• Electoral competition, political parties and clientelism: evidence from local elections in South Africa. (gu.se)
  • 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)
  • What do the results tell us about Lesotho's electoral politics? (theconversation.com)
  • This is a sign of the maturation of electoral politics in Lesotho. (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)
  • Mainstream electoral parties have drifted so far from the general public that it hardly feels like a general election is around the corner. (himalmag.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)
  • 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)
  • A dynamic approach implies that what happens at the electoral stage influences the government formation stage, which in turn shapes what happens during the government's tenure, which may influence the cabinet's durability. (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)
  • It's the quality of government stupid' explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election. (gu.se)
  • It is a well-known fact that the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) led by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa wanted to dissolve Parliament as early as possible, since its candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa won the presidential election on November 16 last year. (dailymirror.lk)
  • American Government includes updated information on the 2016 presidential election. (oercommons.org)
  • When Van Buren moved from state to national politics, he immediately set out to create new alliances. (nps.gov)
  • But parties formed pre-election alliances to contest elections. (theconversation.com)
  • Long held up by left-leaning media outlets and political parties internationally as a "progressive" paradise, Sweden has witnessed wave after wave of privatisations and public spending cuts, tax cuts for the wealthy, an explosion of military spending and the scapegoating of immigrants under successive governments of the "left" and "right. (wsws.org)
  • 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)
  • In the case of Finland, the party has had a hard time finding a suitable party leader after the strong and charismatic Paavo Lipponen, who has been prime minister in two successive coalitions since 1995. (eurasiareview.com)
  • In the past, the idea that elections could replace incumbent governments seemed far-fetched. (theconversation.com)
  • The party was boosted by the surprising success of its candidate and former party chairman Sauli Niinistö in the Finnish presidential elections of 2006, when he nearly prevented the incumbent Social Democratic President Tarja Halonen from being elected to a second term. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, who depended in the outgoing parliament on the toleration of the Centre Party, Greens, and Left Party to stay in power, has refused to officially concede defeat. (wsws.org)
  • Since 2003, the coalition has been led by the Centre Party, a center-right party mainly supported by the rural population. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The Centre Party has traditionally been the least internationally oriented of all the three main parties. (eurasiareview.com)
  • As the primary representative of the Finnish farmers' community, which is critical of Finland's EU membership, the Centre Party had to balance between its constituencies and the strong support for the country's EU membership in other parts of Finnish society. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Another development affecting the pre-election climate has been related to funding problems, particularly with the Centre party. (eurasiareview.com)
  • When the fascistic Sweden Democrats first entered parliament at the 2010 election, all other parties claimed that they would refuse to cooperate with them. (wsws.org)
  • Yet, we laymen are unable to fathom the legal ground on which the NEC had set June 20 for the election, since the Constitution requires the new Parliament to meet before June 2 as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa dissolved Parliament on March 2. (dailymirror.lk)
  • The government and its allies seemed to attempt to hold the election by the end of May so that the new Parliament could meet on June 2 thereby averting a constitutional crisis. (dailymirror.lk)
  • In the general elections of the year 2007, it gained five out of 200 seats in the Finnish Parliament. (eurasiareview.com)
  • 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)
  • The 2022 national elections in Lesotho will go down in the country's history as among the most eventful. (theconversation.com)
  • The 2022 elections continued that trend. (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 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)
  • Leaders of the Pheu Thai Party outline their vision while introducing the campaign slogan 'Think Big, Act Smart, For All Thais' on Dec 6, 2022. (bangkokpost.com)
  • The Democratic Congress-led coalition collapsed in 2017, and an early election was called. (theconversation.com)
  • In contrast with 2017, there were no reports that the government or its agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings. (state.gov)
  • The Institute of Democracy conducts research about democratic development and political communication between citizens, media and parties. (lu.se)
  • The National Coalition Party has been leading the opinion polls since 2006, and gained good results in all the recent elections, including European and local elections. (eurasiareview.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Government and Opposition, 1-18. (gu.se)
