision increase accessibility to health services and achieve UHC. (who.int)
  • Like in other developing countries, Palestinian NGOs became pioneers in operating projects. (who.int)
  • Thanks to a fairly rational distribution of power and relative freedom within each island, the Antilles have been able to refrain from various political discontents over the past few decades. (orangesmile.com)
  • 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)
  • But since coming to power, BJP has transformed the 'politics of manipulation' in the country into the 'politics of performance'," he said. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Once during an interview to a journalist, a political stalwart, while commenting on his disqualification, said, "We will, if and when come into power, continue to give employment to the poor masses notwithstanding they come on merit or not. (com.pk)
  • No government can be said to be legitimate unless it meets certain basic conditions: A government must treat its subjects, over whom it claims its authority and power, with equal concern and equal respect. (com.pk)
  • This paradox needs to be reconciled through political decision-making so that the legitimacy of the government in power, especially about its manifesto of justice and change, should not only be established. (com.pk)
  • It was the first time that Ghana-the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence in 1957-witnessed one elected government hand the reins of power to another through the means of the ballot box. (jrank.org)
  • Third, when the PUP assumed control of the internal government in 1964, the locus of power shifted from the party to the cabinet, which Price was able to choose. (countrystudies.us)
  • But by discouraging broad participation in setting party policy, the power arrangement also hindered the rise of younger leaders. (countrystudies.us)
  • The ruling party has set its sights on an integrated economic model, which can be implemented promptly if and when the PPRP returns to power after the next poll, according to PPRP political strategist Sontirat Sonthijirawong. (bangkokpost.com)
  • The party also pledged to promote soft power and community tourism, which is an important revenue generator for the country. (bangkokpost.com)
  • One explanation could be persistent power structures, built up around authoritarian leaders and clientelistic politics, despite the fact that the countries in Southeast Asia are members of the UN and have committed to upholding the universal declaration on human rights, and despite increased international connections and growing tourism drawing the world's attention to the domestic politics of these countries. (lu.se)
  • This leaves the authoritarian leaders in Southeast Asia free once again to control how political power is exercised. (lu.se)
  • We know relatively little about ordinary Cambodians' political preferences - this is true both of academics and of the Cambodians in power. (lu.se)
  • The Italian decision to abandon nuclear power is very similar to the one made by the German government after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. (lu.se)
  • In Swedish politics, the future of nuclear power has been a major issue for several decades. (lu.se)
  • Direct participation in government by citizens is not a new concept. (californianewswire.com)
  • Citizens already participate directly in one branch of government, the judiciary, through jury duty. (californianewswire.com)
  • Even though we can differ in our politics, we share a commitment to the unrestricted defense of democratic institutions and the social rights of citizens. (americasquarterly.org)
  • The goal is for 20 million citizens of EU countries to have been lifted out of poverty by 2020. (lu.se)
  • The government arrested journalists and activists who denounced the misbehavior of public figures. (state.gov)
  • The government and non-Orthodox activists reached a compromise in January to accommodate "egalitarian prayer," i.e. (state.gov)
  • More than 300 radio and television stations operated in the country, although many shifted to live call-in shows in recent years to distance themselves from editorial responsibility for content. (state.gov)
  • Three years ago I entered university, not because the government helped me out but because I worked hard on my exam papers. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Despite its dependence on the kingdom, various political parties developed over the years can be seen on the territory of the islands. (orangesmile.com)
  • In recent years, the issue of political financing has gained significant attention due to its potential impact on democratic processes. (fsmm2008.org)
  • Our country had been mired in dirty politics for years. (hindustantimes.com)
  • After a year of reading law, however, Kufuor decided his true interest lay in politics, and switched to read philosophy, politics, and economics, in which he graduated in a record two years. (jrank.org)
  • For the president-elect to make the next four years a success for Nigeria, he'll have to create a new political ethos for his country. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Dissident members of these parties periodically struck out on their own and founded new parties, but they have usually foundered after a few years. (countrystudies.us)
