• Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald celebrates her election success in 2020. (afr.com)
  • But Kirkmeyer doesn't believe the 2020 election was stolen, and she supports gay marriage. (wmfe.org)
  • Ram Vilas Paswan, a veteran Dalit leader and a political heavyweight from Bihar, passed away in October 2020 after prolonged illness. (indiatimes.com)
  • Quatro crática, en seis bases de datos, en el período de 2015 a 2020, en la cual especialistas avaliaram os itens derivados quanto à clareza, relevância e cuatro especialistas calificaron los elementos derivados según su claridad, tradução por meio do Coeficiente de Validade de Conteúdo (CVC). (bvsalud.org)
  • Packed with contemporary examples, this edition includes material on the 2017 and 2019 General Elections, Covid-19 and the latest Brexit developments. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Elections in 2018 and 2019 present opportunities in this regard - elections, while deeply flawed in Afghanistan, remain popular with the general public. (c-r.org)
  • Supporting more democratic local governance may be one way to enhance representation, and presidential elections in 2019 are an opportunity for the international community to mediate electoral reform. (c-r.org)
  • By combining a large-N study of government formation processes in 17 West European parliamentary democracies (1945-2019) with an in-depth case study of the prolonged Swedish government formation process in 2018-2019, it is shown that pre-electoral coalitions that fail to win a majority can sometimes delay, not speed up, government formation. (lu.se)
  • The results of the March 31st 2019 elections show that a female mayor was elected in only 4 provinces. (lu.se)
  • This book covers all the core topics from Democracy and Participation, Elections and Referendums and Voting Behaviour, to the Constitution, the Prime Minister and Parliament. (bloomsbury.com)
  • ANKARA: The United States warned Wednesday that efforts to bar the main pro-Kurdish party in Turkey would undermine the nation's democracy. (arabnews.com)
  • monitoring the initiation of efforts to dissolve the People's Democratic Party, a decision that would unduly subvert the will of Turkish voters, further undermine democracy in Turkey, and deny millions of Turkish citizens their chosen representation," State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement. (arabnews.com)
  • The closure case launched against our party is a heavy blow to democracy and law," the HDP said in a statement, adding that its "determined struggle for democratic politics" would continue. (arabnews.com)
  • Exploring public perceptions and desires, Katharine Dommett finds that far from rejecting parties, there is ongoing support for party democracy. (manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk)
  • India is witnessing a relay race at the sub-national electoral process to form government through representative democracy. (governancenow.com)
  • Instead of representing people or problems of their constituency, representative form of democracy has created caste and religion as political constituency. (governancenow.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The book was shortlisted for EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize 2017, with the motivation "Astrid Noren-Nilsson's Cambodia's Second Kingdom: Nation, Imagination, and Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program 2016) is a thought-provoking book about Cambodia's politics that is highly original in its approach, and grounded in some remarkable research, including numerous interviews with prominent figures. (lu.se)
  • The Institute of Democracy conducts research about democratic development and political communication between citizens, media and parties. (lu.se)
  • A select number of groups (business, labor, NGOs) interact with government to make policy. (powershow.com)
  • NGOs bridge the information gap between the government and the society. (governancenow.com)
  • The BRLP model reinforces the idea that the NGOs are required as a part of governance by government institutions suggesting a need for change in structure and function of the government. (governancenow.com)
  • NGOs have failed to change the discourse of power and politics despite their strength and wider reach. (governancenow.com)
  • 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)
  • American Government includes updated information on the 2016 presidential election. (oercommons.org)
  • From a democratic perspective, as Joana Mendes has pointed out, this question is of very high political relevance and "ought to place the legitimacy of the procedures followed for the adoption of these acts at the core of the discussion of the legitimacy of the Union" (2016, p. 238). (lu.se)
  • Since then, Sinn Fein's support in polls has only risen further, as the party campaigns heavily on cost of living issues, such as housing. (afr.com)
  • There is nothing surprising about this, as political parties have the organization, resources, name recognition and motivation needed to run effective election campaigns. (opednews.com)
  • Italian politics are never boring, and election campaigns are always times of particularly strident debate. (hrw.org)
  • The book presents evidence of a desire for change in party ethos, introducing the idea of the re-imagined party to explore perceptions of party representation, participation, governance and conduct. (manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk)
