• Voter turnout in the 2011 federal election - slightly more than 61 per cent of eligible voters - was among the lowest in this country's history. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Around 58 per cent of voters backed the initiative out of a 55 per cent population turnout, flying in the face of poll predictions which thought the ban would be rejected by 53 per cent of the electorate. (bigthink.com)
  • Expanded civics and citizenship education is urgently needed to turn around the low voter turnout in New Zealand, the Green Party said today. (greens.org.nz)
  • The Electoral Commission has estimated voter turnout for the 2014 election at 77.04 percent of those enrolled to vote. (greens.org.nz)
  • We must ensure that it is addressed in time to increase voter turnout at the next election," said Mrs Turei. (greens.org.nz)
  • Republicans say they've made gains among these incoming voters, with higher turnout than Democrats in this year's primaries and larger participation from Hispanic voters. (ajc.com)
  • North Carolina voter turnout in 2022 was lower than 2018, despite many predicting the opposite. (carolinapublicpress.org)
  • And it's this dynamic that has the political prognosticators pondering how many people will tune out the November election.Will change again drive turnout? (seattleweekly.com)
  • The International IDEA Voter Turnout Website contains the a global collection of voter turnout statistics. (lu.se)
  • Regularly updated voter turnout figures for national presidential and parliamentary elections since 1945, as well as European Parliament elections, are presented country by country using both the number of registered voters and voting age population (VAP) as indicators. (lu.se)
  • A minority PNL government led by Ludovic Orban took office in November 2019, after the previous government lost a no-confidence vote. (freedomhouse.org)
  • However, the May 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections revealed some problems with the implementation of the electoral code and the procedural rules for dealing with the electronic registration of voters entering the polling stations, improper management of electoral materials, and poor training of election staff, among others. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The MFP leader said the party has retained an edge in Thon Buri, judging by two previous elections: the 2019 general election and the Bangkok councillor election last year. (bangkokpost.com)
  • In the 2019 poll, the now-defunct Future Forward Party, which is the MFP's predecessor, won six of nine MP seats in Thon Buri. (bangkokpost.com)
  • In 2019, at the beginning of Israel's apparently interminable political crisis, Ben Gvir's Otzma Yehudit party was still a political pariah. (timesofisrael.com)
  • This master's thesis takes its cue from Polish sociologist Franciszek Czech (2019), who ar- gued that the saturation of Polish magazines with conspiracy narratives suggests a deep po- larization of the Polish society on a political level. (lu.se)
  • Toby graduated with a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford in Spring 2023 and currently works as a Senior Data Scientist in London, UK. (stanford.edu)
  • Over dinner a while back, veteran Democratic pollster Peter Hart said that in 40 years in the public opinion research business, he had never seen the political climate as receptive to an independent or third party presidential candidacy as it is now, as the 2023 election approaches. (unity08.com)
  • In fact, a healthy majority of the electorate - as high as 55 to 60 percent, depending on the survey - now says that it is open to considering a third party entry into the 2023 presidential contest. (unity08.com)
  • But the Republican Party functioned in recent years as an extension of Trump, not as a political party that picks and chooses among candidates based on policy preferences and tactical considerations. (reason.com)
  • Political candidates who are aspiring for office are far better at inspiring voters to get out and cast their ballot than our government bureaucracies," he told the Commons on Wednesday. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Aspiring candidates and parties - and not government officials - have a duty to reach out to voters, inspire them and give them something worth voting for. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • On the other hand, however political parties adapted relatively poorly to the new system, with most parties failing to offer enough candidates to optimise their campaigns under STV. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Three-fifths of candidates were elected with the help of preference transfers or voters using their preferences to choose two candidates from the same or different parties. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Where these transfers were between two candidates of the same party, the message is that standing more than one candidate in a ward can be rewarded by voters. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Candidates who tell voters only what they think those voters want to hear do themselves and their party no favors - least of all when it comes to the young, who hunger to be inspired and to be part of something consequential, something bigger than themselves. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Like other candidates, he had political ambitions and pursued them, but his career wasn't strewn with innumerable flip-flops and conversions of convenience. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Hispanic voters generally favor Democratic candidates, but Republicans have made inroads in recent elections in Florida and Texas. (ajc.com)
