• A constitutional amendment from May introducing a state of emergency due to Russia's war against neighboring Ukraine granted the government the power to rule by decree through November, which was later extended until May 31, 2023. (state.gov)
  • The Canadian government planned to make serious mental illness an eligible category in March 2023, but in an eleventh-hour announcement, it deferred its decision until March 2024. (medscape.com)
  • It will also allow time for the Government of Canada to fully consider the final report of the Special Joint Committee on MAID, tabled in Parliament on February 15, 2023. (medscape.com)
  • That year, renewed tensions between Renamo and the ruling Mozambique Liberation Front, known as Frelimo, called into question the political progress made since 1992, worrying investors and tarnishing the country's image as a postwar success story. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Until these obstacles are overcome, preserving the country's political stability and developing its economic potential will remain at risk. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • The party's entry into Mozambique's political arena has had significant implications for the country's postwar political accommodation, which will be examined later. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic remained the country's most important policy issue, with the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)-led government insisting that no further lockdowns or obligatory vaccinations would occur despite rising rates of hospitalization and mortality by year's end. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Polls show pessimism about the country's future at record highs, trust in government at record lows, and a deep distaste for political incumbents of both parties. (nationalaffairs.com)
  • His 2000 election victory as leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) ended almost two decades of Jerry John Rawlings' rule and was hailed by various commentators as pivotal to the country's transition to democracy and as such was seen as a historic moment for the African nation. (jrank.org)
  • Ghanaian politics coalesce around two political traditions deriving from the country's pre-independence period, the Nkrumah and the Danquah-Busia traditions. (jrank.org)
  • Kwame Nkrumah (1919-1972)-later to become the first leader of an independent Ghana-was general secretary of Joseph Boakye Danquah's United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), but in 1949 he broke away to establish the country's first mass political organization, the Convention People's Party (CPP). (jrank.org)
  • Thirty-three years after reunification, the country's wounds are rawer than many would like to admit. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • During 2013-2014 she conducted a study of 192 Cambodians including civil servants, political activists, factory workers and farmers, to investigate their perceptions of donations from political parties, a practice which has marked the country's democratic era. (lu.se)
  • A select number of groups (business, labor, NGOs) interact with government to make policy. (powershow.com)
  • RWI's partnerships with academic institutions, state actors and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have in the past four years changed in order to adapt to the circumstances following the state of emergency declared by the government in July 2016, and the shrinking civic space for human rights actors. (lu.se)
  • NGOs have been known for their role in gap filling for the government. (who.int)
  • A positive relation between the government and NGOs is an indispensable to help in reaching a higher level of health care provision and accessibility. (who.int)
  • This study aims at determining the factors affecting the relation between the government and NGOs working in the health sectors in Palestine for better health sector performance. (who.int)
  • A positive relation between governments and NGOs is indispensable to help improve health care provision increase accessibility to health services and achieve UHC. (who.int)
  • He was a political science graduate, but his distaste for political parties had kept him away from any kind of political engagement. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The president appoints a prime minister from the majority party or coalition in parliament following national elections every four years. (state.gov)
  • In parliamentary elections on April 3, the Fidesz-Christian Democratic People's Party alliance led by Fidesz party leader Viktor Orban won a two-thirds majority in parliament. (state.gov)
  • The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe election observation mission found that the elections "were well-administered and professionally managed but marred by the absence of a level playing field" and concluded that a "pervasive overlap between the ruling coalition and the government blurred the line between the state and party. (state.gov)
  • Indeed, one of the defining features of the upcoming elections is the manner in which the military has already clearly stated that the new government will not be permitted to undermine the economic agenda that has been put into place by finance minister Shaukat Aziz and company. (himalmag.com)
  • Yet beneath strong economic growth and political progress marked by five consecutive multiparty elections, problems such as poverty, inequality, corruption and political violence persist. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Konstantinos Karamanlis arrives in Athens on the French Presidential jet, courtesy of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, to assume the leadeship of government of national unity that would lead to free elections. (mlahanas.de)
  • The agenda was to appoint a national unity government that would lead the country to elections. (mlahanas.de)
  • Much of the polarization and dysfunction of the federal government comes from money in politics and elections. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • The root cause of big money's dominance of politics was the 2010 "Citizens United" Supreme Court decision that enshrined corporations as people/citizens and guaranteed them the right to spend their funds to unduly influence American elections. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • For 100 years, the Corrupt Practices Act protected our elections. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • For over 100 years, though often "rough and tumble," our elections have had been essentially free of corruption. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • The party fully complies with the Elections Act in all cases. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • We have government agencies (note: multiple) that specialize in rigging elections. (portlandmercury.com)
  • We extend the standard voting model to give voters political control beyond the elections. (repec.org)
  • In the run-up to the UK elections, the only consensus was that no political party would win a majority and the British would be faced with the prospect of a hung Parliament. (livemint.com)
  • A look at political trends in countries that have held elections in the last four years might well corroborate that claim. (livemint.com)
  • Politics in Utah tended to fall along religious lines, and elections would usually pit the Mormon People's Party against the Gentile Liberal Party. (digitalnewspapers.org)
  • In the 1946 elections, noncommunist parties in the Fatherland Front lost influence far out of proportion to the numerical election results. (countrystudies.us)
  • elections were to be held every four years, and members could be recalled at any time. (countrystudies.us)
  • It has become a truism that political parties are the fundamental political actors in modern democracies, where elections are usually considered the main way for citizens to participate in democracy. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • For the first time, the democratic opposition came close to victory over the ruling party in the 2013 national elections. (lu.se)
  • The Cambodian government has also introduced new laws enabling the dissolution of political parties - a move which could result in the main opposition party being dissolved before the national elections in 2018. (lu.se)
