• SANTIAGO, Jan 30 2012 (IPS) - Chile's political system is "exhausted" and urgently needs reform to truly represent its citizens, consolidate democracy and ensure governability, say experts consulted by IPS. (ipsnews.net)
  • In his view, the fundamental issue is the quality of democracy, "which requires a more comprehensive reform, not only of the electoral system, but to establish mechanisms to give independent sectors an opportunity to participate. (ipsnews.net)
  • A new law introducing automatic voter registration and voluntary voting, removing the obligation on registered electors to exercise their vote, is adding to the pressure for electoral system reform. (ipsnews.net)
  • Then there is the proposal for structural changes to the "binominal" electoral system, put forward by the governing National Renewal party and the opposition Christian Democratic party, the first instance of a reform pursued jointly by the two coalitions dominating national politics. (ipsnews.net)
  • and it lists the challenges this approach faces in its attempt to contribute to the reform of food systems. (eldis.org)
  • Policy reform is a profoundly political process, and advocates need to manage the politics of change, through careful political analysis and innovative political strategies. (harvard.edu)
  • This guide can be used in conjunction with the Flagship Approach, but it is also designed to be used independently, to provide policy makers and policy analysts with instructions on how to manage the political processes of reform. (harvard.edu)
  • The guide helps identify political, fiscal and institutional constraints that need to be addressed by political strategies that can improve the adoption and implementation of health reform. (harvard.edu)
  • The major challenges are to apply an effective health system reform, find alternative ways of funding, reduce the burden of diseases, promote healthy life styles, develop and retain human resources and introduce advanced technology while assuring equity, quality and accessibility. (who.int)
  • VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin asserted Tuesday that the criminal cases against former U.S. President Donald Trump are political revenge that show the fundamental corruption of the United States. (wreg.com)
  • The indictment of former President Donald Trump by special counsel Jack Smith-with the full approval of Attorney General Merrick Garland-is an attack on the American political system and fundamental rights protected by the First Amendment to freely discuss, debate, and contest serious election and political issues. (heritage.org)
  • No one person, least of all the congenitally corrupt Donald Trump, can fix our rigged political and economic system. (citizen.org)
  • This involves investigating the underlying dynamics between the granular elements, the generative processes, how to visualize complex systems, and other aspects of dynamics around human centered ad-hoc interactivities. (nature.com)
  • As a general objective, this project aims to the development of a theoretical framework to analyze and model, from the perspective of System Dynamics and its relation to Peace Studies, situations and conditions of intractability related to both political violence and deep-rooted violent conflicts. (europa.eu)
  • Presidentialism in Indonesia creates very specific political dynamics. (theconversation.com)
  • This is an appeal to the subscribers, contributors, advertisers and well-wishers of Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), published by Sameeksha Trust, a public charitable trust registered with the office of the Charity Commissioner, Mumbai, India. (epw.in)
  • As for the prosecution of Trump, for us what is happening in today's conditions, in my opinion, is good because it shows the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others democracy," Putin said at an Eastern Economic Forum gathering in Russia's Pacific Coast city of Vladivostok. (wreg.com)
  • The greatest disparities in the views of Republicans and Democrats on these eight aspects are seen on American economic achievements (89% of Republicans vs. 64% of Democrats are proud), the U.S. political system (42% of Republicans vs. 25% of Democrats) and the U.S. military (98% of Republicans vs. 84% of Democrats). (gallup.com)
  • This strategy comes on a time the health system is facing many challenges resulting from the high burden of communicable diseases, recent increasing burden of non communicable diseases, the economic constraints, poverty, the civil conflict that has been going on for decades and the climatic factors related to floods and drought. (who.int)
  • Speaking with heart wire , Yusuf said the failure occurs at every level, from political and economic systems down to the care of individuals by physicians. (medscape.com)
  • Easton aspired to make politics a science, that is, working with highly abstract models that described the regularities of patterns and processes in political life in general. (wikipedia.org)
  • Traditional community/village level dispute resolution systems still coexist with formal processes of justice and administration. (epw.in)
  • This guide seeks to help reformers navigate the political processes involved in changing and implementing health policies that will improve societal health and well-being. (harvard.edu)
