• Subsequently, the New South Wales party nominated candidates at 1976 by-elections in the seats of Pittwater and The Hills. (wikipedia.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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. (politicalpartytime.org)
  • This is the first time that Nagaland is witnessing the victory of so many political parties in the state Assembly elections. (indiatimes.com)
  • With the midterm elections days away, the president delivers a warning about political violence and the future of American democracy. (latimes.com)
  • For now, such fearful fantasies shape and distort both politics and policies, as the leading Iraqi political parties seek to fashion a coalition government out of the contested results of last March's parliamentary elections. (nybooks.com)
  • More than four months since the elections, a new government has yet to take shape. (nybooks.com)
  • Contrary to Chiranjeevi's Praja Rajyam Party, Pawan Kalyan did not contest the elections. (epw.in)
  • In both the federal elections of 2019 and 2021 , the party was re-elected with a minority government. (wikipedia.org)
  • Elections are now a sham proceeding at every level US government. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • There have been elections, but those who have dared to oppose our presidents have always been far from the mainstream in politics-some of them have actually been considered quite mad. (grapevine.is)
  • But Ólafur Ragnar managed to win the elections with 40 percent of the vote, again beating a candidate fielded by The Independence Party. (grapevine.is)
  • 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)
  • Note that there is a widespread assumption that the DP will win the parliamentary election in 2020 simply because Mongolian voters have swung back-and-forth between the two big parties over past elections, and despite the fact that the DP has not made any attempts to renew itself following its disastrous showing in the 2016 election. (ubc.ca)
  • ParlGov contains data on elections and governments for all EU and most OECD members for the entire post-war period. (lu.se)
  • The database combines approximately 1400 parties, 680 elections with 5800 election results and 2300 governing parties in 960 cabinets. (lu.se)
  • Releases at regular intervals will provide up-to-date empirical information including recent elections or changes in government, coding suggestions from country experts as well as extensions to more countries and time periods. (lu.se)
  • The project is based on quantitative content analyses of parties' election programs from more than 50 countries covering all free, democratic elections since 1945. (lu.se)
  • Tunisians no longer believe that parties can provide solutions for the country's problems and are again turning to the streets to seek redress of their grievances. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • 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)
  • Institutions intended to protect the country's democracy, such as the Constitutional Court, remain largely stillborn, while in parliament, parties remain locked in perpetual squabbling. (al-monitor.com)
  • Pitching himself as the anti-system candidate, Karoui has made significant use of broadcasts featuring his delivery of aid to the country's poorest while simultaneously railing against the failings of an uncaring government, especially Chahed. (al-monitor.com)
  • Friday's attack on Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, is the most recent example of the country's increasing political violence. (latimes.com)
  • In this, they are encouraged by Iraq's neighbors, as well as the United States, all of whom worry about what might happen if, at this sensitive stage in the country's development, one party is left out and turns again to insurgency, setting off a new round of civil war with unpredictable consequences for the region. (nybooks.com)
  • As a direct consequence of the accident, the Italian government decided to begin to shut down the country's nuclear power plants in 1988. (lu.se)
  • I examine the reasons for this discrepancy, and the prospects for future involvement in street protests and party politics amid the country's growing Islamisation and social unrest. (lu.se)
  • 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 divide is significant enough that political scientists, namely Nolan McCarty in his book, Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches, have denoted popular theories for polarization (such as Southern realignment and religion) in favour of income as the primary reason. (ipl.org)
  • However, Pawan Kalyan's political ideology is inconsistent. (epw.in)
  • It is important to note that the current power struggles among Mongolian politicians and the possible reconfiguration of the party landscape is not about ideology or policy differences. (ubc.ca)
  • Thus, this period is crucial for our understanding of the effects of political institutions and ideology on policy making. (lu.se)
  • Chesdata estimate party positioning on European integration, ideology and policy issues for national parties in a variety of European countries. (lu.se)
  • The six-party grand alliance and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) pose challenges, and the BJP may need to court smaller parties and strengthen alliances to expand its electoral base. (indiatimes.com)
  • Although Center Party's Riigikogu group chairman Jaanus Karilaid has ruled out that Kersti Kaljulaid could continue as the president of Estonia, political scientist Martin Mölder told ERR that Kaljulaid being re-elected through the regional electoral colleges is still possible. (err.ee)
  • And then, Reform and SDE could support Kaljulaid and if they could additionally convince half of the electoral body's members coming from local municipality governments, getting 50 percent of the votes could happen. (err.ee)
  • The temporal impact of redistribution differs across electoral systems, with the impact of political change being more immediate in majoritarian systems and the effect being more diffuse in PR systems. (cambridge.org)
  • Indeed, Furedi explained, the problem went far beyond the electoral machinations of political party machines. (spiked-online.com)
  • The electoral politics of the 20th century were dominated by two parties - National and Labour. (teara.govt.nz)
  • In the Royal entourage are the Prime Minister, Opposition Leader, NC Chairperson, the heads of DHI, and BDBL, meaning that the government, opposition, parliament, and funding sources are potentially together to work on a project for the people. (kuenselonline.com)
  • In Lebanon's political system, the post of prime minister has to be held by a Sunni Muslim, the presidency is held by a Maronite Christian, and the speaker of parliament is a Shia Muslim. (aljazeera.com)
  • Except that the Free Democrats haven't seen the inside of the German parliament since 2013, when they suffered a humiliating general election thrashing that left the party without any seats in the Bundestag for the first time since 1949. (politico.eu)
