• Ed Balls served in New Labour governments, first as Tony Blair's economic secretary to the treasury and later as Gordon Brown's secretary of state for children and families. (wikipedia.org)
  • Like Balls and Osborne, Campbell and Stewart belong to the Labour and Conservative parties respectively. (wikipedia.org)
  • Both governments consider the health care as a right that should be allowed for everyone in the society, as The New Labour increased the amount of resources specified to The National Health Service, while Obama's health care reforms appeared in the nation protection and affordable care act 2010. (ostatic.com)
  • The Labour party party was founded in the 1900's. (ostatic.com)
  • Luke has worked for the Labour party as a policy and political adviser for a shadow secretary of state and successive shadow housing ministers leading their work on housing, also working on local government and devolution. (ippr.org)
  • I see that voting against all the tax increases and against all the spending reductions has cheered up the Labour party, but it might actually help the House if I gave a brief explanation of how I think our proceedings will now go ahead. (parliament.uk)
  • It is the Labour party that now represents and speaks for the people of this country. (parliament.uk)
  • The Labour party may produce proposals slowly, but they are certainly cobbled together when they come. (parliament.uk)
  • If Labour fails to propose coherent reform , and relapses into its traditional stance ('we can win it within the classic two-party fix framework'), the party will s how that its Bourbon trait s (learn nothing and forget nothing) remain undimmed. (lse.ac.uk)
  • A Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition is their only hope of any keeping alive re maining voter perception of the party as centrist or balanced. (lse.ac.uk)
  • A second possible outcome from 2015 is that Ed Miliband emerges as Prime Minister with either a tiny Labour majority or the prospect of an 'easier' coalition with the Liberal Democrats that could sustain his government for five years. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The UK Labour Party used to radically advocate for common ownership. (theconversation.com)
  • Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer have both faced inquiries and reports - one for antisemitism and one for racism in the Labour party. (theconversation.com)
  • A new book analyses the Labour politician's prolific political writing. (theconversation.com)
  • Labour Party leader Keir Starmer visits Blackpool ahead of local elections on May 4. (theconversation.com)
  • At this time, Lewis was teaching in Oxford, while Hayek had joined the faculty of the London School of Economics. (equip.org)
  • In 1967, Sanchez graduated from the University of Costa Rica and then traveled to the UK to study at the London School of Economics. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • The following day, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced his decision to step down in the face of sustained mass protests and political turmoil. (timesofoman.com)
  • At a time of public health and economic turmoil, the government should be consistent and reduce unnecessary expenditure which includes having a bloated Cabinet," they said. (thestoly.com)
  • Look ahead for the next five or six years and it becomes apparent that the UK's political and constitutional future is bestrewn with factors likely to create further political and constitutional turmoil as my chart below shows. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Yet some fell into economic stagnation or political turmoil while others thrived. (anneapplebaum.com)
  • During this period, Pakistan witnessed two ruling coalitions with different prime ministers: the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and allied parties from August 2018 to April 2022, followed by the Shehbaz Sharif-led Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and allies from April 2022 until this week. (usip.org)
  • Historically the party has oscillated between right- wing and center-left government coalitions. (lu.se)
  • Assuming that the candidates of two [or more] parties are intent on winning the election, and assuming that voters will vote for that candidate who most closely approximates their own preferred political position, politicians will not choose political positions out on the wings of the distribution. (iea.org.uk)
  • And, unlike the fringe parties which do not have elected members in Westminster (although they do have sitting peers in the House of Lords), a Tea Party caucus sits in both the House of Representatives and Senate, with such influential GOP politicians as Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. (iea.org.uk)
  • The ANC and EPRDF, like many of Africa's liberation movements in the 1960s, stopped responding to evolving political and economic demands, while predatory politicians and their cronies hid behind the party's banner. (timesofoman.com)
  • Suter says that most politicians and parties have little beyond a static presence on the internet with their websites. (swissinfo.ch)
  • He says the biggest hurdle might be the time factor for these busy politicians. (swissinfo.ch)
  • Li, an English-speaking economist, was from a generation of politicians schooled during a time of greater openness to liberal Western ideas. (kget.com)
  • The order desired by anarchists is different from the order ("Ordnung," the Germans called it: "law and order," say the American politicians) of national governments. (notmytribe.com)
  • One of the characteristics of the story is a distinctly British unseriousness: tragedy and farce, as so often in this country's political life, were hard to tell apart. (lrb.co.uk)
  • What does his assassination mean for the Japanese government and the country's political landscape? (kmuw.org)
  • To borrow Chivers's analysis, the Tea Party is engineering a dialectic within the Republican Party which will serve to strengthen its conservative principles (not moderate them, as can be surmised from a conventional dialectical exercise). (iea.org.uk)
  • in the rift that is rending the Republican Party, the Sun is on the side of George Washington. (iea.org.uk)
  • 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)