  • This, through the development of behavioural models of (state and non-state) agents involved in processes of political violence (seen here as relational systems within national systems). (europa.eu)
  • Cities first emerged as complex forms of social and political organization in the valleys of the Euphrates and the Tigris, the Nile, the Huang He , and the Yangtze. (britannica.com)
  • Consequently, through special laws, administrative institutions were created to manage the organization of the sanitary system during plague outbreaks. (cdc.gov)
  • She added that for the first 20 years of democracy, Chile directed its efforts at improving the economy, rather than the political system, which is why its institutions are so backward. (ipsnews.net)
  • This new issue of the IDS Bulletin, edited by Jody Harris, Molly Anderson, Chantal Clément and Nicholas Nisbett examines a range of perspectives on power in food systems, and the various active players, relationships, activities, and institutions that play a major role in shaping them. (eldis.org)
  • But according to some thinkers believe that renaissance failed to develop effective political institutions. (artscolumbia.org)
  • During the period of renaissance, both these political institutions have developed from the medieval roots, but both failed to get transformed completely into a modern system. (artscolumbia.org)
  • Panelist spoke about the independent voter movement and how election reforms efforts would impact political culture. (c-span.org)
  • But with the latest election, this Nigerian system-which evolved in response to a horrific civil war in the 1960s, the military dictatorships that followed, and the powerfully centrifugal religious and identity divisions that have perennially loomed as threats to the nation's survival-seems now to have outlived nearly all of its remaining utility. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Whatever government takes the reins after the election desperately needs to address our current child-care system in B.C. Because it is broken. (cbc.ca)
  • Parties can be more factionalised if intra-party democracy is higher, if the political economy of parties does not benefit single financiers, if the party is rather decentralised, if organisational regulations (for example on party membership or the election of the executive board) are not well-defined, and so on. (theconversation.com)
  • Each primary care center's address is linked with socioeconomic, demographic, and political election variables at the neighborhood and municipal level during 2015-2021. (lu.se)
  • The module will introduce you to the context and content of devolved policy-making and political representation in Wales. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • From participative observation and content analysis of the field diary, the LHC actions was problematized as individualist or as communitarian and questioning the psychology political action. (bvsalud.org)
  • Nevertheless, longstanding inequities in the Brazilian healthcare system reflect the stark income inequality that still plagues the country today. (coha.org)
  • The literature argues that politicians rationally adjust the reimbursement systems to counteract geographical inequality. (lu.se)
  • The social protests are a consequence of the crisis of representation arising from this electoral system. (ipsnews.net)
  • We kick off discussing how and why the COVID crisis became so acute across the country before discussing the current political intrigue. (undispatch.com)
  • And, as Leticia Casado explains, there is a direct link between the COVID-19 crisis and this emerging political competition. (undispatch.com)
  • One of the most controversial issues is the "binominal" (dual candidate) electoral system, which encourages domination by two large coalitions: the centre-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy (Concertación), in power from 1990 to 2010, and the rightwing Coalition for Change that is now in government. (ipsnews.net)
  • What we have today is disillusion with the political system in general and with democracy in particular, and this is all related to participation mechanisms," he said. (ipsnews.net)
  • and this is enough to relieve despair & to let the system portray itself as a 'democracy. (opednews.com)
  • This book provides a cross-country study of the consequences of the expansion of intra-party democracy, the trend towards more inclusive methods of selection for party candidates and leaders, and the impact of these on political elites in terms of sociopolitical profile and patterns of careers. (routledge.com)
  • Note: Today, U.S. House of Representatives lawmakers introduced the For the People Act (H.R. 1), a broad package of democracy reforms designed to clean up corruption and give voters more say in the political process. (citizen.org)
  • Technische Universität Dresden, Institute of Political Science, Univerzita J.E. Purkyné Usti nad Labem, Katedra politologie, Euroregion Elbe/Labe, and Aktion Zivilcourage e.V., Pirna are cooperating in a Czech-German model project on the promotion of democracy and civil courage. (tu-dresden.de)
  • I teach and supervise on topics such as democracy, public administration, social movements, political theory and qualitative methods. (lu.se)
