• Meanwhile, the only element on the left to give any serious time to idea of an independent Scotland was the Scottish Socialist Party. (afed.org.uk)
  • Parties and organisations which were mentioned in the session were the Electoral Alternative for Work and Social Justice (WASG), the Party of Socialism and Liberty (PSOL) in Brazil, the Committee for Different Politics (CAP), the Scottish Socialist Party and the new formation Solidarity, Socialist Party in Netherlands, the Communist Refoundation (PRC) in Italy and the Left Bloc in Portugal. (socialistworld.net)
  • Sishuwa identifies the Patriotic Front and the Socialist Party as two formidable political rivals that UPND is targeting for obliteration. (lusakatimes.com)
  • Nevertheless, after independence there was a surge of interest in Islam, including the emergence of political Islamist groups seeking to challenge the secular nature of these new states. (intl-crisis-group.org)
  • The story of politics in recent years has been the emergence of anti-establishment politicians who thrive on the growing distrust of experts," said Dr. Roberto Foa, Co-Director of the CFD and the report's lead author. (scitechdaily.com)
  • In addition, the extent to which the left can carry out its representative function through a party organization (more or less formally established) helps to prevent the emergence of populism and political instability. (opendemocracy.net)
  • Governments curtail "political rights and civil liberties, including the freedom of the press, freedom of association, and freedom to criticise the government without reprisal. (epw.in)
  • In police-state the ruling party/government uses the police force to oppress opposition leaders, dissenting civil society activists/intellectuals and to violate civil liberties/human rights. (countercurrents.org)
  • 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)
  • How did democracy and political organisations develop in Britain? (aqa.org.uk)
  • The smaller parties that were allowed to function merely added a façade of democracy to a de facto single party regime. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The number of parties is a threat to Tunisian democracy. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The crisis of the parties is turning into a crisis of democracy. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • A narrow focus on the party system prevents us from seeing that Modi is engaged in a thoroughgoing suffocation of democracy, to create a fundamentally different kind of political order. (epw.in)
  • Incumbents' "manipulation of state institutions and resources is so excessive and one-sided that it seriously limits political competition, (which) is incompatible with democracy" (Levitsky and Way 2010: 6). (epw.in)
  • The authors of the new report, from Cambridge's Centre for the Future of Democracy (CFD), describe the study as the first global overview of how the COVID-19 crisis has affected political beliefs. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The United Nations has issued clear guidelines about the role of police in a democracy. (countercurrents.org)
  • Reports about the role of police in various countries are published by the United Nations and some voluntary organizations from time to time on the test of democracy and civil rights. (countercurrents.org)
  • Lohia, as a radical democrat, had deeply contemplated the problems related to the police system and their solutions during the freedom movement and after independence from the point of view of democracy and civil rights. (countercurrents.org)
  • Steven Levitsky argues that leftist governments tend to implement redistributive and socially inclusive policies which result in the gaps between the population and the government decreasing, thus strengthening democracy. (opendemocracy.net)
  • Sishuwa suggests that the first step of the so-called plan involves containing the activities of the Roman Catholic Church, which has long played an important role in consolidating democracy in Zambia. (lusakatimes.com)
  • Winston Churchill is famously quoted as having said, [and I paraphrase], "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for every alternative. (medscape.com)
  • The rise of populism in the 1870s strongly influenced progressive politics. (minnpost.com)
  • From Erdogan and Bolsonaro to the 'strong men' of Eastern Europe, the planet has experienced a wave of political populism. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Flake said the rise of populism could be dangerous for the Republican party because of changing demographics. (thecrimson.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)
  • the Corbyn leadership of the Labour Party, which has opened up a real prospect of a left anti-austerity government at a time when world politics is moving to the right. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • That prospect is still there but the Labour leadership's stance on Brexit, the issue that defines politics in Britain at the present time, is going to have to change. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Labour not only saw its vote collapse, but it managed to facilitate both the rise of Nigel Farage's Brexit Party and of the semi-dead Lib Dems - putting them centre-stage at a very dangerous period of time. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Labour haemorrhaged votes to the Lib Dems and the Greens because those parties were unequivocally pro-remain and for a second referendum in order to achieve it and Labour was not - even after it had become clear that the Brexit that people were promised in 2016 was not on offer. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Many of these were disillusioned Labour remainers who defected to these parties in the knowledge that they could let Farage in. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Although Labour went on to win the Peterborough by-election - which was important in that it denied momentum to the Brexit Party at this point - it did so on a reduced vote and because the Brexit vote was split (equally according to John Curtice) between the Brexit party and the Tories and reflected the same underlying situation. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • The Labour candidate, Lisa Forbes, who beat the Brexit party by just 683 votes, argued that her campaign had been successful because it had ignored Brexit and concentrated on local issues. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Following the failure of the 1979 devolution referendum to achieve a measure of self-government, the Labour Party and the Scottish National Party (SNP) were blaming each other, while Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives had come to power and declared any idea of "home rule" for Scotland dead. (bellacaledonia.org.uk)
