• Many Socialists were imprisoned, and the small Communist Party was also banned. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • among the Slovak ones, the Slovak Democratic Party and the Slovak Communist Party. (bibliomanie.it)
  • There were many different organisations involved in the anti-fascist movement - trade unions, Independent Labour Party, Communist Party, National Unemployed Workers Movement, local Labour Parties (the leadership, then as now, was firmly opposed to confronting the fascists). (libcom.org)
  • But the Chinese Communist Party takes a more modest view of its ability to address geopolitical challenges, including the challenge of nuclear disarmament. (thebulletin.org)
  • The opposition sat in the parliament and local governments, and political parties were allowed to function legally. (wikipedia.org)
  • Polish historian Andrzej Chojnowski [pl] notes that elections under Piłsudski's regime were still organised along the principles of parliamentary democracy, and the Sanacja regime was genuinely popular as the opposition parties were blamed for failing to prevent the Great Depression. (wikipedia.org)
  • While the actions of the opposition were hampered, repressions were rare and only two parties were banned: Camp of Great Poland and National Radical Camp. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mid-term elections were proposed by the internationals (initially against the wishes of both parties), with the primary aim of legitimizing the CPA and the exercise in self-determination, and the secondary objective of accelerating the transition to democracy, with both goals to be achieved by including other opposition parties in the Government of National Unity. (africanarguments.org)
  • One of Russia's richest men accused the Kremlin yesterday of deliberately replacing delegates at his opposition party conference with 'doubles' as part of an effort to sabotage his nascent political career. (independent.co.uk)
  • All the major political parties in Russia are 'directed' from inside the Kremlin, and there is a broad consensus that Right Cause was set up not to offer real, robust opposition to the government but instead to be a 'controlled opposition' force that would attract businessmen and intelligentsia who had become disenchanted with the tedious world of Russian politics. (independent.co.uk)
  • A dominant-party system , or one-party dominant system , is a political occurrence in which a single political party continuously dominates election results over running opposition groups or parties. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sometimes the term " de facto one-party state" is used to describe dominant-party systems which, unlike a one-party system, allows (at least nominally) democratic multiparty elections, but the existing practices or balance of political power effectively prevent the opposition from winning power, thus resembling a one-party state. (wikipedia.org)
  • Plurality voting systems can result in large majorities for a party with a lower percentage of the vote than in proportional representation systems due to a fractured opposition (resulting in wasted votes and a lower number of parties entering the legislature) and gerrymandering . (wikipedia.org)
  • This is manifest in the obsession with the quality of electoral opposition, and its sidelining or ignoring of popular political activity organised in other ways. (wikipedia.org)
  • Those detained for political reasons, including those perceived to support the opposition, who criticize the president or who highlight the current administration's policy failures, and those implicated in coup attempts, are often subjected to torture or other ill-treatment, frequently carried out by the Jungulers. (hrw.org)
  • Hoover fellow Michael A. McFaul explains why the Yeltsin government lacks an opposition--and why the lack is so dangerous. (hoover.org)
  • Opposition factions control a majority of seats in the Duma, the national legislature. (hoover.org)
  • Moreover, the power the Russian Communists and other opposition parties have accrued has not been used effectively. (hoover.org)
  • I'm shocked and dismayed to see how quickly many Latin Americans and Latin American scholars have forgotten how much worse it was to live, and how much harder it was to work for social justice, under regimes that came to power by military force, that disbanded political parties, trade unions and human rights groups, and that murdered, disappeared, imprisoned or exiled opposition leaders. (nacla.org)
  • Opinion polls regularly put the opposition Labour Party 20 points or more ahead. (ksat.com)
  • Former Ghanaian President John Mahama of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) was voted out of office in 2016 following public disaffection over widespread corruption among party officials, economic mismanagement, and a debilitating power crisis that plagued the country for much of his term. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Guided democracy, also called managed democracy, is a formally democratic government that functions as a de facto authoritarian government or, in some cases, as an autocratic government. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a guided democracy, the government controls elections such that the people can exercise democratic rights without truly changing public policy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Politics portal Authoritarian democracy Conservative democracy Dominant-party system Enlightened absolutism Ethnic democracy Herrenvolk democracy Illiberal democracy Totalitarian democracy Dictablanda Sovereign democracy Types of democracy Rohmann, C (2000) A World of Ideas : The Dictionary of Important Ideas and Thinkers, Ballantine Books ISBN 978-0-345-43706-8 Wolin, Sheldon S. (2008). (wikipedia.org)