  • As Mozambique's previously untapped natural resources-including coal, gas, semi-precious stones and timber-continue to come online, they have become an increasingly political issue. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Access to abortion across Italy has become increasingly limited despite the fact that it has been legal for over 40 years. (isj.org.uk)
  • In the 1870 s the Liberals found themselves increasingly in sympathy with the generally progressive policies of the Conservatives, and Little proved unwilling or unable to develop a new and distinctive role for his party. (biographi.ca)
  • For example, in both India and China, with two economies that increasingly depend on globalization, we see a strengthening of nationalism, understood here as the cultural politics that has the nation as its subject and its object . (lu.se)
  • Both new systems and regulation - driven largely sector, and 8 did not require periodic and old programmes are increasingly by national governments and interna- relicensing) linked to health care funding, or to an tional donor agencies ( 1 ). (who.int)
  • Public health authorities increasingly complement notifications with laboratory data ( 6 ), although in practice, this practice is often limited to high-income countries because it requires considerable laboratory capacity and advanced information technology infrastructure. (cdc.gov)
  • At a press conference announcing his bid for the Reform Party's nomination, Buchanan cited ideological reasons for leaving the Republican Party he had so long supported. (publicintegrity.org)
  • It's reasonable that someone, whether they're a Democrat, an Independent or a Republican, looks at it that, 'If I want to have a say in who's going to govern me for the next two years or four years, I need to participate in the Republican primary,'" King said. (ksut.org)
  • This is exactly what happened within the Republican Party circa 2003. (dailycaller.com)
  • the historical task and political purpose of neoconservatism would seem to be this: to convert the Republican party, and American conservatism in general, against their respective wills, into a new kind of conservative politics suitable to governing a modern democracy. (dailycaller.com)
  • The purpose of Kristol's essay was to explain why his philosophy was right one for the Republican Party in 2003. (dailycaller.com)
  • Bob Brown, Republican of Whitefish, is a former Montana Secretary of State, State Senate President and 28-year Legislator. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • Yes, the selection of Harris highlights the diversity within the party - a powerful aspect of its strength and one that stands in stark contrast to the overwhelming whiteness of the Republican Party. (electronicintifada.net)
  • 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)
  • That being the case, political parties ought to ask themselves how long they will continue to accept that the future of democracy, and therefore the future of their own politics, is largely determined by others, including the military and the US. (himalmag.com)
  • Some of the most interesting comparative politics studies I've read take a look at the similar experiences in transitions to democracy in both former Soviet states and Latin America nations. (robertamsterdam.com)
  • Despite being faced with an inherently unstable and dangerous political situation, which forced him to sleep aboard a yacht watched over by a naval destroyer for several weeks after his return, Karamanlis moved swiftly to defuse the tension between Greece and Turkey, which came on the brink of war over the Cyprus crisis, and begin the process of transition from military rule to a pluralist democracy. (mlahanas.de)
  • Presumably, "modern democracy" means an America that polices the world , starts preventive wars , curtails any liberties necessary in the name of "keeping us safe" and endures any cost or level of big government necessary to maintain a permanent and massive national security state . (dailycaller.com)
  • But it also gave us the chance to reflect upon how much our democracy has been going downhill on a slide greased by political money. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • You have yet to bridge the gap between the founder's contempt of "Democracy" and their desire to establish a government wherein the people may choose their course in government. (liberty-tree.ca)
  • Natural resources may be bad for democracy by harming political turnover. (repec.org)
  • The Democracy Score is an average of ratings for the categories tracked in a given year. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The year 2021 saw problems arising in several aspects of Croatia's democracy, with the steepest decline occurring in the area of corruption. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Yet the last decade has seen trust in political parties and democracy decline dramatically in countries where those institutions seemed most consolidated-including in Europe. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • And, worryingly, citizens "have also become more cynical about the value of democracy as a political system, less hopeful that anything they do might influence public policy, and more willing to express support for authoritarian alternatives," according to a much-cited paper by Roberto Foa and Yascha Mounk, published in July 2016 in the Journal of Democracy. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Astrid Norén-Nilsson is interested in investigating perceptions of democracy and citizenship in a country where many political ideologies have left a profound impression, but the same party has been in power for four decades. (lu.se)
  • Through my research, I can contribute to identifying the political ambitions of various groups - and build up a theory about perceptions of democracy and citizenship in non-liberal states. (lu.se)
  • There are both formal procedures through laws, rules, regulations, as wel as deliberate political actions and security measures that undermine human rights work, and block and curtail a vibrant democracy. (lu.se)
  • Winston Churchill is famously quoted as having said, [and I paraphrase], "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for every alternative. (medscape.com)
  • While the government took some steps to identify, investigate, prosecute, and punish officials who committed human rights abuses, action against high-level, politically connected corruption was limited. (state.gov)
  • Lizza discusses the strategy among party officials to make inroads in the West rather than the South. (freshair.com)
  • The Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, the Ambassador, the Special Advisor for Religious Minorities, and other U.S. officials engaged the government to urge respect for religious freedom, both in general and with regard to specific cases, including a regular and recurring dialogue with the MISD and CRA. (state.gov)
  • How did these two government officials respectively use the Federal Security Service (FSB) and Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional (SIN) to seize control of the executive? (robertamsterdam.com)
  • As at the national level, local government bodies were filled primarily with party officials. (countrystudies.us)
  • Corruption rating declined from 3.75 to 3.50 due to the growing number of scandals that came to light at the national and local level yet resulted in no indictments by the prosecutor's office, while the government continued to pay lip service to the fight against corruption and corrupt officials continued to be reelected. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Generally, established parties and the public ignored the corrupt practices of many local officials, electing them to new terms in office. (freedomhouse.org)
  • But the political honeymoon was brief and in 1972 the military overthrew Busia's government and imprisoned several high-ranking officials, including Kufour. (jrank.org)
