• That GOP quartet: Secretary of State Scott Gessler, former state Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp, former U.S. Rep. and 2006 GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez and former U.S. Representative and 2008 presidential candidate Tom Tancredo, who was also the Constitution Party's nominee for the governor's office in the 2010 race. (nbcnews.com)
  • As perplexing as the Democratic Party's divide is, Crowell's straightforward statement rings true. (truthdig.com)
  • Andrew Jackson 's partisans (and some sympathetic historians) appropriated this broader meaning to themselves, counterposing the Democratic Party's democracy to the opposing Whig Party's "aristocracy. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In a sign of the party's meager standing in Florida, she's currently the only Democrat holding statewide office. (dallasnews.com)
  • To the north of the city, U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the Democratic Party's congressional campaign chief, won a tough primary fight against a more progressive state senator. (dallasnews.com)
  • Although the nomination eventually went to Johnson's vice president Hubert Humphrey - a supporter of the war who was the choice of Democratic power brokers - the unmasking of the party's undemocratic process led to internal reforms that aided the Democratic Party's second modern insurrection. (consortiumnews.com)
  • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves barely acknowledges his two challengers in next week's Republican primary - a clear indication that he expects to secure his party's nomination. (wwlp.com)
  • The party leader cannot automatically dictate the party's slate of candidates. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • When you add in the state party's lackluster fundraising for the past two years, it's really disappointing to see so much funding that should be going to elect Democrats instead lining people's pockets because they are close political allies and personal friends of the current chair," Miller said. (reviewjournal.com)
  • After Whitmer's election, the party's former staffers set up an organization to bypass the state party and continue its previous activities under the auspices of the Washoe County Democratic Party. (reviewjournal.com)
  • In 1904, that party's convention, notable in part because it supported government pensions for ex-slaves, selected him as its candidate for president of the United States. (blackpast.org)
  • A key argument is that historical consciousness, dramaturgy, and a processual-relational approach to a large degree can help explain the dynamics of the Social Democratic Party's ambiguous discourse around foreign and security policy and its development. (lu.se)
  • People's Democratic Party (PDP) emerged as the largest party with 31 seats. (wikipedia.org)
  • The main political players are the People's Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress. (wikipedia.org)
  • People's Democratic Party has been the most influential political party since 1999. (wikipedia.org)
  • This has shown that the electoral fraud extends far beyond the PDP (People's Democratic Party). (socialistworld.net)
  • These parties along with several minor ones put forward candidates for elections to the executive, legislative and local government councils. (wikipedia.org)
  • Why do political parties actively recruit candidates with reputations for wrongdoing? (harpercollins.co.in)
  • He says a couple of thousand votes the other way and George Bush would have won Iowa in 2000, and Gillespie is urging Iowa Republicans to stress the President's accomplishments to counter the messages Democratic presidential candidates are bringing into the state. (radioiowa.com)
  • To those ends, political reporting here covers government and governance, campaigns and candidates, tactics and strategies and policy issues in the public arena. (journalistsresource.org)
  • Sondland has donated heavily to Republican political candidates, but he has also crossed party lines, serving in 2002 on the transition team for Oregon Democratic Gov.-elect Ted Kulongoski. (latimes.com)
  • To nominate candidates and adopt platforms, Democrats perfected a pyramidal structure of local, state, and national party conventions, caucuses, and commit-tees. (encyclopedia.com)
  • And when candidates recently spoke at one of the largest political gatherings of this election year, Reeves did not mention Hardigree or Witcher. (wwlp.com)
  • Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. (thenation.com)
  • SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. - In an urgent plea as his party faces the potential loss of House and Senate control, President Joe Biden asked voters Thursday to go to the polls to support Democratic candidates, warning that a Republican Congress would reshape America by cutting back on health care and threatening abortion rights and retirement security. (ksat.com)
  • Biden's sagging approval rating is creating a drag on Democratic candidates generally, although voter surveys indicate he's stronger in California than the nation as a whole. (ksat.com)
  • Just as we are entitled and need to know what the qualifications of an individual are for any political office, and there are various types of information that candidates are requested to reveal (including their financial status and previous tax returns), we obviously have a vested interest in understanding what their medical status is, including medical history and any recurrent illnesses that they have. (medscape.com)
  • Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom said Tuesday she's running for Alaska's lone seat in the U.S. House, challenging sitting Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola in the 2024 election. (adn.com)
  • After the 2022 election, some political observers said Begich and Republican former Gov. Sarah Palin lost because they spent much of their campaign fighting each other. (adn.com)
  • Since Dahlstrom has been in office for under a year, she has yet to oversee any statewide election. (adn.com)
  • While in that office Wagner again sought the Democratic nomination for his father's old Senate seat but lost the primary election in August 1952. (encyclopedia.com)
  • However, he easily defeated their candidate in the party primary and went on to win the general election of 1961. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The first is to throw it out of office at the next election. (monbiot.com)
  • While municipal governments in many smaller hung councils have been relatively stable, Johannesburg is by no means the only municipality where the election of a hung council (requiring the formation of a coalition or minority government) has led to instability and dysfunction. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Abolishing the secret ballot requirement for the election of speakers, mayors, premiers and the president, and limiting secret ballot voting for the removal of these office bearers to cases where the vote is clearly aimed at holding the elected office bearer accountable, may also limit the ability of unscrupulous actors to "buy" the votes of elected officials of other political parties. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • His underfinanced opponent Garcia still may lose the April 7th election, but in a city that has for decades been under the thumb of corporate Democrats' political machine, a deeper victory for progressives has already happened. (truthdig.com)