  • Also, voters may think more ideologically when one or both presidential candidates take sharply ideological positions (as in 1964, 1972, 1980, and 1984). (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • The nominee will be selected among those candidates as someone who will balance the ticket considering their political ideology, demographic distribution and affiliations such as liberal, moderate or conservative, age, religion, etc. (assignmenthelp.net)
  • He also extended his early congratulations to the two presumptive prime ministerial candidates, Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Srettha Thavisin, of the main opposition Pheu Thai Party. (bangkokpost.com)
  • More than half of Americans under 30 said it is usually the case that none of candidates running for political office in recent years represent their views well. (timesfreepress.com)
  • And with the candidates in both parties falling all over themselves in an ugly exercise that suggests that perhaps none of them ought to be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office, the search for a reasonable alternative can only intensify. (unity08.com)
  • Some political scientists say gerrymandering can discourage good, potential candidates from running for office. (tpr.org)
  • Gerrymandering doesn't jus t stifle potential voters and potential candidates - i t also skews policy. (tpr.org)
  • There are surely other factors playing into decisions made by voters, candidates, and policymakers. (tpr.org)
  • The party leader cannot automatically dictate the party's slate of candidates. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Or will the change voters of 2008 stick with President Obama and vote for candidates of his Democratic Party? (seattleweekly.com)
  • And here's why I did-candidates choose to associate with the major parties because they can access party funds. (seattleweekly.com)
  • And theses monies come from selling access to the halls of power in D.C. My vote was a gesture against big-money beltway politics.Yes, I made protest votes for candidates unlikely to make the runoff. (seattleweekly.com)
  • I voted in the primary for candidates who could have changed the political culture in D.C., but they didn't win. (seattleweekly.com)
  • I get to choose between only two candidates now, so instead of going back to '90s-style wrecking-ball politics, my vote is about staying the course. (seattleweekly.com)
  • Some political leaders also giving the funds to the caste-based people at the time of elections. (indiabix.com)
  • No, political party contests the elections without bribing and no voter will vote without taking if they offered money. (indiabix.com)
  • Just a few sudden retirements, party defections, or deaths could swing control of either chamber ahead of the 2024 elections. (newrepublic.com)
  • The Conservative government is stripping Elections Canada of its authority to encourage Canadians to vote in federal ballots under changes to the agency's mandate. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative minister for democratic reform, said the government doesn't believe Elections Canada has a role to play in boosting voting. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • The government unveiled legislation that will also break up Elections Canada by stripping the agency of its role in investigating and prosecuting electoral wrongdoing. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • A big part of addressing political disengagement is about making elections more accessible. (greens.org.nz)
  • Shri Upasane stressed the need that the voters must be vigilant and should repeatedly question their representatives at least on the promises that they make during elections. (organiser.org)
  • In this light, it is worth considering the impact of the last large-scale electoral reform in the UK: the 2007 introduction of another preferential electoral system, the single transferable vote (STV) for local government elections in Scotland. (lse.ac.uk)
  • When STV was introduced for Scottish local government elections in 2007, it was the first large-scale use of STV on the mainland for many decades. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Since the 2007 local elections were concurrent with the Scottish parliament elections held under the AMS/MMP electoral system, voters were faced with a complex set of ballot papers and voting decisions. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Elections are now a sham proceeding at every level US government. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • In the past, the idea that elections could replace incumbent governments seemed far-fetched. (theconversation.com)