  • That Supreme Court decision was used to eviscerate Montana's firewall against such excesses - The Corrupt Practices Act of 1912. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • The Corrupt Practices Act declared that "corporations may not make … an expenditure in connection with a candidate or a political committee that supports or opposes a candidate or a political party. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • Then in 2012, Montana reaffirmed the essence of the Corrupt Practices prohibitions in another initiative passed by 75 precent of the voters. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • At the same time, the State Prosecutor's Office and the anticorruption office have been mired in scandal after the newly minted European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) indicted former EU funds minister Gabrijela Žalac (HDZ) for corrupt practices in a case the State Prosecutor's Office had earlier declared unproblematic, rejecting the possibility of prosecution. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Two groups in the Canadian Sikh diaspora are calling for Canada's political parties to 'present a united front' on India after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a 'potential link' between the shooting death of a local leader and the Indian government. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The Canadian government is doubling the pollution price rebate rural top-up rate, and implementing a three-year pause to the federal carbon price on deliveries of heating oil in all jurisdictions where the federal fuel charge is in effect, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada will be making a $650 million 'multi-year commitment' for further Ukraine aid. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife are separating after 18 years of marriage, and while they plan to co-parent their children, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau will no longer be considered the prime minister's spouse in any official capacity. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has handed the duty of enforcing new rules for lobbying and political fundraisers to a department that directly reports to him, meaning that exclusive Liberal Party fundraisers with senior cabinet ministers as the prize attraction escape the scrutiny of the ethics commissioner. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Wilfrid Sim became solely responsible for successive editions of both texts for almost 50 years, during which they became the only authority on matters of procedure in the higher courts. (teara.govt.nz)
  • One in 10 full-time-equivalent GP partner positions is vacant - up almost 50% since last year - and a fifth of practices are waiting a year or more to fill a vacancy. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • And we take public opinion surveys to help politicians from all parties understand what Georgian voters care about. (iri.org)
  • Mailers and campaign web pages include instructions on how voters can change their party affiliation to cast a vote in the GOP primary on August 16. (ksut.org)
  • How do voters participate and achieve political efficacy? (powershow.com)
  • Such strategies target in particular unaffiliated voters and emphasise party leaders. (repec.org)
  • Why are voters across so many countries, with few commonalities among them, voting in conservative governments? (livemint.com)
  • Conservative governments are promising voters tough immigration laws and limiting economic benefits exclusively to citizens. (livemint.com)
  • Voters have been telling pollsters for years, well before the epic economic collapse, that they believe the country is far off track. (nationalaffairs.com)
  • They are a very helpful source of information for politicians and political parties in terms of what citizens in that country care about. (iri.org)
  • There should be no preferential access to government, or appearance of preferential access, accorded to individuals or organizations because they have made financial contributions to politicians and political parties," the rules state. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Not only institutional but also other environmental changes are pushing political actors in Japan to complement the hitherto dominant vote-mobilisation approach by vote-chasing strategies. (repec.org)
  • Nowhere was this more visible than during the first weeks of Croatia's vaccination program, when media presented almost daily reports of well-connected individuals jumping the queue, nepotism among doctors, and powerful actors among the political, economic, and social elite calling in favors (including the chancellor of the University of Zagreb), all maneuvering to receive a first dose before their turn. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Political actors in Ghana readily locate themselves in relation to these two traditions. (jrank.org)
  • It is democracies, often including faulty and low-quality ones, that allow for citizens to self-organize to become political actors in order to defend and promote the public interest beyond the parties and the electoral cycle. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Staff and representatives of these human rights actors (organizations) face the risk of arrest and/or imprisonment for their overt criticism of government policies. (lu.se)
  • New Yorker writer George Packer says years of neglect from the Democrats enabled Trump to exploit the biases of the white working class and turn them into a 'self-conscious identity group. (freshair.com)
  • Teton County went blue by over 38 percentage points in the 2020 presidential race, but the number of registered Republicans in the county recently overtook registered Democrats for the first time in more than two years. (ksut.org)
  • Both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have committed to the £8bn per year, but Mr Stevens's calculations are predicated on the NHS itself delivering unprecedented 'efficiency' improvements of 2% to 3% a year. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • Democrats have been determined this year to put a woman of color in the White House. (electronicintifada.net)
  • When the Mormon Church formally abandoned the practice of polygamy, Republicans and Democrats formed local parties, and after statehood in 1896, it appeared that Utah favored the Democratic Party. (digitalnewspapers.org)
  • Initially, the Party was named the "Personalist Revolutionary Party of Worker and Peasant" (Nông Công Nhân vị Cách mạng Đảng), then this name was replaced by "Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party" (Cần Lao Nhân vị Cách mạng Đảng). (wikipedia.org)
  • Jawaharlal Nehru went onto complete his higher education in Great Britain and returned to India as a barrister and initially practised in the Allahabad High Court, but soon he joined the Indian political scene under the guidance of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. (mapsofindia.com)
  • Aunque en Venezuela existe desde el 22 de julio de 2013 una Ley Especial para Prevenir y Sancionar la Tortura y Otros Tratos Crueles, Inhumanos o Degradantes, hasta el 30 de enero de 2020 los cuerpos de represión de la narcodictadura de Nicolás Maduro torturaron hasta producir su muerte a 72 prisioneros. (tunein.com)
  • Quatro crática, en seis bases de datos, en el período de 2015 a 2020, en la cual especialistas avaliaram os itens derivados quanto à clareza, relevância e cuatro especialistas calificaron los elementos derivados según su claridad, tradução por meio do Coeficiente de Validade de Conteúdo (CVC). (bvsalud.org)
  • Based on mass-organizations and secret networks as effective instruments, the party played a considerable role in creating a political groundwork for Diệm's power and helped him to control all political activities in South Vietnam. (wikipedia.org)
  • We worked with UNM ( the United National Movement party of ex-President Saakashvili, Georgia's ruling party in 2004-2012 -Civil.ge ) when it was in power. (iri.org)
  • It is now common knowledge that the Pakistani military has gone out of its way to ensure the consolidation of its role in politics once the newly elected government comes to power. (himalmag.com)
  • It is another issue altogether if one assumes that politicians are completely uninterested in articulating their own politics and the needs of the people at-large, and would rather continue to engage in power games to secure their own limited interests to whatever extent possible. (himalmag.com)