  • In the new Parliament, United leader George Forbes (prime minister from 1931 to 1935) was leader of the opposition and therefore the effective head of the National Party. (teara.govt.nz)
  • In this paper (Mehic 2023a), I use data from the 1986 Chernobyl accident to evaluate the voting outcomes of the Swedish Green Party (MP), which was founded in 1982, and elected to the national parliament in 1988, two years after the disaster. (lu.se)
  • Together with the fact that the election of new parties to the Swedish parliament is exceptionally rare - the MP's election to parliament in 1988 was the first time since 1932 that a new party entered parliament, this makes the setting in the paper interesting also for Swedish political history. (lu.se)
  • Buoyed by that success, the Workers' Party ran three House of Representatives and five Senate candidates in Western Australia at the 1975 federal election. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 13 October 1977, sitting Liberal MP Peter Richardson announced that he had defected to the Progress Party and would be its lead Senate candidate in Western Australia at the 1977 federal election. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the federal election, the Progress Party contested every Western Australian seat in the House of Representatives, but only managed to collect 2.83% of the statewide vote. (wikipedia.org)
  • The party went on to contest the 1980 Western Australian state election, but achieved a significantly lower level of support. (wikipedia.org)
  • ROHN BISHOP: My fear was that with the president's comments on mail-in balloting, that we would scare Republican voters away from voting by mail and that there would be a spike and a surge in COVID just in time for Election Day. (wuwm.com)
  • This chapter explores the developing politics of the region from the early 1970s to the events of early 2005, when the election of a new Palestinian prime minister and the proposed removal of Israeli settlements in some of the Occupied Territories brought new hope for peace. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Similarly, Allawi, a secular Shiite whose followers are mostly Sunni, cites the post-election spectacle of leading Shiite and Kurdish politicians flocking to Tehran, ostensibly to celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in late March as convincing proof that the Iranian regime is steering the course of Iraqi politics at their expense. (nybooks.com)
  • Here, then, ahead of next month's Legislative Council election, is my stab at a 10-point guide to Hong Kong politics for the ingenue and the bystander - and the hordes on social media baffled as to why the city has its own Olympic team. (scmp.com)
  • In the upcoming election, at least three dozen parties have put candidates forward. (scmp.com)
  • The Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau since 2013, won a majority government in the 2015 federal election . (wikipedia.org)
  • Many thought the name 'National' had been discredited by the failure of the National Political Federation in the 1935 election. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Sanders ended his speech by encouraging the people in the room to continue to stay involved in politics--not only through the current election cycle--but into the future, "our efforts cannot end on election day. (prwatch.org)
  • In recent years, it has expanded its coverage of U.S. politics and gained traction among some supporters of former U.S. president Donald Trump by covering topics such as Spygate , the QAnon conspiracy theory and unfounded allegations of election fraud. (cbc.ca)
  • By the time the election came around, we faced an enormous challenge in having any of our messages heard. (labour.ie)
  • Political Data Yearbook captures election results, national referenda, changes in government, and institutional reforms for a range of countries, within and beyond the EU. (lu.se)
  • The European Journal of Political Research (EJPR) Political Data Yearbook documents election results, national referenda, changes in government, and institutional reforms. (lu.se)
  • Voter income has become increasingly affiliated to ideological and party ID, with higher-income voters tending to be linked with Republicans, and lower-income voters leaning Democrat. (ipl.org)
  • therefore, less centrists are in government, and polarization between the two parties occur, with politicians growing farther apart on the ideological scale in order to satisfy the voting needs of the voters they have already captured (high-income for Republicans, and middle/low-income for Democrats). (ipl.org)
  • These districts are increasingly drawn to be safe for one political party or another so that the district has a clear majority of either republicans or Democrats. (ipl.org)
  • Although negotiations were well underway with Republicans regarding public funding, the discussions were derailed following a warning from the Conservative Party. (brennancenter.org)
  • However, for a long time, Republicans remained the only major political party in the world to deny these facts and deny any need to act. (planetsave.com)
  • While the Republicans were being heavily criticised for scaremongering in their 2004 campaign, their opponents were just as guilty of exploiting the politics of fear. (spiked-online.com)
  • That began to change in the 1990s, when Republicans captured control of the House in 1994 for the first time in 40 years. (yahoo.com)
  • While some Republicans want to work within the political system to make conservative laws, many in the GOP now "are happy for nothing to happen," said former congressman Daniel Lipinski, who was a conservative Democrat from Illinois in the House from 2005 to 2021. (yahoo.com)
  • The US has two main political parties: the Democrats and the Republicans. (listverse.com)
  • The project was initiated by the Opposition Leader, it was supported with advance funds by the Prime Minister, and the expertise and experience includes former and current government officials of the agriculture sector. (kuenselonline.com)
  • It is telling that seeing the government and opposition cooperating on a project surprises us. (kuenselonline.com)
  • If it takes such a crisis to bring the government and opposition together even under the umbrella of the State, so be it. (kuenselonline.com)
  • Mark Daou, co-founder of opposition political party Taqaddom is not confident of a reformist government under Mikati. (aljazeera.com)
  • The ruling parties are not exactly behaving like ruling parties, while the Opposition parties are yet to realise that they are in the opposition. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Despite the claims of the Opposition parties that they would corner the government over the issues of corruption and agrarian crisis, the ongoing monsoon session of state legislature has not been much of a trouble for the BJP-led government. (hindustantimes.com)
  • In fact, the Devendra Fadnavis government has got the benefit of a divided opposition, as the Congress and the NCP are not on the same page when it comes to taking on the ruling side on the floor of the legislature. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Further, the main opposition party, the Congress, seems to have no firm strategy in place. (hindustantimes.com)