  • But Ms. Hogue demonstrated that NARAL is at least as powerful within the Democratic Party as the National Rifle Association is within the Republican Party. (americamagazine.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)
  • The "majority rule" form of government, which Hayek terms "democracy," on the other hand, "knows only one limit to government - current majority opinion. (equip.org)
  • Neither of the two systems necessarily excludes the opposite of the other: a democracy may well wield totalitarian powers, and it is conceivable that an authoritarian government may act on liberal principles. (equip.org)
  • The left has long admired Canada as an enclave of social democracy in North America: for its openly socialist electoral parties, its robust welfare state, and its more moderate policy profile. (nplusonemag.com)
  • The answers to those questions tell a story to which the left should pay heed, for the hijacking of Canada's social democracy was made possible in part by the utter failure of its left parties, and the prospects for wresting the country from the current conservative agenda depend on the success of grassroots movements of resistance. (nplusonemag.com)
  • Winston Churchill is famously quoted as having said, [and I paraphrase], "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for every alternative. (medscape.com)
  • George Osborne is a former chancellor of the exchequer who served in David Cameron's Conservative government. (wikipedia.org)
  • Theresa May's speech to the Conservative party conference in early October seemed to mark a clear turn in economic policy. (newstatesman.com)
  • Here was the Conservative Party, the historic party of British capitalism, picking a fight with British capitalism. (newstatesman.com)
  • What's more, Buchanan's choice of campaign co-chairs for his Reform bid, especially that of an ultra-left-wing progressive, bucks his conservative ideology in favor of political expediency. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Within the Conservative party a second failure to win a clear election majority is likely to prove terminal for David Cameron's weak and question-postponing style of leadership, especially with Boris Johnson returning to the Commons. (lse.ac.uk)
  • 1 The Liberal Party (Liberalerna) is a conservative-liberal party. (lu.se)
  • 2 The Moderate Party (Moderaterna) is a liberal-conservative party in favor of market liberalism. (lu.se)
  • And it's not as if they get ignored, that they're squeezed out of the electoral picture by the ruthless machine politics of the big parties: Ukip and, to a lesser extent, the Greens have demonstrated that it's possible to get a significant following with radical policies. (iea.org.uk)
  • One would think that a party whose electoral power is at its weakest since 1928, according to the liberal website Daily Kos , would want to piggyback on that popularity. (americamagazine.org)
  • He lost his Morley and Outwood parliamentary seat in 2015 and retired from politics. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some members of Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai (Thai Love Thai) Party believe they can capture more than half of the 400 parliamentary seats up for grabs in the election, meaning a coalition government would be unnecessary. (cnn.com)
  • Venkataraman was also Secretary to the Congress Parliamentary Party in 1953-1954. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Spain, they were approved earlier this year, in January, thanks to parliamentary support from the fascistic Vox party. (wsws.org)
  • Two months later, his Likud party got trounced in parliamentary elections. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Parliamentary government, promising popular participation in important decisions, became a façade (differently constructed in one-party and two-party states) for rule by elites of wealth and power in the midst of almost-frenzied scurrying to polls and plebiscites. (notmytribe.com)
  • The party received 4,61 percent of the votes in the last (2022) parliamentary election. (lu.se)
  • In the last (2022) parliamentary election the party obtained a narrow win. (lu.se)
  • To enjoy a parliamentary majority the party decided to cooperate with the Swedish Democratic Party which has generated several controversial policy proposals on matters related to integration and immigration. (lu.se)
  • In the last parliamentary election (2022) the party secured 20,5 percent of the popular vote and became the largest party on the right block. (lu.se)
  • The shift in momentum comes after the governor's team spent tens of millions of dollars on political ads and enlisted former President Barack Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris, Sens. (motherjones.com)
  • Spain's largest trade unions, the Stalinist Workers Commissions (CCOO) and the social-democratic General Union of Labor (UGT), which are negotiating wage cuts and sackings, and advising the government on austerity, posted a joint statement hailing the pardons as "a necessary-although certainly not a sufficient-condition to overcome past episodes. (wsws.org)
  • Both federal and provincial governments have embraced austerity and eroded public services. (nplusonemag.com)
  • People across Thailand appear just as eager as the activist to toss the Prime Minister and his Democratic Party out of power. (cnn.com)
  • Social-democratic parties accepted the new economic rules, even if they insisted on smoothing off the rougher edges. (newstatesman.com)
  • As Hayek further explains, classical liberalism "is concerned mainly with limiting the coercive powers of all government, whether democratic or not. (equip.org)
  • But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class. (balloon-juice.com)
  • It is instructive to trace the evolution of a political strategy based on securing this coalition in the writings and comments, over time, of such Democratic analysts as Stanley Greenberg and Ruy Teixeira. (balloon-juice.com)
  • I appreciate the 'hard-eyed realist' argument - Nixon started peeling Archie Bunker and his fellows away from the Democratic Party in the 1960s, the Republic ratfvckers have made a cottage industry of branding Dem voters as "eggheads and welfare recipients" ever since, and getting those votes back might just be impossible for America's first Black President. (balloon-juice.com)