  • A cold war on holding the election between opposition parties and the government gradually developed with the politicians of the government, pro-government media and analysts floating various arguments, insisting that the election be held soon while the opposition accusing the government of attempting to put the lives of people in danger by holding the poll. (dailymirror.lk)
  • Meanwhile, parties and groups in the opposition vehemently opposed to an election in May citing the virus threat. (dailymirror.lk)
  • When you have divided government - that is, a president of one party with the opposition controlling one or both houses of Congress - the process of confirming nominations grinds to a halt. (alternet.org)
  • A roundup with the latest news highlighting the corrosive nature of money in New York State politics - and the need for public financing and robust campaign finance reform. (brennancenter.org)
  • The governor is facing pressure from the progressive Working Families Party, which might not endorse him on the party's ballot line if he doesn't achieve public financing reform. (brennancenter.org)
  • Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long told Skelos that his party would not endorse Senate Republican candidates if they vote for public financing reform. (brennancenter.org)
  • It is another issue altogether if one assumes that politicians are completely uninterested in articulating their own politics and the needs of the people at-large, and would rather continue to engage in power games to secure their own limited interests to whatever extent possible. (himalmag.com)
  • This is especially true given the fact that the military government has systematically defamed politicians over the past three years, in close collaboration with the IFIs. (himalmag.com)
  • Party funding has turned out to have been highly intransparent, and the relations between politicians and the private sector have become and object of close media attention. (eurasiareview.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)
  • As of Monday afternoon, preliminary results gave the right-wing bloc of parties led by the conservative Moderates 175 seats and the "left" bloc led by the Social Democrats 174. (wsws.org)
  • The Social Democrats remained the largest single party, making slight gains from their 2018 result to finish with 30.5 percent of the vote. (wsws.org)
  • Supported by the Greens and Left Party, the Social Democrats also enforced budgets dictated by the right-wing parties and adopted punitive measures against asylum seekers and immigrants. (wsws.org)
  • The deal involved Löfven committing the Social Democrats to enforce budgets based on the right-wing parties' spending plan, which involved continued austerity for public services after decades of cuts and privatizations. (wsws.org)
  • As the 2011 general elections approach, support for the Social Democrats is at its lowest in many decades. (eurasiareview.com)
  • International observers concluded the 2018 parliamentary elections were procedurally credible, peaceful, and well managed. (state.gov)
  • 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)
  • Although negotiations were well underway with Republicans regarding public funding, the discussions were derailed following a warning from the Conservative Party. (brennancenter.org)
  • In addition, a lack of familiarity may sometimes lead to a breakdown of negotiations and drawn-out government formation processes. (lu.se)
  • Since the mid-1990s, Finland has been governed by broad coalitions composed of two out of the three major parties with the support of several smaller parties. (eurasiareview.com)
  • 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)
  • An early election was held in 2015 , which returned a coalition of seven parties led by the Democratic Congress. (theconversation.com)
  • The Conversation Africa's politics editor, Thabo Leshilo, asked Lesotho constitutional law expert Hoolo 'Nyane for his insights. (theconversation.com)
  • Kristersson reportedly hopes to negotiate an arrangement whereby the Sweden Democrats and Liberals support a minority government consisting of the Moderates and Christian Democrats. (wsws.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)
  • And the President was expected to do so at the first instance he is permitted by the Constitution -- he set April 25 as the date for the parliamentary election. (dailymirror.lk)
  • The constitution and law prohibit such practices, and there were few credible reports that government officials employed them. (state.gov)
  • 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)
  • And so no one is too concerned when the military redrafts significant portions of the constitution, when 40 retired generals and colonels stand for elections, when there is significant and worrying talk of prepoll rigging, and when democratic principles and the norms of human rights are completely ignored across the country. (himalmag.com)
  • Human rights issues included restrictions on political participation, corruption, rape and violence against women linked in part to government inaction, criminalization of same-sex sexual conduct, although rarely enforced, and child labor. (state.gov)