  • In parliamentary democracy, it is the job of the opposition parties to corner the government over the issues of public interest and force it to take decisions accordingly by using various legislative tools. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Unfortunately, in the past few years, the opposition to the government is measured in terms of disruption in the legislature-the more the capacity to disrupt the proceedings, the better the chances of being a successful opposition. (hindustantimes.com)
  • As of now, the Opposition parties, it seems, are confused whether they want to be constructive opposition or a disruptive one. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Before the beginning of the session, it seemed like the Congress-led Opposition had enough ammunition to corner the government. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Privately, legislators from both Congress and NCP are pointing out that the Opposition Leader in the Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil (Congress) has not been able to chalk out an effective strategy to corner the government in the lower house of the Legislature. (hindustantimes.com)
  • It also doesn't want Congress to occupy the entire space of opposition party. (hindustantimes.com)
  • And as long as the Congress is concerned, most of its leaders are yet to learn how to play role of an opposition party. (hindustantimes.com)
  • When Hain was later foolish enough to tell BBC News that the proposed laws meant 'Britain will be safer under Labour', he was attacked by opposition Tories for 'trying to create a climate of fear in this country', while the Liberal Democrats called it 'disgusting' and said that a Bush-style campaign on the politics of fear 'will not go down well in Britain' (1). (spiked-online.com)
  • In the 29 years after Confederation, the Liberals were consigned to opposition, with the exception of one stint in government. (wikipedia.org)
  • [29] Alexander Mackenzie was the de facto leader of the Official Opposition after Confederation and finally agreed to become the first official leader of the Liberal Party in 1873. (wikipedia.org)
  • This garnered considerable attention in the media and from the opposition, with questions raised as to how Barclay would find the time to fulfil all of the above roles. (instituteforgovernment.org.uk)
  • He also reminded the crowd that aside from a one-time dispute over dairy prices, Sanders and Feingold had worked together on many issues including their opposition to the Iraq war, their opposition to the U.S. Patriot Act and their efforts to make the Affordable Care Act as strong as possible. (prwatch.org)
  • Former PML-N stalwart Javed Hashmi, who is known for his outspoken opposition to military's involvement in politics, said "After this, we will not be able to hold our heads high. (dawn.com)
  • PPP leader Syed Khursheed Shah, who is also leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, said he would ask the prime minister why the army chief had to be asked to mediate when nearly all political parties were present in the house and had offered their services to them. (dawn.com)
  • Conscience protections allow our faith-based providers to continue to be a safe and loving refuge for children in crisis and to accompany them on their journey to healing and wholeness, breaking the cycle of abuse and neglect one child at a time. (christianpost.com)
  • The crisis of the parties is turning into a crisis of democracy. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Hollowed-out political parties and the legacy of dictatorship once again leave Chile's constitutional process hindered by a crisis of representation. (ciaonet.org)
  • American politics has been sliding into crisis and dysfunction for more than a decade, and the total breakdown in the House over Kevin McCarthy's ouster as speaker is only the latest chapter in a longer story. (yahoo.com)
  • But Republican insistence on spending cuts went so far as to create numerous government shutdowns and a debt-ceiling crisis. (yahoo.com)
  • This began a period in which Congress lurched from crisis to crisis, much of it driven by hard-liners on the right who were not upset if the government shut down. (yahoo.com)
  • He told a TV channel that if the army could intercede and end this crisis, well and good, but the military had no role in politics. (dawn.com)
  • The fourth paper, which is coauthored with Johannes Lindvall, contrasts political investments, of which taxation is one example, with short- term crisis management. (lu.se)
  • El propósito general de este artículo es analizar la interacción de la percepción de crisis, la anomia y la confianza en las instituciones. (bvsalud.org)
  • Nuestra hipótesis general es que existe una relación negativa entre anomia y confianza en las instituciones, y una relación positiva entre percepción de crisis, anomia y desconfianza institucional. (bvsalud.org)
  • La confianza en las instituciones y la anomia fueron altas y correlacionadas negativamente, pero no afectaron la percepción de crisis. (bvsalud.org)
  • The crisis communication has been thrust into a new era, namely "mass self-communication" that brings grand challenges to governments or corporates in the networked society (Castells, 2009). (lu.se)
  • The contextual factors beyond organizations, the political, cultural, economic factors in this case, function as modifiers that altered the attribution generated by basic crisis types. (lu.se)
  • Ram Vilas Paswan, a veteran Dalit leader and a political heavyweight from Bihar, passed away in October 2020 after prolonged illness. (indiatimes.com)
  • With the cooperation of the president, we will form a government according to the French initiative," Mikati told the press after his appointment, referring to a road map of economic and structural reforms French President Emanuel Macron introduced to Lebanon in August 2020. (aljazeera.com)
  • In 2020 National had held office in New Zealand for 47 years, longer than any other party. (teara.govt.nz)
  • By 2020 it had been in government for 47 years, more than any other party. (teara.govt.nz)
  • interestingly, despite the generally higher-income population being linked with the Republican Party, the well-educated, who presumably also have a decent amount of wealth, are linked with the Democratic Party. (ipl.org)
  • But then, in addition, the Republican Party has become more antigovernment over the past 10 to 15 years. (yahoo.com)
  • Sanders took aim at the Kochs multiple times in his speech stressing early on that the "greatest challenge" the United States is facing is "a movement toward oligarchy" and that, "the Koch brothers are recognized to have more political power than the whole Republican party. (prwatch.org)
  • Leading the training workshop was Florida Republican Party chair Christian Ziegler, the husband of Moms for Liberty cofounder Bridget Ziegler-who now helps run Governor Ron DeSantis's Disney oversight commission. (thenation.com)