  • The formation of the Revolution for Prosperity party, just six months before the 2022 elections, by the business mogul Sam Matekane , gave voters an opportunity to replace the governing coalition of the All Basotho Convention and the Democratic Congress . (theconversation.com)
  • The country formally started the tumultuous journey of coalition politics after the 2012 elections . (theconversation.com)
  • But parties formed pre-election alliances to contest elections. (theconversation.com)
  • The first coalition government was formed after the 2012 elections, led by the All Basotho Convention. (theconversation.com)
  • The post-2022 elections coalition led by Matekane's party is the fifth in a decade. (theconversation.com)
  • Laura Campos, who was born in Nicaragua and became a U.S. citizen in 2021, speaks at a press conference outlining the demographic profile of new American voters in Georgia and how their votes can impact the upcoming midterm elections. (ajc.com)
  • With the lawmaking in the rear view - for now - and primary elections less than seven months away, here's a look at where each of the state's top three political leaders stand. (dallasnews.com)
  • Was the current head of government or other chief national authority elected through free and fair elections? (freedomhouse.org)
  • One of the pillars of Ghana's democratization process has been the country's success in conducting six national elections - two of which led to transfers of power from one political party to another in 2001 and 2009. (iri.org)
  • This is done so as to maximise the candidate's potential vote and to act as an appeal to a wider range of voters as possible in the November elections. (assignmenthelp.net)
  • Between the general elections of 1983 and 2009, voter participation dropped from 85.6 percent to 72.4 percent. (americasquarterly.org)
  • In second place in the poll was Nigel Farage's Brexit Party, which, last week, was by far the most supported group in the EU parliamentary elections. (thedailybeast.com)
  • After unveiling its "Bollocks to Brexit" slogan, the party saw its poll ratings for the European elections surge until they reached second behind the Brexit Party. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Often, voting intention in European elections doesn't overlap with voting intention in a British parliament because voters focus on different issues. (thedailybeast.com)
  • His work sits at the intersection of political economy and comparative politics and studies how elections shape representation. (stanford.edu)
  • To study these questions, Toby applies and extends computational and causal inference methods to newly collected data on elections and local governments across Europe. (stanford.edu)
  • In the areas or elections where they believe it to be competitive," said Eric Lopez, a political science professor at UT-Tyler. (tpr.org)
  • It qualified to run in the 2015 elections as a party, but it does not have the internal apparatus of normal parties. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • The analysis shows how political tensions have been played out in systemic and event con- spiracy theories in Polish mainstream media before the presidential elections in spring 2020. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • It serves not only as a window into the national ethos but also as a mechanism that influences political behavior and policy decisions. (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • Of course there is no single explanation for the political behavior of an age bracket that comprises millions of individuals. (bostonglobe.com)
  • In particular, Toby's research examines how electoral rules and institutions affect political careers, party organization and voter behavior. (stanford.edu)
  • At the very ground level, partisan redistricting - commonly known as "gerrymandering" - affects the behavior of voters. (tpr.org)
  • The goal for 2024-whether or not Joe Biden runs-should be a landslide victory for the supporters of democracy, tolerance, and an effective government. (newrepublic.com)
  • What's important here is that 54 percent of Democrats do not want the sitting president from their own party to run for reelection in 2024. (reason.com)
  • That said, when asked who they want to represent their party in the 2024 presidential race, many are willing to consider alternatives. (reason.com)
  • When provided with a list of Republicans who are thought by observers to be considering running for President in 2024, likely New Hampshire Republican primary voters (N=318) are split between DeSantis and Trump, with 39% preferring the Florida governor and 37% supporting the former president," note University of New Hampshire pollsters. (reason.com)
  • LUCKNOW: After BR Ambedkar, major political parties are busy appropriating BSP founder Kanshi Ram to win over crucial dalit voters for 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh. (ipanewspack.com)
  • And yet this frustrated army of voters could still have a major impact in 2024. (timesfreepress.com)
  • All the like-minded parties formed a block in the Parliament, led by Shyama Prasad Mookerjee. (wikipedia.org)