  • The National Coalition Party is a center-right party promoting the social market economy and a full-fledged Finnish participation in the EU as well as in NATO. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Akesson and the Sweden Democrats' ability to play the decisive role in determining the incoming government's policies and composition is the outcome of the far-right's systematic integration into official political life by all the established parties. (wsws.org)
  • The issue eclipsed again by coronavirus but the government's interest in holding the election emerged with a statement by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa who said on April 18 the NEC had no authority to postpone the election without announcing an alternative date. (dailymirror.lk)
  • In this situation, the party has gone as far as to attack the government's policy regarding the EU's economic stability mechanism and has thus deviated decisively from the party's policy under Lipponen's leadership. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Statistical studies of media content suggest that the language newspapers use to describe politics varies systematically. (alternet.org)
  • The far-right Sweden Democrats, a party which emerged from Sweden's neo-Nazi movement, was the clear winner in Sunday's general election in the Scandinavian country. (wsws.org)
  • We understand why the National Elections Commission (NEC) indefinitely postponed the general election that was scheduled for April 25 -- it was nothing but the heightening of the COVID-19 threat. (dailymirror.lk)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The upcoming Pakistani general election is the strongest evidence of this unfortunate fact. (himalmag.com)
  • Pheu Thai stands the highest chance of becoming the ruling party after the next general election, followed by the Move Forward, Palang Pracharath, United Thai Nation, Bhumjaithai and Democrat parties, according to a survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll. (bangkokpost.com)
  • The poll was conducted on Dec 7-9 by telephone interviews with 1,313 people aged 18 and over of various levels of education, occupations and incomes throughout the country to compile their opinions on the chance for six parties - Pheu Thai, Move Forward, Palang Pracharath, United Thai Nation, Bhumjaithai and Democrat - to govern the country after the next general election. (bangkokpost.com)
  • EU policies developed in response to the ongoing financial and debt crises across Europe have become a crucial issue in the build up to Finland's 17 April general elections. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The 2011 general elections (to be held on 17 April) will take place in a somewhat turbulent European context due to the ongoing financial and debt crises, although the Finnish economy has been performing strongly. (eurasiareview.com)
  • since then, it has ruled together with the conservative National Coalition Party. (eurasiareview.com)
  • However, the issue resurfaced with a letter being sent by the NEC Chairman to the President on April 2 informing the latter to seek the opinion of the Supreme Court on holding the election in the light of the pandemic situation, but it was declined on the grounds that it was the NEC that had to decide on the poll. (dailymirror.lk)
  • The tensions between them now run through the entire system, including the Supreme Court and state and local governments. (alternet.org)
  • To navigate this challanging terrain, the BJP must employ astute political maneuvering. (indiatimes.com)
  • Their news stories tend to employ the favorite buzzwords of one of the political parties rather more than the other. (alternet.org)
  • However, the Moderates were replaced by the Sweden Democrats as the largest party in the right-wing four-party bloc, which also includes the much smaller Christian Democrats and Liberals. (wsws.org)
  • In other words, the language of the papers reflects the terms each side's partisans prefer, with the balance in each market tilting in favor of the locally dominant bloc of political contributors. (alternet.org)
  • This introduction to the special issue discusses research concerning dynamic approaches to coalition governments. (lu.se)
  • The party has never had a serious political program: it is driven by populist patriotic rhetoric characterized by a Euroskepticism and criticism of liberal immigration policy. (eurasiareview.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)
  • This is the first time that Nagaland is witnessing the victory of so many political parties in the state Assembly elections. (indiatimes.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)
  • 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 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)
  • Commissioners at the New York State Board of Elections decided last week that the board will no longer enforce the state's $150,000 aggregate contribution limit. (brennancenter.org)
  • It includes various web and print resources in presidential, federal, state, local and world elections. (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)
  • Age Inequalit https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2023.11 ies in Political Representation: A Review Article. (gu.se)
  • A national financial catastrophe prevented his chances for re-election, but enslavement became the issue that shaped and defined his legacy. (nps.gov)
  • 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)
  • This proposal was a tacit recognition of the deep hostility felt by broad sections of the Swedish population to the far-right party, which has never before held government office. (wsws.org)