  • Yes, both the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa and the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) grew complacent and corrupt, and suffered political decay, over the past quarter-century. (timesofoman.com)
  • Both the ANC and the EPRDF espouse the Leninist principle of democratic centralism, according to which party members are expected to abide by the policies established by the central party leadership. (timesofoman.com)
  • Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, and other Democratic Party figures to campaign against the recall, which they've described as a dirty Republican attempt to void Newsom's landslide election to office in 2018. (motherjones.com)
  • It took a mayoral election in Omaha, of all things, to reveal that the Democratic Party is capable of outdoing the Republicans in self-destruction. (americamagazine.org)
  • It is no exaggeration to say that all hell broke loose, at least in the rarefied world of Democratic Party donors and social media activists. (americamagazine.org)
  • It tells your most active political base that we're just negotiable political property," she said to the Democratic Party leadership. (americamagazine.org)
  • He then said in an interview with The Times that he respected Democratic candidates who "have personal beliefs" against abortion, but "if they try to legislate or govern that way, we will take them on. (americamagazine.org)
  • Mr. Sanders is far more popular nationally than any Democratic Party leader is, with especially high ratings among blacks and Hispanics. (americamagazine.org)
  • In post-communist Europe, for example, countries that faced similar problems took very different paths after they elected democratic governments in 1990. (anneapplebaum.com)
  • This was also the time when he entered active politics, joining the country's main social democratic party, Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN, National Liberation Party). (thefamouspeople.com)
  • With the Moderate Party2 (M) now in office, alongside the supporting party Swedish Democratic Party3 (SD), language requirements have been afforded a secure position in the overall discourse on integration and immigration, characterized by an emphasis on stringency, urgency, and restrictiveness. (lu.se)
  • 3 The Swedish Democratic Party (Sverigedemokraterna) is a nationalist and right-wing populist party. (lu.se)
  • Earlier today, the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced the end of the most recent Ebola outbreak, three months after the first case was reported in North Kivu. (bvsalud.org)
  • Michael Laver is Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University College, Galway. (umich.edu)
  • We trace the roots of current cross cultural management research that draws from each of the generic social sciences - anthropology, sociology, psychology, and economics - as well as the major topic areas or viewpoints within these disciplines. (bvsalud.org)
  • Most of the people in government are not trained in science or medicine but come from a background in other disciplines, like political science, economics, or sociology. (medscape.com)
  • What is happening in Canada is part of a much larger trend: the formidable disciplinary forces of late capitalism are exerting themselves everywhere, including in other western democracies, where governments are scaling back social programs while lavishing tax concessions and subsidies on industry. (nplusonemag.com)
  • Indeed the NPP manifesto in 2000 opens with a quotation from Joseph Danquah (1895-1985) and describes the party as "the direct descendant" of the tradition. (jrank.org)
  • Women know less than men about political issues, economics and current events," he wrote in 2000. (motherjones.com)
  • Is he unconsciously channelling public choice economics which argues that good politics will echo the voluntary nature of the free market? (iea.org.uk)
  • In his analysis, Zakaria argues that time is past due for comprehensive immigration reform and the political focus on illegal immigration may be holding America back from progress - and it may also be misplaced. (cnn.com)
  • In the 19th century, Parties in the UK were divided by how much power parliament thought they should have. (ostatic.com)
  • Later in the 19th century, the two main parties (Conservatives and Liberals), built more parties to appeal to more male voters (Orvis and Drogus 2018, 321). (ostatic.com)
  • Countries with no political parties and experienced leaders, with no history of checks and balances in government, with weak structure of governance led by new political figures with no administrative experience, will often descend into chaos, extremism, or a new round of authoritarianism. (humansecuritygateway.com)
  • However, as he grew up he decided to become a doctor but soon found that politics and governance interested him more. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • It strengthened his interest in politics as well as governance. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • Conclusions: While competencies for health governance and international relation have been dominant among the current programmes, other cross-cutting themes such as economics, politics, law, public policy, crisis management, environment and public health have been considered essential. (bvsalud.org)
  • In June 2023, Persephonica announced that Osborne and Balls would host an economics-focused political podcast. (wikipedia.org)
  • In August 2023, I started a six-month-long mobility trip to the Faculty of Political Science of Marmara University in Istanbul as part of a research and training project, "Central Asian Law: Legal Cultures and Business Environments in Central Asia. (lu.se)
  • California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks against California's recall election during a rally with Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday in San Leandro. (motherjones.com)
  • at the time, pollsters suggested that many Democrats in the state seemed indifferent toward the election, or more indifferent than Republicans. (motherjones.com)
  • Newsom's opponents are more likely than his supporters to cast their ballots in person on Election Day, according to political data researchers cited by the Times . (motherjones.com)