  • In October, the government was dismissed in a vote of no confidence by the parliament. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The president appoints the prime minister in consultation with the parliamentary majority, and the prime minister's government requires the confidence of Parliament. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Members of the bicameral Parliament, consisting of a 136-seat Senate and a 330-seat Chamber of Deputies, are elected to four-year terms in a closed party-list proportional system. (freedomhouse.org)
  • As some members of parliament have since switched political camps, the number of seats for each party has fluctuated since the election, though the PSD has retained the largest number of seats. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The next general debate in parliament will help voters make informed choices at the poll. (bangkokpost.com)
  • The perennial "third party" in parliament, it was an inoffensive minor force who was praised for its opposition to the Iraq War and campaigned on important but ultimately not particularly interesting issues such as electoral reform. (thedailybeast.com)
  • 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)
  • Most voters continue to favor stricter border control over granting legal status to those already here illegally and believe amnesty will just encourage more illegal immigration.But while most Republicans and unaffiliated voters consider border control the priority, the majority of Democrats rate amnesty as more important. (rasmussenreports.com)
  • Seventy percent (70%) of voters who consider illegal immigration Very Important to their vote - and 42% of all voters - favor Donald Trump's plan to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico . (rasmussenreports.com)
  • When a district is drawn to substantially favor one party, and there's a well-known incumbent, there isn't a robust election campaign. (tpr.org)
  • Sam Matekane, the new party's leader, has announced a three-member coalition government. (theconversation.com)
  • He's made a friend and ally in Patrick, for now seeming to hold off his biggest political threat from the party's right. (dallasnews.com)
  • Yet, from a political party's perspective, that is a good thing, said Lopez of UT-Tyler. (tpr.org)
  • CORNISH: We've been hearing for months Democrats saying to voters that they need to make a plan to vote, talking about absentee votes. (wuwm.com)
  • Fond du Lac GOP chair Rohn Bishop has been urging his voters to vote absentee for months, and he's even taken on the Democrats' slogan of, make a plan to vote. (wuwm.com)
  • Minister of Justice Anders Anundsen's has been criticized by the government's supporting parties for how he has handled the returns of juvenile asylum seekers, which according to the Christian Democrats does not follow their original agreement. (norwaypost.no)
  • Presidential politics have grown so static that the only difference between 2004 (George W. Bush's reelection) and 2020 (Joe Biden's triumph) is that five states shifted from the Republicans to the Democrats: Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Nevada, and Virginia. (newrepublic.com)
  • In the United States, the support for Donald Trump in the Republican Party and Bernie Sanders in the Democrats shows that even party loyalists are tired of what the mainstream is offering up. (ipa.org.au)
  • Colorado voters have repeatedly rejected restrictions on the procedure, and Democrats recently codified abortion protections into state law. (wmfe.org)
  • Lesotho Revolution for Prosperity party leader Sam Matekane (centre), Alliance of Democrats deputy leader Professor Ntoi Rapapa (L) and Movement for Economic Change leader Selibe Mochoboroane. (theconversation.com)
  • The new coalition announced on 11 October 2022 comprises the Revolution for Prosperity Party, the Alliance of Democrats and the Movement for Economic Change . (theconversation.com)
  • Many of the new voters come from groups that typically support Democrats, including people of color, those under age 35 and people from other states who moved to urban and suburban areas in Georgia, according to an analysis of the state's registration list by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. (ajc.com)
  • Both political parties are working to increase their territory, with Republicans opening a Hispanic community center in Gwinnett County and Democrats campaigning in conservative rural areas. (ajc.com)
  • In Georgia, a majority of white voters support Republicans, while Black voters overwhelmingly back Democrats. (ajc.com)
  • While younger voters are more likely to have a favorable view of Democrats than of Republicans, they're also more likely than older generations to have unfavorable views of both parties. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Perennial fringe party, the Liberal Democrats, have their fortunes reversed after campaigning on one clear slogan: 'Bollocks to Brexit. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Founded in the late 1980s as a merger of the ancient Liberal Party and the short-lived Social Democratic Party, the Liberal Democrats have never really been a major player. (thedailybeast.com)