  • Critics of the "dominant party" theory argue that it views the meaning of democracy as given, and that it assumes that only a particular conception of representative democracy (in which different parties alternate frequently in power) is valid. (wikipedia.org)
  • Its fundamental political assumptions are restricted to one form of democracy, namely electoral politics, and display hostility towards popular politics. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is a book about what these men and women think about national and neighborhood democracy, about their dreams of a better society, and about their sense of themselves as cultural citizens. (ucpress.edu)
  • But here at last is a terrain that can be genuinely contested by radicals because democracy and equality are now what we struggle with, and what we struggle for. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Italy's Christian Democracy Party (DC) was in power for almost fifty years, from 1945 to 1994. (firstthings.com)
  • The European People's Party (EPP), inspired by Christian Democracy, has consistently been the largest single group at the European Parliament since that body's beginning in 1976. (firstthings.com)
  • In an interview a few years ago, the political scientist Robert Dahl commented that what troubled him most about his discipline was its inability to settle on a definition of "democracy. (nacla.org)
  • To some of the contributors to this Report, "democracy" necessarily means a form of government that either guarantees or progressively moves toward a relatively equal distribution of assets and income and therefore of social status, dignity, political power and personal freedom. (nacla.org)
  • To others, democracy is a set of institutions and procedures ensuring that effective political decision-makers are chosen in free and fair elections, under conditions in which citizens have access to diverse sources of independent information, can express their political opinions freely and can organize and join parties and other organizations without fear of government retaliation. (nacla.org)
  • I also would agree with what I think is a consensual statement: that there is a contradiction in a foreign policy that promotes polyarchy while simultaneously undermining any social democracy that respects the rules of polyarchy, because a commitment to polyarchy requires the United States to accept elected governments that respect political liberties, regardless of their ideological orientation. (nacla.org)
  • One of these, that of a two-party political system having great potential for transforming Malaysia's current democracy into a means to national character and human flourishing. (newmandala.org)
  • But they were popular, and the Socialists gained strength to the point where the government was left with a majority of only one. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • Neither of them represent the two parties - the center-left Socialists and center-right Republicans - that have traditionally dominated French politics. (vox.com)
  • Johnson has acknowledged misleading Parliament when he assured lawmakers that no rules had been broken, but he said he didn't do so deliberately, genuinely believing the gatherings were legitimate work events. (ksat.com)
  • [7] In contrast to one-party systems , dominant-party systems can occur within a context of a democratic system as well as an authoritarian one. (wikipedia.org)
  • the dominant party genuinely wins the votes of the vast majority of voters every time (or, in authoritarian systems, claims to). (wikipedia.org)
  • But for Yapici and others, Gezi was a reflection of something much larger: A once reform-minded and democratizing government that was becoming increasingly heavy-handed and intolerant of dissent, and a leader, Erdogan, who was growing dangerously imperious and authoritarian. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • [1] Any ruling party staying in power for more than one consecutive term may be considered a dominant party (also referred to as a predominant or hegemonic party). (wikipedia.org)
  • [2] Some dominant parties were called the natural governing party , given their length of time in power. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dominant parties, and their domination of a state, develop out of one-sided electoral and party constellations within a multi-party system (particularly under presidential systems of governance), and as such differ from states under a one -party system , which are intricately organized around a specific party. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dominant-party systems differ from the political dynamics of other dominant multi-party constellations such as consociationalism , grand coalitions and two-party systems , which are characterized and sustained by narrow or balanced competition and cooperation. (wikipedia.org)
  • list of dominant-party systems at different times. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dominant-party systems are commonly based on majority rule for proportional representation or majority boosting in semi-proportional representation . (wikipedia.org)