  • After more than 30 years on the political scene, green parties have proven to be more than just a temporary phenomenon. (routledge.com)
  • This change of heart has no doubt been the greatest accomplishment of our country in the past years. (americasquarterly.org)
  • Only in recent years has the government begun reforming these policies, starting with asylum and family reunification. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • It deals with her almost twenty years in politics, but also the private side of her life. (lu.se)
  • The law includes several provisions limiting freedom of speech and expression, including broad powers of the government to deny media licenses to political opponents, seize equipment, and impose fines. (state.gov)
  • The law also may permit candidates for political office, who are also media owners, to use their outlets to advocate against opponents. (state.gov)
  • We are political opponents, each of us from parties with a long history of hostility in Argentina. (americasquarterly.org)
  • We can learn about our own context by studying governance in other countries. (lu.se)
  • Today, Swedish unemployment benefit has gone from being among the highest in Europe to being below the average for the OECD countries. (lu.se)
  • Various members of the public where elected by the people to work with numerous officials chosen by the monarchy - thus ensuring that the wishes of both parties were met. (nepal.com)
  • Young members of the PUP's left wing, including Said Musa, V.H. Courtenay, and Assad Shoman, pushed through a new party constitution in 1975 designed to encourage greater participation by the rank and file and to counter declining popular support for the party. (countrystudies.us)
  • 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)
  • Democrat Party members are expected to head to the first day of MP candidacy registration by riding an electric-powered bus to the registration venue in Bangkok on Monday. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Hans Swärd thinks the prioritisation of this issue is partly to do with the EU's newer members, the former Eastern Bloc countries, which have a considerably poorer population, and the increasing number of beggars seen on the streets of Europe. (lu.se)
  • Public distrust increases when money becomes a driving force behind politics. (fsmm2008.org)
  • In summary, the adverse impact includes: winner-take-all politics, demonization of opposing views, proliferation of partisan propaganda, increased stress and general distrust of government. (californianewswire.com)
  • Ong-art Klampaiboon, a deputy party leader, said Democrat constituency MP candidates and executives would travel on board an electric bus to the Thai-Japanese Youth Centre in the Din Daeng area, the venue for registering Bangkok MP candidacies under both the constituency and party-list systems. (bangkokpost.com)
  • The Houthis and other political parties signed a deal last month to form a more inclusive government after days of fighting in suburbs of Sanaa, giving the rebel movement a new and bigger stake in Yemeni politics. (yahoo.com)
  • The emergence of green parties throughout Europe during the 1980s marked the arrival of a new form of political movement, challenging established models of party politics and putting new issues on the political agenda. (routledge.com)
  • The Arab revolts presented opportunities as well as challenges in this regard as the regional struggle came to take the form of proxy conflicts in some of the countries where the unrest occurred. (lu.se)
  • Ready to Run also offers training for women to become party officials themselves. (bostonreview.net)
  • But the political honeymoon was brief and in 1972 the military overthrew Busia's government and imprisoned several high-ranking officials, including Kufour. (jrank.org)
  • Bringing together the biggest names from a myriad of industries and affiliations in one forum, News18 India Chaupal hosted the leaders of the country as they reflected on and discussed a host of integral issues against the backdrop of global geopolitical developments. (newkerala.com)
  • We have empowered our Make in India vaccine and distributed over 100 crore dosages across the country. (newkerala.com)
  • Today, India has provided vaccine dosages to over 150 countries and continues to play a pivotal role in global geopolitics. (newkerala.com)
  • For example, in both India and China, with two economies that increasingly depend on globalization, we see a strengthening of nationalism, understood here as the cultural politics that has the nation as its subject and its object . (lu.se)
  • Media owners in the country were generally politicians or wealthy individuals. (state.gov)
  • Can female politicians be effective in local politics despite the worrying representation rates? (lu.se)
  • Researchers conducted face-to-face, structured, in-depth interviews with 31 female politicians from five different parties in six different provinces. (lu.se)