  • The understanding of violent conflicts and political violence conflicts as parasite systems functioning within societies, will address the question of how systemic the treatment of long, eluding-resolution disputes may be of use to conflict policies, both at the national and international levels. (europa.eu)
  • Political analyst Guillermo Holzmann concurred, and said the constraints of the electoral system are perceived as an obstacle to more effective representation by both political parties and general citizens. (ipsnews.net)
  • In May 2022, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and Fundación Esquel Ecuador launched a training process with Indigenous women from Movimiento de Unidad Plurinacional Pachakutik - Nuevo País (Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement, or Pachakutik) on gender parity and political leadership. (ifes.org)
  • Factionalism in presidential systems is, of course, not only a question of electoral rules governing whether parties are well-organised or institutionalised. (theconversation.com)
  • Professor Kennan Ferguson is among an elite group of scholars invited to join the Institute for Research in the Humanities as a UW System Fellow for AY 2020-2021. (uwm.edu)
  • I joined the Department of Political Science at Lund University in 2021. (lu.se)
  • Systems theory in political science is a highly abstract, partly holistic view of politics, influenced by cybernetics. (wikipedia.org)
  • The adaptation of system theory to political science was conceived by David Easton in 1953. (wikipedia.org)
  • His theory is a statement of what makes political systems adapt and survive. (wikipedia.org)
  • That is, interest group theory and elite theory can be subsumed in political systems analysis. (wikipedia.org)
  • His theory was and is highly influential in the pluralist tradition in political science. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is important to note that this guide is aimed to assist in applied political analysis-not in advancing theory, but in supporting practitioners. (harvard.edu)
  • The famous political thinker, Machiavellian well-known guide to kings - The Prince - is a work of this age's political theory. (artscolumbia.org)
  • By studying the reimbursement system 2014-2021, and by conducting two interviews with civil servants, I argue that path dependence is of central value to understanding this process. (lu.se)
  • IFES and Fundación Esquel will continue to work with Pachakutik and other political organizations to empower women to become involved in politics and run as candidates in the 2023 elections and other forthcoming political leadership opportunities across Ecuador. (ifes.org)
  • In simple terms, Easton's behavioral approach to politics, proposed that a political system could be seen as a delimited (i.e. all political systems have precise boundaries) and fluid (changing) system of steps in decision making. (wikipedia.org)
  • He describes politics in a constant flux, thereby rejecting the idea of "equilibrium", so prevalent in some other political theories (see institutionalism). (wikipedia.org)
  • 2012-05-03T23:26:34-04:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvZTI5XC8zMDU3MDUtbS5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ== Participants spoke about independent political movements, the challenges of being an unaffiliated candidate, and the two-party system of American politics. (c-span.org)
  • I knew that I would be learning about the food system and how the food system interacts with global politics. (washington.edu)
  • Gaps include analyses of interdependencies among food system activities, of narrative politics, and of the behaviour of food system components using dynamic methodologies. (eldis.org)
  • While neither party group feels proud of the U.S. political system, politics may be affecting Democrats' overall sense of pride in their country more than Republicans', given Democrats' low approval of the president. (gallup.com)
  • Fedr argues that education is becoming political turf for "victimologists" to the point that "New York also instructs its students that the U.S. Constitution was heavily influenced by the politics of the Iroquois, a politically correct fantasy for which the state's Indians successfully lobbied. (ratical.org)
  • One of the largest political changes during that period was segregation of politics from Christianity. (artscolumbia.org)
  • Changes in politics in the ruling division of Italy before renaissance had led to the leaders of most of the major regions being "new men" exclusive of a great deal of political history. (artscolumbia.org)
  • There were no marked political parties or legal courts or any law making bodies other than the Church or the Monarchs in Europe at that time due to the transition in outlook of the population for Catholic Church and rulers, the people were following different ideologies in politics and national consciousness. (artscolumbia.org)
  • People eventually take their frustration on to the streets, and the more the street protests, the less representation is vested in the political system," Lagos said. (ipsnews.net)
  • From this model an isolated system representation can be formulated in respect to the changes in the entropy values across all variables of the system over simulation time. (nature.com)