  • Meanwhile pro-devolutionist Labour activists were faced with a UK party which, fearful of seeing the Tories hold on to power for the long term, seemed to be backing away from the devolution project altogether. (bellacaledonia.org.uk)
  • A previous First Minister, Jack McConnell, then a Labour student activist and later a Stirling councillor, was a regular supplier, putting into the public domain many juicy titbits of sensitive political material. (bellacaledonia.org.uk)
  • His legal talents and radical views were enlisted in defence of various labour leaders before, during and after the First World War. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Opposition to conscription and support for Irish nationalism brought the Catholic church and the New Zealand Labour Party together, with O'Regan acting as a vital link. (teara.govt.nz)
  • He wrote on radical issues in both the New Zealand Tablet and Maoriland Worker , and worked behind the scenes after the war to forge an informal Labour-Liberal-Catholic alliance against the dominant Reform Party. (teara.govt.nz)
  • The Labour government appointed him a judge of the Court of Arbitration in 1937, and an MLC in 1946. (teara.govt.nz)
  • In more urban and industrial areas it was socialist sentiment (mainly channelled towards the Labour Party) that was seen as a way to protect Scottish industry. (afed.org.uk)
  • The initial wave of concessions given by the Labour Party in the wake of their landslide victory of 1997, such as the minimum wage and working tax credits, started to wear thin. (afed.org.uk)
  • The left, in the form of trade unions and Trotskyist front-groups, confined their opposition to the Labour Party to hot air speeches and symbolic acts, such as A to B marches. (afed.org.uk)
  • L ike it or not, Labour has re-emerged as a force within the politics of the left. (counterfire.org)
  • Any serious attempt to construct a united front against austerity must be capable of engaging activists inside and outside of the Labour Party. (counterfire.org)
  • A good 70 people had squeezed into the back room to kick off a campaign, initiated by the local Labour Party, to save Clapham Fire Station. (counterfire.org)
  • During its thirteen years in office, the Labour Party was virtually non-existent in the extra-parliamentary sphere - and for obvious reasons. (counterfire.org)
  • To campaign against that which was dissatisfactory with the status quo meant drawing attention to the inadequacies of the Labour government. (counterfire.org)
  • On the one hand, we have cringed while David Miliband promoted his Movement for Change - an attempt to construct a "grassroots movement" from Labour Party HQ, inspired by Barack Obama's rhetoric about community organizers, and just as politically vacuous. (counterfire.org)
  • On the other hand, we have, in recent weeks, seen local Labour parties play an important role - in some places a leading role - in demonstrations across Britain against the bedroom tax. (counterfire.org)
  • In various parts of the country the Labour Party barely exists except as an electoral machine, while in others it seems to function primarily as a network for professionals and the ambitious. (counterfire.org)
  • In the very immediate aftermath of the May 2010 general election Labour experienced a minor surge of new recruits, as people looked for ways to kick back against the coalition - and did so at a moment when the radical left was relatively weak. (counterfire.org)
  • Though opinion polls can be a rather blunt instrument for assessing the political landscape, Labour at the moment is perhaps more popular than it has been at virtually any moment in the past decade - and its support is concentrated amongst those who self-identify as working class. (counterfire.org)
  • The reserved seats are filled through a proportional representation system with closed party lists. (freedomhouse.org)
  • In August 2017, a coalition of organizations calling themselves "Unite the Right" organized a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia to protest the planned removal by the city government of a statute of General Robert E. Lee, leader of the pro-slavery Confederate forces in the Civil War of 1860-65. (transcend.org)
  • The Socialist Workers' Party (SWP), through the Stop the War Coalition (StWC), were quick to jump on the 'Don't Attack Iran' bandwagon in their typically opportunistic manner. (libcom.org)
  • This may explain the less prominent appearance of parties that make up the current government coalition. (politicalcapital.hu)
  • Despite signing a memorandum of understanding, there are some differences between the MFP and its major coalition partner on the contentious lese majeste law and the issue of granting a political amnesty. (bangkokpost.com)
  • The NYT reported yesterday on Bush's attempt to sideline Sadr: "Following discussions with the Bush administration, several of Iraq's major political parties are in talks to form a coalition whose aim is to break the powerful influence of the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr within the government, senior Iraqi officials say. (opednews.com)
  • The Americans, who are frustrated with Mr. Maliki's political dependence on Mr. Sadr, appear to be working hard to help build the coalition. (opednews.com)
  • Since the coalition came to power, the party has, with varying degrees of competence and clunkiness, re-emerged somewhat as a force outside Westminster. (counterfire.org)
  • The cumulative effect of the army's clearance of terrorist sanctuaries in Waziristan, and intelligence-led operations elsewhere in the country, was that radical Islamist violence no longer directly threatened democratic order. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The 2011 uprising marked the beginning of multiparty competition in Tunisia-the country had a de jure multiparty system since 1987, but the government party, the Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique (RCD) dominated all elections, banning potential competitors like the Islamist Ennahda Party. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Even Ennahda, once a well-organized party with a clear ideology, is facing a crisis of leadership and is torn between its president's drive to rebrand it as a "Muslim Democratic Party" and its deep Islamist roots. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The rise of Islamist movements has stimulated new interest in the relationship between religion and politics in the region, and the role of the state in expressing and implementing this relationship. (merip.org)