  • The Social Democratic Party (SDE) has begun to support re-electing Kersti Kaljulaid for a second term as president recently. (err.ee)
  • BERLIN - Germany's liberal Free Democratic Party is on the verge of resurrection and eager to challenge the status quo, whether the issue is Greece, Trump or even that holiest of all German subjects - the economy. (politico.eu)
  • The right-wing splinter Democratic Party received 7.8% of the vote. (teara.govt.nz)
  • 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)
  • Created in 1948 to provide a homeland for Jews from around the world, Israel was deeply divided over its efforts to create a democracy while at the same time building a powerful military capable of fending off its enemies. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The value of democracy lies at the heart of American political life, emphasizing the role of citizens in the governing process. (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • The Weimar Republic, the post-World War I German government named for the German city where it was formed, lasted more than 14 years, but democracy never found firm footing. (facinghistory.org)
  • The people's trust in the republic was especially damaged as it faced economic crises as well as challenges from political parties that were hostile to democracy. (facinghistory.org)
  • In July, Wintemute's research team queried Americans on political violence, race and threats to democracy and found that, among the more than 8,600 surveyed, 51% believe there'll be a civil war in the next several years. (latimes.com)
  • The Liberal Party is not liberal on social issues and also opposes democracy. (scmp.com)
  • During this period modern parliamentary democracy developed and spread, and it is during this period that the contemporary party systems crystallized and the broad lines of conflict between the left and the right emerged. (lu.se)
  • The Institute of Democracy conducts research about democratic development and political communication between citizens, media and parties. (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)
  • These are ICT or media specialists of various kinds (e.g. geeks, hackers, tech journalists, internet lawyers, digital artists) who work at the intersection of technology and politics in pursuit of greater civic liberties and 'digital democracy' ( demokrasi digital ) (Postill forthcoming). (lu.se)
  • The quartet was a self-appointed, non-representative organization, but the political parties were at a loss, so they acquiesced. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Local political organization, founded in 1985. (utoledo.edu)
  • A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. (state.gov)
  • In its 2017 report the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC), an independent government-funded nongovernmental organization (NGO), investigated one case of an expatriate prisoner who complained about his conditions in the detention facility. (state.gov)
  • The Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-leaning human rights organization, deemed Moms for Liberty an anti-government "extremist group" this year. (thenation.com)
  • The fight pits former party leader and presidential candidate M Enkhbold and his "city" faction against the "countryside" faction of current PM U Khurelsukh who has come out of the MPP's youth organization. (ubc.ca)
  • Existing studies on "modifiers" in SCCT constrain their scopes within the organizational domain and overlook the impacts of contextual factors beyond organization, such as society, politics, and culture. (lu.se)
  • Cast as a political prisoner by his supporters, one parliamentary candidate from his Heart of Tunisia Party went so far as to frame him as the Nelson Mandela of Tunisia. (al-monitor.com)
  • He was replaced as party leader by former Reform and coalition minister Adam Hamilton at the end of the parliamentary session, in early November 1936. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Nearly all parliamentary parties and politicians pleaded with them, but they did not heed anyone's advice, she said. (dawn.com)
  • The coalition of Liberal and Country parties was remarkably united, whereas the Labor Party suffered a major split in 1954-55 from which it did not recover until about 1970. (nla.gov.au)
  • Political scientist Martin Mölder said it is likely that the coalition pairing of Reform and Center will try to find a common candidate. (err.ee)
  • In the current government, the coalition parties have a total of 59 seats, Reform has 34 and Center 25. (err.ee)
  • The leaders of the four lists that emerged with the most seats all appear to recognize that the only workable way forward is through a broad-based coalition government. (nybooks.com)
  • At the time of Confederation of the former British colonies of Canada (now Ontario and Quebec ), New Brunswick , and Nova Scotia , the radical Liberals were marginalized by the more pragmatic Conservative coalition assembled under Sir John A. Macdonald . (wikipedia.org)
  • Another former Liberal MP, Wylie Gibbs, also joined the party, but he did not run for office. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Party was demoralised and fragmenting and Menzies played a key role in the formation of a new party-the Liberal Party-in 1944-45. (nla.gov.au)
  • Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. (libdemvoice.org)
  • How could a society that is politically and culturally liberal and progressive fall victim to a government that espouses intolerance, discrimination, and hatred? (facinghistory.org)
  • Four years in the political wilderness have left the the party leaner, meaner and itching to fight for its core liberal values. (politico.eu)
  • A former adman turned full-time politician, Lindner, 38, has returned the FDP to its liberal roots and sharpened its tone. (politico.eu)
  • Although he sports striking similarities with the French president - both are charismatic leaders of centrist parties in their late 30s - the German liberal left no doubt that he believes Macron's ideas for EU reforms will do economic and political harm to the bloc. (politico.eu)
  • For other liberal political parties in Canada, see Liberalism in Canada § Current parties . (wikipedia.org)
  • [23] The Liberal Party is the longest-serving and oldest active federal political party in the country, and has dominated federal politics of Canada for much of its history, holding power for almost 70 years of the 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • From the early 1920s until the mid-1950s, [c] the Liberal Party under Prime Ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent gradually built a Canadian welfare state . (wikipedia.org)
  • The Clear Grits and Parti rouge sometimes functioned as a united bloc in the legislature of the Province of Canada beginning in 1854 , but a united Liberal Party combining both English and French Canadian members was not formed until 1867. (wikipedia.org)
  • United was a remnant of the Liberal Party, which had governed from 1891 to 1912. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Presidential candidates are proposed by parties and elected by the government rather than directly elected by the public. (err.ee)