  • He, too, came up via the machine system, once serving as governor of Anambra state and as the vice presidential candidate of the other big traditional party (and rival to Tinubu's APC), the People's Democratic Party, in 2019. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Lacey, Nicola and Soskice, David, Crime and Punishment in the US: Political Systems and Technology Regime Change (November 24, 2019). (ssrn.com)
  • As the resulting healthcare system has developed over the years, it has gained global recognition as an emblem of inclusivity. (coha.org)
  • The free universal healthcare system was first implemented in the period of re-democratization in the late 1980s, and was a result of continued popular protest for the provision of public services during the era of military dictatorship. (coha.org)
  • Tertiary care plays an important role in determining the structure of the healthcare system and universal access to it. (epw.in)
  • Though it may be required only in 1% of cases in a functioning health system, it plays an important role in determining the structure of the healthcare system as a whole. (epw.in)
  • Cell phones permitted timely collection and transmission of data to the surveillance system. (cdc.gov)
  • They also discussed creating a national database to allow current and aspiring women leaders to connect, share ideas and develop joint strategies to support and strengthen their political participation. (ifes.org)
  • Political participation? (bvsalud.org)
  • p. 306) Bork strains to find a word that expresses the type of "political arrangement" maintained by the Iroquois, as he also ignores the fact that a lively debate has grown up over the issue, as he pontificates: "The official promulgation of this idea was not due to any research that disclosed its truth. (ratical.org)
  • Categories of codes specifically for terrorism are absent from the two major classification systems used for mortality and morbidity statistics in the United States, respectively the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the United States' Clinical Modification of the ICD, Ninth Revision (ICD-9-CM). Without these additional codes, injuries and deaths associated with terrorism cannot be separately identified, making statistical assessment extremely difficult. (cdc.gov)
  • Concurrently, NCHS began to receive requests from the affected States for a system for classifying injuries and deaths resulting from events on September 11. (cdc.gov)
  • Based on the efforts of the Ad Hoc Workgroup, NCHS has developed a set of new codes within the framework of the ICD and the ICD-9-CM that will allow the identification of deaths from terrorism reported on death certificates through the National Vital Statistics System as well as for injuries and illnesses from terrorism reported on medical records used for statistical purposes and for reimbursement. (cdc.gov)
  • It is in this context that some stunning legal developments have shaken the Brazilian political scene. (undispatch.com)
  • Understanding the political context of health policies is crucial to improving the chances of effectively designing, adopting, and implementing health reforms that can achieve their intended objectives. (harvard.edu)
  • Political context. (who.int)
  • While primary and secondary care in the public health system in India is inadequate, public-funded tertiary care is even more insufficient. (epw.in)
  • The dowry system in India refers to the durable goods, cash, and real or movable property that the bride's family gives to the groom, his parents and his relatives as a condition of the marriage. (wikipedia.org)
  • The traces of the dowry system in India can be found in the Vedic Age where it is common for upper caste Hindus. (wikipedia.org)
  • The goal of this chapter is to help strengthen understanding about how staff can use evaluation to monitor and assess their program's EHDI Information System (EHDI-IS) and integrate this into routine program practice. (cdc.gov)
  • changes in the social or physical environment surrounding a political system produce "demands" and "supports" for action or the status quo directed as "inputs" towards the political system, through political behavior. (wikipedia.org)
  • Step 2, these demands and supporting groups stimulate competition in a political system, leading to decisions or "outputs" directed at some aspect of the surrounding social or physical environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Social physics has laid out an interesting set of goals where natural sciences and social sciences would come together in order to help model human based systems 1 , 2 (that the "verbal reasoning" in the humanities would be assisted by science and technology). (nature.com)
  • In general there is the question, "does the second law of thermodynamics apply to social systems or not? (nature.com)
  • Such work helps establish that social system models can be designed to respect the arrow of time since a decrease produces the Gibbs paradox due to an incomplete system definition 26 , 27 , 28 . (nature.com)
  • It would surely be a social and political gamechanger, and for one ,MKs would be of necessity responsive to their public. (theyeshivaworld.com)
  • The project has also empowered women from three other political organizations: Movimiento Creando Oportunidades CREO, Izquierda Democrática ID y Partido Social Cristiano PSC. (ifes.org)