  • ODS Chief Secretary Ekaterina Mihailova yesterday reiterated that the ODS is open to coalition talks with Simeon's movement -- provided that the ODS's traditional rival, the Socialists, are not invited to participate: 'We cannot join any form of government with the participation, or the backing, of the Bulgarian Socialist Party. (rferl.org)
  • 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)
  • The Democratic Congress-led coalition collapsed in 2017, and an early election was called. (theconversation.com)
  • Dr Habiba Sarabi, Deputy Chair of the High Peace Council in Afghanistan, discusses some of her thoughts on elections and peace in Afghanistan , from a conversation with Anna Larson in November 2017. (c-r.org)
  • Meanwhile the populist Five Star Movement-never coherent on immigration issues- took a sharp turn to the right after a poor showing in 2017 local elections. (hrw.org)
  • 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)
  • While there is a positive Chernobyl effect in all elections from 1988 to 2018, the coefficient was only statistically significant until the 1994 elections. (lu.se)
  • Ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does in the United States. (opednews.com)
  • The possibility for stakeholders, as well as other interested parties and citizens, to participate in the law-making process is a vital part of any democratic system. (lu.se)
  • Preliminary figures put voter turnout at nearly 67 percent -- slightly higher than the last general election in 1997. (rferl.org)
  • The party's first electoral contest was the Greenough state by-election, which took place following the retirement of former Premier David Brand. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sam Matekane, the new party's leader, has announced a three-member coalition government. (theconversation.com)
  • The prosecutor also demanded financial restrictions on the party, including a halt to financial aid from the Treasury and a cautionary judgment on the party's assets, Haberturk said. (arabnews.com)
  • HDP co-leaders Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar said earlier this month that if shut down the party's members would regroup under a different banner, as was done in the past when similar parties were closed. (arabnews.com)
  • Party polarization is the division between the two major parties on most policy issues, with members of each party is unified around their party's position with little crossover. (ipl.org)
  • Obama's political weakness helps explain why so many Republicans are thinking of running for their party's nomination against him. (arizona.edu)
  • 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)
  • Unfortunately I was not active in other activities like student spex and unions, though I was national vice-chair of the Centre Party's youth organisation, CUF, while I was studying and one year I campaigned for election to Parliament (and got in). (lu.se)
  • A TD can be a member of a Government party, the Opposition or an independent. (spunout.ie)
  • We call on all the democratic forces, the social and political opposition, and on our people to join a common fight against this political coup," it said in a statement. (arabnews.com)
  • In years since, Erdogan has repeatedly expressed his opposition to closing parties down. (arabnews.com)
  • As the leader of the republic's opposition, Mary Lou McDonald is the new face of a political party best known for its association with the IRA paramilitary group. (afr.com)
  • Government and Opposition, 1-18. (gu.se)
  • For example, reformulating Afghanistan's political system to facilitate broader inclusion and accommodate opposition non-violently might offer a way to support sustainable stability and insulate Afghanistan against regional political change or interference. (c-r.org)
  • For the first time, the democratic opposition came close to victory over the ruling party in the 2013 national elections. (lu.se)
  • Now, with right wing extremist parties advancing in Europe and Trump as president of the USA, this opposition has disappeared, according to Norén Nilsson. (lu.se)
  • therefore, less centrists are in government, and polarization between the two parties occur, with politicians growing farther apart on the ideological scale in order to satisfy the voting needs of the voters they have already captured (high-income for Republicans, and middle/low-income for Democrats). (ipl.org)
  • The sensitive dynamic between wealth and education in determining partisanship encourages politicians to polarize in order to attract voters on their side of the political spectrum. (ipl.org)
  • Before considering how juries could choose politicians, a very brief review of what is wrong with popular election may be helpful. (opednews.com)
  • Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and FDR are among the many other prominent politicians who have noted the considerable influence rich campaign donors have on American politics. (opednews.com)
  • Often rallying of unemployed youth behind politicians in elections is achieved by showing them a glimmer of hope for their future. (governancenow.com)