  • Given the lack of other serious candidates for the Reform nomination, Buchanan is virtually assured of the money, and will compete in the general election in November, the first time he will have made it past the spring's primary season. (publicintegrity.org)
  • There is thus a good chance that the 2015 election outcome may not fall out in a way that makes anything but a minority government feasible, especially if the government has to be viable at a UK level and an England level. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Top political leaders also faced legal issues - most recently, Khan was convicted for illegally selling state gifts and disqualified from contesting the election. (usip.org)
  • He introduced the political ideology of socialism and self-reliance so "that people…could live together and develop in dignity and freedom, receiving the full benefits of their cooperative endeavors. (dacb.org)
  • Language Testing, Standard Language Ideology, Critical Discourse Analysis, together with the methodological framework of Norman Fairclough, the thesis investigates how this discursive shift manifests in the current political predicament in Sweden. (lu.se)
  • Telegraph blogger Tom Chivers has no qualms that 'the three "mainstream" parties… are all essentially the same. (iea.org.uk)
  • As he writes, 'The mainstream parties have worked out that if you want to win a respectable number of votes, you have to be pro-market while at the same time not anti-gay. (iea.org.uk)
  • There are places to go, if you think the mainstream parties are too mainstream. (iea.org.uk)
  • An idea can start far outside the political mainstream - flat taxes, abolish the IRS, more guns in schools, building a beautiful wall and making Mexico pay - but once it has been stated and argued for, framed and restated, it becomes thinkable. (lrb.co.uk)
  • The Referendum Party was a long, long way outside the political mainstream, and a significant number of its members were openly mad. (lrb.co.uk)
  • What's more, the basic psychological assumptions on which mainstream (neoclassical) economics is based-though they have long since been disproved by actual psychologists-have colonized the rest of the academy, and have had a profound impact on popular understandings of the world. (nybooks.com)
  • The 18th Lok Sabha elections in the month of April 2024 are going to heat up the country politics right in the scorching season. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • The upcoming Lok Sabha elections are set to assume political importance as the newly-formed INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) prepares political strategies to prevent Modi from achieving a hat-trick of victories as he seeks public judgment on his decade-long rule. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • Will the BJP, which secured the absolute majority required to form the government in the last two Lok Sabha elections, get a majority again? (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • But there are no clear signs that two parties are going to fight for power in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • The victory and defeat of the parties in the assembly elections of these states is likely to affect the Lok Sabha elections as well, so there is no doubt that the party that wins the assembly elections of these five states will provide a positive political environment to face the Lok Sabha elections. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • After the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress party, which forgot to win, has to say that the victory in the Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka legislative elections has given life to the party politically. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • Among the five states where assembly elections are going to be held, regional parties such as BRS and Mizo National Front are in power in Telangana and Mizoram, while the Congress is in power in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and the BJP is in power in Madhya Pradesh. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • Only six Lok Sabha seats are in the hands of the Congress, which means that in the 2019 assembly elections, the Congress party formed governments in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh, but failed to win a majority of the Lok Sabha seats. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • Recognizing the need to strengthen the Congress to prevent Modi from coming to power for a third term in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress leadership appears to be gearing up ahead of all other parties for victory. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • If the Samajwadi Party gets stronger in UP by the time of the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP will suffer more politically, and if there is an alliance between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party in Gujarat, the Bharatiya Janata Party, which swept the results of the last Lok Sabha elections in Gujarat, may be in trouble this time. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • Does he agree also that promises made by political parties at elections should be kept? (parliament.uk)
  • BROWN: It's charmingly old-fashioned the way that politics works before elections in Japan. (kmuw.org)
  • As it happens Suter's decision to create the government profiles has little to do with getting votes - the Swiss elections took place in October - and more with making Facebook's largest group of users, under-30s, more aware of Swiss politics. (swissinfo.ch)
  • Secondly, for the sake of religious tolerance he helped to formulate the religious articles in the constitution of the government of Tanzania and endorsed them in the 1960s. (dacb.org)
  • For example, Social Security provides an inflation-proof, guaranteed annuity from the time of retirement for the rest of the beneficiary's life. (hnn.us)
  • If, however, inflation is kept at bay through the coordinated action of government and central bankers, the market should find its "natural rate of unemployment," and investors, taking advantage of clear price signals, should be able to ensure healthy growth. (nybooks.com)