  • While 81% of GOP voters and 58% of unaffiliateds believe the federal government is not aggressive enough when it comes to deporting those here illegally, just 34% of Democrats agree. (rasmussenreports.com)
  • Sixty-three percent (63%) of Republicans rate illegal immigration as Very Important to their vote in the upcoming presidential election , compared to 36% of Democrats and 40% of unaffiliated voters. (rasmussenreports.com)
  • The Electoral Commission, in its report into the last election, identified civics education as needing more attention as a first step to turn around the trend of declining voter participation. (greens.org.nz)
  • Ghanaians have made significant democratic gains since the commencement of the Fourth Republic in 1992, particularly in relation to citizen political participation, access to political power through the ballot box, freedom of the press, and the vitality of civil society. (iri.org)
  • While this systemic problem cannot be fully avoided for now, there is a city department specifically dedicated to "Citizen Participation, Transparency and Open Government. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • After the death of Mukherjee in 1953, RSS activists in the BJS edged out the career politicians and made it a political arm of the RSS and an integral part of the RSS family of organisations (Sangh Parivar). (wikipedia.org)
  • The main reason of corruption in politics is uneducated politicians. (indiabix.com)
  • The public knows very well about corrupt politicians but they don't take any steps to remove corruption from politics. (indiabix.com)
  • He said the political differences of politicians create hindrance in smooth business in the Rajya Sabha. (organiser.org)
  • He attributes this to the "post-Soviet understanding of our political situation, where you always claimed that politicians are lying. (politico.eu)
  • Our media and National Party politicians are well into this stage in the Skripal affair. (thestandard.org.nz)
  • But experts agree a big factor is partisan politicians in Texas - and elsewhere - drawing their own maps and choosing their own voters. (tpr.org)
  • CORNISH: Republicans cheered the Supreme Court decision, and I imagine there are plenty of GOP voters, though, who plan to vote by mail. (wuwm.com)
  • While the Republicans won the House and the right to try to bore the voters to death with overhyped investigations of Hunter Biden's laptop, the margins in both chambers are so small that votes on Capitol Hill will have to be delayed every time a major airport is snarled by weather during fundraising season. (newrepublic.com)
  • Mitt Romney wondered last week why more college-age voters aren't "working like crazy'' to elect Republicans like him. (bostonglobe.com)
  • This seemed to be an excellent choice for McCain at first, McCain being an older man from Arizona with moderate views which did not appeal to all Republican votes, however, when balanced with Palin, a younger female from Alaska with very conservative views and idolised by the influential tea party movement almost all Republicans were in favour. (assignmenthelp.net)
  • Seventy-seven percent (77%) of Republicans and 60% of voters not affiliated with either major political party are opposed. (rasmussenreports.com)
  • Republicans strongly disagree, as do a majority of unaffiliated voters. (rasmussenreports.com)
  • And Republicans are hardly the small-government libertarians they'd like you to believe they are. (seattleweekly.com)
  • The British firm, Cambridge Analytica, then allegedly used that information to profile and target voters to support President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign and possibly influence last year's vote in favour of Brexit. (abc.net.au)
  • In the 2020 presidential election, voter surveys showed about 63% of Hispanic voters supported Democrat Joe Biden, down from 65% who backed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential contest. (ajc.com)
  • Voters 18 to 29 ranged from their preteen years to their early 20s when Trump was elected in 2016. (timesfreepress.com)
  • The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on June 26-27, 2016 by Rasmussen Reports. (rasmussenreports.com)
  • Just as important, the Republican Party shows signs of moving on from its status in recent years as little more than Trump's cult of personality. (reason.com)
  • The maps will likely help white people and the Republican Party maintain their dominance over state government , at least for a few years. (tpr.org)
  • According to Oklahoma State University professor Seth McKee, gerrymandering in Texas ultimately allows extreme portions of the Republican Party to achieve their policy goals. (tpr.org)
  • Around 23 per cent of Australians gave their primary vote to minor parties and independents at the July federal election. (ipa.org.au)
  • We are so used to thinking about red states and blue states in a two-way race that we ignore the reality that every state could be in play for a third ticket in the middle, one that speaks to and for the independents and moderates who comprise the largest voter group in every state, including 'blue' California, 'red' Florida and everything in between. (unity08.com)