  • The chamber has not, does not and will not participate in presidential politics," Donohue told reporters. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • But five Republican presidential candidates, including former President Donald J. Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, will be addressing its Joyful Warriors National Summit . (thenation.com)
  • Party board member Riina Sikkut told ETV's daily affairs show "Aktuaalne kaamera" on Wednesday that if Reform and Center cannot present a single candidate, the next president should be chosen from a list of popular candidates. (err.ee)
  • If the parties cannot find such a candidate and instead present candidates of their own, it would not affect the coalition's chemistry well. (err.ee)
  • Others such as IT developer Rafika Barhoumi, rejected the candidates en masse. (al-monitor.com)
  • Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long told Skelos that his party would not endorse Senate Republican candidates if they vote for public financing reform. (brennancenter.org)
  • The proposals' sponsors argued, meanwhile, that the breach would be in allowing candidates who opposed the central government to stand. (scmp.com)
  • At this time the major question was whether the candidates had been for or against the US Naval Air Station in Keflavík-the defining rift in politics for decades. (grapevine.is)
  • However, candidates did not discuss this because it was considered bad form for presidents to raise real political issues. (grapevine.is)
  • It will also be illustrative to see a breakdown of the number of IMF programmes undertaken by each political party by its tenure in government since 1988. (dawn.com)
  • However, with the support of young people, he managed to become leader of the party and Minister of Finance in a left wing government that was in power from 1988 to 1991. (grapevine.is)
  • The Liberals are descended from the mid-19th century Reformers who advocated for responsible government throughout British North America . (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • Parties from across the political spectrum clashed violently in the streets throughout the Weimar era, leaving citizens on edge. (facinghistory.org)
  • Citizens United was the U.S. Supreme Court decision that unleashed unprecedented levels of undisclosed dark money in politics. (prwatch.org)
  • The presentation covers the main analysis results of a five-year research project designed for connecting civil society organizations, citizens and local governments through online communication via social media for promoting higher levels of citizen engagement in Japan. (lu.se)
  • Party polarization is the division between the two major parties on most policy issues, with members of each party is unified around their party's position with little crossover. (ipl.org)
  • Aoun said the party's priority for the incoming government is "stopping the financial collapse" through a bailout agreement with the IMF, forensic audit, and other reforms. (aljazeera.com)
  • The governor is facing pressure from the progressive Working Families Party, which might not endorse him on the party's ballot line if he doesn't achieve public financing reform. (brennancenter.org)
  • I find that strategic considerations related to how the political system concentrates power in the United Kingdom affected the Labour Party's attitude towards the value-added tax and its decision not to adopt the tax. (lu.se)
  • The sensitive dynamic between wealth and education in determining partisanship encourages politicians to polarize in order to attract voters on their side of the political spectrum. (ipl.org)
  • ISLAMABAD: As Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri left their containers for separate meetings with the army chief on Thursday night, leaders from across the political spectrum regretted that things had to come to this juncture, where the military would get involved in a political issue. (dawn.com)
  • But considering that all political parties in the country were trying to resolve the impasse, having the army chief mediating between the quarrelling sides is something which will be remembered as a moment of collective disgrace for all politicians across the political spectrum," he said, adding that Gen Kayani's involvement wasn't as overt as Gen Sharif's has been. (dawn.com)
  • In the mid '70s Ólafur Ragnar joined The People's Alliance, a socialist party, which could trace its roots back to the now defunct Communist Party of Iceland. (grapevine.is)
  • As parties shift in and out of government, trade and industrial policy is redistributed to favour the parties' industrial supporters. (cambridge.org)
  • It was the first such gathering that the Syrian regime permitted to take place in public, and the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and his Shiite supporters saw it as an undisguised signal that Syria and the remaining Iraqi Baathists were supporting Maliki's main rival, the former prime minister Iyad Allawi, in his quest to lead the next Iraqi government. (nybooks.com)
  • Ambitious politicians now can carve out a career and make a healthy living by simply fighting the other party and crowing about it to their supporters. (yahoo.com)
  • Supporters of different Shii-Islamist political parties have established transnational links connecting diasporic communities with their countries of origin. (lu.se)
  • It was formed on 26 January (Australia Day) 1975, as a free-market right-libertarian and anti-socialist party, by businessmen John Singleton and Sinclair Hill, in reaction to the economic policies of Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • On the death of Lyons in April 1939, Menzies was elected leader of the United Australia Party and became Prime Minister. (nla.gov.au)
  • His appointment comes just 11 days after Saad Hariri resigned as prime minister-designate, following nine months of political deadlock and dispute with President Aoun and his son-in-law MP Gebran Bassil. (aljazeera.com)
  • If Mikati successfully forms a government, this would be his third stint as Lebanon's prime minister. (aljazeera.com)
  • He was briefly caretaker prime minister for several months in April 2005, and then headed a full-fledged government in 2011 for three years. (aljazeera.com)
  • The businessman from the northern city of Tripoli received votes from most of Lebanon's major political parties, including the Future Movement led by former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Hezbollah and fellow Shia party the Amal Movement, as well as the Druze-led Progressive Socialist Party. (aljazeera.com)
  • However, Free Patriotic Movement MP Alain Aoun told Al Jazeera that he is more optimistic of a government formation with Mikati as prime minister-designate than previously with Saad Hariri, which resulted in a nine-month political gridlock. (aljazeera.com)
  • We have decided that no one, no matter how decent, powerful, and influential the prime minister, within the political system and the ruling elite, he or she will not be able to do anything in this country," Nassar told Al Jazeera. (aljazeera.com)