  • California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks against California's recall election during a rally with Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday in San Leandro. (motherjones.com)
  • Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, and other Democratic Party figures to campaign against the recall, which they've described as a dirty Republican attempt to void Newsom's landslide election to office in 2018. (motherjones.com)
  • Newsom's opponents are more likely than his supporters to cast their ballots in person on Election Day, according to political data researchers cited by the Times . (motherjones.com)
  • DeSantis won his first election by less than half a percentage point but soon became one of the most prominent figures in GOP politics. (dallasnews.com)
  • Those self-described "PUMAs"-"party unity my ass"-may have stayed home by the dozens that November, but at the end of the day nine out of 10 Democrats supported Obama in an election that featured the highest turnout in 40 years. (thenation.com)
  • A few members of the party also split off from the Nevada State Democratic Party when Whitmer, who represents a more liberal wing of the party, won the election. (reviewjournal.com)
  • Speaking in San Diego County, California, at an evening rally in support of endangered Democratic Rep. Mike Levin, the president said the outcome of the election would "determine the direction of the country for at least a decade or more. (ksat.com)
  • The president's return to heavily Democratic California in the run-up to Election Day speaks to the looming threat for his party in a turbulent midterm election year when Republicans appear poised to take control of the House, a grim prospect for Biden heading into the second half of his term. (ksat.com)
  • His stopover centered on safeguarding Levin's district, which has a slight Democratic tilt and cuts through San Diego and Orange counties and was carried by Biden by double digits in the 2020 presidential election. (ksat.com)
  • Lisa Murkowski, who angered many in Alaska when her father and then-Gov. Frank Murkowski named her to fill his just-abandoned U.S. Senate seat in 2002, was Wednesday night celebrating an improbable -- if not near impossible -- re-election victory. (adn.com)
  • Ruedrich's comments come as many in the state GOP are talking about how to heal the wounds in a party bitterly split between primary winner Miller and general election winner Murkowski. (adn.com)
  • Official site offers information on editorials, politics and election news. (goguides.org)
  • We have also seen this, unfortunately, in the United States in the 1973 Democratic election. (medscape.com)
  • International election observers noted that the election lacked transparency and was marred by logistical challenges and multiple incidents of political violence. (bvsalud.org)
  • The currency and fuel shortages in the country burdened many voters and election officials and therefore marginalised many groups, especially women, who continue to face barriers to political office. (bvsalud.org)
  • Campaigns to remove term limits have faced unsuccessful protests in countries such as Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Burundi, Guinea, the Republic of Congo, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (lu.se)
  • Earlier today, the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced the end of the most recent Ebola outbreak, three months after the first case was reported in North Kivu. (bvsalud.org)
  • Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom sits in the speaker's chair before swearing in members of the Alaska House of Representatives on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023 at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. (adn.com)
  • Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves addresses the crowd at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., Thursday, July 27, 2023. (wwlp.com)
  • On February 25, 2023, Nigerians took a step forward as a democratic state by voting for a new president. (bvsalud.org)
  • California Gov. Gavin Newsom has named Butler to fill the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by Sen. Dianne Feinstein's death. (prospect.org)
  • Any biographer of California Gov. Gavin Newsom is sure to focus on Newsom's unanticipated power to appoint a host of figures to the state's most important elected positions. (prospect.org)
  • With just a handful of days before voting closes in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom can probably breathe a little easier: The latest polling suggests he's poised to easily beat the Republican-led effort to recall him, a big change from this summer, when pollsters indicated that Californians were almost evenly split on the question. (motherjones.com)
  • There is no competitive race at the top of the ticket to drive Democratic voter turnout - Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, both Democrats, face only token opposition. (ksat.com)
  • Now, as the delegate selection process for 2016 gets underway, we're in the midst of the first major insurrection against the Democratic Party power structure in 28 years. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Despite his wife's political tone deafness, inability to anticipate or respond to potentially crippling challenges, and a persistent public distrust of her motives, Hillary Clinton has managed to position herself as the presumptive Democratic nominee for the 2016 presidential contest. (splicetoday.com)
  • 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)
  • The lieutenant governor is largely a ceremonial post, but the office has authority over a few key areas, including Alaska's elections. (adn.com)
  • For instance, how can free and fair democratic elections exist alongside rampant criminality? (harpercollins.co.in)
  • Semester-long course on political reporting, including covering governance in the United States, the democratic process, and how to cover elections. (journalistsresource.org)
  • It would be easy to conclude that the status quo is winning Democratic politics - but a series of high-profile elections shows the trends are markedly different outside the national political arena. (truthdig.com)
  • It qualified to run in the 2015 elections as a party, but it does not have the internal apparatus of normal parties. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • He championed the idea that African-Americans should receive patronage and government appointments in direct proportion to the number of votes cast in elections. (blackpast.org)