  • Ahora Madrid's people in city government include ecologists, political independents, traditional party people, and others. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • The United States government, under President Donald Trump, retreated from its traditional role as an exemplar of democracy, defender of press freedom and the rule of law but embraced conspiracy theories, virulent anti-Semites, and authoritarian regimes worldwide. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Labour Party (Ap) has the biggest drop in the latest poll, down 4,3 percentage points. (norwaypost.no)
  • One out of three voters would prefer the new leader of the Labour Party, Jonas Gahr Støre, as Norway's prime minister. (norwaypost.no)
  • The Labour Party, currently led by veteran left-winger Jeremy Corbyn, and the ruling Conservative Party, which-for the next few weeks, at least-is led by disastrous outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Voters elected Juan Orlando Hernandez of the National Party as president for a four-year term beginning January 2018. (state.gov)
  • Many members of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) began to contemplate the formation of a political party to continue their work, begun in the days of the British Raj, and take their ideology further. (wikipedia.org)
  • Certainly for some young voters it all comes down to ideology. (bostonglobe.com)
  • 3. Define political ideology and give reasons why most Americans do not think ideologically. (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • A political ideology is a coherent and consistent set of beliefs about who ought to rule, what principles rulers ought to obey, and what policies rulers ought to pursue. (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • Chesdata estimate party positioning on European integration, ideology and policy issues for national parties in a variety of European countries. (lu.se)
  • The value of democracy lies at the heart of American political life, emphasizing the role of citizens in the governing process. (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • A 2021 survey from Eurofound found that citizens in Romania, Bulgaria and Latvia all had levels of trust in their governments below the EU average. (politico.eu)
  • Even though we can differ in our politics, we share a commitment to the unrestricted defense of democratic institutions and the social rights of citizens. (americasquarterly.org)
  • Among voters who support the president's amnesty plan, 75% believe children born here to illegal immigrants should automatically become U.S. citizens, and 62% say those with American-born children should not be deported. (rasmussenreports.com)
  • On the bright side, if we end up bringing back the '90s, at least we can still catch a Soundgarden show!I am an independent voter-one of those citizens who can swing an election to one party or another. (seattleweekly.com)
  • The Institute of Democracy conducts research about democratic development and political communication between citizens, media and parties. (lu.se)
  • About 95% of Georgia's eligible voters were registered in 2020, according to federal data. (ajc.com)
  • 2020). Although adopted strategies should focus exclusively on technical criteria, discussions concerning social isolation have been inserted in the Brazilian political arena. (bvsalud.org)
  • Asian American voters rose by 43% and make up 3% of the state's voters. (ajc.com)
  • It's Breaking Our Political System. (newrepublic.com)
  • This is the highest number since the formation of the Liberal Party and the three party system at the end of the Second World War. (ipa.org.au)
  • A democratic political system is based on trust. (ipa.org.au)
  • The effects of STV have been variously referred to as a ' quiet revolution ' or as a ' transformation of local politics ', with Scottish councils becoming more proportional, and voters adapting to the new electoral system with relative ease. (lse.ac.uk)
  • So how did the voters adapt to the new system? (lse.ac.uk)
  • The government continued to prosecute and punish officials who committed abuses, but a weak judicial system and corruption were major obstacles to gaining convictions. (state.gov)
  • The period between 1993 and 2012 was one of a one-party dominated political system. (theconversation.com)
  • But the writing has been on the wall since 2002, when the country changed the electoral system, that coalitions are the future of electoral politics in Lesotho. (theconversation.com)
  • This doesn't mean that dysfunction in our tone-deaf political system is an important reason why we are pessimistic about the next generations. (wptv.com)
  • Analyze why these changes are causing strain in the political party system. (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • Younger voters recognize that our political system is broken, and they have little nostalgia about a less broken time. (timesfreepress.com)
  • But the American political system wasn't built to make radical change easy. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Yes, our political system needs a major overhaul, but such an overhaul is almost inconceivable given current political constraints. (timesfreepress.com)