  • [7] Raymond Suttner , himself a former leader of the African National Congress (ANC), argues that "the dominant party 'system' is deeply flawed as a mode of analysis and lacks explanatory capacity. (wikipedia.org)
  • One of the dangers of dominant parties is "the tendency of dominant parties to conflate party and state and to appoint party officials to senior positions irrespective of their having the required qualities. (wikipedia.org)
  • [7] However, in some countries this is common practice even when there is no dominant party. (wikipedia.org)
  • Often these parties are mobilised behind a dominant personality with charisma and oratory skills. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • The relation is not, as neoconservatives would have it, that the US-led invasion of Iraq initiated a democratic domino effect, and it is not, as Vice President Joe Biden would have it, that Arabs consider the post-invasion political system in Iraq worthy of emulation. (fpif.org)
  • The lesson of the Iraq war, indeed, is that regime change by external intervention blocks aspirations for more democratic and humane political systems. (fpif.org)
  • Christian Democratic parties have gradually abandoned some core values, such as defending the traditional family, traditional communities, and a common ethical heritage. (firstthings.com)
  • Located on the campus of Stanford University and in Washington, DC, the Hoover Institution is the nation's preeminent research center dedicated to generating policy ideas that promote economic prosperity, national security, and democratic governance. (hoover.org)
  • Although both of the political parties produced manifestos late into the campaign, the contents are meant to be the most effective way for them to sell themselves to the voter and reveal their intentions if either the United Democratic Party or the People's Progressive Movement returns enough candidates to form the next government. (caymannewsservice.com)
  • The only reliable and sustainable basis on which to build a left party is to orientate it towards the only democratic institutions that everyone can engage in and the only institutions that have democratic authority over society - parliamentary elections. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Since regaining power in 2014, the Swedish Social Democratic party has pushed a security policy line combining increased spending on the Swedish armed forces and deepened international cooperation while at the same time maintaining the policy of military non- alignment. (lu.se)
  • Drawing on previous research on the development of Swedish foreign and security policy, this study aims to contribute to our understanding of the self- image and ideas that have formed the ambiguous character of the security doctrine pushed by the Social Democratic Party since regaining power in 2014. (lu.se)
  • This comment by the Swedish Social Democratic EU MEP Heléne Fritzon sparked much controversy on social media and was met with heavy criticism from some of her political opponents (Jakob Hanke Vela & Lynch, 2022). (lu.se)
  • It could be that faced with outrage from the Conservative Parliamentary Party, he was too scared to address the House. (newstatesman.com)
  • But it is also a very conservative approach to politics. (wikipedia.org)
  • That was just a warmup for his own bizarre slam on CNN , a cable network that sidelined its regular stable of conservative pundits during the 2016 campaign in favor of a new crop of Trump-boosting specialists that including a former Trump campaign manager who was literally still cashing Trump's checks during most of his tenure as a political commentator. (vox.com)
  • As opponents jeered, the Conservative government absorbed the shock of yet another Johnson earthquake, while a band of loyal supporters insisted Britain's divisive ex-leader could still make a comeback. (ksat.com)
  • Less than a year after he was forced out as prime minister by his own Conservative Party, Johnson unexpectedly stepped down as a lawmaker late Friday - "at least for now," he said in a self-justifying resignation statement. (ksat.com)
  • Johnson quit on Friday, June 9, 2023 after receiving the results of an investigation by lawmakers over misleading statements he made to Parliament about a slew of gatherings in government that breached pandemic lockdown rules. (ksat.com)
  • Whatever the manifesto of left-wing parties, parliament and government is concerned with the political management of capitalist society. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Still, if residents of the colonia kept alive any of the spirit of those early years, it was in their widespread belief that formal government institutions and officials could not be trusted to provide them with the necessities in life, and in a general feeling that self-reliance was both the cross and the honor they would bear in life. (ucpress.edu)
  • Since taking power in 1994, President Yahya Jammeh has ruled Gambia with often-ruthless repression of dissent, a tight clamp on virtually all independent media, and the use of state security forces and shadowy paramilitary groups to intimidate and silence all deemed critics of the government. (hrw.org)
  • The Communists and their allies in the Duma have approved every budget proposed by President Boris Yeltsin's government since 1994, even though the government has pursued an economic strategy that has benefited few and caused pain to many. (hoover.org)