  • These processes may be restricted to the confines of a self-contained universe of politicians and political parties, or they may involve 'external' events, such as, for example, elections, or the state of the economy. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • During the past decade, many parliamentary democracies have experienced bargaining delays when forming governments. (lu.se)
  • In parliamentary democracies, elections distribute the seats in parliament, but who gets into government and determines the policy agenda over the course of the legislative term is decided upon after the elections, in negotiations between the political parties. (lu.se)
  • The 2022 national elections in Lesotho will go down in the country's history as among the most eventful. (theconversation.com)
  • A movement launched only two months ago by Bulgaria's former king soundly defeated the four-year-old ruling center-right coalition in the country's parliamentary elections yesterday. (rferl.org)
  • Prague, 18 June 2001 (RFE/RL) -- In Bulgaria's parliamentary elections yesterday, voters flocked to support a movement created by the country's last king. (rferl.org)
  • The country's Socialist Party of former communists -- who, along with the ODS, have alternated in governing the country since the end of one-party rule in 1989 -- was the election's other big loser. (rferl.org)
  • 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)
  • A Turkish prosecutor has asked the Constitutional Court to shut down the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the third-largest group in parliament. (arabnews.com)
  • It became not just the party of social justice, but also the unabashed champion of economic opportunity and individual aspiration… Yesterday Alistair Darling, using the sombre tones appropriate to the occasion, provided members of Parliament with details of New Labour's tragic end. (spiked-online.com)
  • Of the other 32 parties with candidates running for election, only the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) met the 4-percent requirement needed to enter parliament, receiving just under 7 percent. (rferl.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • In the fall of 1994, President Bill Clinton suffered similar numbers, with only 38 percent saying he deserved re-election and 57 percent saying he didn't. (arizona.edu)
  • Election results includes the percent of vote and/or number of seats held by each party in the last election. (nationmaster.com)
  • She had previously decided that it was to be her last election campaign. (lu.se)
  • Buoyed by that success, the Workers' Party ran three House of Representatives and five Senate candidates in Western Australia at the 1975 federal election. (wikipedia.org)
  • Subsequently, the New South Wales party nominated candidates at 1976 by-elections in the seats of Pittwater and The Hills. (wikipedia.org)
  • Candidates raise money, they build campaign staffs, they hone their appeals to the party faithful. (brookings.edu)
  • Unfortunately, popular election is extremely unsuitable for ensuring informed rule because the public only learn about candidates and their platforms voluntarily in their spare time, and often pay little attention. (opednews.com)
  • Sixty-seven percent also said that the scandal would not make them more likely to support candidates from a particular party. (ppic.org)
  • History suggests that these numbers are a snapshot of sentiment today, and not necessarily a prediction of the next election. (arizona.edu)
  • Votes at local level do not really support the need to thrust selection or rejection based on development performance, though governance and development pitch remains an overt political slogan during the election. (governancenow.com)
  • Age Inequalit https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2023.11 ies in Political Representation: A Review Article. (gu.se)
  • 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)
  • The election results confirm the trend that started in 2012 - that voters have the power to replace governments. (theconversation.com)
  • The formation of the Revolution for Prosperity party, just six months before the 2022 elections, by the business mogul Sam Matekane , gave voters an opportunity to replace the governing coalition of the All Basotho Convention and the Democratic Congress . (theconversation.com)
  • The HDP first took part in elections in 2014, espousing broadly left-wing and pro-minority policies which helped it appeal beyond its grassroots support in the mainly Kurdish southeast to liberal voters elsewhere. (arabnews.com)
  • Voter income has become increasingly affiliated to ideological and party ID, with higher-income voters tending to be linked with Republicans, and lower-income voters leaning Democrat. (ipl.org)
  • How do voters participate and achieve political efficacy? (powershow.com)
  • Kirkmeyer says voters of all backgrounds tell her their top issue this election is cost of living. (wmfe.org)
  • A total of five surveys will be conducted and released during the 1998 election cycle. (ppic.org)
  • SAN FRANCISCO, California, October 12, 1998 - With the general election a mere three weeks away, predictions about the electoral effects of the impeachment crisis are not being borne out by public opinion, according to a survey released today by the Public Policy Institute of California. (ppic.org)
  • The 2022 elections continued that trend. (theconversation.com)
  • The post-2022 elections coalition led by Matekane's party is the fifth in a decade. (theconversation.com)