  • After accepting nominations on March 19, NEC Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya said the election could not be held on April 25 as declared by the President. (dailymirror.lk)
  • What's interesting is that word choice appears to reflect not the mix of voters in the area covered by the newspapers - that is, their readers - but the split in political contributions originating in individual media markets. (alternet.org)
  • It is now common knowledge that the Pakistani military has gone out of its way to ensure the consolidation of its role in politics once the newly elected government comes to power. (himalmag.com)
  • Political science and sub-fields such as public administration, international relations, and law, offer students a wide range of avenues to fulfill an interest in public affairs. (mtsu.edu)
  • Programs in Political Science and International Relations offer preparation to students for a wide range of careers in government, law, public service, public affairs, international affairs, non-governmental organizations, and education. (mtsu.edu)
  • Students of political science also use their skills in the private sector, especially in the areas of international business, trade, and labor. (mtsu.edu)
  • Minors are available in Political Science, International Relations, Public Policy and Management, Paralegal Studies, and Political and Civic Engagement. (mtsu.edu)
  • and take 33 hours in political science. (mtsu.edu)
  • American Political Science Review, 1-17. (gu.se)
  • American Journal of Political Science. (gu.se)
  • What's the relationship between political polarization and the media? (alternet.org)
  • We get a feedback loop running between the media and political institutions. (alternet.org)
  • Due to the lack of a true liberal party, this role has been taken up by the Swedish People's Party of Finland, which promotes the role and rights of the country's Swedish-speaking minority. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The evidence is that people who hold an opinion on one of the handful of hot button issues that the parties debate in public tend to move toward the party that says it agrees with them. (alternet.org)
  • The self-governor, simply put, is one who practices self-government. (theadvocates.org)
  • In 1995, Soini established the True Finns party, which has since developed around his strong personality. (eurasiareview.com)
  • It was a volatile time in American politics. (nps.gov)
  • By that time, it was clear that single party dominance had ended. (theconversation.com)
  • Both national parties have spent enormous amounts of time and money painting each other in the worst possible terms - to the point that some Republicans have repeatedly cast aspersions on the patriotism of the Democrats. (alternet.org)
  • And even if you don't have divided government, members of Congress spend a great deal of time posturing. (alternet.org)
  • National elections around the world and much more. (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)
  • 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)
  • Chesdata estimate party positioning on European integration, ideology and policy issues for national parties in a variety of European countries. (lu.se)
  • Nevertheless, no government leader made this point when the NEC Chairman indefinitely postponed the election on March 19. (dailymirror.lk)
  • The current chairman of the True Finns party, the charismatic Timo Soini, is himself a former member of the old Rural Party. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Political power remained largely vested with the king and his traditional advisors. (state.gov)
  • That being the case, political parties ought to ask themselves how long they will continue to accept that the future of democracy, and therefore the future of their own politics, is largely determined by others, including the military and the US. (himalmag.com)
  • Although the vote totals for the two major blocs of parties remain so close that a final result will only be known after postal votes and overseas ballots are tallied on Wednesday or Thursday, the Sweden Democrats increased their support more than any other party and are now the second-largest political party in Sweden. (wsws.org)
  • Prior to the election, Moderate leader Ulf Kristersson raised the possibility of forming a government consisting of the three traditional right-wing parties with himself as prime minister with the far-right Sweden Democrats providing parliamentary support from the outside. (wsws.org)
  • Like its many European counterparts, the Finnish Social Democratic Party has suffered from a lack of credibility during the past few years, resulting in a decreasing level of support. (eurasiareview.com)
  • We must find the courage to choose peace over conflicts, to choose health for all over political, ethnic, religious and other divisions. (who.int)
  • Polarization is a sharp intensification of divisions between the major political parties. (alternet.org)
  • But on election night, Sweden Democrat leader Jimmy Akesson made clear that the Sweden Democrats would not be satisfied with a supporting role, declaring, "Right now it looks like there will be a change of power. (wsws.org)
  • 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)
  • It resulted in an All Basotho Convention-led coalition government with its leader, Tom Thabane, as the prime minister. (theconversation.com)
  • JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake accused that government leaders wanted the public sector offices kept open as nominations for the election were scheduled for March 19. (dailymirror.lk)