  • In the current study we examined the role of 4 dimensions of political skill (social astuteness, interpersonal influence, networking ability, and apparent sincerity) in predicting subsequent workplace aggression exposure based on the proactive coping framework. (cdc.gov)
  • Further, all dimensions of political skill but networking ability buffered some negative effects of physical aggression, and all dimensions but social astuteness buffered some negative effects of psychological aggression. (cdc.gov)
  • The Institute of Medicine (1) has called on the federal government to issue an annual report on trends and disparities in social and environmental factors that affect health and to advance the use of system-based simulation models to explain the health consequences of the underlying determinants of health. (cdc.gov)
  • The fact that they are fully accepted by the corporations and political establishment tells us at once that their ultimate function must be wholly in line with the interests of those ruling groups. (opednews.com)
  • First, it has resulted in the establishment of political parties for the purpose of fostering a presidential candidate (or a candidate for other important positions). (theconversation.com)
  • Early in the design process it is important to discern what the outputs of the system will be and their added value. (cdc.gov)
  • Shocks to the complex global food system can come in many forms, from natural disasters to world trade disputes to pest outbreaks. (washington.edu)
  • Just as the Harlem Globetrotters need their Washington Generals to make their basketball games properly entertaining, Republicans need the Democrats for effective staging of the political show. (opednews.com)
  • The Democrats are permitted to exist because their vague hint of eventual progressive change keeps large numbers of people from bolting the political system altogether. (opednews.com)
  • Pachakutik participants shared ideas such as inclusive and intersectional political agendas, providing counseling for women leaders facing gender-based political violence, and seeking funding for campaigns to encourage Indigenous and underrepresented women to run for office. (ifes.org)
  • New data from WHO show that the NCD targets are not just aspirational but achievable.4 The data broadly show that countries with policy, legislative and regulatory measures, including fiscal measures, for the prevention and control of NCDs, as well as strong and inclusive health systems, have had the best outcomes against NCDs. (who.int)
  • The Political economy of health in Africa / edited by Toyin Falola and Dennis Ityavyar. (who.int)
  • A food systems approach is critical to understanding and facilitating food system transformation, yet gaps in analysis are impeding changes towards greater equity, sustainability, and emancipation. (eldis.org)
  • These include weak health systems, gaps in uptake of available interventions, low per capita investment on malaria, and the threat of resistance to medicines and insecticides. (who.int)
  • 1965). A Framework for Political Analysis. (wikipedia.org)
  • Their threadbare act as the 'Party of the People' serves not to defend the well-being of the population, but merely to persuade ordinary citizens that within the official political system's framework, there's at least some faint hope for eventual progressive change. (opednews.com)
  • We take the UK as comparator, with a common liberal market economy framework, a non-consensus based political system and a broadly similar welfare state. (ssrn.com)
  • see Harold Lasswell and Robert Dahl) Easton's approach has been criticised for being unfalsifiable and holding a Western or American bias, as well as not explaining crises or the breakdown of the system. (wikipedia.org)
  • Re: Is the American political system broken? (bigthink.com)
  • Question: Is the American political system broken? (bigthink.com)
  • is an attack on the American political system and fundamental rights protected by the First Amendment. (heritage.org)
  • Comparative political economy has had little to say in recent decades about American exceptionalism in general and about American crime and punishment in particular. (ssrn.com)
  • American scientific achievements, military and culture/arts engender the most pride, while the U.S. political system and health and welfare system garner the least. (gallup.com)
  • Conversely, the American political system (32%) and health and welfare system (37%) are not sources of pride to most Americans. (gallup.com)
  • Record-low American patriotism is the latest casualty of the sharply polarized political climate in the U.S. today. (gallup.com)
  • The findings of these exit polls will surprise and even shock many in the political system. (rte.ie)
  • Although often interrupted by episodes of oligarchic or tyrannical rule and by periods of civic dissension and class rivalry, the main theme of governmental development in the Greek city was the elaboration of structures that permitted the control of political affairs by its citizens. (britannica.com)
  • The political system undermines citizens' sovereignty," she said. (ipsnews.net)
  • Through evaluation, team members can identify what is working well or poorly, whether the objectives are being achieved, and provide evidence for recommendations about what can be changed to help the system better meet its intended goals . (cdc.gov)