  • Offers U.S. political news and information on elections nationwide. (goguides.org)
  • The process of democratization has been marred by the formation of political parties, rigging and winning elections, and state capture by a few elites. (lu.se)
  • Second, " constitutional coups ," where leaders have changed constitutional term limits, rig elections, or abused human rights to perpetuate their tenure in office, as seen in Rwanda and Uganda , among other countries. (lu.se)
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. (consortiumnews.com)
  • In many ways-and this isn't a novel observation-Bernie Sanders is the democratic socialist analogue to libertarian Republican Ron Paul. (splicetoday.com)
  • Notably, Democrats appeared ready to promote Schumer over Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin, who once dared to publicly complain that "banks frankly own" Capitol Hill. (truthdig.com)
  • Deeming themselves preservers of the Jeffersonian legacy, Democrats demanded simple, frugal, and unintrusive government. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Democrats resisted the hegemonizing impulses of the nation's powerful interdenominational (but primarily Presbyterian-Congregational) benevolent and philanthropic associations, and they denounced the intrusion into politics of religious crusades such as Sabbatarianism, temperance, and abolitionism. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Under Jackson and his adviser and successor Martin Van Buren , Democrats pioneered in techniques of party organization and discipline, which they justified as a means of securing the people's ascendancy over the aristocrats. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Jackson and the Democrats cast their party as the embodiment of the popular will, the defender of the common man against the Whig "aristocracy. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The 66-year-old moderate, who served as Florida's Republican governor a decade ago, hopes to appeal to voters in Florida's teeming suburbs as Democrats seek to reverse a losing pattern in a state that was recently seen as a perennial political battleground. (dallasnews.com)
  • In New Hampshire, Joe Biden predicts that once President Trump is out of office, Republicans will have "an epiphany" and work with Democrats toward consensus. (pastemagazine.com)
  • Some Democrats expressed concerns about the chairwoman's friends receiving money from the party. (reviewjournal.com)
  • If Democrats are scratching and clawing to hang on to districts Biden carried by double digits, they have likely already lost the House," said David Wasserman, an analyst with the Cook Political Report. (ksat.com)
  • This year, his race is considered a toss-up as Levin and other Democrats face historical midterm headwinds that typically punish the party in the White House, while soaring prices at the supermarket and gas pump have conspired to make once-safe incumbents vulnerable. (ksat.com)
  • California is dominated by Democrats who hold every statewide office and commanding margins in the Legislature and congressional delegation. (ksat.com)
  • In a move that complicates Republican efforts to take back the Colorado governor's office, former GOP congressman Tom Tancredo said Monday July 26, 2010, that he plans to change parties and run on the American Constitution Party ticket. (nbcnews.com)
  • The shift in momentum comes after the governor's team spent tens of millions of dollars on political ads and enlisted former President Barack Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris, Sens. (motherjones.com)
  • His border collie Jag is often at his heels in the governor's office. (foxnews.com)
  • Georgia's legislative and governor's intern programs offer opportunities for politics students to get a personal glimpse of the inner workings of government. (oglethorpe.edu)
  • Florida has sent cargo planes with healthcare supplies, drones, body armor and helmets, said Jeremy Redfern, a spokesman for the governor's office. (fox40.com)
  • The governor's office said it acted at the request of Israel's consul general in Miami. (fox40.com)
  • In 1970, African American Ron Dellums, running on a left-wing anti-war platform, ousted white incumbent Rep. Jeffery Cohelan in the Democratic primary to represent the East Bay in Congress, in a race that turned much more on ideology than it did on race. (prospect.org)
  • Republican gubernatorial incumbent Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaks to supporters Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, in Hialeah, Fla. DeSantis will face U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist in November. (dallasnews.com)
  • MIAMI - U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist won the Democratic nomination for governor in Florida, setting him up to challenge Gov. Ron DeSantis this fall in a campaign that the Republican incumbent sees as the first step toward a potential White House run. (dallasnews.com)
  • Propelled by the movement against the Vietnam War, that grassroots uprising cast a big electoral shadow soon after Sen. Eugene McCarthy dared to challenge the incumbent for the Democratic presidential nomination. (consortiumnews.com)
  • However, in September 1953 Wagner won the New York City Democratic nomination for mayor and went on to defeat his Republican opponent in November. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Crist won the Democratic nomination over Nikki Fried , the state agriculture commissioner. (dallasnews.com)
  • Reeves is already focusing his energy on defeating Brandon Presley, a utility regulator who is unopposed for the Democratic nomination. (wwlp.com)
  • Two years ago, the era of billionaire Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Wall Street-worshiping city politics ended when populist Democrat Bill de Blasio and a slate of progressive city councilors backed by New York's Working Families Party were swept into office promising to increase taxes on millionaires and fund universal pre-kindergarten. (truthdig.com)
  • Populist figures in the region first rose to prominence during the period of import substitution industrialization in the 1930s, capitalizing on the growing demands for mass politics and better social benefits from the rapidly expanding urban working class. (ciaonet.org)
  • This time around, left-wing populist figures dominated the region's political landscapes, combining populist ideas with so-called 21st-century socialism. (ciaonet.org)
  • Against this backdrop, there is a growing need to improve our understanding of the characteristics of populist governments that have repeatedly emerged in the region. (ciaonet.org)
  • The coalition's victory was important because it opened up a new narrative for populist political transformation. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Instead of the reactionary, anti-democratic and hate-driven vision embodied by Brexit, Trump and the National Front, this one is populist, progressive and paradigm-shifting. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Now the slump in government revenue will attract more virulent neo-liberal attacks as the ruling elite attempt to make the poor working masses pay the price for this capitalist crisis. (socialistworld.net)