  • The new coalition announced on 11 October 2022 comprises the Revolution for Prosperity Party, the Alliance of Democrats and the Movement for Economic Change . (theconversation.com)
  • It's the quality of government stupid' explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election. (gu.se)
  • On 15 September 2022, Annie announced that she intended to resign as party leader of the Centre Party. (lu.se)
  • adoption of the government budget , declarations of war and peace, defining national boundaries, calling referendums and elections, appointments and relief of officers, supervising the Government of Croatia and other holders of public powers responsible to the Sabor, and granting of amnesties. (wikipedia.org)
  • But parties formed pre-election alliances to contest elections. (theconversation.com)
  • When Van Buren moved from state to national politics, he immediately set out to create new alliances. (nps.gov)
  • The six-party grand alliance and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) pose challenges, and the BJP may need to court smaller parties and strengthen alliances to expand its electoral base. (indiatimes.com)
  • Following the collapse of the ruling Communist League , Croatia adopted a new constitution in 1990 - which replaced the 1974 constitution adopted by the Socialist Republic of Croatia - and organised its first multi-party elections. (wikipedia.org)
  • She has published on themes related to the politics of contemporary Cambodia, addressing in particular the role of nationalist imaginings in shaping the era of multi-party elections, as well as the role of transforming perceptions of legitimate power and of citizenship. (lu.se)
  • My research examines Cambodia's post-conflict reconstruction politics since the 1993 reintroduction of multi-party elections until present. (lu.se)
  • Islamist parties have also been banned in previous decades, with Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party itself surviving a closure case in 2008. (arabnews.com)
  • Party polarization in American politics is a phenomenon that has been pervading into American government for the last few decades. (ipl.org)
  • For decades, parties have organised government, competed in elections and influenced the way society is run. (manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk)
  • In Swedish politics, the future of nuclear power has been a major issue for several decades. (lu.se)
  • as well as an extended discussion of the rise and fall of the royalist political party FUNCINPEC, which won the 1993 post-UNTAC election but within two decades had been practically wiped out by Hun Sen's CPP. (lu.se)
  • Party Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programme at a press conference at its Nayapaltan central office in the capital today. (thedailystar.net)
  • An apt example is the success of government of Bihar initiative on rural livelihoods programme. (governancenow.com)
  • In addition, a lack of familiarity may sometimes lead to a breakdown of negotiations and drawn-out government formation processes. (lu.se)
  • Options for institutional reform present dilemmas between a presidential or parliamentary system and how to promote a more party-oriented electoral arrangement that can encourage greater accountability but discourage further ethnic mobilisation and division. (c-r.org)
  • Their USA is one where whites of all classes feel comfortable with the government that looks like them -- a country where the ethnic minorities know their place. (links.org.au)
  • We must find the courage to choose peace over conflicts, to choose health for all over political, ethnic, religious and other divisions. (who.int)
  • This is the first time that Nagaland is witnessing the victory of so many political parties in the state Assembly elections. (indiatimes.com)
  • Bulgarian President Petar Stoyanov, who today congratulated Simeon's movement on its election victory, called for continuity and greater consensus in politics. (rferl.org)
  • 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)
  • The period between 1993 and 2012 was one of a one-party dominated political system. (theconversation.com)
  • But the writing has been on the wall since 2002, when the country changed the electoral system, that coalitions are the future of electoral politics in Lesotho. (theconversation.com)
  • The first is pre-electoral coalitions, which are declarations by parties stating that they intend to collaborate with each other after the election. (lu.se)
  • In addition to having a dynamic approach to analysing coalitions, the contributions in the special issue use brand-new comparative data from several independent research projects investigating various aspects of coalition politics. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • Electoral competition, political parties and clientelism: evidence from local elections in South Africa. (gu.se)
  • The purpose of the PPIC Statewide Survey is to develop an in-depth profile of the social, economic, and political forces at work in California elections and in shaping the state's public policies. (ppic.org)
  • Surveys are intended to provide the public and policymakers with relevant information on the following: Californians' overall impressions of key policy issues and of quality of life, differences in social and political attitudes among demographic groups and across different regions of the state, the characteristics of groups that are shaping the state's elections and policy debates, and the political attitudes underlying "voter distrust" of government and low voter turnout. (ppic.org)