  • But these high points from Pope Francis's visit also seem be in real conflict with the strongly held beliefs of the country's political majority - at least as it is expressed in the political balance in Congress and by those big crowds for some of the Republican candidates seeking their party's presidential nomination. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • At the same time, the chapter recognises Chile's gradual move towards redistributive universalism in social policy (Huber and Stephens 2012 ) and explores whether these policies can transform the country's political economy in the future. (springer.com)
  • Progressives blamed party politics and corruption for the government's ineffective response to shady business practices. (minnpost.com)
  • Delays in the government's formation and political uncertainties adversely affect the economy, particularly when investors lose confidence and shift investments elsewhere. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Will began by outlining the government's role in protecting natural rights as well as stating the importance of maintaining a separation of powers within the federal system. (thecrimson.com)
  • He took an increasingly prominent role in Catholic and Irish affairs, culminating in his presidency of the Irish Self-Determination League of New Zealand (1921) and in his successful defence of Bishop James Liston on a charge of sedition (1922). (teara.govt.nz)
  • Many imams are content merely to conduct rituals but some find government interference increasingly stifling and seek more freedom. (intl-crisis-group.org)
  • Yet, at a local level - at least in some places - the party is increasingly being drawn to engage with growing popular outrage against the cuts. (counterfire.org)
  • Disillusioned with post-Independence politics and in ill-health, Ambedkar increasingly turned to Buddhism, which he embraced just before his death. (himalmag.com)
  • 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)
  • Support for populist parties and politicians, and agreement with populist sentiment, has diminished during the pandemic, according to a "mega-dataset" taking in attitudes of over half a million people across 109 countries since 2020. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Electoral support for populist parties has collapsed around the world in a way we don't see for more mainstream politicians. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Support for Europe's opposition populist parties also fell over the pandemic - by 5 pp on average to 11% - while it rose for "mainstream" opposition. (scitechdaily.com)
  • One is simply the botch job made of the pandemic by populist governments: from Bolsonaro's mask veto to Trump's "bleach injection" suggestion. (scitechdaily.com)
  • In June 2020, approval of government handling of the crisis was 11 percentage points lower on average in countries with populist leaders than in those with more centrist governance. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Not one in particular, but a series of determined stances, such as not supporting governments dominated by populist formations, which I am proud of even if they were difficult and led to the resignation of important leaders of my party, but which then contributed to the birth of the Draghi government. (aldeparty.eu)
  • The decade of the 1990s saw four governments all toppled before they completed their terms. (himalmag.com)
  • The CWI, its affiliated organisations, and parties have raised the urgent necessity of building new workers' parties in many more countries since the early 1990s. (socialistworld.net)
  • In India, our comrades worked in the mass communist parties until the end of the 1990s, because of the support these parties had amongst sections of the working class. (socialistworld.net)
  • In Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, leftist forces took advantage of the voters' discontent with the neoliberal policies of the 1990s to sail into government. (opendemocracy.net)
  • The significance of Obama's electoral victory has little to do with his political positions or the reality that he will be the candidate of one of the two major ruling capitalist parties. (links.org.au)
  • But the so-called 'tea party' caucus on the right wing of his party has been relentlessly pushing him not to compromise with any of Obama's legislative goals. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • U.S. Senator Jeff Flake speaks with George F. Will, Arthur Brooks, and Alice Stewart to discuss the role of conservatism and its new connotations in today's politics. (thecrimson.com)
  • Hundreds of students, faculty, and alumni filled the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum to listen to panelists discuss the transition from traditional to modern American conservatism at an event hosted by the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics on Wednesday evening. (thecrimson.com)
  • What attracted me to American conservatism was two basic concepts: one is the belief that there's a radical equality of human dignity, and that there's a limitlessness of human potential," Brooks said. (thecrimson.com)
  • Seventy years of Soviet rule in Central Asia did not crush Islam but it had a profound effect in secularising society and political elites. (intl-crisis-group.org)
  • America , this is our moment'', stated Barack Obama on June 3 after winning enough delegates to become the presumed presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. (links.org.au)
  • The Democratic Party, like the Republican Party, stands behind the mission of US imperialist domination of the world. (links.org.au)
  • The differences between the Democratic and Republican parties are more about tactics to keep the US as the only world power with military basses, and plans to expand NATO and other Cold War alliances, around the world. (links.org.au)