  • d . 12 February 1991 in New York City), lawyer, diplomat, and liberal Democratic politician who served three terms as mayor of New York City. (encyclopedia.com)
  • His mother died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident when he was only nine years old, so "Young Bob" often accompanied his father to political events and grew up in an atmosphere of liberal Democratic politics. (encyclopedia.com)
  • For a time, Black and white liberal alliances dominated the state's Democratic Party (in the Bay Area, Black and white left alliances). (prospect.org)
  • What they didn't like was the liberal idea that government uses regulations to protect workers from the whims of capitalism. (vox.com)
  • However, the foundations of a political culture necessary to consolidate liberal democracy are still weak in most African states. (lu.se)
  • These arguments are backed by this country's foundational liberal political approach to government, its belief that self-determination far exceeds anything other- or government-determined, and its extreme favor of autonomy. (cdc.gov)
  • Today on TAP: In California (not to mention America), the racial and ethnic politics of representation are inescapable. (prospect.org)
  • We've put every Democrat in America on notice that there's a political price to pay for putting the demands of hedge-fund billionaires ahead of the needs of working families," said Kristen Crowell, executive director of the grassroots Chicago group United Working Families, a sister organization of New York's progressive Working Families Party. (truthdig.com)
  • Populism, which had been rampant in Latin America for more than 30 years since then, seemed to fade into obscurity with military regimes which have dominated regional politics in the 1960s and 1970s. (ciaonet.org)
  • The broader connotation, taking its cue from Alexis de Tocqueville 's classic Democracy in America (1835), suggests an ethos and an era: the flowering of the democratic spirit in American life around the time of Jackson's presidency. (encyclopedia.com)
  • There really is no such thing as bipartisanship for the little guy in America, because one party has always believed that the little guy deserved to be in the hardship that they were in. (pastemagazine.com)
  • To pass seriously beneficial legislation in America means that you must defeat your political opponent in the ideological and grassroots battle that is politics-you don't just bet on them having "an epiphany" once one of their favorite presidents ever leaves office. (pastemagazine.com)
  • Medicare and the New Deal were shoved down an intransigent minority's throat, and now Medicare and the New Deal's Social Security are the two most popular government programs in America. (pastemagazine.com)
  • Nevada State Democratic Party Chairwoman Judith Whitmer said the payments to ally Chris Roberts were legitimate and that he did much-needed work when former party staffers quit en masse in 2021. (reviewjournal.com)
  • The Nevada State Democratic Party has paid the state party chairwoman's allies nearly $200,000 for services since 2021, raising ethical concerns. (reviewjournal.com)
  • In 2021, Chris Roberts, an ally of party chairwoman Judith Whitmer, was paid about $34,000 through his business, Silver and Blue LLC for "IT and communications services," according to campaign finance records. (reviewjournal.com)
  • The 2021 end-of-year report does show that the state party owed $16,500 in debt. (reviewjournal.com)
  • Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy tapped her as his running mate in 2022. (adn.com)
  • Dahlstrom, running on the same ticket as second-term Gov. Mike Dunleavy, easily won in 2022. (adn.com)
  • U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist addresses supporters after he is announced the winner of his primary at his watch party in the Grand Bay Ballroom of the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront Hotel, on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Crist defeated Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried in Florida's closely watched gubernatorial primary. (dallasnews.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He argued that although there is nothing wrong in defending Sweden's previous neutrality policy, it is not necessarily something that Swedish political representatives should brag about, as it implies that the countries that were occupied or fought against Germany ended up in that situation because they were not as 'skilled' as Sweden (Helmerson, 2022). (lu.se)
  • Why do voters elect (and even re-elect) them - to the point that a third of state and national legislators assume office with pending criminal charges?In this eye-opening book, political scientist Milan Vaishnav takes readers deep into the marketplace for criminal politicians by drawing on fieldwork on the campaign trail, large surveys, and an original database on politicians' backgrounds. (harpercollins.co.in)
  • It does so - the precise instruments will be considered in detail in the second part of this series - by granting politicians extensive powers of appointment to and removal from administrative office. (wits.ac.za)
  • If we had had more competent and honest elected politicians and more principled political parties, (and if more voters rewarded such politicians and parties with their vote) much of what we see in coalition governments in Gauteng might have been avoided. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • National Democratic politicians may not yet be hearing the message, but if they hope to hang onto power, they probably should start listening. (truthdig.com)
  • While a rapid transition to neoliberal policies led to various socioeconomic problems, traditional parties and politicians could not respond effectively to the emerging problems. (ciaonet.org)
  • Of late, the news has been thick with clashes between Democratic politicians and Silicon Valley titans. (vox.com)
  • The Politics of Rivers State function within the framework of a presidential republic, with the Governor of Rivers State as both head of state and head of government. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is headed by the Governor, who is both the chief of state and head of government. (wikipedia.org)
  • Craig Wilson, who heads the political science department at Montana State University-Billings and has watched Montana politics for 40 years, said the novice governor is not a serious national contender. (foxnews.com)
  • You don't get on CNN three times just by being a Democratic governor in a Western state," said Karl Ohs, chairman of the Montana Republican Party and former lieutenant governor. (foxnews.com)
  • Maor Elbaz-Starinsky, the consul general, initially said Thursday he did not request drones, body armor or helmets, nor had he talked to the governor about help getting weapons or ammunition through private parties. (fox40.com)