  • Only a minority in all parties-including the unionist bloc within the SPLM-genuinely believes that the elections can be the trigger for a political transformation in Sudan. (africanarguments.org)
  • Kramer believes that "isn't the fundamental problem" and argues that earlier expansions of government's scope-Alexander Hamilton's creating the first national bank, Andrew Jackson's shutting down the second national bank, the Louisiana Purchase, the New Deal-didn't cause today's levels of polarization. (philanthropyroundtable.org)
  • In the shadow of the ICC Prosecutor's efforts to have President Omar al Bashir arrested on charges of genocide, the mid-term elections are no longer an exercise in giving popular endorsement to a new, broad-based Government of National Unity. (africanarguments.org)
  • The incumbent president, Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), narrowly won a second term in the December 2020 elections, which saw a voter turnout of 79 percent. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Despite his close links with the Nazi regime in Germany, he and his wife, another rabid fascist, were given public office by Chamberlain's Tory government as late as 1937. (libcom.org)
  • As we conceive of a new regime in Malaysia, there are various ideas for a new political structure which must be articulated further. (newmandala.org)
  • Malaysians are the nation's stakeholders, and thus this maturation of this new regime has the potential to define their national culture in terms of holistic values. (newmandala.org)
  • Can the two-party regime support their collective aspirations for a holistic, rich and cohesive 1Malaysia culture or will the regime further fragment this community, leaving any newly developed or reformed policies on paper only? (newmandala.org)
  • This discussion will focus on the cultural dynamic of the new regime and political leaders' roles in transforming Malaysia's ethno-centric politics. (newmandala.org)
  • The regime will not be able to bring the 1Malaysia vision to fruition if it fails to address this deeply rooted national problem. (newmandala.org)
  • 6 It was not until 9th May 1945 that the Red Army units arrived in Prague and helped to clear the city of the remaining enemy forces and the new Czechoslovak government returned to Prague on 10th May: the key posts were occupied by the communists or their supporters. (bibliomanie.it)
  • It is striking how ineffective and marginal the Communists have become in Russia, especially when compared with Eastern Europe, where several former communist parties have regained some political power. (hoover.org)
  • By considering contradictory political passions and practices that developed in the neighborhood of Santo Domingo in the course of a series of momentous events, this study seeks to document the antithetical processes of civil challenge, frustration, and accommodation during this period. (ucpress.edu)
  • Nonetheless, I'd argue that his case for an electoral party is contradictory and rests on a number of unfounded assumptions. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Trump genuinely does pose threats to the integrity of American institutions and political norms. (vox.com)
  • Now, rumours are circulating that the dispute is an elaborately contrived piece of theatre intended to prove to voters that Mr Prokhorov is a genuinely independent politician and not a Kremlin stooge. (independent.co.uk)
  • We think genuinely vigorous dispute is valuable," Stid reiterates. (philanthropyroundtable.org)
  • But he does so largely because his nascent administration is sustained by support from the institutional Republican Party and its standard business and interest group supporters. (vox.com)
  • In this deeply divided political system, tensions ran high, and frequently boiled over into political violence, most notably in the riots of 1927, when crowds burned down the Palace of Justice and 90 demonstrators were shot dead by the police. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • Fritzon's quote is taken from a debate that took place in May 2019 but did not go viral until January 2022 in light of the increased tensions between the West and Russia, which had put Sweden's relationship with NATO at the top of the political agenda. (lu.se)
  • The Sudanese political system operates at a pace which cannot easily be hurried. (africanarguments.org)
  • They have been able to defend and sustain the exploitative system they represent primarily because they wield political power. (socialistworkersleague.org)
  • It is thus best placed to provide leadership for the entire exploited and oppressed masses in the political struggle for our self-emancipation and system change. (socialistworkersleague.org)
  • Having invested a significant amount of time and resources in completely restructuring Cayman's education system, from the way it is governed to the National Curriculum, the PPM's manifesto has a significant chapter on its continued ambitions for overhauling education from top to bottom. (caymannewsservice.com)
  • After decades of rising immigration rates and devolving sovereignty to the EU, combined with the more immediate shocks of the Great Recession and the refugee crisis, some French voters have come to question the basic premises of their political system. (vox.com)
  • No one party has a monopoly on wisdom in dealing with tough issues like immigration policy, health reform, rising inequality, financial instability, or climate change. (brookings.edu)
  • The National Front had a monopoly on the right to political decisions. (bibliomanie.it)