  • Once they achieve political power, the elites running this type of system can be displaced by other, better-organized elite groups but seldom by the non-elites below them. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Since 1998, the government has embarked on a gradual process of municipalization, which aims to give local elected governments more power to handle the provision of some essential services. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • For many insiders, especially Montesinos, unchecked political power equalled untold opportunities to amass vast personal fortunes through crime. (robertamsterdam.com)
  • Whichever government comes into power after the election needs to tackle this as a priority. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • Neoconservatives' predilection for an aggressive foreign policy and increased executive power has always contradicted conservatives' desire for limited and constitutional government. (dailycaller.com)
  • Of the 16 democracies in the list, 10 have governments that have centre-right political parties in power. (livemint.com)
  • Within a year, the BCP had used that power base to purge the government of all key opposition figures and dominate the Fatherland Front. (countrystudies.us)
  • The most salient new feature of the Dimitrov Constitution was that it rejected the separation of powers among government branches in favor of a 'unity of state power,' lodged in a presidium wielding legislative, judicial, and executive powers and chosen by the National Assembly with party approval. (countrystudies.us)
  • Independent local political power was eliminated when province and district jurisdictions were restructured into people's councils. (countrystudies.us)
  • Thus, the Dimitrov Constitution achieved unprecedented centralization of political power in Bulgaria. (countrystudies.us)
  • This dynamic further undermined the already weak position of the ad hoc Civil Protection Committee responsible for the day-to-day management of the pandemic, which was seen as staffed not by independent experts but HDZ-loyalists more focused on helping the party remain in power than running a successful pandemic response. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The main opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) managed to remain in power in Rijeka, and is serving as a junior coalition partner in the Zagreb Assembly with the left-green Možemo! (freedomhouse.org)
  • It was the first time that Ghana-the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence in 1957-witnessed one elected government hand the reins of power to another through the means of the ballot box. (jrank.org)
  • For three years, from 1967 to 1969, Kufuor was also chief legal officer and city manager of Kumasi, a position that, according to his biographer Ivor Agyeman-Duah, exposed him to the practical realities and power politics of public policy. (jrank.org)
  • Formed in the 1830s to fight for political reform and for Catholic rights, it had been instrumental in bringing about responsible government, the defeat of confederation, denominational schools, and acceptance of the principle that power and patronage should be shared between denominations. (biographi.ca)
  • Since 1979, the country has been dominated by the Cambodian People's Party and its prime minister Hun Sen - whose 32 years in power make him one of the longest-serving political leaders in the world. (lu.se)
  • One explanation could be persistent power structures, built up around authoritarian leaders and clientelistic politics, despite the fact that the countries in Southeast Asia are members of the UN and have committed to upholding the universal declaration on human rights, and despite increased international connections and growing tourism drawing the world's attention to the domestic politics of these countries. (lu.se)
  • This leaves the authoritarian leaders in Southeast Asia free once again to control how political power is exercised. (lu.se)
  • We know relatively little about ordinary Cambodians' political preferences - this is true both of academics and of the Cambodians in power. (lu.se)
  • Forum 18, an international religious freedom nongovernmental organization (NGO), cited 159 administrative prosecutions for violations of the religion law during the year, compared with 165 in 2018. (state.gov)
  • People protesting against a new government measure to further restrict abortions in Poland gather as part of 'Black Friday' demonstrations nationwide on March 23, 2018 in Poznan, Poland. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The far-right governments of Fidesz in Hungary and the League in Italy are pushing the most conservative vision of the family, with propaganda machines urging women to have more babies. (isj.org.uk)
  • Indeed, whether or not it will actually be accurate to term the new government as being democratically elected remains to be seen. (himalmag.com)
  • Although former Prime Minister Panagiotis Kanellopoulos was originally suggested as the head of the new government, since he was the democratically elected Prime Minister originally deposed by the dictatorship and the sentimental favourite, the circumstances had changed and the clock could not be turned back. (mlahanas.de)
  • We do a lot of work around civic education to inform citizens of their political rights. (iri.org)
  • You can also end up in a situation like we have seen in Iraq lately, where politicians are not responsive to citizens and citizens feel more and more alienated from the political system. (iri.org)
  • The surveys are quite objectively done and again, they are not useful to politicians unless they tell the truth, unless they honestly reflect what citizens care about and, how they see not just their government but political parties and the big issues before the country. (iri.org)
  • Short of a Supreme Court reversal, the legal and political path to getting rid of Citizens United may also have to be a Constitutional Amendment. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • Here in this article is more evidence of the existing political parties trying to undermine the rights of citizens by silencing their vote. (portlandmercury.com)
  • but wrong in the exclusion from suffrage of certain classes of citizens and all unable to take its prescribed retrospective oath, and wrong also in the establishment of despotic military governments for the States and in authorizing military commissions for the trial of civilians in time of peace. (democraticunderground.com)
  • From Poland to Iceland, citizens' groups are taking matters into their own hands and bringing about genuine political change from outside the party system. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Many citizens who in the past might have joined a party or would have been content with voting are opting for a different course outside of traditional electoral politics. (foreignpolicy.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)
  • This corrosive struggle served to weaken democratic institutions and lead to a belief that a strongman was needed to sort out the country.Into this vacuum walked not only Fujimori, but also Vladimiro Montesinos (whose communist parents oddly named him after Lenin) who began creating a much stronger role for Peru's version of the FSB: the Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional (SIN) - a shadowy government agency which became the regime's central command. (robertamsterdam.com)
  • Then there is Saudi Arabia and Iran, whom one can definitely not accuse of being liberal, and finally there is China, which is run by a party that is communist only in the name. (livemint.com)
  • The Red Army invasion of September 1944 found a temporary Bulgarian government desperately trying to avoid accommodation with the communist left or the pro-German right, but under intense diplomatic and military pressure from both Germany and the Soviet Union. (countrystudies.us)
  • In this interview, he maps out the connections between the Chinese middle classes, the upper class and the Communist Party and their political implications. (booksandideas.net)
  • Goodman's research has focused on the political history of the Communist Party of China and on social and political change at local levels in China, most especially configurations of class, and the sociology of entrepreneurship in contemporary China. (booksandideas.net)
  • It's difficult because of the entrenched position of people and their social networks in the system which Xi has said has to be reformed in order to ensure the continued legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party, and it's dangerous because those same social networks are a necessary bastion of resistance. (booksandideas.net)