  • To build a more cohesive political system we must restore the original premises that guided the creation of our parties. (americasquarterly.org)
  • During the course of that campaign, I even wrote an opinion piece on the topic for the Mercury News, arguing for the preservation of the American two-party system. (unity08.com)
  • Gerrymandering helps parties achieve what they want, even if it makes the system of government less representative as a whole. (tpr.org)
  • It's an open secret that political parties and "democratic" governments around the world have become entrenched insider clubs, dedicated to protecting powerful elites and neutralizing popular demands for system change. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • The system allows citizen-voters to give differently weighted points to people running for different positions in the government. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • India: Government and Politics in a Developing Nation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Politics is a very dirty game in India. (indiabix.com)
  • In my opinion, in a country like India Voters have the least right and play a very small role in the criminalization of politics. (indiabix.com)
  • While Samajwadi Party, Congress and RLD are members of grand INDIA alliance Mayawati has announced to go alone in Lok Sabha polls. (ipanewspack.com)
  • But the Democratic Party has continued to function as something resembling a normal political party, focused on policies and ideas, terrible though most of them are. (reason.com)
  • For half a century, the Democratic Party had commanded the loyalty of most new voters. (bostonglobe.com)
  • The government led by Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) leader and a presidential candidate, was marked by frequent changes in its composition. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The election results signaled a realignment towards Democratic Party policies. (seattleweekly.com)
  • 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)
  • Second of two parts ( Read part 1 ) 'THE OLDEST president in US history and the youngest members of the nation's electorate have forged one of the strongest bonds in American politics. (bostonglobe.com)
  • It tells me they want to subordinate the general health of democracy, and encouraging people to vote, to the competitive politics of parties competing for votes - where they think they can do better than if people generally are encouraged to go vote," Mr. Scott said. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • In a representative democracy no government is obliged to fulfil its campaign promises-it does so by convention and fear that it will be punished by voters for failing to do so. (ipa.org.au)
  • If we are not able to generate this kind of awareness among the voters the objective of strengthening the democracy will remain incomplete and even 100 per cent polling will prove to be meaningless," he added. (organiser.org)
  • According to Latinobarómetro (2008), 77 percent of Argentines consider democracy, although it has faults, to still be the best form of government. (americasquarterly.org)
  • BNP urges people to put up a resistance against the current government through waging a greater movement to 'restore their rights, democracy' and uphold the Liberation War spirit. (thedailystar.net)
  • Conspir- acy theories can create doubt about political opponents and their integrity and unfold a con- siderable danger to democracy. (lu.se)
  • SILVER: Wikler says they're aware of people who've requested ballots and haven't returned them and which ones are the likely Democratic voters. (wuwm.com)
  • When a person wants to become a political leader he/she begs votes to people & when getting the position they do nothing for same people & forget about the people who voted them to getting that job. (indiabix.com)
  • But even though allow criminal people to stand in politics. (indiabix.com)
  • 3. Even Political parties know about the criminal background of their candidate's but just give tickets and support criminal people to be in politics. (indiabix.com)
  • In a similar manner, if more people keep doing this then the party which win won't develop our nation and we will be bitching that the government is not doing anything. (indiabix.com)
  • So people please vote in the right direction even a single vote can change the ruling government. (indiabix.com)
  • In my point of view, voters mean just electing the leader by voting their votes by the common people. (indiabix.com)
  • As Brownstein put it, "Each side in an intensely polarized nation of 330 million recognizes that the overall direction of national policy now pivots on the choices of a minuscule number of people living in the tiny patches of contested political ground-white-collar suburbs of Atlanta and Phoenix, working-class Latino neighborhoods in and around Las Vegas and the mid-sized communities of the so-called BOW counties in Wisconsin. (newrepublic.com)