  • These reports show that even in countries with democratic set-up, the political class makes unfair use of the police force to uphold its power. (countercurrents.org)
  • This task flows from the move to the right by those social democratic and communist parties which the working class traditionally supported in the decades after the Second World War. (socialistworld.net)
  • For reasons that would be tricky to summarize, the Peruvian left was quite late in adopting democratic methods of doing politics. (opendemocracy.net)
  • At the beginning of the armed conflict, the forces of the left as a whole had not yet updated their discourse, which was still radically Marxist and quite contradictory with the democratic ambitions of the United Left, their electoral political front. (opendemocracy.net)
  • From the start, the Maldivian democratic project tried to combine democratic liberty with Islamic normativity within its political discourse. (lu.se)
  • Minnesota adopted a non-partisan legislature in 1913 to temper the influence of political parties. (minnpost.com)
  • In 2013, however, the parties lost their influence on the political process, ceding the initiative to civil society organizations, and they never fully re-established it. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The arrogance of Bush using his influence to meddle in Iraq's politics while he continues his military occupation is stunning. (opednews.com)
  • The price Sadr, and the civilians who reside in Sadr City and Ramadi, will have to pay for their rejection of Bush's undue influence over their country's government, may be a bloody one if Bush gets his way and gives his blessing to attacks on the Shiite spiritual leader, and on his 60,000 some followers. (opednews.com)
  • With the emasculation of the IRP, more radical groups have gained influence, such as Hizb ut-Tahrir which seeks the overthrow of all secular states in the region in favour of a single Islamic Caliphate, although it claims to be committed to non-violence. (intl-crisis-group.org)
  • The region has traditionally been characterised by high concentration of income and political influence of the elite (World Bank 2003). (springer.com)
  • Ironically, in Nepal, even if both issues appear to be mutually exclusive at this stage, the current uncertainty implies that it will significantly influence the political process. (ipcs.org)
  • 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)
  • Doha's political relations with Iran, Hamas and other Islamists reflect the emirate's ideology of maintaining working relations with all principal political actors in the region, in order to enable conflict-resolution negotiations and other useful political contacts when possible. (aljazeera.com)
  • The more the government controls it, the less authority the religious hierarchy has with believers, and the less impact it has in carrying government ideology to the population. (intl-crisis-group.org)
  • Every leftist idea - of redistribution, social rights or a greater role of the State in society - was demonized as an expression of radical, failed and above all violent ideology. (opendemocracy.net)
  • The political forces that coalesced and mobilized behind these transitions had a distinctive class character and clothed themselves in the vestments of a distinctive ideology called neoliberal. (davidharvey.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • In such a scenario, any attempt to underplay or side step Mohan Baidya's faction will seriously undermine the legitimacy of the political process required for the CA 2. (ipcs.org)
  • party leaders to hear their thoughts on liberalism, Europe and beyond. (aldeparty.eu)
  • 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)
  • The political parties are, moreover, diffused across the map from one another, signifying a degree of political polarisation and weak bonds between parties and society. (politicalcapital.hu)
  • The pandemic fostered a sense of shared purpose that may have reduced the political polarisation we've seen over the last decade," said CFD researcher and report co-author Dr. Xavier Romero-Vidal. (scitechdaily.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)
  • 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)
  • not the politicians, not the government bureaucrats, not the media elite, not the lawyers, lobbyists or arrogant Ivy League intellectuals. (theblaze.com)
  • He attributed his electoral defeat in 1899 to the party-machine politicians' dislike of his independent line and of his Roman Catholicism. (teara.govt.nz)
  • At other times an economic and political emphasis dominated, with primary interest in moderate regulation to curtail the excesses of Gilded Age capitalists and politicians. (gilderlehrman.org)
  • The percentage of party supporters expressing a "strong dislike" of those who vote for opposing politicians fell in most nations (although not the US) during the crisis. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Eventually, politicians-including a young Abraham Lincoln-realized that they would need to organize into a political party to have any say on the national level. (listverse.com)
  • However, after the 2019 elections, the assembly elected as speaker Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Ennahda and one of the major political figures in the country, creating a third center of power, causing more tensions. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Opposition parties may raise funds, but those in power raise vastly more (in India in 2019, 18 times more than all other parties combined). (epw.in)
  • The panel consisted of a variety of conservative figures including Kennedy School Professor Arthur C. Brooks, former senator and IOP Fall 2019 Resident Fellow Jeff L. Flake (R-Arizona), and political commentator George F. Will. (thecrimson.com)
  • CNN political commentator and IOP Fall 2019 Resident Fellow Alice M. Stewart moderated the panel. (thecrimson.com)
  • Subsequently, when in government, many of these former workers parties adopted vicious neoliberal policies which completed their transformation into parties hated by increasing parts of the working class. (socialistworld.net)
  • Czech political parties, however, are relatively distant from the centre of the map, suggesting they do not play a dominant role in influencing the public discourse on Facebook in the country. (politicalcapital.hu)