  • Boosted by pal Sarah Palin, the former half-term Alaska governor cum GOP political celebrity, Miller hit the jackpot in his RINO hunt. (adn.com)
  • The opposition parties that cried blue murder then, have shown themselves to be equally fraudulent by ensuring that they win all the local government councils in the states they control. (socialistworld.net)
  • Many reporters at some time in their careers are tossed into covering local races for school boards, city councils or county offices. (journalistsresource.org)
  • As with the federal government of Nigeria, power in Rivers State is divided into three main branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Executive branch of government in Rivers State is part of the government that is responsible for the daily administration of the state. (wikipedia.org)
  • At local level, the state is divided into local government areas. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dahlstrom also served in the state House from 2003 to 2010, when she took a job as military affairs adviser in the administration of then-Gov. Sean Parnell. (adn.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)
  • When Van Buren moved from state to national politics, he immediately set out to create new alliances. (nps.gov)
  • Others make careers out of covering large city governments or state and federal government. (journalistsresource.org)
  • Once in office, Kulongoski appointed him to head the Oregon Film board, where he served for 13 years, cultivating Hollywood connections to attract film and television productions to the state. (latimes.com)
  • A legislative legacy of the need to assert post-apartheid democratic direction over the old apartheid administration, the result today is a state that is out of control. (wits.ac.za)
  • Politically, over the past half-century, the state, not to mention Newsom's own Democratic Party, has gone from white-majority/Black-minority to one where whites and Latinos share demographic majority status, with the rapidly growing Asian American community constituting the third-largest racial group, and Blacks, once the minority anchor of the state's Democratic Party, now coming in a distant fourth. (prospect.org)
  • Tancredo's hardline, lone-wolf approach to politics -- including his opposition to immigration reform -- could hurt him and his party in a state where one in five residents is Hispanic . (nbcnews.com)
  • And our entire government is set up to deliver all of those things, regardless of whether our state can afford them. (calwatchdog.com)
  • One of her potential primary challengers, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, has been sounding anti-Wall Street themes, but only after finishing up two terms in office that saw his state plow more public pension money into Wall Street firms, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in financial fees. (truthdig.com)
  • As an arm of the state government, Citizens should not be in the business of enriching the bottom line of for-profit insurance companies. (floridavoices.com)
  • Again following Jeffersonian tradition, the Democratic Party embraced anticlericalism and rigorous separation of church and state . (encyclopedia.com)
  • After the War of 1812 , constitutional changes in the states had broadened the participatory base of politics by easing property requirements for suffrage and making state offices and presidential electors popularly elective. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Schweitzer, in office barely 200 days, has drawn unusual attention for the new chief executive of a state usually on the sidelines when it comes to national politics. (foxnews.com)
  • He soldiered on even after being sidelined by the very man who had chosen him as his running mate, and weathered the most humiliating political defeat of his life in his native state, being consigned to political oblivion by his nemeses in the press and yet persisting in his quest for political redemption. (splicetoday.com)
  • Florida used state funds to fly migrants from Texas to Democratic-led areas such as Martha's Vineyard. (fox40.com)
  • It's alarming to see so many payments of this magnitude going to one consultant whose contract is clearly about a personal relationship instead of the services provided," said Chris Miller, a longtime Nevada State Democratic Party central committee member and a former Clark County Democratic Party chairman, in a statement. (reviewjournal.com)
  • The state party is required by law to report such debts. (reviewjournal.com)
  • Scott's business ventures that involved liquor, gambling, and vice kept him from obtaining political office, and instead he focused his efforts within party politics at the local and state levels. (blackpast.org)
  • By the 1890s, he shifted his focus to the state and national politics where he obtained significant success. (blackpast.org)
  • For a brief period, Scott was a prominent leader in the National Negro Liberty Party which was active at the state and national levels between 1904 and 1910. (blackpast.org)
  • For as long as political parties believe they will get away with it, the squabble for positions will continue to dominate coalition politics in South Africa. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • If the ANC loses its overall majority in the National Assembly (and it remains an "if"), and if this leads to the formation of unstable and dysfunctional coalition or minority governments, it may lead to further erosion of trust in government and its institutions, and, more broadly, in party politics in South Africa. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • I also fear that coalition chaos at the national level will fuel rising populism, and will further entrench the kind of scapegoat politics at which political parties across the political spectrum in South Africa seem to excel. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • On paper, coalition governments are supposed to hold several benefits, most notably that they bring together a wider spectrum of people with a wide range of views, who are forced to compromise to find each other and to form a stable government. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • They are also supposed to curtail the abuse of power as well as corruption within government as it is thought that coalition parties will check on each other to ensure they are not tainted by the shenanigans of their coalition partners. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • This has obviously not been the case at local government level in South Africa, and it would be naïve to assume that coalition governments would function any better in the provincial and national spheres. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Unfortunately, there are no easy solutions to the problem of unstable and dysfunctional coalition or minority governments. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • As I have previously suggested , introducing an electoral threshold of 1% or 2% to limit the number of smaller parties might help to stabilise at least some of these coalition governments. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • The government coalition controls the Senate but only has a plurality of 57 out of 130 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. (state.gov)