  • A practical guide to Pact's Applied Political Economy Analysis tool for practitioners and development professionals. (pactworld.org)
  • This article examines the role of evidence in influencing food and nutrition-related public health policy, and starts to chart a way through the political economy of knowledge and evidence within this nexus. (eldis.org)
  • Since most aspiring physicians are pushed to pursue the far more lucrative specialized fields, both the public and private healthcare systems suffer from an extreme lack of primary-care doctors. (coha.org)
  • New modalities of public health action are needed to negate the political practices of the industry in particular, and ultimately to constrain corporate power over the mother - child breastfeeding dyad. (bvsalud.org)
  • Comprehensive guidelines for Evaluating Public Health Surveillance Systems were published in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) (July 27, 2001 ). (cdc.gov)
  • This MMWR was developed to promote the best use of public health resources by developing efficient and effective public health surveillance systems. (cdc.gov)
  • In the United States, the medicolegal investigation of unusual, suspicious, sudden and unexplained, violent, and non-natural deaths, including those deemed a possible threat to the public health, is usually performed by a coroner system or a medical examiner (ME) system. (medscape.com)
  • We found, as predicted by the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics in 2002, that availability is often limited by the challenges of difficulty in locating useable data, a lack of resources among public agencies to upgrade information technology systems for making data more usable and accessible to the public, and a lack of enterprise-wide coordination and geographic detail in data collection efforts. (cdc.gov)
  • Similarly, a study of the effects of state expenditures on state-level age-adjusted mortality reported on public expenditures, tax structures, and welfare program rules and found that more generous education spending, more progressive tax systems, and more lenient welfare program rules helped to improve population health (8). (cdc.gov)
  • Greatly simplifying his model: Influence of computers on the discipline of political science and the political system work within an environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1953). The Political System: An Inquiry into the State of Political Science. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Department of Political Science is pleased to support this opportunity for Professor Ferguson to engage with a carefully selected set of scholars over the questions raised in his research and we're excited that Professor Ferguson will be able to spend an extraordinarily engaging year in an exciting place working on what will likely become a seriously impactful book. (uwm.edu)
  • Sophisticated marketing techniques have been used to grow and sustain milk formula consumption , including marketing through health systems , mass-media and digital advertising , and novel product innovations backed by corporate science . (bvsalud.org)
  • He studied political science and environmental science during his bachelor's degree in the US, then worked in the electric vehicle and solar energy industries before joining the EMP program. (lu.se)
  • Creating health system change requires a combination of technical solutions and political skill. (harvard.edu)
  • Political skill: a proactive inhibitor of workplace aggression exposure and an active buffer of the aggression-strain relationship. (cdc.gov)
  • Evaluations are designed to do one of two things or a combination of both: either to improve aspects of your system or to prove or show that the system is reaching its intended outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • For other political parties too the result is significant. (rte.ie)
  • The system promotes a perpetual near-tie between the two leading coalitions which has blocked real change and hampered the introduction of mechanisms like mandatory primary elections for candidates within political parties. (ipsnews.net)
  • The system can't be properly understood if one's study of it begins with an uncritical acceptance of the 2-party system, and the conventional characterizations of the two parties. (opednews.com)
  • This new series focuses on major issues affecting political parties in a broad sense. (routledge.com)
  • Therefore, we welcome any high-quality suggestions for edited, single or co-authored books dealing with political parties and party systems in Europe and beyond (by which we mean we are also open to comparative projects examining regions outside of Europe). (routledge.com)
  • It describes the ideology of the families in Western Europe as well as classifying political parties accordingly. (routledge.com)
  • This book focuses on the rise of new challenger parties and the magnitude of their impact on political systems and the existing political order in Southern Europe in the aftermath of the Great Recession. (routledge.com)
  • I studied how Indonesian parties and its party system have changed since the fall of ex-president Soeharto (a dictator who ruled Indonesia from 1966 until his resignation in 1998) and the subsequent shift to democratic, direct presidential elections. (theconversation.com)