  • Female politicians from different political parties in Istanbul, Bursa, Diyarbakır, İzmir, Ankara and Adana, and their views on politics, on running for office, and their political views, their take on their parties' is a reminder of how rich the local politics are and how important the farreaching into the society gender is. (lu.se)
  • In early 1991, no parties besides the PUP and the UDP were active. (countrystudies.us)
  • They know they live in a stable country. (bbc.co.uk)
  • So, for fast-paced development of Karnataka, BJP's full majority, and stable government is needed," Modi said at a rally in Davengere to mark the culmination of the BJP's Vijay Sankalpa Yatre. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Do you want a strong and stable government or not? (hindustantimes.com)
  • It could become another Taliban land,' said Abdullah al-Askar, head of the foreign affairs committee on Saudi Arabia's Shoura Council which advises the government on policy. (yahoo.com)
  • Unfortunately, Jahangir Tareen still advises the PTI-led government on policy matters on the agriculture sector. (com.pk)
  • Equal concern stands for an economic, political and social policy, which a government must take care of while governing its subjects. (com.pk)
  • It means that law and policy of a government must not in any manner be used as a vehicle for coercing those who are either affiliated with a different political party or who criticise it for its policies. (com.pk)
  • By the end of the 1960s, the government had adopted a more restrictive labor migration policy, in response to the economic recession and rising unemployment at the time. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • The Belgian government designed both labor migration and asylum policy in response to circumstantial economic or humanitarian needs, without a long-term vision. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • Astrid Norén Nilsson, at the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, is researching politics in Cambodia. (lu.se)
  • On 15 September 2022, Annie announced that she intended to resign as party leader of the Centre Party. (lu.se)
  • Kufuor's first ministerial appointment was in Busia's Progress Party government, from 1969 to 1972, in which he served as deputy foreign minister under Victor Owusu, another old-time visitor to his family home. (jrank.org)
  • The researchers focus both on global patterns as well as regions and countries, such as the Balkans, Asia, the European Union, South America, the Middle East and Europe. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • He said that the country needed a political leadership which could resolve all prevailing issues including social, economic and others. (telegraphindia.com)
  • The right-wing government has focused on the work-first principle, but so did the Social Democrats in the 1990s. (lu.se)
  • They want to see differences between countries with completely different history: a social democratic welfare state, a former Eastern Bloc country, a neoliberal country, a southern European country and a rich oil-producing country outside the EU. (lu.se)
  • Of course, there is no legal reason parties could not intervene at this stage to support women, but there is also no way to punish parties that do not. (bostonreview.net)
  • Bipartisan support for the US alliance cannot always be assumed, however, so strategies are devised to raise the strategic aspects of the relationship above the fray of domestic politics in both countries. (theage.com.au)
  • Still, what Askar and other Saudis fear is that the Houthis will follow the model laid out by Hezbollah in Lebanon, using popular support among Shi'ites combined with a hefty military presence to dominate politics and project Iranian might. (yahoo.com)
  • United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka wished Mikati "success, speed, and support of all political parties" in swiftly forming a government. (aljazeera.com)
  • The NPP identified itself as the party of business and drew its core support from the Asante ethnic group, the urban elite, and the private sector. (jrank.org)
  • Drastic measures were enforced to ensure public support for the party line. (libcom.org)
  • and political party support. (bvsalud.org)
  • Exhibit A for those terrified by the specter of the Baath's return was the meeting, set up in April by the Damascus-based branch of the Iraqi Baath Party, of groups opposed to the current order in Iraq. (nybooks.com)
  • In fact, the violence came as a response to violations of the cease fire by the US and the Iraqi government, which took advantage of it to arrest Mahdi Army commanders (that's a ceasefire? (juancole.com)
  • Iran admitted on Saturday that it had negotiated a ceasefire by the Mahdi Army when approached by Iraqi parliamentarians (who were from the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and the Da'wa Party, al-Maliki's backers). (juancole.com)
  • This again is an act of a political regime maliciously intent on kicking the can forward without serious reform. (aljazeera.com)
  • The PUP's success, however, set the stage for a split in 1956 over the questions of how far the party should cooperate with the colonial regime and whether to endorse the British initiative for a West Indies Federation. (countrystudies.us)