  • FixTheCountry protests might have fizzled out after a short period (public outcries are rarely sustained in Ghana) but for the insensitive and combative posture of government supporters, who retorted with #FixYourself and #FixYourAttitude, further riling protesters, drawing attention and support to their cause, and precipitating calls for demonstrations. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • This national culture is a powerful 'soft-force' that can form, support and move a nation - building and rebuilding it especially in severe conditions such as war, epidemic, natural disaster, collapse of governance, and regional economic melt-down. (newmandala.org)
  • Who were the real winners of Keir Starmer's Labour Party rule change? (newstatesman.com)
  • In 1931, the international economic crisis led to the formation of the National Government, which involved all the major parties (Tory, Liberal and Labour) uniting to save capitalism. (libcom.org)
  • Tommy Moran, an ex-miner and boxer, and John Beckett, the former left-wing Independent Labour Party MP for Gateshead, were selected to front the campaign. (libcom.org)
  • Although it failed to implement the Labour Law, which was passed during the UDP's previous administration, it says this term if it is returned it will establish a national minimum wage across all industries, to ensure that mandatory severance pay of one week's pay for each completed year of service shall be without a maximum, and establish a single tier, independent Labour Tribunal. (caymannewsservice.com)
  • As Cayman goes to the polls tomorrow (20 May) the side shows - of accusations and counter accusations, qualifications and even disqualifications - of this election campaign should prove less important than what is contained in the political manifestos. (caymannewsservice.com)
  • With the economy, employment, education and environment taking centre stage in this election, the PPM and the UDP are both making broad promises on all of these issues but there are as many similarities when it comes to policy and intent as there differences, making it a difficult decision for the voter genuinely interested in politics as oppose to personalities. (caymannewsservice.com)
  • A national election must be held by the end of 2024. (ksat.com)
  • To beat Trump, what his opponents need to do is practice ordinary humdrum politics. (vox.com)
  • Recent political rhetoric in Washington has been dominated not by advocacy and explanation of competitive policy proposals, but by party partisans blaming and demonizing each other. (brookings.edu)
  • She purged party members seen as too tied to her father, (somewhat) moderated its rhetoric on immigrants, and sold her party as the champion of the French working class against corrupt elites in Paris and Brussels. (vox.com)
  • Oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov claimed the Kremlin was trying to destroy his leadership of the liberal political party and vowed that he would not step down from the post. (independent.co.uk)
  • Mr Prokhorov, 46, took over in June as head of Right Cause, a political party with a broadly liberal, pro-business agenda, and at the same time said he was relinquishing control of his business interests. (independent.co.uk)
  • According to the PPM manifesto, if re-elected it promises to lead a "national effort" to shore up the twin pillars of the local economy: financial services and tourism. (caymannewsservice.com)
  • The UDP manifesto says that if the Caymanian people return a UDP government it will conduct an impact assessment of the medium-to-long term implications of the global crisis on the financial services industry to find out what the sector needs. (caymannewsservice.com)
  • Ruling parties come and go, but good can continuously fuel healthy human progress if they are lived from generation to generation. (newmandala.org)
  • If it gets registered, it will open up a "can of worms" that will lead to those who believe in Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, or Jainism to attempt to establish and register political parties based on their religions. (thezambian.com)
  • For the NCP leadership it was a "˜total' agreement in the senses that it defined the Party's continuing rule and set limits on the claims of others to shares in national power and wealth. (africanarguments.org)
  • Is the role that China plays today in the nuclear arena appropriate to its national circumstances-and how should Beijing address disarmament and nonproliferation as its power and confidence increase? (thebulletin.org)
  • But the critique of the institution isn't explored because it's seen as unrealistic to reject something which undeniably a) has real power, and b) is understood to be the political arena by the majority. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • all Malaysians - especially political and religious leaders, scholars and civil activists, media and parents. (newmandala.org)
  • The population lives in a climate of fear in which government justice and accountability for abuses is utterly beyond reach. (hrw.org)
  • Without the late John Garang, and without the resolute focus on the CPA by both national and international leaders, it is unsurprising that the CPA has languished, and that the provisions of the Agreement are now implemented (or not) in a very different spirit to that of early 2005. (africanarguments.org)