  • As the president is directly elected, he/she is not as dependent on the support of parliament (and political parties) as a prime minister would be. (theconversation.com)
  • That regardless of the perspective of the system viewed this law will be acting 19 . (nature.com)
  • The task of a judicious US government today is to plan for the probable outbreak of another protest movement or the sudden passing of Khamenei that could destabilise the system to the point of collapse. (gulfnews.com)
  • One of the most pressing issues in this idealistic system lies in its unique financing mechanism, which consists of a combination of tax revenue from the federal government and contributions from state and municipal budgets. (coha.org)
  • A technical decision about the voting system that will be used in the city of Buenos Aires (Caba) to choose a new mayor may turn out to be critical for the nationwide fate of Juntos por el Cambio (JxC), the centre-right opposition coalition, and could even end up influencing the balance of power within the country's next government. (latinnews.com)
  • This description of the Iroquois Confederacy is numbered "XVIII," indicating that it is part of a worldwide survey of federal systems of government. (ratical.org)
  • Online provincewide electronic child-care application system that all providers getting government funding would use. (cbc.ca)
  • But Obi broke with the old machine system to head the Labour Party in this race, and with a competitive, official third-place finish, mounted the most serious challenge to the two-party system that Nigeria has ever seen. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The Democratic Party plays an indispensable role in society's political machinery. (opednews.com)
  • Will any political party follow through on a promise to fix it? (cbc.ca)
  • The PD split, although it didn't last long, was not the first party political schism in Indonesia's political history. (theconversation.com)
  • Barter was replaced by more effective systems of exchange, and the wealth generated in commerce and the specialized city trades became both an object of taxation and an instrument of power. (britannica.com)
  • A local research assistant made training more effective, in particular because field veterinarians could learn the system in their native languages. (cdc.gov)
  • The health system. (who.int)
  • 1.4.3 Finance of the health system. (who.int)
  • Notice here that he offers not a single shred of evidence to establish that Islam is not "a political system that is authoritarian, supremacist, discriminatory, expansionist, violent, and aggressive. (frontpagemag.com)
  • As a result the simulation respects the second law of thermodynamics and provides insight into political polarization as a basin of entropy within an isolated system without making assumptions about external activities. (nature.com)
  • Or is it an oppressive political system bent on discrimination and domination, prejudice and persecution? (frontpagemag.com)
  • The Board of Regents is unalterably opposed to political interference or domination of any kind or character in the affairs of any University System of Georgia (USG) institution. (usg.edu)
  • Despite these developments, few studies have investigated the global expansion of the baby food industry , nor the market and political practices corporations have used to grow and sustain their markets. (bvsalud.org)
  • Globalization, first-foods systems transformations and corporate power: a synthesis of literature and data on the market and political practices of the transnational baby food industry. (bvsalud.org)
  • Nonetheless, analysts consider China's political system to be neither monolithic nor rigidly hierarchical. (chinafile.com)
  • Anti-Muslim hate speakers such as Robert Spencer insist that Islam is not "just" a religion but "a political system that is authoritarian, supremacist, discriminatory, expansionist, violent, and aggressive. (frontpagemag.com)
  • It intends to undertake a comparative study using two cases that involve political violence and violent conflict. (europa.eu)
  • The cases considered will be the Spanish Basque Country political violence (seen at times and by some as a sometimes overt, sometimes minor conflict), and the protracted, political violent conflict in Colombia. (europa.eu)
  • An early draft of this document was circulated among the Centers within CDC as well as to several individuals responsible for developing the National Violent Death Reporting System. (cdc.gov)
  • The system is engulfed by corruption, which is particularly problematic for a regime that bases its power on divine ordinance. (gulfnews.com)
  • This paper reviews the milestones of building the system and aims to prompt a debate within the scientific community, especially within the Eastern Mediterranean Region, about the best way to design injury surveillance systems for the Region in order to fine-tune the proposed system before its full-scale implementation. (who.int)
  • Breaking away from western-oriented tertiary care medical knowledge, a number of issues have to be rethought to defi ne tertiary care in the Indian setting that can be provided by the existing system. (epw.in)