  • The ways in which women are represented in political discourse, the degree of formal emancipation they have achieved, their forms of participation in economic life and the nature of the social movements through which they express their demands are closely linked to state-building processes. (merip.org)
  • To have claimed this political identity, before the pandemic crisis and the strong response of the EU, showed everyone the validity of our position. (aldeparty.eu)
  • The Shining Path (SL) and the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) started a bloody armed conflict that left an estimated 70,000 casualties, millions of victims, and a rampant political and economic crisis. (opendemocracy.net)
  • Reformers challenged old gender roles and social norms. (minnpost.com)
  • The prevalence of such similarities and differences in gender roles is one reason why I have chosen to study feminism, as it is a reaction to such inequalities. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • Before the event transitioned to a question and answer session with the audience, Stewart asked the panelists what advice they would give to young conservatives who are navigating today's political environment. (thecrimson.com)
  • 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)
  • It was in this turbulent atmosphere that a collective of political activists, including the authors of this article, took over the little-known magazine Radical Scotland in 1983, with the aim of uniting sympathisers of all parties and keeping the dream of Scottish self-government alive. (bellacaledonia.org.uk)
  • Being essentially political activists, we were reasonably well-versed in how to set agendas and so utilise the press to that end. (bellacaledonia.org.uk)
  • What's wrong with rewarding activists such as Pilato or Mwape with key government positions for the role they played in removing a brutal regime from power……after all, it's not a forcing matter! (lusakatimes.com)
  • We do not starve, we are not arbitrarily imprisoned, we may vote, travel and read and write what we wish only because of the political activism of previous generations. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • is a new project aimed at helping young people learn about and get involved in radical politics and political activism. (truthout.org)
  • This shows utter contempt for rival parties, which he describes in sub-human terms as snakes, rats, cats and dogs. (epw.in)
  • The Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) group is the largest specialist group of the UK Political Studies Association (PSA) and in 2015 we hosted the annual conference. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • They were essential to elections for the constituent assembly and in the formation of the troika, the three-party alliance that governed the country until 2013. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • But there will also be a need to acknowledge the surprising success of non-politician outsiders in the run-up to the Republican presidential primaries and the fact that everything in American government is now viewed through an elections prism, and even reported meetings to be scheduled between US and Russian leaders over Syria. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • It won two national elections when Narendra Modi-his popularity boosted by fawning praise from most of the media-was sure to lead the new government. (epw.in)
  • The one-time champion of the rule of law now rigged elections and unleashed crowds to intimidate political opponents. (aijac.org.au)
  • Although many Texans were not happy about RUP and opposed its ideals, many RUP candidates ran for political office during the 1972 state elections. (listverse.com)
  • and, finally, the Broad Front, which became the country's third political force at the last general elections in 2016 led by a new, young leadership. (opendemocracy.net)
  • When it finally did, at the 1980 presidential elections, and when, two years later, it achieved its largest ever electoral support base and won the mayor post of Lima, a small radical group had already decided to carry out an armed struggle. (opendemocracy.net)
  • In case elections are held successfully, the Baidya group will face political isolation which they can ill-afford at this juncture of Nepali politics. (ipcs.org)
  • It is a great honor to be here tonight representing the Tea Party and the American people in responding to "the State of the Union" address by President Barack Obama. (theblaze.com)
  • In the early 1980s, Scotland was in a state of political turmoil. (bellacaledonia.org.uk)
  • Because Modi cannot head state governments, the BJP there is less inspiring and far from a ''dominant'' force. (epw.in)
  • In Tajikistan tension over the role of Islam in state-building was a contributory factor to the outbreak of civil war in 1992. (intl-crisis-group.org)
  • But non-traditional Muslim tendencies have appeared in both, and there is debate over the role of religion in society and in politics and over the limits to state interference in religion. (intl-crisis-group.org)
  • The state has a considerable role in appointments of religious leaders. (intl-crisis-group.org)
  • At the local level this is often exercised through the power of local authorities, while at the higher level the state seeks malleable figures who will not challenge the political leadership or act as an alternative power centre. (intl-crisis-group.org)
  • Parallel to this, the role of the government to manage capitalism within the state led to the massively unpopular second Iraq War, the acceleration of privatisation schemes (most notable within public transport and the NHS), and the sharp increase in racist narratives around immigration, refugees, and asylum seeking. (afed.org.uk)
  • The history of the non-government organisation (NGO), as a non-state institutional initiative, might logically go back to the origin of government itself. (himalmag.com)
  • Long viewed as a relatively liberal aberration in Central Asia's authoritarian landscape, Kyrgyzstan has since the autumn of 2007 transformed its political system into a functional one-party state ruled by a small elite, with President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's family at its core. (crisisgroup.org)
  • The nation-state is undoubtedly the most important political formation in the world today. (lu.se)