  • While reform before the coming cycle is not likely, a large-scale overhaul of the political system is overdue and a consultative process to initiate this could bolster the legitimacy of a newly elected president. (c-r.org)
  • Probably the only issue all political parties agree on is the need to reform the Dublin Regulation. (hrw.org)
  • Roy Hattersley, deputy leader of Labour when the party suffered its fourth successive electoral defeat in 1992, was exultant: 'This is the social democratic moment. (spiked-online.com)
  • The suggestion that New Labour is dead is somewhat ironic since the party is itself merely the zombie left behind after the demise of 'Old Labour', which was placed on life support, brain dead, after that 1992 election defeat. (spiked-online.com)
  • President George H.W. Bush bested Republican Pat Buchanan in 1992, but went on to lose the general election to Democrat Bill Clinton. (arizona.edu)
  • Organizations with leaders involved in politics, but not standing for legislative election. (nationmaster.com)
  • A party formed only six months ahead of the legislative election, Revolution for Prosperity, emphatically ended the reign of the All Basotho Convention and the Democratic Congress, which have dominated politics in the kingdom of 2.1 million people since 2012. (theconversation.com)
  • The Progress Party, initially known as the Workers Party, was a minor political party in Australia in the mid-to-late 1970s. (wikipedia.org)
  • The HDP had recently come under intensified pressure, with nationalist allies of President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party (AKP) calling for it to be banned over alleged ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group. (arabnews.com)
  • Trust me' was the pivotal phrase in Simeon's election campaign, in which the former king promised new moral standards in politics, increased wages and pensions for public sector workers, and interest-free loans for small entrepreneurs. (rferl.org)
  • However, the party failed to win seats at any level of government and had gone out of existence by 1981. (wikipedia.org)
  • That said, there is no way of predicting whether or not your party will have all, some or none of the seats until the first count is complete. (spunout.ie)
  • Over the last few election cycles, Democrats have picked up a number of seats after a more liberal Florida Supreme Court redrew congressional and state Senate districts. (jdsupra.com)
  • On election night, there were four competitive state Senate seats (SD 3 open DEM Tallahassee), SD 9 (open REP Central FL), SD 39 (open REP Miami-Key West), and SD 37 (DEM Jose Javier Rodriguez). (jdsupra.com)
  • The party went on to contest the 1980 Western Australian state election, but achieved a significantly lower level of support. (wikipedia.org)
  • President Jimmy Carter defeated Democratic challenger Edward Kennedy in 1980, but lost the general election to Republican Ronald Reagan. (arizona.edu)
  • This is the system we use here for our local elections, European elections and general elections. (spunout.ie)
  • Local political organization, founded in 1985. (utoledo.edu)
  • This collection will be of great interest to local historians of Toledo, as well as to historians of American municipal government. (utoledo.edu)
  • How do women in local politics contribute to policy making at the local governments? (lu.se)
  • In the paper, I study how the local variations in fallout contributed to support for the MP using data from parliamentary elections. (lu.se)
  • It includes various web and print resources in presidential, federal, state, local and world elections. (lu.se)
  • Richardson was unsuccessful in his bid for the Senate, with the party polling just over 10,000 votes, or 1.7 percent of the state total. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, in the UK, the monarch is the chief of state, and the prime minister is the head of government. (nationmaster.com)
  • In the US, the president is both the chief of state and the head of government. (nationmaster.com)
  • Martin Van Buren's successful career was cemented early on with the formation of the Albany Regency, a political group he helped found that controlled New York state politics until the Civil War. (nps.gov)
  • Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long portrayed the HDP as the political front of banned Kurdish militants who have been waging an insurgency against the Turkish state that has claimed tens of thousands of lives since 1984. (arabnews.com)
  • The argument the Israeli government most often gives for these criminal acts is that Palestinian buildings do not have permits issued by the Israeli state. (aljazeera.com)
  • Nitish Kumar's JD(U) dissolves its Nagaland state committee after its state president gives a letter of support to the newly formed government in that state without consulting the central party. (indiatimes.com)
  • The President is always the nominee of one of the two main parties, as are the vast majority of Congress, state governors and state legislators. (opednews.com)
  • Once a seat is won, ruling parties or government as an agency of the State need not go back to the electorate for a review of development performance as there is hardly a tangible transformation in the lives of the poor. (governancenow.com)