  • The only foreign travel allowed this year is to the Soviet Union or other communist states of Eastern Europe. (csmonitor.com)
  • The fact that the two most important 19th century secular ideologies that still dominate our contemporary world, namely communism and liberalism, pose as trans-or inter-national modes of political practice shows that nationalism is always to be understood in relation to "the other" and "to the world. (lu.se)
  • Another reason is the current political atmosphere in Sweden, with political parties and ideologies far to both left and right on the political scale growing in popularity, feminism included, and that in China, with rapidly growing income gaps and social unrest to match. (lu.se)
  • A keen supporter of the New Zealand National Party, he became its president for seven years from 1944, and was knighted for political services in 1951. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Boris had died in 1943 and by 1944 severe wartime shortages (partly caused by peasants hoarding food supplies) eroded support for the government. (countrystudies.us)
  • Globally, governments are looking towards achieving universal health coverage (UHC) to ensure the attainment of health right by all. (who.int)
  • Warner served in all three branches of government-he started out as an assistant US Attorney before he was lured into private practice by Nelson T. Hartson. (washingtonian.com)
  • No matter what areas we may work in or career paths we pursue-whether it is academic research, teaching, becoming a clinician in private practice, working in the private sector, or engaging in entrepreneurial healthcare or medicine-we are all united by a common background and our desire to advance knowledge, improve the quality of care, and provide benefits to humanity. (medscape.com)
  • I argue that in the context of novel party politics in the Maldives it is less the conjuncture of religion and nation that is disputed, but rather the degree to which normative or moderate interpretations of Islam are evoked in the name of the nation. (lu.se)
  • With my own study I hope to provide an example of how the same political movement uses different methods in propagating different immediate changes depending on its historical and political context, in this case the contexts of China and Sweden. (lu.se)
  • Political donations have lost legitimacy among the masses. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • He graduated in 1910, with an honors degree in Natural Science but apart from that he had to study politics, economics, history and literature without keen interest. (mapsofindia.com)
  • After a year of reading law, however, Kufuor decided his true interest lay in politics, and switched to read philosophy, politics, and economics, in which he graduated in a record two years. (jrank.org)
  • Most of the people in government are not trained in science or medicine but come from a background in other disciplines, like political science, economics, or sociology. (medscape.com)
  • What do the policies Poilievre's party passed say about the Conservatives' future? (ctvnews.ca)
  • From the Conservatives' pledge of seven-day GP opening and same-day access for the over-75s , to Labour's guarantee of a GP in every A&E and appointments within 48 hours , the commitments suggest all the party leaders have completely lost touch with reality. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • Conservatives' changing attitude toward government growth is more complicated, but becomes less so when you realize it is connected to changing attitudes on foreign policy and civil liberties. (dailycaller.com)
  • In his essay, Kristol dismissed conservatives' traditional fear of big government, from the New Deal forward, as some "Hayekian notion that we are on 'the road to serfdom,'" adding "Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable. (dailycaller.com)
  • Most conservatives who went along with the Bush foreign and domestic policy agendas were not neoconservatives, but it was neocon thinking that most influenced and guided the party at that time. (dailycaller.com)
  • Conservatives must do more than promise to downsize government and let each individual go his own way. (nationalaffairs.com)
  • In January, in a decision praised by many religious communities, the government withdrew draft legislation that would place additional restrictions on religious practice. (state.gov)
  • Reading from a prepared statement, Ms. Chagger told MPs: "Federal politics is subject to some of the strictest financing legislation and regulations in the country. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • The differences are sometimes in the intensity of the stereotypes, but also in the way inequalities manifest themselves in society in fields such as economy, legislation, politics and cultural peculiarities. (lu.se)
  • many newer pro- and supported by legislation, 7 were national and international accreditation grammes, for political, economic or tech- voluntary systems but only 3 were organizations summarized the drivers nical reasons, have failed to meet initial directly linked to health insurance or for health care providers to participate expectations but others have flourished. (who.int)
  • Like all such topics in our polarized society, people aligned on sides, politics, and religion rush to the head of the room, legislation is proposed, and words take on new meanings. (medscape.com)
  • This is either enhanced or constrained by the legislation and policies that our governments establish. (medscape.com)
  • However, I think the approach that physicians and scientists have is one that can improve the government process and result in better legislation and policies. (medscape.com)
  • The process for selecting Séamus Woulfe to fill a Supreme Court vacancy differed from the normal procedure, according to the accounts of 10 former government figures. (irishtimes.com)
  • The Government has said it followed established practice when choosing Woulfe for the Supreme Court position on July 15th - two weeks after his term as attorney general had ended with the change of government. (irishtimes.com)
  • The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act , 1908 (1910) and, with Sir Robert Stout , The practice of the Supreme Court & Court of Appeal of New Zealand (1892). (teara.govt.nz)
  • Whitewashing Israel's anti-Palestinian judicial system, Harris stated: "Israel's supreme court is a beautiful monument to a government founded on the highest of human ideals. (electronicintifada.net)
  • The Supreme Court finally issued a verdict in the long-running Fimi Media case against former prime minister Ivo Sanader and the HDZ, finding Sanader guilty and the ruling party responsible for siphoning public funds from state enterprises. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The Supreme Court got a new president after a protracted battle between President Zoran Milanović, the government, and court justices. (freedomhouse.org)
  • In a June 2016 Jewish News of Northern California questionnaire published before Harris won her US Senate seat in November that year, she looked the other way on Israeli human rights abuses - just as she did last year with The New York Times . (electronicintifada.net)
  • In a 2016 interview , he portrayed himself as a master of the quid pro quo, the practice he would later deny in his text concerning the Ukraine matter. (latimes.com)
  • The decade of the 1990s saw four governments all toppled before they completed their terms. (himalmag.com)
  • 21 years is a long time, especially if you consider that Georgian regained its independence in 1991. (iri.org)
  • 1 Modern government-that is, a state bureaucracy that is impersonal and universal-develops only over time, and in many cases fails to develop at all. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Once nationalism as a principle took hold at the time of the French Revolution, national identities were forged by adjusting political boundaries to correspond to existing cultural, ethnic, or linguistic communities. (the-american-interest.com)