  • This rhetoric seemed somewhat surprising, as the state sees itself as the principal custodian of Islam in the archipelago, and as the government neither had any intention nor any legal ground to change that. (lu.se)
  • Development Strategy of Mongolia, submitting to the State Great Hural for endorsement, reflecting them in the Government Programmes of Action and organizing their implementation. (who.int)
  • How important was the role of key individuals and groups and how were they affected by developments? (aqa.org.uk)
  • Political parties played an important role at the beginning of the transition. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The central location of these pages indicates that their content plays an important role in the Slovak Facebook public sphere. (politicalcapital.hu)
  • It is important to note that data collection for this map was conducted between March and April 2020, shortly after the new government came to power in the country. (politicalcapital.hu)
  • This is certainly something of which I am proud, as well as having given life last year, as a party and in conjunction with other movements, to important referendum proposals on civil rights and justice reform in our country. (aldeparty.eu)
  • It is important that new political formations can emerge from the mobilization of citizens on some specific or societal issues. (aldeparty.eu)
  • This was a radical party rather than a new workers party based on socialist ideas but nevertheless, in the absence of a new workers' party, represented an important development which many workers and young people looked to. (socialistworld.net)
  • However Baidya's demand for the dissolution of the CJ-led government is myopic as it will amount to a reversal of the electoral process. (ipcs.org)
  • Thus it is not an easy task for the Baidya group to make its transition to electoral politics and arbitrate in the electoral process impartially. (ipcs.org)
  • It was also part of Radical Scotland's agenda to expose and lampoon those who opposed, or were deemed weak in supporting, self-government. (bellacaledonia.org.uk)
  • Worship of the nation , which is considered to be a cultural and even a biological unit, and which is conceived of as the ultimate source of political and moral authority. (transcend.org)
  • and after the installed 'Interim Authority" purged the Iraqi govt. (opednews.com)
  • They say that threats posed by the pandemic saw a "technocratic" shift in political authority worldwide, with increased trust in government, and in experts such as scientists and civil servants. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The first months of the pandemic saw many political leaders get a boost in ratings - a classic "rally round the flag" effect in troubled times, say researchers. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Rather than simply include self-government as one policy item in a list of voters' priorities - which in the context of the 1980s always ensured it came behind employment, health and nuclear weapons - the trick was to pose a question on how self-government could better address this or that issue. (bellacaledonia.org.uk)
  • 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)
  • Considering the importance of both authors for the debates in the context of history and phi- losophy of science, this study aims to present and discuss aspects of Skinner's radical behaviorism and Feyerabend's epistemological anarchism that deal with common themes. (bvsalud.org)
  • With confidence in the elected Constituent Assembly and the parties at a low point, the initiative for solving the impasse passed to the civil society organizations in the Quartet for National Dialogue. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • In the 1970s, the Raza Unida Party (RUP) formed in Texas through a number of spontaneous grassroots political organizations. (listverse.com)
  • What role does social media play among Muslim organizations in Sri Lanka? (lu.se)
  • In contemporary Sri Lanka Sinhala nationalistic organizations like Bodu Bala Sena have made a great impact on the debate on what role religion should have in the country. (lu.se)
  • As the nineties ground on the fortunes of the Conservative Party were in steady decline. (afed.org.uk)
  • And some of those right-wing radicals had even been publicly threatening to unseat Boehner from his leadership position if he didn't stand firm on de-funding any government support for a family planning nongovernmental organisation, along with a number of other measures, even if the result would be that Congress would be unable to approve government funding for the fast-approaching new fiscal year. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • If we focus narrowly on the party system, we might conclude that the BJP has developed a new "dominant party system," rather like Congress of old. (epw.in)
  • Millay's party only received 37 seats in the House of Representatives out of 257, but it remains unclear how Congress will govern with him as president. (newslopp.com)
  • Although he was part of the first all-party cabinet as well as chairman of the Drafting Committee in the Constituent Assembly post-Independence, he was soon disillusioned by the Congress leadership and left government. (himalmag.com)
  • Underlining this truth, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia wrote in 1967, "The fact of the matter is that the Congress government eager to establish itself as the successor to British rule, rather than to the popular revolution, blindly accepted all the oppressive laws that the British had framed to keep the Indian people in bondage. (countercurrents.org)
  • The following article is a summary of the discussion on new workers parties that took place at the Congress in mid January. (socialistworld.net)
  • The CWI Congress discussed new left and workers' parties - perspectives, the attitude of Marxists and workers towards these new formations, their political programmes - in a session full of experience and lessons. (socialistworld.net)
  • The US has two main political parties: the Democrats and the Republicans. (listverse.com)
  • The problem is politics today, for Republicans, the harsh tone and rhetoric and language used doesn't allow conservatives or Republicans to actually get that message. (thecrimson.com)
  • Yet, despite being prepared to jettison, or at least play down, certain left-wing 'shibboleths' - such as gay rights, abortion and so forth - in order not to offend the conservative sensitivities of their prospective political allies, the SWP was rebuffed by MAB and the other main Muslim organisations. (libcom.org)