  • To get a clearer grasp of this phenomena, Stacco Troncoso of the P2P Foundation recently interviewed two members of Ahora Madrid, a city-based party comprised of former 15M activists who forged a new electoral coalition that prevailed in Madrid in 2015. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Come November, the Democratic coalition is going to vote in force to stop Donald Trump or Ted Cruz. (thenation.com)
  • An economically illiterate, yet equally sincere, pro-government version of the man who temporarily disrupted the status quo of the Republican Party in 2012. (splicetoday.com)
  • R-N-C chairman Ed Gillespie says Iowans are at political "ground zero. (radioiowa.com)
  • He understands fiscal concerns," said Howard Dean, Democratic National Committee chairman. (foxnews.com)
  • Miller, however, doesn't sound like a man ready to give up, despite suggestions from some supporters and Alaska Republican Party chairman Randy Ruedrich. (adn.com)
  • The Alaska Republican Party has yet to announce formal endorsements in the race. (adn.com)
  • When the 1997 Protection from Harrassment Act was passed, the government swore that it would not be used against demonstrators: it was intended solely to protect people from stalkers. (monbiot.com)
  • President Hugo Banzer Suarez of the Nationalist Democratic Action party took office in August 1997. (state.gov)
  • His part in founding the Democratic Party and accepting New York's governorship to assist Andrew Jackson in winning the presidency made him a favorite amongst some southern political circles. (nps.gov)
  • A year later, New York's conservative Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his $40 million campaign war chest couldn't muster two-thirds of the Democratic primary vote against an unknown progressive opponent named Zephyr Teachout. (truthdig.com)
  • The course is built on the belief that the purpose of journalism is to serve the community and the purpose of political journalism is to give citizens the information they need to participate in civic affairs. (journalistsresource.org)
  • Other problems include infringements on citizens' privacy rights, government attempts to intimidate some news media, violence and discrimination against women, abuse of children, discrimination against and abuse of indigenous people, discrimination against Afro-Bolivians, child labor, inhuman working conditions in the mining industry, and trafficking in women. (state.gov)
  • Instead, desperate to reduce Citizens' exposure at all costs, government may end up subsidizing hundreds of millions of dollars in virtually risk-free agreements with for-profit insurers that will only benefit those particular companies. (floridavoices.com)
  • Jackson practiced "rotation in office"-the periodic replacement of government officials, often on partisan criteria-and defended it as offering the chance for employment to all citizens alike and thus forestalling the creation of an officeholding elite. (encyclopedia.com)
  • I found that Silicon Valley's denizens loved government, at least in theory - they saw it as a kind of alpha venture capitalist, funding citizens to be as healthy, civic, and entrepreneurial as possible. (vox.com)
  • The core philosophy of Silicon Valley is that nearly all change, over the long run, is progressive, and that there's no inherent conflict between citizens, corporations, and the government. (vox.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)
  • Wagner easily won reelection as mayor in 1957, but four years later he lost the support of the regular Democratic "bosses" of the city's five boroughs. (encyclopedia.com)
  • But last week, the former Denver mayor faced substantial political blowback when he appeared to regret gun-control legislation he signed into law in 2013 . (nbcnews.com)
  • Lambasted as "Mayor 1 Percent," Emanuel has been forced to champion more progressive policies to try to appease the Democratic base - he suddenly backed a $13 minimum wage and signed an ordinance compelling developers to pony up more cash for affordable housing. (truthdig.com)
  • La militarización y el combate como herramienta casi exclusiva contra la violencia y la inseguridad ha sido el paradigma de profundo calado en Honduras y la mayor parte de la región, lo que implica la solución a los problemas de inseguridad en clave de guerra. (ciaonet.org)
  • Podesta is the brother of John Podesta, a longtime Democratic adviser who led the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. (inquirer.com)
  • Not simply because it cuts against the grain of history, but because Hillary Clinton, in spite of her many flaws, both in character and political perception, has two decisive advantages over the men seeking to dethrone her. (splicetoday.com)
  • Last week, a Wall Street Journal/ NBC News poll found a third of Bernie Sanders's supporters saying they wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton in November if she's the Democratic nominee, and nearly 60,000 people have signed the " Bernie or Bust" pledge . (thenation.com)
  • As some opinion polls suggest that the ANC next year might lose its majority in the National Assembly (and in one or more provincial legislatures), the obvious worry is that this will lead to the same kind of instability and dysfunction in government that we have seen in places like Johannesburg. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Forty-eight years ago, a serious insurrection jeopardized the power structure of the national Democratic Party for the first time in memory. (consortiumnews.com)
  • At the contentious Democratic National Convention that summer in Atlanta, where Jackson delegates were highly visible as 30 percent of the total, the old guard closed ranks behind nominee Michael Dukakis. (consortiumnews.com)
  • As Georgia's capital, and a cultural epicenter of the southeast, Atlanta is home to significant political activity - local, national, and international. (oglethorpe.edu)
  • He was the first African-American selected by the convention of a national political party as its candidate for the office of president of the United States. (blackpast.org)
  • In 1890, he became president of the National Negro Democratic League (1888- ) and the Negro Bureau within the National Democratic Party. (blackpast.org)
  • Twenty-four top executives and board members at Enron Corp. contributed nearly $800,000 to national political parties, President Bush, members of Congress, and others overseeing investigations of the company for possible securities fraud, according to a Center for Public Integrity investigation. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Any views expressed would therefore be those of the Board, not of their national governments. (who.int)