  • To heal the wounds this time, Mandela-who had himself been jailed for 27 years for challenging the white minority-led apartheid system-had to first acknowledge and address the widespread pain and division apartheid had wrought. (history.com)
  • This year, 30% of postgraduate GP training places are unfilled after the first round of recruitment , compared with only 9% at the same time in 2013. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • The Globe found at least 20 instances this year where the Trudeau Liberals are asking Canadians to pay as much as $1,500 to spent time at private residences, hotels or other venues with senior ministers who responsible for major spending and policy decisions. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Yet they did expect 'to form a more perfect union' and to exceed other nations of their time, and of earlier eras, in establishing a good political order. (kirkcenter.org)
  • At the time, neither the WHO nor the Chinese government claimed Taiwan's observer status to be a violation of any U.N. principles or international law. (thediplomat.com)
  • By that time, the only remaining obstacle to total BCP domination was Nikola Petkov's BANU, in a coalition with other noncommunist parties. (countrystudies.us)
  • 3 years full-time with a 4-week placement, or 4 years full-time with a 30-week placement. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • Kufuor's first ministerial appointment was in Busia's Progress Party government, from 1969 to 1972, in which he served as deputy foreign minister under Victor Owusu, another old-time visitor to his family home. (jrank.org)
  • The two parties concluded a formal alliance in time for the 1882 general election. (biographi.ca)
  • University work is more or less back to normal after the time lost in the political fervor of 1981 and during the first two chaotic months of martial law at the start of 1982. (csmonitor.com)
  • The old youth unions disintegrated amid the wider ad hoc movement that fought for (and won, for a short time) a new student and academic government charter. (csmonitor.com)
  • At the same time this study finds certain differences in methods used to protest and influence, as well as in what specific changes in law and politics feminists propagate. (lu.se)
  • In a press release, the government said that the 1-year extension would "provide additional time to prepare for the safe and consistent assessment and provision of MAID in all cases, including where the person's sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness. (medscape.com)
  • It also allowed us to tentatively indicate whether these acts, in fact, seem to become more "political" over time. (lu.se)
  • As a result of his experiences in the USA, when he returned to the United Kingdom in 1970, he became a political activist in the Labour Party. (triarchypress.net)
  • your future career path could include frontline politics, research and advisory roles for charities, parties or activist groups, diplomacy and global political affairs within governments, global organisations or for any organisation seeking politically literate and media-savvy employees. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • A third individual, a former minister, said the only occasions on which there was no discussion of candidates was when there had been a political agreement in advance to appoint a specific individual. (irishtimes.com)
  • What's more, Buchanan's choice of campaign co-chairs for his Reform bid, especially that of an ultra-left-wing progressive, bucks his conservative ideology in favor of political expediency. (publicintegrity.org)
  • In 1946 a national referendum rejected the monarchy in favor of a people's republic, leading to the immediate exile of Simeon II, nine-year-old son of Boris III. (countrystudies.us)
  • The League, as part of a coalition government in Italy, now shapes policy, and its leader Matteo Salvini, a rising star of the European far right, is unashamed about his enthusiasm about rehabilitating Benito Mussolini's fascist legacy. (isj.org.uk)
  • In 1942 the broad Fatherland Front coalition was formed as the communists attempted to involve legal opposition groups in exerting antiwar pressure on the government. (countrystudies.us)
  • Penny was in Congress for twelve years. (freshair.com)
  • We have the strong support of the U.S. government, and the U.S. Congress, for this work, and we are very pleased to accompany Georgians in their democratic journey. (iri.org)
  • Salvini said he was proud to welcome the right-wing World Congress of Families to the Italian city of Verona this year. (isj.org.uk)
  • Being the son of a prominent Congress leader Motilal Nehru, Pandit Nehru as he was known across the country, was committed to the cause of the Indian national movement since his teenage years. (mapsofindia.com)
  • The Congress party came to dominate the political scenario in the 1930s and 1940s, and in 1947, India gained full independence from the British rule of the British after a partition between India and Pakistan, that witnessed one of the largest mass exodus on the subcontinent soil. (mapsofindia.com)
  • Nehru was unanimously elected by the Congress party to head independent India's first government, and assumed the office of the Prime Minister with a vision of secular nation-state. (mapsofindia.com)
  • For years, Dhlakama has pushed for Renamo members to be appointed in the central and northern provinces where the party's support base lies. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Programs have been restored and resumed, with changes of no particular significance except that studies stay more strictly within the party's political guidelines. (csmonitor.com)
  • One of Asia's (and the world's) most dynamic economies and highest-functioning democracies is prevented from representing its people's interests or sharing its developmental best practices with the world because of Beijing's political whims. (thediplomat.com)
  • Of the non-democracies, Russia is ruled by a party that believes in Russian brand of conservatism and is authoritarian. (livemint.com)
  • Schlesinger's theory is a useful reference point to examine the recent trend in political choices in democracies. (livemint.com)
  • With its high levels of economic inequality and its recent history of political scandals, Latin America can be regarded as a heartland of populism. (lu.se)
  • We have worked with all democratic political parties across the board including Georgian Dream. (iri.org)
  • Gizikis finally seeing the light and in consultation with the hitherto dormant democratic political elite of the country invited Konstantinos Karamanlis to assume that role.Throughout his stay in France, Karamanlis was a thorn at the side of the junta because he possessed the credibility and popularity they lacked both in Greece and abroad and he also criticized them very often. (mlahanas.de)
  • The three congressmen who represent Northern Virginia recently praised Warner's "integrity and independence and his leadership of a united bipartisan delegation that worked for the good of Northern Virginia and the commonwealth without regard to political party. (washingtonian.com)
  • Certainly there is little to be found in the current situation that the government might regard as ''positive. (csmonitor.com)
  • With regard to its South Asian neighbours, the significance of the Maldivian case is that the conjuncture of religion and nationalism is hardly challenged, but rather evoked, played out and reinforced in the political realm. (lu.se)
  • The government's decades-long war with the Mozambican National Resistance, a rebel group turned political party that is known as Renamo, officially ended 24 years ago. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • While racial segregation had been long practiced in South Africa, the official system of apartheid emerged in 1948, after the political ascendance of the Afrikaner National Party. (history.com)
  • Under apartheid, the Black majority population was moved to segregated townships in conditions of brutal poverty, excluded from any role in national politics and denied jobs beyond those involving unskilled labor. (history.com)
  • The Afrikaner National Party had deep ties to the rugby team, which had fielded an all-white roster for its first 90 years. (history.com)
  • The National Party envisioned the Springbok symbol [a native antelope] as a representation of the values and characteristics of the Afrikaner people," wrote Simon Pinsky in an essay published in South African History Online . (history.com)