  • A double bomb attack that killed 31 people in a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of Jos was likely to have been carried out by Boko Haram, the state government said on Friday. (pmnewsnigeria.com)
  • Ayuba said the Plateau state government had previously received intelligence about the possibility of a new attack by the militants and ruled out any political link to the violence. (pmnewsnigeria.com)
  • The nation-state is undoubtedly the most important political formation in the world today. (lu.se)
  • This rhetoric seemed somewhat surprising, as the state sees itself as the principal custodian of Islam in the archipelago, and as the government neither had any intention nor any legal ground to change that. (lu.se)
  • What do the results tell us about Lesotho's electoral politics? (theconversation.com)
  • I'm very conscious it is a very dangerous enterprise to assume election results when no election has been called, much less been had. (afr.com)
  • The results of our survey offer an important reality check as we head into to the home stretch of this election cycle. (ppic.org)
  • Final election results are expected by Wednesday. (rferl.org)
  • The election results appear to have confirmed the successful political emergence of Simeon II, who has spent most of his adult life living in Spain. (rferl.org)
  • There seems to be a desire for change - also confirmed by the latest election results. (lu.se)
  • The database combines approximately 1400 parties, 680 elections with 5800 election results and 2300 governing parties in 960 cabinets. (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)
  • 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)
  • Minors are available in Political Science, International Relations, Public Policy and Management, Paralegal Studies, and Political and Civic Engagement. (mtsu.edu)
  • Click "Sign Up" to agree to The Advocate's For Self Governments' Terms of Service and acknowledge that The Advocate's Privacy Policy applies to you. (theadvocates.org)
  • The political demands of groups and individuals are combined into policy programs. (powershow.com)
  • Govt accepts their input as the groups seek a common good in controlling policy making. (powershow.com)
  • Chesdata estimate party positioning on European integration, ideology and policy issues for national parties in a variety of European countries. (lu.se)
  • interestingly, despite the generally higher-income population being linked with the Republican Party, the well-educated, who presumably also have a decent amount of wealth, are linked with the Democratic Party. (ipl.org)
  • The Republican Party is worse. (links.org.au)
  • Lesotho Revolution for Prosperity party leader Sam Matekane (centre), Alliance of Democrats deputy leader Professor Ntoi Rapapa (L) and Movement for Economic Change leader Selibe Mochoboroane. (theconversation.com)
  • These districts are increasingly drawn to be safe for one political party or another so that the district has a clear majority of either republicans or Democrats. (ipl.org)
  • Before the election, Republicans had 72 members, Democrats 48. (jdsupra.com)
  • We call on the government of Turkey to respect freedom of expression in line with protections in the Turkish constitution and with Turkey's international obligations," he added. (arabnews.com)
  • The Croatian constitution and legislation provides for regular presidential and parliamentary elections, and the election of county prefects (county presidents) and assemblies, and city and municipal mayors and councils. (wikipedia.org)
  • Before graduating with a degree in political science (pre-law concentration) and a minor in criminal justice, Slatton finished up his paid internship, obtained through MTSU's legislative intern program, knowing that he had successfully crafted and lobbied for a bill that passed both houses of the General Assembly - a feat veteran Capitol staffers told him may very well have been a first for an intern. (mtsu.edu)
  • BNP will take out mass processions in the capital on Saturday as part of its one-point movement demanding resignation of the government and general elections under a non-party interim government. (thedailystar.net)
  • A General Election occurs every few years in Ireland. (spunout.ie)
  • There must be at least one General Election every five years. (spunout.ie)
  • TD's are elected to the Dáil at general elections. (spunout.ie)
  • He has doggedly stuck to cultivating his base, which, while intense and loyal, is not likely to carry him in a general election. (brookings.edu)
  • While he is loved, he is also hated, meaning that he will certainly have problems in the general election. (brookings.edu)
  • But even when a president beats back a primary challenge, it can weaken his candidacy in the general election. (arizona.edu)
  • A national financial catastrophe prevented his chances for re-election, but enslavement became the issue that shaped and defined his legacy. (nps.gov)
  • The test is made up of multiple-choice questions about Canada, including Canada's history, geography, political system, national symbols, identity and values, and of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. (settlement.org)
  • True to form, Florida was one of the epicenters of national politics this past election night. (jdsupra.com)