  • What is holding things up, however, is the fear among many Iraqis that whatever party wins the right to form the government and appoint the prime minister will proceed to concentrate power around itself, using gaps and ambiguities in Iraq's new constitution to its advantage. (nybooks.com)
  • Chiefs of staff advise the prime minister on a wide range of issues, including government policy, party politics and communication strategies. (instituteforgovernment.org.uk)
  • However, the duties of the role vary considerably depending on the skills, previous experiences, and character of the prime minister and the chief of staff at the time. (instituteforgovernment.org.uk)
  • Whereas chiefs of staff are generally political appointees, the principal private secretary (PPS) to the prime minister is always a senior civil servant. (instituteforgovernment.org.uk)
  • 2 Holland was finance minister as well as prime minister in the new government. (teara.govt.nz)
  • One principal fear among Iraqis is that there could be a resurgence of the Baath Party and a return to dictatorship. (nybooks.com)
  • While nobody knows exactly when and where the party started, RUP filed as a political party in several Texas counties in January 1970. (listverse.com)
  • Former President Donald Trump 's divisive style of politics has intensified acrimony and distrust. (yahoo.com)
  • However, we also found a) that attitudes to CAM provide a very limited explanation of vaccine hesitancy and b) that, among the hesitant, pro-CAM attitudes are often combined with other traits associated with vaccine hesitancy such as distrust of health agencies, radical political preferences and low income. (bvsalud.org)
  • We also found that distrust in political institutions was the best predictor of anomie in both studies. (bvsalud.org)
  • The results are discussed considering the risk that distrust of political institutions entails, producing a general disenchantment with the moral and ethical standards of conduct in a society. (bvsalud.org)
  • Political scientists have argued this creates a harder-edged political culture that pushes each party to hold back from compromise. (yahoo.com)
  • He was also one of the first political scientists in the country and, despite his impertinence, became professor at the University of Iceland. (grapevine.is)
  • Composed of community and social psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and community members affected by hazardous waste sites. (cdc.gov)
  • Easily the most ambitious young politician of his generation, he started out in The Progressive Party, a rural centrist party, which had long been the second most powerful political force in Iceland. (grapevine.is)
  • Hain's crass remarks about Britain being safer under Labour indicate that the government is certainly not averse to playing the fear card. (spiked-online.com)
  • After two changes of name and several changes of leader and policy platform, United formed a minority government in 1928, initially with support from Labour but, as the 1930s economic depression deepened, increasingly from Reform. (teara.govt.nz)
  • In 1938, the Labour government was re-elected with 55.8% of the vote. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Tonight, I want to speak about the work we are doing to rebuild the Labour Party. (labour.ie)
  • But no matter what the potential gain, we in Labour will never stoop to seeking political gain from personal suffering. (labour.ie)
  • With all their faults (growth of corruption, lack of implementation of politics, no renewal of leadership), DP & MPP have collectively provided some institutional stability in Mongolian politics. (ubc.ca)
  • I argue that how left-wing governments tax depend on the institutional environment. (lu.se)
  • The left-wing government in Sweden on the other hand, operating in a different institutional context, decided to introduce a similar tax. (lu.se)
  • However, unlike some of their brethren in the Arab world or Europe, to date they have largely steered clear of social protest and institutional politics. (lu.se)
  • This essay seeks to dissect the intricacies of American political culture, tracing its roots and understanding its prevailing values, while also assessing its impact on the nation's political and civic life. (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • The twin pillars of American political culture, liberty and freedom, are enshrined in the nation's founding documents and public consciousness. (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • The role of parties needs to be understood in the framework of the formal system created by the constitution. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The adoption of the Constitution marked a revolutionary shift in American political culture. (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • The political system in general, the constitution, the government and the political parties are discussed in a historical as well as in a contemporary perspective. (lu.se)
  • With the Whig Party rapidly disintegrating, it was obvious that the Southern-influenced Democrats held nearly unlimited control over the US government, which allowed slavery to expand into new territories. (listverse.com)
  • They also made appeals to Northern Democrats who opposed slavery but were uncomfortable with the federal government. (listverse.com)
  • The right-wing government has focused on the work-first principle, but so did the Social Democrats in the 1990s. (lu.se)
  • But the list of politicians in both parties who are revered by partisan voters and activists because they "own" the other party is long. (yahoo.com)
  • Politicians can leverage that attention into influence over their party leaders and can raise lots of money over the internet through small donations of $5 and $10. (yahoo.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)
  • In 1929 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly and in 1932 he became Attorney-General and Minister for Railways in the Argyle Government. (nla.gov.au)
  • He was immediately appointed Attorney-General and Minister for Industry in the Government of J.A. Lyons. (nla.gov.au)
  • Union Minister Pashupati Kumar Paras on Tuesday asserted that he is the political "heir" of former Lok Janshakti Party chief and his late brother Ram Vilas Paswan, while Chirag Paswan will inherit only his father's financial assets by law. (indiatimes.com)
  • During his time in Oxford, Kufuor fell in love with Theresa Mensah, a fellow Ghanaian who had undertaken nursing training in Britain and sister of Busia's finance minister. (jrank.org)
  • 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)
  • [1] Steve Barclay is the first sitting MP and current government minister to become Downing Street chief of staff. (instituteforgovernment.org.uk)
  • As a Minister in the last Government, I passed into law 25 Acts. (labour.ie)
  • He became active in the National Party and in 1928 won a seat in the Victorian Legislative Council. (nla.gov.au)
  • This is how current President Kersti Kaljulaid became president in 2016 but parties have said they want to avoid this process in 2021. (err.ee)