  • High on the list: the Springbok, which had been the rugby team's mascot-and the sport's emblem of apartheid's National Party-since 1906. (history.com)
  • The National Wildlife Federation recently honored Warner as Conservationist of the Year for his leadership on climate change and energy conservation. (washingtonian.com)
  • K.O. Strohbehn lives in Jackson, a liberal, wealthy tourism community at the gateway to Grand Teton National Park, and she recently switched her party affiliation to vote for Cheney. (ksut.org)
  • Having a massive, permanent presence abroad and a vast, overreaching national security apparatus at home obviously requires significant government growth . (dailycaller.com)
  • He inherited the legacy of Indian national movement post Independence, and became a revered political figure in India after India gained independence. (mapsofindia.com)
  • Soon, Nehru's interest in nationalist politics replaced his legal practice gradually, as he became more involved in the rising national movement against the British imperial rule. (mapsofindia.com)
  • The return to India of Nehru meant active participation in the political developments in the country, as he became interested in the national movement of home rule. (mapsofindia.com)
  • Thus, for instance, certain important features of America's national political structure are not even mentioned in our written Constitution. (kirkcenter.org)
  • yet political parties direct the course of our national affairs. (kirkcenter.org)
  • In 1939, American historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr. proposed the cyclical theory of American politics that explained the fluctuation between liberalism and conservatism based on the national mood. (livemint.com)
  • In 1946 the first Fatherland Front government divided ministries among the BCP, Zveno, the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (BANU), and the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party (BSDP). (countrystudies.us)
  • The government continued to treat migrants at the border with an appalling lack of care as both national and international media and CSOs accused police and border control of pushbacks, physical injuries, property destruction, and torture against migrants predominantly from the Middle East. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Any views expressed would therefore be those of the Board, not of their national governments. (who.int)
  • These agencies also receive data from countries when the impact of a public health event crosses national borders, a standard of practice codified by the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) ( 5 ), the international legal instrument aimed at assisting the global community to prevent and respond to public health threats that have the potential to affect populations worldwide. (cdc.gov)
  • Meanwhile, some opposition parties in Parliament gave a lukewarm reaction to Ramaphosa's economic recovery plan. (sabcnews.com)
  • The parties said the economic recovery plan was an old plan which was not been implemented in the past. (sabcnews.com)
  • Long considered to be a post-conflict success story, Mozambique currently finds itself in a period of uncertainty, with past political progress and current economic opportunities threatened by unresolved tensions on both fronts. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Most worryingly, economic prosperity has been undermined since the return of political instability and violence in 2012. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Beneath strong economic growth and political progress, poverty, corruption and political violence persist. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Evan Barrett, Democrat of Butte, has spent the last 46 years at the top level of Montana economic development, government, politics and education. (flatheadbeacon.com)
  • He led the transformation of the modern Indian state with his progressive economic, political, and social reforms. (mapsofindia.com)
  • The works of Meredith Townsend, Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, J.M. Keynes, Bertrand Russell, and Lowes Dickinson greatly influenced much of his political and economic intellect. (mapsofindia.com)
  • It will become a model for far-right and fascist parties looking to destroy women's hard won rights. (isj.org.uk)
  • One can assume that the core ideology of a movement such as feminism, with the fundamental political goal of women's equal rights with men in all aspects of society, is similar in most parts of world today. (lu.se)
  • The Office of Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson told The Globe on Thursday that Ms. Dawson cannot pass judgment on whether Mr. Trudeau's "Open and Accountable Government" rules were breached because he gave that mandate to the Privy Council Office, the senior bureaucracy that serves the Prime Minister's Office. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Mainstream electoral parties have drifted so far from the general public that it hardly feels like a general election is around the corner. (himalmag.com)
  • More than half of the races for the state legislature and other local offices are decided before the general election, because often an opposing party lacks a candidate. (ksut.org)
  • Do you really think the 70-year old "election monitor volunteers" can't be fooled? (portlandmercury.com)
  • The colours of the winning party in the UK general election and the mood among pollsters, with little exception, failed to predict the success of the conservative party and, of course, the scale of the win. (livemint.com)
  • He had already followed his brother Philip's example by entering politics, having been elected a member for Harbour Main in an 1867 by-election. (biographi.ca)
  • His election strengthened a Liberal opposition hurt by the decision two years earlier of John Kent* and Ambrose and Edward Dalton* Shea to join the pro-confederate government led by Frederic Bowker Terrington Carter* . (biographi.ca)
  • We work to strengthen political party practices, make sure that all Georgians have a voice in their politics. (iri.org)
  • His paper to the Fourth Dominion Legal Conference in Dunedin in 1936 on 'Law reform in New Zealand' called for the establishment of a permanent committee with weight and learning to make recommendations to the government on issues where law reform was seen to be in the public interest. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Most of the American right today opposes fighting wars that don't make sense, hastily surrendering constitutional liberties while tolerating massive government growth. (dailycaller.com)
  • These developments make research into Cambodian politics even more urgent, according to Astrid Norén Nilsson. (lu.se)
  • As cultures, ideas, philosophies, and circumstances change and happen, 1+1 will always equal 2 -- to establish a government on eternal absolutes is brilliant. (liberty-tree.ca)
  • For the past three years, however, Hungary has been operating under consecutive states of emergency that allow the government to pass laws by edict, bypassing parliament, which elects the president (the head of state) every five years. (state.gov)
  • Trudeau revealed in Parliament on Sept. 18 that Canadian intelligence services were investigating possible ties between the Indian government and the fatal shooting of Nijjar in Surrey, B.C., outside of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Like every other Member of Parliament, I am actively involved in fundraiser activities for my party," he told reporters on Thursday. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Just as in the UK, opinion polls did not predict a win for Netanyahu's Likud party, but unlike in the UK, where a hung Parliament was the most likely scenario, in Israel, pollsters were sure that Netanyahu would lose to Isaac Herzog's centre-left Zionist Union party. (livemint.com)
  • The Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party (Vietnamese: Cần lao Nhân vị Cách Mạng Ðảng / Đảng Cần lao Nhân vị), often simply called the Cần Lao Party, was a Vietnamese political party, formed in the early 1950s by the President of South Vietnam Ngô Đình Diệm and his brother and adviser Ngô Đình Nhu. (wikipedia.org)