  • Our work is ultimately geared towards that, and that applies, whether we're public servants, or we're political leaders, or trying to affect change, in the social sector, or nonprofit sector, etc. (google.com)
  • And I think maybe "purpose" in particular has become one of those buzzwords that I think everyone is talking about -- a lot of company leaders, a lot of political people, saying we need to have purpose, clear and everything. (google.com)
  • Although the Gezi demonstrations initially had no clear leaders, a coalition called Taksim Solidarity-made up of veteran civil society activists and representatives of various trade and professional associations-emerged as an organizing force and interlocutor with the government in Ankara. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Chinese arms control experts say their government is waiting for the United States to ratify it first-the United States has signed it, but the Senate hasn't confirmed it-which suggests China's leaders have little interest in playing a more active role in addressing the challenge of nuclear disarmament. (thebulletin.org)
  • For the umpteenth time, I wish to urge political, religious and community leaders in Zambia to guard against the imposition of any particular religion on the entire society. (thezambian.com)
  • f) Official participation by government leaders in the affairs of any given religious group or institution, or official participation by any given religious leader or group in political or governmental affairs. (thezambian.com)
  • Many leaders fostered inclusivism in political parties, including Tun Onn Jaafar, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, Professor Hussein Alatas and Mr. Lim Kit Siang. (newmandala.org)
  • A recent demonstration transcended traditional ethnic and political divisions-but youth leaders will have to do more than protest to achieve lasting change. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Many Ghanaians do not believe they can bring about change by putting pressure on political leaders. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • It takes a certain amount of time for formal decisions to be made (e.g. the National Assembly passing legislation and technical exercises such as the national census being conducted and the results analyzed). (africanarguments.org)
  • The National Revolutionary Assembly in Prague elected Tomáš Masaryk, one of the philosophers and politicians who championed Czechoslovakism, a political or cultural conception based on the concept of the existence of a Czechoslovak people and a Czechoslovak language, as President of the Republic. (bibliomanie.it)
  • The cycle of frustration and anger deepens - and the old parties will either transform themselves or die and new political entities will take their place. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Politics cannot directly alter one's ethnic or genetic makeup, but it can strategically transform a national culture by decoding self-image and by innovatively reshaping the citizens' mental models and sentiment. (newmandala.org)
  • The time and energy devoted to blaming each other has kept our elected policymakers from carrying out even their most basic responsibilities, such as funding the activities of government that most of the public is counting on in the near term. (brookings.edu)
  • What we've got to do is move that motivational belt inwards to thinking about how we can really do what we do -- particularly in public service, because it's genuinely fulfilling, motivating, and rewarding. (google.com)
  • If no one on any side can move public policy, in any direction, whether to get government to do more or less, then everybody is wasting time and resources. (philanthropyroundtable.org)
  • The old politics could not contain a decision about what the public should own and what should be in private hands. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • There have been previous efforts to address polarized politics, many of them aimed at fostering "civility" in political debates. (philanthropyroundtable.org)
  • These antics intersect with two ongoing debates about Trump in politics and media. (vox.com)
  • Defense analysts and policy makers in Washington, Tokyo, and other national capitals suspect China is unwilling to play a more active role in multilateral nuclear disarmament talks because it is preparing to build up its nuclear arsenal, place its nuclear forces on high alert, or alter the nation's no-first-use policy. (thebulletin.org)
  • Mostly six- and seven-figure gifts have gone to groups that span the left, right, and center of the political spectrum. (philanthropyroundtable.org)
  • The party has left the government. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • At the same time, the idea of remaining `neutral' in foreign affairs is still prominent in the Swedish identity and particularly cherished by the political left. (lu.se)
  • Polarization, in this view, only becomes a problem when it causes the machinery of government to grind to a halt. (philanthropyroundtable.org)
  • First, that national politics can put a halt on effective implementation on human rights even through preventing friendly settlements. (khpg.org)
  • In a way, these dramatic, astonishingly brave rebellions drew inspiration from the fall of Saddam Hussein, the world-historical war criminal to whose ouster al-Khafaji and his fellow oppositionists devoted their political lives. (fpif.org)