  • Erkan is expected to bring her expertise and credibility to the central bank which has been under political pressure to lower interest rates despite high inflation. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Author and Economist editor Robert Guest ( Borderless Economics , 2011), describes Japan's extraordinarily strict immigration policy and its voluntary deportation program for foreign-born workers - a reversal of a 1990s repatriation policy for ethnic Japanese born in Brazil. (cnn.com)
  • Japan's government incentives to families to have more children have not proven successful. (cnn.com)
  • Hayek, the great economist and winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in economics, spent the bulk of his career writing on economic and monetary theory, as well as the evils of fascism, Nazism, and socialism. (equip.org)
  • Sharad Pawar - the wily fox of Indian politics - alone spoke like an economist. (newindianexpress.com)
  • The politics of coalition--the very heart of the political process in most European countries--can be analyzed either theoretically or empirically. (umich.edu)
  • It gives students of European politics access to the insights of contemporary theory while applying it to an analysis of real-world coalition politics. (umich.edu)
  • Multiparty Government offers an accessible approach that bridges the gap between the 'European politics' and 'game theory' traditions of political science, and puts the systematic study of the politics of coalition on the broader political science map. (umich.edu)
  • Olmert's Kadima-led government consists of a five-party coalition-Kadima (29 seats), Labor (19), Shas (12), Yisrael Beiteinu (11) and Gil Pensioners (7)-totaling 78 seats. (thetrumpet.com)
  • But there is a political price: If he pushes too hard with his appeasement proposals, right-leaning members of his coalition might jump ship. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Podemos party leader Pablo Iglesias speaks as Spain's caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez looks on after signing an agreement at the parliament in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. (wsws.org)
  • In Tunisia, where both the Islamic party, Ennahda, and liberal democrats were heavily repressed in the past, the friends and relatives of the old ruling family are still thought to pull most of the economic strings. (anneapplebaum.com)
  • When in 2002 Lars Leijonborg, at the time leader of the Liberal Party1 (L), proposed to condition citizenship on language proficiency it was rejected as discriminatory and proved politically unfavorable (Bengtsson 2020). (lu.se)
  • Recent economic crises have fanned the rise of nationalist political parties which advocate more restrictions on immigration. (cnn.com)
  • There may have also been some African-American Democrats miffed at Ms. Hogue's claim that women constitute the party's "most active political base. (americamagazine.org)
  • Ed Davey is haunted by his party's experiences in government with the Conservatives - but there's a key difference this time around. (theconversation.com)
  • When Did Social Security Become the Third Rail of American Politics? (hnn.us)
  • Both political parties now say that they support Social Security, the landmark program of FDR's New Deal. (hnn.us)
  • have highlighted the fact that national security is measured in terms of the politics, economics, and social tensions that shape national stability as well. (humansecuritygateway.com)
  • Over the past few decades, however, private business interests and their neoliberal allies in government have led a concerted push to expand the role of the market and shift government expenditure away from social need. (nplusonemag.com)
  • To this day, economics continues to be taught not as a story of arguments-not, like any other social science, as a welter of often warring theoretical perspectives-but rather as something more like physics, the gradual realization of universal, unimpeachable mathematical truths. (nybooks.com)
  • At no time in human history has there been such social chaos. (notmytribe.com)
  • Sin embargo, el efecto de la diversidad de género tiene un impacto negativo si el gobierno municipal está encabezado por una alcaldesa, lo que podría encontrar su explicación en diferentes argumentos aportados por las teorías de la identidad social o de la categorización social. (um.es)
  • Handbook of social economics (pp. 93-131). (um.es)
  • The right-wing government has focused on the work-first principle, but so did the Social Democrats in the 1990s. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • Her research focuses on contemporary uses of the Bible in social and political contexts, with a focus on debates about migration and about male circumcision. (lu.se)
  • Although Medscape's goal is to disseminate information about scientific developments in medical research and healthcare, I have seen an increasing need to comment on the social and political environment as well. (medscape.com)
  • Governments face challenges in resolving complex health and social policy conflicts, such as the community water fluoridation (CWF) impasse in Calgary. (bvsalud.org)
  • More fundamentally, the whole political and economic settlement of the past 40 years is potentially under threat. (newstatesman.com)
  • Despite obvious differences in the two countries' histories and economic conditions, the way their dominant parties conduct business, and the economic model they claim to have adopted, are strikingly similar. (timesofoman.com)
  • More recently, party elites in both countries have moved to embrace heterodox economic policies. (timesofoman.com)
  • But the EPRDF made matters worse by undermining the constitution that it helped promulgate, and appearing to have no plan for nation building beyond supposedly rectifying historical inequalities between ethnic communities (though it succeeded in stimulating faster economic growth than the country had ever recorded in modern times). (timesofoman.com)
  • As there's no clear majority, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah can decree a unity government that's focussed on pandemic management and economic recovery for one year period. (thestoly.com)
  • Javier Faus, president of the Cercle d'Economy, Catalonia's big-business association, founded during the 1950s by pro-Francoite Catalan businessmen, said: "We consider that political stability has an economic value in itself. (wsws.org)