  • In all states in the region, a government body responsible for religious affairs intervenes often in the internal affairs of religious organisations. (intl-crisis-group.org)
  • This did not mean that the CWI's affiliated organisations and parties adopted the same tactics of working independently in every country where it had members. (socialistworld.net)
  • Ahmadinejad's rhetoric of 'wiping Israel off the map', Iran's increasing covert meddling in the fractious politics of Iraq and, most importantly, his decision to recommence Iran's uranium enrichment programme, all caused increasing alarm in Washington. (libcom.org)
  • Recent opinion polls listed "The Red Postie", as even the capitalist media call him, as the second most credible opposition politician to the right-wing government of President Nicolas Sarkozy. (links.org.au)
  • We have been trying to show, step by step, that there is a credible alternative: an alternative in the form of a new party worthy of the name - a left that doesn't apologise for being left, for being anti-capitalist, for wanting to transform society. (links.org.au)
  • The demands are based on widely unsubstantiated and exaggerated grievances against Qatar, which are more about differing political orientations and values than any alleged credible strategic threat. (aljazeera.com)
  • Credible or not, the radical faction of Baidya's group is unlikely to obstruct the constitution-making process as it will further accentuate the political stalemate. (ipcs.org)
  • And so, as all common sense seems to be quickly dissipating from the practice of international politics, South Asians should consider how US unilateralism will affect us on the home front. (himalmag.com)
  • That agreement legalised the IRP but in practice President Rakhmonov has gradually undermined its position in the political system. (intl-crisis-group.org)
  • Humala gained a following by running as a leftist nationalist leader, but his government was in practice a conservative one. (opendemocracy.net)
  • To begin with, the Chinese diplomat would probably want to explore the hunger so many Americans seem to have for inspirational leadership that successfully melds religious themes with near-millenarian political messages on equality, environmental protection, and concern for the poor and immigrants. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • [1] Using the Qur'an, the hadith and the lives of prominent women in the early period of Muslim history as sources, conservatives confirmed that existing gender asymmetries are divinely ordained, while feminists discerned possibilities for a more progressive politics of gender based on the egalitarian ideals of early Islam. (merip.org)
  • The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) overtook the incumbent Pakistan People's Party (PPP) at the federal level, winning 126 of the directly elected seats in the NA. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Overall, across Europe, early lockdowns saw voting intention for incumbent parties increase. (scitechdaily.com)
  • This has really devolved into unenlightened thinking or political partisanship, or been subordinated to the self-interested political factions that comprise government. (medscape.com)
  • Scottish nationalism, and symbiotic to this the Scottish National Party, have transformed from outside forces in the political consciousness of Scotland to become deeply embedded in everyday politics. (afed.org.uk)
  • This change acts as a perfect example, and warning, of how electoral politics and nationalism are used to divide the working class, poison radical politics, and secure the position of the ruling class. (afed.org.uk)
  • This paper examines this tension by discusses the largely taken for granted notion of Maldivian Muslim nationalism, while focussing on the religious-nationalist rhetoric surrounding the controversial transfer of government in 2012. (lu.se)
  • 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 new charter explicitly grants the government executive powers, but retains the king at the helm of the army, religious authorities and the judiciary and still allows him to dissolve parliament, though not unilaterally as is the case now. (apa.az)
  • Their ongoing drive for top-down control has targeted Parliament, cabinet, government, the Election Commission, the media and many other institutions and interest groups, including major corporations, senior civil servants and the BJP's own party organisation. (epw.in)
  • The key change came in December when, after an electoral campaign widely criticised for blatant bias in favour of the ruling party, a new parliament was returned that is dominated by Ak Zhol, President Bakiyev's newly-created political machine, with decorative roles assigned to two parties that were apportioned seats in contravention to the electoral code. (crisisgroup.org)
  • In November, Sharif appointed a new chief of army staff in line with the constitution, indicating a consolidation of the civilian leadership's role in national policymaking. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Meanwhile, the army leadership was changed in line with the constitutional process and normal timeline, reflecting some consolidation of the civilian leadership's role in national policymaking. (freedomhouse.org)
  • A Brexit that would fuel racism and shift the political situation in Britain, and indeed beyond, sharply to the right. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Most commentary on gender and politics in the Middle East assigns a central place to Islam, but there is little agreement about the analytic weight it carries in accounting for the subordination of women or the role it plays in relation to women's rights. (merip.org)
  • A large 'yes' vote with a high abstention rate or spoiled ballots is not a great result, and the monarchy, Makhzen and (political) parties know it," said Lise Storm, senior lecturer in Middle East politics at the University of Exeter in England. (apa.az)
  • Mainstream nationalist political expression came through sentiment to protect Scottish farmers and fishing rights. (afed.org.uk)
  • On the other hand, the Peruvian Nationalist Party reached the presidency with Ollanta Humala (2011-2016), but his leftist identity has been questioned. (opendemocracy.net)