  • The slogan of the Party was: Labor - Revolution - Personalism (Cần lao - Cách mạng - Nhân vị). (wikipedia.org)
  • Anthony Mazzocchi On the Need for a Labor Party. (freshair.com)
  • Business practices and labor rights became topics of heated debate. (minnpost.com)
  • But some have welcomed Ramaphosa's commitment to fighting corruption and allowing law enforcement agencies space to work without political interference. (sabcnews.com)
  • Careful comparative study of the dynamics of state building and public-sector modernization shows that while some developed countries (defined as those beyond a standard threshold of per capita income) managed to enter the 21st century with reasonably effective and uncorrupt governments, others continue to be plagued by clientelism, corruption, poor performance, and low levels of trust both in government and in society more broadly. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Populists attacked railroad monopolies, currency manipulation, and government corruption. (minnpost.com)
  • Progressives blamed party politics and corruption for the government's ineffective response to shady business practices. (minnpost.com)
  • The 2007 to 2008 financial crisis, corruption scandals, and journalistic exposés of politicians' unethical behavior (like those in the Panama and Paradise Papers ) have spread the view that political representatives either don't have the public interest at heart or aren't able to resist the influence of efficiently organized private and vested interests. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The Global Corruption Barometer debuted in 2003 and since that year has surveyed the experiences of everyday life of people confronting corruption around the world. (lu.se)
  • Political affiliation and partisanship then adds another level that diverts from what should be an evidence-based and reasoned process. (medscape.com)
  • Philip Francis Little* , indeed, was starting a short but important political career as leader of the Liberal party, and of the campaign for responsible government. (biographi.ca)
  • His term in the cabinet established Little as leader of the Liberal party, which sat in opposition after the disintegration of Bennett's government in 1874. (biographi.ca)
  • He had the political realism, however, to see that the Liberal party which his brother had led had outlived its usefulness. (biographi.ca)
  • You will also benefit from guest lectures from across the world of politics. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • The nation-state is undoubtedly the most important political formation in the world today. (lu.se)
  • In short, the history, culture and current political development that shape a movement vary in different parts of the world. (lu.se)
  • Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) accreditation programmes around the A survey in 2009 ( 4 ) obtained re- world have changed radically from the Descriptive studies sponses on accreditation from 18 of original models of North America 50 Global surveys the 22 Member States of the World years ago. (who.int)
  • In her view, we often don't think about what is happening in that part of the world - but it is at least as important to monitor the political currents there as those in the US and Europe. (lu.se)
  • According to Miller, the name "Cần Lao" shows Nhu's profound concern in political potential of Vietnamese labors which related to French unionist ideology. (wikipedia.org)
  • In politics, constitution signifies a system of fundamental institutions and principles, a body of basic laws, for the governing of a commonwealth. (kirkcenter.org)
  • This is especially true given the fact that the military government has systematically defamed politicians over the past three years, in close collaboration with the IFIs. (himalmag.com)
  • We use the 2002 wave of the Equality Security Community Survey to explore the relationship between personal characteristics (age, sex, education, and household type) work characteristics, social capital attributes (trust in government, belonging, civic awareness and interaction with others) and ethnic characteristics (ethnic origin, place of birth and religion) and voting. (repec.org)
  • I address topics such cultural and identity politics, civic engagement and activism, documentation of pressing social issues, and different platforms and institutions involved in photography and documentary film such as art institutions, photo and film festivals. (lu.se)
  • Pat Buchanan's switch to the Reform Party on Oct. 25, 1999, was a dramatic change in the fiery commentators political life. (publicintegrity.org)
  • In fact, Buchanan's move to the Reform Party was much more tactical than ideological. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Political reform was another key aspect of the progressive movement. (minnpost.com)
  • It was also an attempt to reform government. (minnpost.com)
  • Even the new constitution of 2008, which was the outcome of a four-year-long democratic reform process, clearly states that the state religion is Islam and only Muslims can acquire Maldivian citizenship. (lu.se)
  • The resolution did not determine other questions such as Taiwan's participation in U.N. bodies in its own right so long as Taiwan's government does not claim China's U.N. seat. (thediplomat.com)
  • Beijing accepted Taiwan's participation because of its political rapprochement with the then-Taiwan government ruled by the Nationalist Party (KMT). (thediplomat.com)
  • This is what makes this conservative shift in global politics remarkable. (livemint.com)
  • These preferences become the swing between liberal and conservative political choices. (livemint.com)
  • Kent became speaker, and Little joined Sir William Vallance Whiteway 's Conservative government, without portfolio, in December 1882. (biographi.ca)
  • Thus while all partnerships aim at some good, Aristotle taught, the political partnership "aims at the most authoritative good of all," at justice. (nationalaffairs.com)
  • According to Ngo Dinh Nhu, the party was the "fusion" of the groups which were founded by him in the early 1950s. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to local and international observers, authorities continued to impose restrictions and additional scrutiny on what the government considers "nontraditional" religious groups, including Muslims who practice a version of Islam other than the officially recognized Hanafi school of Sunni Islam and Protestant Christians. (state.gov)
  • The government again raided religious services, prosecuted individuals for "illegal missionary activity," and refused to register certain religious groups. (state.gov)
  • In June television news in Karaganda Region covered a government-sponsored law enforcement and expert working group meeting, during which participants referred to some minority Christian groups as "nontraditional" and "destructive" "pseudo-religions" and called for measures to protect young people from them. (state.gov)
  • The political demands of groups and individuals are combined into policy programs. (powershow.com)
  • Govt accepts their input as the groups seek a common good in controlling policy making. (powershow.com)
  • Since she conducted her study, however, the political climate in Cambodia has hardened. (lu.se)
  • Especially since the political climate has hardened in large parts of Southeast Asia, even in countries which have long been considered economically and politically stable, such as Thailand and the Philippines. (lu.se)
  • These references raise questions, not only about the continuing political relevance of the Bible, but also about the task of Biblical Scholars to engage with the Bible's relevance in today's political climate. (lu.se)
  • The number of GPs per head of population is falling and new data gathered by Pulse show that practices across the country are finding it almost impossible to recruit. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • Each country has its own tune and rhythm of political change. (livemint.com)
  • In practice, the council chairman, who by office was prime minister of the country, was always the first secretary of the BCP. (countrystudies.us)
  • This isn't a question of whose "enlightened' vision should dictate which policies the government should pursue, what the country should be, or how healthcare and medicine should be run. (medscape.com)