  • Economists still teach their students that the primary economic role of government-many would insist, its only really proper economic role-is to guarantee price stability. (nybooks.com)
  • In this context, the new Turkish government, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has announced a new economic policy that aims to address these issues and restore confidence and stability. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Address by Mr Rameswurlall Basant Roi , Governor of the Bank of Mauritius, at the annual dinner for major economic stakeholders, Flic-en-Flac, 17 November 2017. (bis.org)
  • In other words, the prevailing interest rates in Mauritius were unrealistic as they were not at levels consistent with the economic development objectives of the time. (bis.org)
  • With its high levels of economic inequality and its recent history of political scandals, Latin America can be regarded as a heartland of populism. (lu.se)
  • The G7 countries are the world's economic and political leaders. (bvsalud.org)
  • Whether the INDIA alliance will come to power is widely debated in political circles. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • Realizing that it could not defeat the BJP alone, the Congress party formed the All India Alliance of 26 parties, along with the UPA partner parties and opposition parties opposing the BJP. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • The BJP is also trying to strengthen the NDA alliance with 38 parties to compete with the INDIA alliance. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • If we look at the number of parties, not politically, the INDIA alliance is stronger than the NDA alliance. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • His active participation in the Indian National Congress's celebrated resistance to the British Government, the Quit India Movement of 1942, resulted in his detention for two years under the Defence of India Rules. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1946, when the transfer of power from British to Indian hands was imminent, the Government of India included him in the panel of lawyers sent to Malaya and Singapore to defend Indian nationals charged with offences of collaboration during the Japanese occupation of those two places. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is the 31st installment of The Rationalist , my column for the Times of India. (indiauncut.com)
  • On the third, by law (Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management [FRBM] law) Chidambaram shut the government from accessing printing machines of the Reserve Bank of India. (newindianexpress.com)
  • In fact, Buchanan's move to the Reform Party was much more tactical than ideological. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Despite being ostracized by the other parties due to its ideological roots, the party has grown in public support over the last couple of years. (lu.se)
  • But shockingly, on the Narendra Modi government's Rs 20 lakh crore Covid-19 package, some economists associated with the financial world broke the rule of more opinions than the number of economists and expressed the singular view that the government is spending very little from its pocket - just 1%of GDP - and saying it should spend more. (newindianexpress.com)
  • He said it will take time for the Rs 20 lakh crore to trickle down, which would neither mean the Modi package is good or bad. (newindianexpress.com)
  • In this sea of contradicting and confusing views, the challenge Covid-19 poses to the nation and what the Modi government has done has been almost left undebated. (newindianexpress.com)
  • What is in the government's pocket to spend from If Chidambaram says the Modi government hasn't spent anything out of its pocket, it is the outcome of a hostile political mind. (newindianexpress.com)
  • This has really devolved into unenlightened thinking or political partisanship, or been subordinated to the self-interested political factions that comprise government. (medscape.com)
  • Political affiliation and partisanship then adds another level that diverts from what should be an evidence-based and reasoned process. (medscape.com)
  • The pardons are part of back-door negotiations between factions of the ruling class in Madrid, spearheaded by the PSOE-Podemos government, and in Barcelona, led by the Catalan nationalists, over the disbursement of billions of euros in EU bailout funds. (wsws.org)
  • But the need to balance party factions prompted the leadership to choose Xi, the son of a former vice premier and party elder, as the consensus candidate. (kget.com)
  • As you come to know your professors in the classroom you may wish to explore a question in greater depth, or you may have questions about careers in political science, or possible graduate schools. (indstate.edu)
  • Call the Political Science office for an appointment with the academic advisor. (indstate.edu)
  • T he ​ 'Overton window' is a term from political science meaning the acceptable range of political thought in a culture at a given moment. (lrb.co.uk)
  • Look at states that don't believe in science," Newsom said at a rally in the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles Times . (motherjones.com)
  • We're going to turn now to James D.J. Brown He's an associate professor of political science at Temple University's Japan campus. (kmuw.org)
  • Track Two diplomacy, informal dialogues facilitated by an impartial third party, is proposed to address these issues amid epistemic conflict and declining public trust in fellow citizens, science, and government. (bvsalud.org)
  • Norman Schofield is Professor and Director, Center in Political Economy, Washington University. (umich.edu)
  • Even the best governments, however, are unlikely to change an economy and national infrastructure in less than half a decade, and existing demographic pressures will inevitably go on for at least the next decade. (humansecuritygateway.com)
  • Therefore, he studied economics and law before joining the government of José Figueres Ferrer as the Minister of National Planning and Political Economy at the age of thirty-two. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • 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)
  • The tough times have weakened public support for drastic reforms. (cnn.com)