  • The heavy-handed repression of early manifestations of political Islam led to confrontation, violence, and the appearance of extremist and terrorist groups. (intl-crisis-group.org)
  • High levels of repression continued inside the country, provoking widespread discontent and fuelling political Islam as a focus for opposition. (intl-crisis-group.org)
  • Recent political discussions about migration and Islam have seen a resurgence of claims about Europe's Christian identity and values. (lu.se)
  • Populists attacked railroad monopolies, currency manipulation, and government corruption. (minnpost.com)
  • A new class of muckraking journalists fed this outrage with stunning exposés of business exploitation and corruption of government officials. (gilderlehrman.org)
  • Hamid Benchrifa, an analyst from the Social Development Agency, said the disparity may be due either to voters not updating their identity cards after changing address, or a simple lack of interest in politics. (apa.az)
  • This has led to a lack of appreciation of the social and economic forces at play and given rise to analysis of the political landscape in Scotland that present the situation here as something to aspire to. (afed.org.uk)
  • The interaction between economic and political concentration has led to periodic social conflicts and often contributed to institutional weakness. (springer.com)
  • 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)
  • Her research focuses on contemporary uses of the Bible in social and political contexts, with a focus on debates about migration and about male circumcision. (lu.se)
  • B. F. Skinner's work encompasses epistemological concerns, including discussions about methodology and truth criteria, along with political and social ones, concerning the relationship between science and society. (bvsalud.org)
  • Although Medscape's goal is to disseminate information about scientific developments in medical research and healthcare, I have seen an increasing need to comment on the social and political environment as well. (medscape.com)
  • In Uzbekistan the first manifestations of Islamism were rapidly suppressed, and an all-out campaign against any Muslim political activity was initiated. (intl-crisis-group.org)
  • Significant variations in the condition of women in Muslim societies derive from, among other things, the different political projects of modem nation-states. (merip.org)
  • That assessment of the Right by former Republican Party partner (and now new-media matriarch) Arianna Huffington before the last US presidential election might easily be applied to Australian conservatives, be they political parties, publications or even think-tanks. (newmatilda.com)
  • What I would recommend to young conservatives is the same thing that I would recommend to young progressives, which is to stay close to first philosophical principles and not core party principles. (thecrimson.com)
  • Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali argued that the Ennahda-led cabinet should step aside in favor of a broader one, but he was rebuffed and resigned from the party. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Without an official endorsement, the Prayut Chan-o-cha cabinet has to maintain its role as the caretaker government. (bangkokpost.com)
  • an MP desires to be cabinet minister so that they can be chauffeured around, flag flapping on their limousine while a leader of any political party yearns for a possible move into Plot 1 Independence Avenue so that they can leave a legacy……well, if at all those are their real intentions. (lusakatimes.com)
  • But Mr. Maliki, a conservative Shiite who has close ties to Mr. Sadr, has held back for fear that the parties might be seeking to oust him, a Shiite legislator close to Mr. Maliki said. (opednews.com)
  • But during the investigation of any case, the partisan role of the police in fixing the sections of the Criminal Procedure Code was done to obliviate any possibility of fair justice. (countercurrents.org)
  • You've just heard the President's vision and the traditional response from the opposition Republican Party. (theblaze.com)
  • Political correspondents were happy to be fed in this manner, given that much of the mainstream political coverage at the time was both limited and dull. (bellacaledonia.org.uk)
  • Bush is undoubtedly backing al-Hakim to marginalize Sadr, but the consequences could be that Sadr's followers no longer make the effort to work out their differences in the political arena. (opednews.com)
  • Furthermore a number of possible historical, political and legal explanations to these differences are discussed. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • In her memoir Hard Choices , Hillary Clinton echoed this theme: "The country's monarch, the Shah, owed his throne to a 1953 coup supported by the Eisenhower Administration against a democratically-elected government thought to be sympathetic to Communism. (aijac.org.au)
  • As a Washington, D.C. outsider, patriot and anti-politician who believes in the American Dream and American exceptionalism, I am proud to follow previous Tea Party leaders who have delivered this response to President Obama in previous years - U.S. Sen, Rand Paul, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, Congressman Curt Clausen, and former presidential candidate and business leader Herman Cain. (theblaze.com)
  • When it comes to the economy, Obama summed up the attitude of the arrogant political class when he said to the American people…to the taxpayers…to the business owners of this country "You didn't build it. (theblaze.com)
  • Obama becomes the first African American in the history of the country to be nominated by one of the ruling parties. (links.org.au)
  • The accusations that Qatar funds and promotes terrorism through a range of Arab and Iranian parties have not found serious support around the region or the world. (aljazeera.com)
  • The talks are taking place among the two main Kurdish groups, the most influential Sunni Arab party and an Iranian-backed Shiite party that has long sought to lead the government. (opednews.com)
  • President Bush met last week in the White House with the leader of the Iranian-backed Shiite party, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, and is to meet this week with the head of the Sunni Arab party, Tariq al-Hashemi. (opednews.com)
  • Your ability to do so determines your success and competence in these roles. (medscape.com)