  • 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)
  • 27 January 2016 - As Libya's yearlong peace talks aimed at establishing a unity government stall again, the lives of millions of people needing urgent health care linger in the balance. (who.int)
  • The government permitted monitoring visits by independent human rights observers and international bodies to all facilities except the state security prison. (state.gov)
  • Clearly, the second half of November into December 2018 has been an exciting time for observers of Mongolian politics. (ubc.ca)
  • When carrying out its functions, the WHO FCTC Secretariat cooperates with the relevant departments of WHO, other competent international organizations and bodies, as well as non-governmental organizations accredited as observers to the Conference of the Parties (COP), the governing body of the Convention. (who.int)
  • That's because the Florida-based right-wing school takeover group, launched in 2021 to protest Covid lockdowns, could count on an amnesiac and credulous press to dress up its race-mongering, anti-LGBTQ+, and hard-right organizing profile in the image of a standard-issue interest group steeped in the homespun politics of local citizen outrage at the grassroots level. (thenation.com)
  • This reduction has been carried out without any major protests from any political party. (lu.se)
  • The course provides an introduction to Swedish politics. (lu.se)
  • In Swedish politics, the future of nuclear power has been a major issue for several decades. (lu.se)
  • Long-time progressive activists Tom and Sue Holmes of Baraboo were in the crowd. (prwatch.org)
  • With the firm support of the US and the confidence of normalisation with Arab states, successive Israeli governments have accelerated the Judaisation of the occupied city over the past five years. (aljazeera.com)
  • For many years in politics, decisions are made based on what side of the political party that the representatives are on. (change.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)
  • In his career of over 18 years, he has covered Maharashtra politics, state government and urban governance issues. (hindustantimes.com)
  • This fear was heightened by two economic crises that tested the leadership of the Weimar government: the hyperinflation that beset the republic in its early years and the Great Depression in its final years. (facinghistory.org)
  • Every bomb attack, every visit by a political leader to a neighboring capital, every killing of a politician provokes a profound dread that the horrors of the pre-2003 past survive in a diminished but still potent form-whether they derive from the mayhem of the murderous Baathist regime or from Iranian attacks during a senseless war fought more than twenty years ago. (nybooks.com)
  • The party first came into power in 1873 under Alexander Mackenzie , but were voted out five years later due to the economic conditions at the time. (wikipedia.org)
  • While Pakistani elites believe that everyone and everything except their own poor policies and choices over the past 75 years may be the root cause of the problem, the fact is that as the data indicates, there is one constant that predates all recent events: a lifelong history of poor political as well as economic governance. (dawn.com)
  • If the Government survives at all, these will be known as the lost years. (labour.ie)
  • But, I arrived seeking answers to what recent events might mean for bigger political trends, and for my expectation that we'll see some kind of revolution in Mongolian politics in the next, oh, ten years, either in spurts, or all at once. (ubc.ca)
  • The fact that a party who has a supermajority and 1 1/2 years left to govern with that majority, now engages in seemingly suicidal internal struggles says a lot about Mongolian politics. (ubc.ca)
  • It is an indication of the mature mindset of the electorate that none of them could rise to the dizzy heights of MGR, NTR, Karunanidhi and J Jayalalithaa, all of whom established themselves as effective chief ministers and regional satraps that no national party could ignore, particularly in the era of coalitions. (epw.in)
  • Importantly, in several countries, green parties were elected to national parliaments, and in France, Finland, and Germany, these parties were junior members of government coalitions already by the mid-1990s. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • The objective of our study was to present a set of preliminary reflections on food insecurity and indigenous protagonism in times of Covid-19. (bvsalud.org)
  • 8. The last few months have seen the pace of party formation accelerate, primarily under the banner of "localism" - a reaction, in large part, to the stalled delivery of democratic reforms. (scmp.com)
  • It has been building to this for a long time, well before the Trump era. (yahoo.com)
  • The choice is easy for him as he is "NOT voting for Trump" and a "third party vote is a waste. (prwatch.org)
  • Richardson was unsuccessful in his bid for the Senate, with the party polling just over 10,000 votes, or 1.7 percent of the state total. (wikipedia.org)
  • The argument the Israeli government most often gives for these criminal acts is that Palestinian buildings do not have permits issued by the Israeli state. (aljazeera.com)
  • Nitish Kumar's JD(U) dissolves its Nagaland state committee after its state president gives a letter of support to the newly formed government in that state without consulting the central party. (indiatimes.com)
  • A roundup with the latest news highlighting the corrosive nature of money in New York State politics - and the need for public financing and robust campaign finance reform. (brennancenter.org)
  • As for Kamal Haasan, it is rather clear from his meetings with the chief ministers of Kerala and Delhi, that he is not going to toe the line of the ruling party at the centre and any state. (epw.in)
  • As part of the public release of her emails, the government ultimately deemed that more than 2,000 emails in Mrs. Clinton s inbox contained information that is now considered classified, including emails from aides and other State Department staffers. (democraticunderground.com)
  • The presence of multiple different criminal groups fighting for territory, coupled with abusive government measures to tackle criminal activity, has created a deadly, high-risk environment for civilians in the state. (ciaonet.org)
  • The government routinely provided foreign diplomats access to state security prisoners. (state.gov)
  • The Chamber's far-right wing embodied by the Koch brothers has generated the Tea Party, the working class shock troops that are necessary if fascism, a term that describes the corporate-state, is to actually function in the US. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • But first, I want to describe the state of Irish politics. (labour.ie)
  • 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)
  • Taxation is a key activity of any state and a constant point of political struggle. (lu.se)
  • Now any ballot that doesn't arrive by poll-closing time on Tuesday will not be counted. (wuwm.com)