  • Wagner's victory has been credited with permanently breaking the power of "Tammany Hall"-the old municipal Democratic party machine. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Inspired by Occupy-style movements working from the bottom up, local municipal parties want to make all governance more transparent, horizontal, and accessible to newcomers. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Political journalists should serve as watchdogs to assure honest governance and campaigns and seek to focus their coverage on issues of importance to society and not just daily "spin. (journalistsresource.org)
  • A constitutional, multiparty democracy with an elected president and bicameral legislature, Bolivia has separate executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, with an attorney general independent of all three. (state.gov)
  • Pretty much everyone falls into one interest group or another, so their respective lobbyists and representatives gather in the hearing rooms and legislative offices and debate all sides of issues, resulting in the passage of laws that have the widest possible appeal. (calwatchdog.com)
  • Another one of her allies and longtime Nevada Democrat, Tom Edwards, was paid about $50,000 for finance and political strategy consulting and get-out-the-vote efforts, which usually happen in the final weeks of a campaign. (reviewjournal.com)
  • Countries that have avoided or overcome episodes of mass-based patronage politics have established institutions that insulate public administrations from case-by-case political interference. (wits.ac.za)
  • The government will neither regulate itself nor be regulated by the institutions which surround it. (monbiot.com)
  • Social and economic inequality is worsening in the aftermath of COVID-19, and the public distrust of established party politics and existing democratic institutions is growing more than ever. (ciaonet.org)
  • We built something serious, and now we can enter the [political] institutions. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Three trends of backsliding constitutionalism on the continent have exposed the fragility of democratic institutions. (lu.se)
  • A totalitarian government was in power when psychiatric diagnoses and confinement to mental institutions were used as political instruments against dissidents. (medscape.com)
  • He was critical of party bosses in both major political parties and identified himself as an Independent (Negrowump) at a time when nearly all black voters were Republicans. (blackpast.org)
  • Instead of trying to use the hierarchical structures of parties and government in the usual ways to "represent" the people, the new local parties in Spain are trying to transform government itself and political norms. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • But this year is confounding political norms. (ksat.com)
  • He made the old corporate Democratic assumption, betting that he could easily win reelection by simply spending opponents into the ground. (truthdig.com)
  • Above all, the Democratic contest centered on DeSantis, who views his November reelection as a potential springboard into the 2024 presidential contest . (dallasnews.com)
  • Reeves faces two opponents in the party primary Aug. 8, as he seeks reelection. (wwlp.com)
  • Noda became involved in local politics in 1987 and was first elected to the Diet in 1993 as a member of the Japan New Party. (factmonster.com)
  • Despite ugly battles and policy differences that sometimes seem intractable, the reality is that presidential campaigns tend to unify each party behind its nominee," he wrote. (thenation.com)
  • GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy: "I'm proud to announce the era of one-party Democrat rule in Washington is over. (yahoo.com)
  • His victory as a Democrat in a historically Republican stronghold helped bring him to the attention of Democratic Party leaders. (foxnews.com)
  • From 1863 to 1901, Scott lived in Cairo and was a leader within local Republican political circles between 1870 and 1883, when he became a Democrat. (blackpast.org)
  • The first time Alaskans voted Lisa into office in 2004, she got a big push from legendary Republican powerhouse U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and rode the coattails of George W. Bush, who was on his way to a landslide presidential victory over Democrat Sen. John Kerry. (adn.com)
  • Political scientist Theodore Lowi called it "interest group liberalism. (calwatchdog.com)
  • In the summer of 2008, George Washington University political scientist John Sides took to the pages of the Los Angeles Times to tell everyone to calm down. (thenation.com)
  • Through this partnership, Oglethorpe students have the opportunity to study politics and complete internships in our nation's capital, Washington, DC. (oglethorpe.edu)
  • Republicans are just one victory shy of the 218 seats the party needs to secure a majority to retake control of the House following a series of GOP victories called in late Monday evening. (yahoo.com)
  • Even though she has none of the charisma of the president whose downfall she sought-and very few of his political instincts-she possesses one Nixonian trait that I believe makes her victory inevitable. (splicetoday.com)
  • A man who's selling a very coherent, very simple, yet broadly appealing message which the decision-makers within the Democratic Party would rather not hear. (splicetoday.com)
  • His elder son, who also became prominent in New York City politics, then became known as Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The resignation of one of Washington's most prominent Democratic lobbyists shows how the investigation of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is reverberating across both parties. (inquirer.com)
  • 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)
  • When it came to political representation, though, California Blacks made the most of their numbers from the '60s through the '90s. (prospect.org)
  • They'd long elected distinguished progressive legislators in those districts, beginning, in Los Angeles, with Gus Hawkins, who was first elected on socialist Upton Sinclair's "End Poverty in California" Democratic Party slate to the legislature in 1934 and who went on to a notable congressional career from 1962 to 1991. (prospect.org)
  • Please note that in that 1980 census, California was home to more than twice as many Latinos as Blacks, but Latinos held far fewer elective offices, partly because they were not at the time as clustered residentially as Blacks, and in general had lower levels of political activism than the Black community had developed in its centuries-long battle for equal rights. (prospect.org)
  • But apparently left out of the Assembly hearing discussion was the idea that the situation facing California - and many other states - isn't a "problem" at all like shoddy earthquake retrofits or missing regulatory data that can be "solved" through bipartisan legislation and teamwork but is actually a natural outgrowth of the very bipartisanship that buttresses our democratic process. (calwatchdog.com)