  • But the tenor of the campaign leading up to Italy's national elections on March 4 on immigration issues is profoundly alarming. (hrw.org)
  • There's some serious electoral jeopardy and his position is very tenuous,"" said Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., which conducted the national post-election poll. (arizona.edu)
  • 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)
  • National elections around the world and much more. (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)
  • Finally, a readable and in-depth analysis of British Politics with scaffolded elements to both challenge and support students. (bloomsbury.com)
  • That has coincided with falling poll support for the AKP and its nationalist allies as Erdogan's government battles the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. (arabnews.com)
  • With the firm support of the US and the confidence of normalisation with Arab states, successive Israeli governments have accelerated the Judaisation of the occupied city over the past five years. (aljazeera.com)
  • What kind of political support will be allocated to it? (medscape.com)
  • At such an important time for the study of Politics, Essentials of UK Politics and Government cuts right through the complexities and jargon and guides students to the heart of the crucial debates, whilst remaining both challenging and accessible. (bloomsbury.com)
  • By that time, it was clear that single party dominance had ended. (theconversation.com)
  • It was a volatile time in American politics. (nps.gov)
  • This article explains some of the key terms that are used in Irish politics and around the time of an election. (spunout.ie)
  • This entry gives the name of the seat of government, its geographic coordinates , the time difference relative to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the time observed in Washington, DC, and, if applicable, information on daylight saving time (DST) . (nationmaster.com)
  • These groups, or political parties, spent much of their time advocating for certain policies, events, or other governmental issues, such as supporting or opposing the current president. (ipl.org)
  • For the first time in ages, there appears to be 'clear blue water' between a high-spending Labour Party and the Conservatives insisting that tax cuts must be paid for by cutting public spending. (spiked-online.com)
  • By supporting Italy in trying to stop the boats while at the same time failing to share responsibility for those arriving, the rest of the EU has helped to create fertile ground for anti-immigrant politics. (hrw.org)
  • 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)
  • It also allowed us to tentatively indicate whether these acts, in fact, seem to become more "political" over time. (lu.se)
  • The Irish political system can sometimes seem confusing, as Irish terms and words are often used as well as English. (spunout.ie)
  • Her main reason for the visit is to talk with senior members of the Australian government, including Foreign Minister Penny Wong, and Irish-Australian business leaders to discuss her view of Ireland's role in the post-Brexit world. (afr.com)
  • We turn to Irish politics. (afr.com)
  • This paper examines this tension by discusses the largely taken for granted notion of Maldivian Muslim nationalism, while focussing on the religious-nationalist rhetoric surrounding the controversial transfer of government in 2012. (lu.se)
  • For my PhD research at the University of Cambridge, I explored the role of nationalist imaginings, discourses and narratives in Cambodia's new political order. (lu.se)
  • Jaiswal ruled out a thaw in relations with Kumar's party, JD(U), and emphasized that the BJP is determined to form a full majority government in Bihar in the 2025 assembly polls. (indiatimes.com)
  • Bihar election is an ongoing testimony of this battle between the political parties to win at any cost and for political leaders to establish supremacy within their party. (governancenow.com)
  • In large states like Bihar, there are gaps left by the government in the developmental process, some intentional, some due to lack of funds but mostly due to lack of transparency and accountability. (governancenow.com)
  • In addition, Florida demonstrated its election reforms put into place since the disputed 2000 recount worked, resulting in quick, accurate reporting of Election Day, early and absentee voting. (jdsupra.com)
  • Vlada ), the main executive power of Croatia, is headed by the prime minister, who has four deputy prime ministers who serve also as government ministers. (wikipedia.org)
  • After election night, Republicans took their majority to a 78-42 majority. (jdsupra.com)
  • Patrick Dixon is one of the world's best-known Futurist keynote speakers, has worked with hundreds of the world's largest companies, many governments and non-profits, and has been ranked one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today. (globalchange.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)
  • 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)
  • These developments make research into Cambodian politics even more urgent, according to Astrid Norén Nilsson. (lu.se)
  • Noren-Nilsson explores notions of monarchy and politics that resonate well beyond the Cambodian case. (lu.se)
  • Cambodia's Second Kingdom throws new analytical light on Cambodian politics and is essential reading for all serious students of the country. (lu.se)