  • With state governments allowed a special 2 per cent borrowing for Covid-19 over their 3 per cent eligibility, it entails further borrowing of Rs 4 lakh crore over their existing Rs 6 lakh crore, which takes the total government borrowing from public savings to Rs 22 lakh crore. (newindianexpress.com)
  • I don't think there's ever been a time in British politics when so many people in public life spent so much time loudly declaring things they knew not to be true. (lrb.co.uk)
  • At a time when for reasons of public policy emphasis is being given to the need for children to have greater involvement of males, in their day-to-day lives, to lengthen the time period for which the father is totally absent from these families seems to me to be contrary to that policy and the public interest," she ruled. (labor.net.au)
  • Journal of Public Economics , 89 (5-6), 897-931. (um.es)
  • It is possible to win political points by helping the worthy, or 'undeserved' poor, but the public perception is that these have fallen in number. (lu.se)
  • Best of frenemies: do centrist podcasts mark end of political divide? (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • In both cases, two of the oldest liberation parties in Africa, which have remained in office since first coming to power a quarter-century ago, were forced by deep popular discontent to push their leaders aside. (timesofoman.com)
  • But while Zuma's successor, Cyril Ramaphosa, promised a "new dawn" for South Africa when he addressed Parliament within days of Zuma's resignation, Ethiopia declared a state of emergency around the same time, amid widespread concern about whether the state would survive the ethnically charged power struggle to succeed Desalegn. (timesofoman.com)
  • With (say) 25 MPs , their bargaining power in any future government and ability to shape decisions would also be halved. (lse.ac.uk)
  • KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 20 - The time has come for Malaysia to have a unity government that will serve as the lynchpin of political stability and steer the country forward - out of the COVID-19 pandemic and pave the way for full recovery and beyond, according to think tank EMIR Research. (thestoly.com)
  • A unity government would ensure that both the previous incumbent and the opposition have the same opportunity to compete at the next GE whilst ensuring political stability and certainty. (thestoly.com)
  • On the contrary, the factor most closely linked to the arrival of stability and growth is human: Those countries that had an "alternative elite" - a cadre of people who had worked together in the past, who had thought about government and who were at some level prepared to take it over - were far more likely both to carry out radical reforms and to persuade the population to accept them. (anneapplebaum.com)
  • He was elected to the Lok Sabha four times and served as Union Finance Minister and Defence Minister. (wikipedia.org)
  • After a few months, he resigned from his position in order to strengthen the party and Rashid Mfaume Kawawa became prime minister. (dacb.org)
  • The outlook for the ruling Democrats is so bleak that in September Chuan told his party at its annual caucus, "We may need a miracle to win. (cnn.com)
  • Leave yourself time to solve problems as they arise. (indstate.edu)
  • In 1994, the billionaire James Goldsmith founded a political party whose sole purpose was to advocate a referendum. (lrb.co.uk)
  • This reduction has been carried out without any major protests from any political party. (lu.se)
  • Since it was announced and debuted, several commentators noted the podcast's similarity to The Rest is Politics, a successful podcast hosted by Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart. (wikipedia.org)
  • Pat Buchanan's switch to the Reform Party on Oct. 25, 1999, was a dramatic change in the fiery commentators political life. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Why, in a society with a more collectively oriented spirit, has the political discourse taken a sharp turn to the right? (nplusonemag.com)
  • On Modi's Rs 20 lakh crore package, like those financial economists, most opposition parties have only one view - just oppose it. (newindianexpress.com)
  • South Africa's Jacob Zuma finally buckled under pressure from his own party to resign the presidency. (timesofoman.com)
  • Consequently he decided to resign his teaching position and pursue politics. (dacb.org)
  • Tullock illustrates graphically in The Vote Motive (see p. 57) how polarising party wings can give a party an advantage over opponents which share similar policy programmes. (iea.org.uk)
  • Still, the drastic turn in Canadian politics and policy raises some urgent questions. (nplusonemag.com)
  • Workers Online tries to cut through the jargon to compare the major parties' approaches to key policy areas. (labor.net.au)
  • There are two you can look at - economics, foreign policy. (kmuw.org)
  • Two American thought leaders on immigration politics and policy - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I-NY), and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R-KS) - discuss their proposals for America's immigration policy challenges. (cnn.com)
  • Government fragmentation and budgetary policy in "good" and "bad" times in Flemish municipalities. (um.es)
  • 20 years to see that this approach, let alone this policy, has not always delighted in the spoils of political support. (lu.se)
  • The Party informally forms part of the "Tidö-agreement" and has since been able to successfully negotiate its demands on integration and immigration into the government's formal policy stance on these matters. (lu.se)
  • Forest Policy and Economics. (lu.se)
  • On this basis, robotic telesurgery is proposed as a form of global health diplomacy (GHD) between LMICs and HICs, and particular emphasis is placed on considerations in robotic surgery GHD program negotiations between LMICs and HICs and on political and ethical questions related to the transnational use of artificial intelligence. (bvsalud.org)
  • And what of those fringe parties out on the wings? (iea.org.uk)
  • The International Monetary Fund had been called in by the previous government and was dispensing a $17.2 billion bailout. (cnn.com)
  • Named for the American patriots who dumped tea chests into Boston Harbor to protest tariffs and proclaim 'no taxation without representation', the activist movement arose in 2009 in defence of constitutional limited government, under assault by Wall Street bailouts and crony capitalism in Washington. (iea.org.uk)