  • Biden's appearance marked his second trip to California in less than three weeks in hopes of bolstering Democratic House members imperiled by fallout from $7-a-gallon gas, worrisome crime rates and spiking prices on everything from onions to ground beef. (ksat.com)
  • The Levin and Porter contests are among about a dozen congressional races in California considered competitive - a handful are seen a toss-ups and are viewed by both parties as critical to control of the House . (ksat.com)
  • President Bush is at this point unopposed in the Caucuses Iowa Republicans will hold in January, Gillespie says Iowa is "political ground zero" in terms of keeping Republicans in control of Congress and putting Bush back in the White House for another term. (radioiowa.com)
  • Four Republicans are vying for the opportunity to unseat Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper. (nbcnews.com)
  • In Colorado's primary on Tuesday, the political spotlight falls on one race -- the four Republicans vying for the opportunity to unseat Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper. (nbcnews.com)
  • The "fly on the wall" style of this book and its emphasis on personalities and tactics of campaigns changed American political reporting. (journalistsresource.org)
  • At the same time, we should not confuse electoral campaigns with long-term political organizing. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Campaigns for office are quite different matters than the more transformative task of building progressive infrastructure - and vibrant coalitions - that can endure and grow, year after year. (consortiumnews.com)
  • In proportion to popular interest in the benefits of proficient government, politics has reoriented around an opposition between patronage and reform. (wits.ac.za)
  • Giffey, a member of Germany's Social Democratic Party, went on to a political career, and in 2018 she was appointed federal minister for families, youth, women, and retirees. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Each of the local government areas has its own administrative seat and is further split into wards. (wikipedia.org)
  • How refreshing to learn about Ahora Madrid and other local political parties in Spain! (p2pfoundation.net)
  • CC leverages the strength of the local social, economic, and political infrastructures, therefore, to implement this social technology, it is important to develop the capabilities of the target communities. (lu.se)
  • In the latter half of the 20th century, with political decolonisation and socio-economic modernisation throughout the globe, they became a feature of most countries. (wits.ac.za)
  • All through this history, people have expressed concerns about the associated political, administrative, and often socio-economic deterioration. (wits.ac.za)
  • Pour cela, il enquête quantitativement sur les liens cités dans 7,7 millions de publications faites sur Facebook, entre 2011 et 2019, par des pages organisées, par des techniques d'analyse des réseaux sociaux, en clusters gauche et droit. (scielo.br)
  • Para ello, investiga cuantitativamente los enlaces citados en 7,7 millones de publicaciones realizadas en Facebook entre 2011 y 2019 por páginas organizadas, mediante técnicas de análisis de redes sociales, en clústeres de izquierda y derecha. (scielo.br)
  • That broad-minded momentum now lies shattered in disparate contestation over the spoils of public office. (wits.ac.za)
  • His followers frankly employed the spoils of office as rewards for party workers. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The central fact of contemporary South African politics is the emergence within it of a nationwide and mass-based patronage system. (wits.ac.za)
  • Patronage was first amplified on a mass scale around the midpoint of the 19th century, in the great democratic cities of the north-eastern United States. (wits.ac.za)
  • If we have learnt anything over the past 18 months it is this: that the first rule of politics - power must never be trusted - still applies. (monbiot.com)
  • Applying the first rule of politics, we should expect those in power to seek to prevent the public from holding them to account. (monbiot.com)
  • The government liked this new power so much that in 2003 it wrote it into law, with an Anti-Social Behaviour Act designed to restrict peaceful protest. (monbiot.com)
  • Tony Podesta, a Democratic power lobbyist, announced to colleagues Monday that he is stepping down amid a series of indictments that cast a shadow on work his firm had done with Paul Manafort that may have benefited a Ukrainian regime friendly to the Kremlin. (inquirer.com)
  • This is the kind of incrementalism that defines politics-long struggles punctuated by bursts of progress when that struggle finally results in obtaining real power. (pastemagazine.com)
  • To devise a party that avoids hierarchical control, centralized power and celebrity-leaders, Ahora Madrid developed an open process that invites anyone to join and participate. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • 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)
  • The event has already led to historical changes in the dynamics of the international system, beyond the fact that it is the first time in Europe since WWII that a great military power has invaded a democratic and sovereign country. (lu.se)
  • Putschists have exploited these democratic deficits to assume the status of savior and seize power. (lu.se)
  • Below is an article written by Segun Sango, General Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) on the violent sectarian clashes in Jos, in central Nigeria. (socialistworld.net)
  • During that time, Dellums was also a member of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and then DSA-for much of his tenure, the only avowed socialist in Congress. (prospect.org)
  • For example, the youthful civil society in Africa has become vigilant in guarding against the erosion of democratic principles and manipulation by the ruling elite. (lu.se)
  • The United States government, under President Donald Trump, retreated from its traditional role as an exemplar of democracy, defender of press freedom and the rule of law but embraced conspiracy theories, virulent anti-Semites, and authoritarian regimes worldwide. (bvsalud.org)
  • This is what constitutes a political scandal in Berlin's political circles. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • But political observers also see a lot of charisma. (foxnews.com)
  • She stayed in that position for just a few weeks, stepping down after critics raised questions about whether her acceptance of the job complied with a provision in the Alaska Constitution that bars lawmakers from taking positions created while they are in office. (adn.com)
  • Indeed, on the very same day Reuters reported on big banks threatening to withhold campaign contributions from Democratic coffers, Democratic lawmakers abruptly coalesced around Charles Schumer as their next U.S. Senate leader. (truthdig.com)