  • 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)
  • And to think, most of us grew up proudly believing that one great thing about America was that we settled our political disputes at the ballot box - not with bombs or guns or a hammer. (latimes.com)
  • If the polls are borne out at the ballot box in September, the FDP would be in good position to join a government led by Angela Merkel's conservatives. (politico.eu)
  • The willfully ignorant and delusional still cling desperately to their faux-alternative Democratic politician or their Tea Party Republican politician with the tin-foil hat. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • If there was a situation where Reform supports Kaljulaid and Center has their own candidate, it could also mean a collapse of the government. (err.ee)
  • The country has been without a full-fledged government for almost one year and is struggling to reform its economy to unlock international aid. (aljazeera.com)
  • This again is an act of a political regime maliciously intent on kicking the can forward without serious reform. (aljazeera.com)
  • 7. The largest single party in Legco since 2004, The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, does everything it can to block democratic reform. (scmp.com)
  • The National Party was formed in May 1936 through the fusion of the two main conservative parties of the time, Reform and United. (teara.govt.nz)
  • The Khurelsukh faction can vaguely claim a mantle of party reform, but really only quite vaguely. (ubc.ca)
  • 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)
  • The excitement of 1972 died down quickly, and the 1978 race was RUP's last major political move. (listverse.com)
  • Second, the article highlights the role that the Iraqi Shi'i intellectual milieu played in incorporating key Islamist concepts into Shi'i political thought. (lu.se)
  • Meanwhile, interest in and enthusiasm for the message of ultra-conservative forces, in particular the growing National Socialist Party with its message of racial hatred and its demand for a return to an autocratic government, continued to grow. (facinghistory.org)
  • By the time of the campaign, squabbling among Tunisia's 200-plus political parties had left many feeling disenfranchised. (al-monitor.com)
  • 5. There are political parties of the left and right in Hong Kong, liberals and conservatives. (scmp.com)
  • Taking advantage of the power vacuum left by the Whig Party, the Anti-Nebraska Party embarked on a campaign to bring as many Whigs to their side as possible. (listverse.com)
  • A puzzle in the literature is why left-wing parties are associated with regressive taxation (e.g., on consumption). (lu.se)
  • Last-minute decisions left little time for planning. (cdc.gov)
  • The legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction continues to influence American political discourse, particularly around issues of race, justice, and the distribution of power within the federation. (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • We need a kind of politics that is devoid of the influence of caste and religion. (epw.in)
  • On its site , the paper describes itself as non-partisan and 'independent of any influence from corporations, governments or political parties. (cbc.ca)
  • The elected officials would vote on the basis of what is right for our country and not their party lines. (change.org)
  • I was also struck by research at the time that, in this country that showed a poor breastfed baby had better long term health outcomes than a formula fed baby from an affluent background. (libdemvoice.org)
  • The issue of poverty is not particularly hot in any of the countries, but Sweden stands out as the country where the issue receives least political attention. (lu.se)
  • In addition, it recognized experts on the politics of each country provide commentary on these events, as well as on the principal issues in national politics during the year. (lu.se)
  • Most of the medical warehouses in the east of the country have been destroyed or are partially functioning, including the main warehouse in Benghazi, which was destroyed at a time when it was at its peak accumulation of stocks. (who.int)
  • It looks at the ways members of the diaspora sought to help in the rebuilding of their country of origin, at both the elite and grassroots levels, as well as investigating changes over time. (lu.se)
  • Political actors in Ghana readily locate themselves in relation to these two traditions. (jrank.org)
  • The Political Economy of Productivity: Actors, Arenas, and Policies. (cambridge.org)
  • This is not to say that actors from the Hindi film industry or other languages like Bengali, Marathi and Bhojpuri have not nurtured political aspirations. (epw.in)
  • Senior Future Movement official Mustafa Allouch told Al Jazeera that Hariri and the Future Movement will continue to push for a non-partisan government of technocrats. (aljazeera.com)
  • Kamal Haasan has declared: "My colour is definitely not saffron"( Economic Times 2017). (epw.in)
  • Further, the NCP is in no mood to cooperate with him, owing to his feud with party leader Ajit Pawar. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Ólafur became a leader of the leftist fraction of the party. (grapevine.is)
  • The National Party was formed in 1936 by the merger of the two main conservative parties of the time. (teara.govt.nz)
  • But its main focus has been news and current affairs stories that are critical of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). (cbc.ca)
  • Many believe the GOP is two parties: One half of it quite conservative yet still interested in productive government, but it's in competition with another faction that just wants to suffocate the federal government wherever possible. (yahoo.com)
  • That means roughly 5 million people are willing to settle a political dispute by killing their opponent. (latimes.com)
  • In the 1970s, the Raza Unida Party (RUP) formed in Texas through a number of spontaneous grassroots political organizations. (listverse.com)
  • First of all, U.S. politics has become increasingly zero-sum over the past three decades. (yahoo.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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Civil society organizations, human rights defenders, and academicians experience a range of different government measures that put legal constraints on human rights work. (lu.se)
  • Firstly, it aims at reviewing the political settings that lead to the second phase (1937-1953) in the formation of the hawza leadership, often ignored by scholars. (lu.se)
  • There are even times where many elected government officials switched platforms because of the increased chances of becoming elected. (change.org)
  • The government took limited steps to prosecute those suspected of committing human rights abuses. (state.gov)
  • Party polarization in American politics is a phenomenon that has been pervading into American government for the last few decades. (ipl.org)
  • In November 1949 his efforts were rewarded when he led his party to victory. (teara.govt.nz)