  • Bilateral agreements were concluded with Southern European and Northern African countries as well as Turkey within a flexible work-permit regime accompanied by lenient family reunification rules. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • One can find a common theme in the oral narratives of these political forces: "masawat" (equality). (com.pk)
  • Because parties no longer need to deal with electables or having uneven development across the country, they can nominate candidates that can do real work they are supposed to do: legislate laws and work on policies for the long run. (dawn.com)
  • Discrimination against minorities and other vulnerable groups is a long-standing problem, as is control of key media outlets by businessmen with political interests. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Nepal is a very interesting country with a long of history. (nepal.com)
  • It is a long overdue new family picture of the green political parties. (routledge.com)
  • An image has been disseminated of those on long-term sick leave as cheaters and hypochondriacs as part of the political efforts to reduce the cost of sickness benefits. (lu.se)
  • Because of a lack of comparative information on taxation with a long time scale, previous research has been constrained to a small number of mostly European countries. (lu.se)
  • This is no ordinary political autobiography, which often means a long CV full of name-dropping of the people you have met. (lu.se)
  • The struggle in Yemen is a threat to neighboring countries and Saudi Arabia should worry about this. (yahoo.com)
  • Taxation is a key activity of any state and a constant point of political struggle. (lu.se)
  • But even with that, it gives a wider representation to different ideas and beliefs in the country. (dawn.com)
  • According to the latest Global Gender Gap Report released by the World Economic Forum, Turkey is the 130th out of 149 countries in terms of the gender gap in political representation, and ranks lowest on gender equality among the countries that are its peers in the high human development group. (lu.se)
  • smaller parties and ethnic minority representatives divided the remainder. (freedomhouse.org)
  • In accordance with the constitution, the law restricts individuals' ability to criticize the government in public. (state.gov)
  • The Constituent Assembly was extremely slow in producing the new constitution and impatience mounted in the country. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • 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)
  • In Ready to Run programs, organizers lobby party leaders to financially sponsor participants to attend the program, with varying degrees of success. (bostonreview.net)
  • Given the Assembly involves patriotic service to country, organizers believe many will consider it a supreme honor to serve their country. (californianewswire.com)
  • We under the new platform will do politics against mainstream parties - PMLN and PPP - as PTI has now become a thing of the past," Awan said. (telegraphindia.com)
  • These are the sine qua non for political legitimacy. (com.pk)
  • Equal respect is yet another pre-requisite for a government to achieve political legitimacy. (com.pk)
  • Political donations have lost legitimacy among the masses. (lu.se)
  • Without such knowledge, we can hardly understand, and much less work for, democratic development in the country. (lu.se)
  • These developments heightened military and political conflicts between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, then the major global powers. (workers.org)
  • This volume stands as a major contribution to the study of Green parties and their place in contemporary European democratic politics. (routledge.com)
  • This reduction has been carried out without any major protests from any political party. (lu.se)
  • A brief description of the legal system's historical roots, role in government, and acceptance of International Court of Justice (ICJ) jurisdiction. (nationmaster.com)
  • Political parties played an important role at the beginning of the transition. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • 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)
  • Political parties play a crucial role in shaping the political landscape of societies worldwide. (fsmm2008.org)
  • Public opinion, heated immigration debates, and a consistent rise of right-wing parties have no doubt played a role in this as well. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • Annie has always strived to be herself in her political public role and she points out that doing so builds trust and strength. (lu.se)
  • Belgium is often overlooked as a country of immigration because of its size and its less known history of immigration. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • Yet over the last three decades Belgium has become a permanent country of settlement for many different types of migrants. (migrationpolicy.org)
  • There are no special interests, no political parties and no big money donors involved in selection of delegates and therefore none of the conflicts of interests or compromises that afflict many who are elected to Congress. (californianewswire.com)