  • However, a comparative read of both of the political parties' manifestoes does not reveal any massive political differences between the two, with both parties promising similar policies in the key areas. (caymannewsservice.com)
  • I feel the same way as I write this essay, because I think that much of the controversy that permeates this scholarly and political interchange has been generated by semantic differences. (nacla.org)
  • In the ensuing decades, Europhile Christian parties continued to dominate Europe. (firstthings.com)
  • Nonetheless, when in the mid-1990s my neighbors in Santo Domingo began to insist that I pay more attention to the changes occurring in la política (the formal political arena) in Mexico, it occurred to me that for the poor people in communities like this one, the machinations of Mexico's ruling elites must have seemed completely unrelated to their daily lives. (ucpress.edu)
  • The political atmosphere was also strongly influenced by the so-called unified organisations, the most important of which was the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement. (bibliomanie.it)
  • Populists in office thrive on a circus-like atmosphere that casts the populist leader as persecuted by media and political elites who are obsessed with his uncouth behavior while he is busy doing the people's work. (vox.com)
  • Today, there has been an attempt to make a raider's seizure of the Right Cause political party,' Mr Prokhorov told a group of journalists in his central Moscow office yesterday afternoon. (independent.co.uk)
  • The government has targeted journalists, apparently to silence criticism and to suppress negative information about the country to the outside world. (hrw.org)
  • Embong wrote in " The Role of Social Sciences in Malaysian National Development ," the implementation of Vision 2020 was, as Joseph Stiglitz called the roaring 1990s, "a decade of clutching over wealth and profit. (newmandala.org)
  • This convinced the Christian Social government that the social policies of "Red Vienna" were a luxury the country could not afford. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • For his government was not only opposed by the Social Democrats, it was also threatened by the paramilitary Heimwehr or Citizens's Defence Leagues, who were subsidized by Mussolini and formed a permanent source of political disorder. (gresham.ac.uk)
  • The real benefits gained by the National Unemployed Workers Movement - fighting dole cuts, providing social centres, organising "Hunger Marches", meant BUF attacks on the NUWM as "Red Subversives" fell on deaf ears, and many unemployed miners, engineering and shipyard workers became actively involved against the fascists. (libcom.org)
  • Shaping a national culture with engrained humanistic and ethical values will produce well-rounded citizens that can powerfully drive politics, economics and social performance. (newmandala.org)
  • People like Captain Bruce-Norton (the BUF Area Political Officer) who had gone to Ireland after the First World War to fight with the Royal Irish Constabulary's Auxiliaries against Irish independence. (libcom.org)
  • The party says it will not raise taxes but take measures to cushion people and businesses from the global crisis, encourage Caymanian entrepreneurship through the Cayman Islands Investment Bureau, and give Caymanians a greater stake in the economy. (caymannewsservice.com)
  • The Registrar of Societies should not register the new political party called "People of This Way" or "People of The Way" announced on Muvi TV by Mr. Bernard Mumba, and whose symbol is the Holy Bible. (thezambian.com)
  • I doubt I can change his mind, but I do think it's possible and really important that more people are brought around to libertarian communist politics. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • We should not allow any individual or group of individuals to use of a religious platform to form a political party. (thezambian.com)
  • For instance the Danish government recently sold off parts of the national electricity company to the investment bank Goldman Sachs, giving it influence over a strategic sector despite the company's dubious involvement in the financial crisis and its recent role in the botched sale of Royal Mail in the UK. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Clearly, the Declaration was made without serious consideration of the dangers of dragging religion into the political arena. (thezambian.com)
  • For the SPLM leadership, by contrast, the CPA was the moment at which the struggle for a New Sudan was transferred from the military to the political realm. (africanarguments.org)
  • By contrast, the influence we can have as a class at the level of government is minimal, except where our extra-parliamentary movements can 'wring' reforms out of it. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • A woman in an office of the ruling Justice and Development Party sits under a picture of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • A new war of this kind would not only be a humanitarian disaster but would scar the political futures of both north and south Sudan, and drag the entire region into the conflict in one way or another. (africanarguments.org)
  • Like Kramer, Stid has an academic background steeped in American history, and he understands that our founders intended "freewheeling debate" and conflict to exist in U.S. politics. (philanthropyroundtable.org)
  • Partly as a result, one of the government parties, the Socialist People's party, is crumbling as its MPs are in conflict with each other. (p2pfoundation.net)