  • The victory of the Congress Party over the ruling BJP in these two states cannot be ignored so easily. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • Why hold UN climate talks 28 times? (kget.com)
  • These references raise questions, not only about the continuing political relevance of the Bible, but also about the task of Biblical Scholars to engage with the Bible's relevance in today's political climate. (lu.se)
  • Heterodox" theories of economics do, of course, exist (institutionalist, Marxist, feminist, "Austrian," post-Keynesian…), but their exponents have been almost completely locked out of what are considered "serious" departments, and even outright rebellions by economics students (from the post-autistic economics movement in France to post-crash economics in Britain) have largely failed to force them into the core curriculum. (nybooks.com)
  • But whereas South Africa had put in place a robust set of institutional safeguards in the wake of its transition from apartheid, Ethiopia, after the overthrow of Mengistu Haile Mariam's dictatorship, never managed to build national institutions strong enough to save the country from the ruling party. (timesofoman.com)
  • The party of Nelson Mandela risked succumbing to internal rot - and taking the country down with it. (timesofoman.com)
  • The EPRDF continues to imply that any failure by its leadership does not undermine its right to govern the country, while political challenges by opposition groups are portrayed as treasonous. (timesofoman.com)
  • And now," said Netanyahu, "the government plans a further withdrawal in Judea and Samaria-a move that will inevitably create in the center of the country a third Iranian base that will threaten Jerusalem and the entire coastal plain. (thetrumpet.com)
  • There is no rule of law in the country, and government-run services are invariably the worst. (indiauncut.com)
  • He traveled throughout the country campaigning for independence ( Uhuru in Swahili), continuing on even in the face of numerous threats and obstacles from the colonial government. (dacb.org)
  • This signals a turning point in the politics of this country. (parliament.uk)
  • An economics student from Neuchâtel in the western part of the country set up the seven ministers' profiles on the site, a move that has yet to draw a reaction from the government. (swissinfo.ch)
  • Germany's Turkish minority and other ethnic minorities in European countries have experienced tense relationships with EU and country government authorities. (cnn.com)
  • Thereafter, he quickly climbed the party hierarchy to become the party general secretary at the age of thirty-nine and the president of the country at the age of forty-six. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • 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)
  • This isn't a question of whose "enlightened' vision should dictate which policies the government should pursue, what the country should be, or how healthcare and medicine should be run. (medscape.com)
  • The crucial difference is that South Africa had visionary leaders who were aware of the danger that an out-of-touch dominant party could pose. (timesofoman.com)
  • But even then, an authentic alternative elite couldn't have been wholly created on the outside, by exiles or by foreigners: If opposition leaders aren't the product of an indigenous impulse to create alternative institutions - political parties, charities, newspapers, human rights organizations - then they won't have the political clout to push through radical reforms when they get the chance. (anneapplebaum.com)
  • We have never listened to them carefully, except through the hearing aids supplied by the guardians of disorder-the national government leaders, whether capitalist or socialist. (notmytribe.com)
  • Introduced to politics during the chaotic 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, he made it into prestigious Peking University, where he studied law and economics, on his own merits rather than through political connections. (kget.com)
  • The Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government has pardoned nine Catalan nationalists serving decade-long jail sentences over their role in the October 1, 2017, Catalan independence referendum. (wsws.org)
  • A nd David Cameron has today linked changes in Scotland to some solution of the problem of English legislation being voted on by Scottish MPs - where the timetable for any cross-party agreement is likely to stretch a long way past 2015. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Hungary, Poland - and, to a lesser extent, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Baltic states - all benefited from the presence of people who had been thinking about change, and organizing to carry it out, for a long time. (anneapplebaum.com)
  • The time is long overdue that Lloyd Blankfein's early and extensive involvement in the AIG rescue be investigated in detail. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • We have good reason for fearing those conditions, because we have been living with them for a long time, not in anarchist societies (there have never been any) but in exactly those societies most fearful of anarchy-the powerful nation-states of modern times. (notmytribe.com)
  • Long speeches take less time to write. (bis.org)
  • For a long time, Sweden remained reluctant to condition citizenship attainment. (lu.se)
  • For long Sweden stayed an exception to this "European norm of civic integration" (Mulchaly, 2011) In recent years, however, there has been an upsurge of political representatives embracing language testing as a necessary measure to promote integration. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • No political party in Israel has ever obtained a simple majority of seats in the Knesset (61). (thetrumpet.com)
  • The party with the most seats, however, forms a majority rule by coalescing with enough parties to maintain control. (thetrumpet.com)
  • The Referendum Party contested 547 seats and lost all of them. (lrb.co.uk)
  • But this is not one of their safer seats at the best of times. (theconversation.com)
  • The historical trajectories of both parties are largely similar. (timesofoman.com)