  • The Conservative government also came under fire for another election-law change that would exempt fundraising costs from campaign expenses - as long as parties are calling people who have donated within the last five years. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • It's the No. 1 issue that people bring up at birthday parties, at backyard barbecues, at family gatherings. (wmfe.org)
  • Civics and citizenship education will help to engage our young people in politics, society, and what is going on. (greens.org.nz)
  • The voters must evaluate the candidate and his/her agenda for the people and the nation. (organiser.org)
  • Hernandez directed the television program The People Speak , where he discussed social issues and local politics. (state.gov)
  • It would be truer to say that they were captivated by Reagan - by his optimism and authenticity and love of country, by his manifest faith in the people he sought to lead - and so they came to share his political outlook as well. (bostonglobe.com)
  • At the heart of our company is a global online community, where millions of people and thousands of political, cultural and commercial organizations engage in a continuous conversation about their beliefs, behaviours and brands. (yougov.co.uk)
  • Older people have lower average incomes than other age groups because many live on a pension - paid by the government - as their main income. (teara.govt.nz)
  • A party formed only six months ahead of the legislative election, Revolution for Prosperity, emphatically ended the reign of the All Basotho Convention and the Democratic Congress, which have dominated politics in the kingdom of 2.1 million people since 2012. (theconversation.com)
  • It's a warm Saturday afternoon, the public square in the capital Bern is slowly filling with people for the anti-Ecopop demonstration organised by trade unions and leftwing political parties. (swissinfo.ch)
  • Politics doesn't play that kind of role in how people think about the future. (wptv.com)
  • Calling Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha an expired medicine, Mr Pita said people who are against the administration prolonging its grip on power should cast their ballots for parties which do not condone the status quo. (bangkokpost.com)
  • After winning a lot of support from young people, and posing with a pledge not to introduce university fees, that's exactly what the Clegg/Cameron government did. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Instead of trying to use the hierarchical structures of parties and government in the usual ways to "represent" the people, the new local parties in Spain are trying to transform government itself and political norms. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Follow the current polling with subsequent reportage and it's apparently time for another political reworking with the data showing people running back to the GOP.Didn't voters in 2008 choose a government centered approach to fixing the economy? (seattleweekly.com)
  • I mean, people want this supposed change but they still vote for one of the entrenched parties in Washington DC?This reminds me of being a 16-year-old living in Yugoslavia. (seattleweekly.com)
  • Follow the polling with subsequent reportage, and it's apparently time for another political reworking, with data showing people running back to the GOP. (seattleweekly.com)
  • Regular public contestation between these two influential parties has provoked the Polish people to further divide into two main blocs. (lu.se)
  • A total of 147 people participated in the survey, indicating their political orientation and responding to social isolation measures, Fake News and morality. (bvsalud.org)
  • If the stakes had not been so high-with election deniers on the ballot and the GOP running as the party of destruction-this would have been seen as a yawner of a midterm. (newrepublic.com)
  • The average number of preferences used by voters was 3.04, and this level appeared remarkably consistent across a number of ballot paper and candidate configurations. (lse.ac.uk)
  • One new voter, Laura Campos, recently became a U.S. citizen and plans to cast a ballot for the first time this November. (ajc.com)
  • 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)
  • The current political discourse is at once so vicious and vacuous, shallow and silly, petty and predictable that both parties seem to be asking to be hit over the head with a third party 2-by-4. (unity08.com)
  • In an earlier study I show that Trump's discourse in several respects only constitutes an extreme of what characterizes political discourses in general, namely that they are not primarily based on facts, but that they are judged on the effects they have. (lu.se)
  • The thesis is the effect of a political discourse is determined by the interaction between sender and receiver. (lu.se)
  • Opinion: Young voters are frustrated. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Those years also saw a surge in mass shootings and warnings about the effects of climate change growing more dire, two issues that have become important to young voters. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Ronald Reagan was then in his sixth year as president, and his support among younger voters was stratospheric. (bostonglobe.com)
  • The knot that the country finds itself in may be one reason Pew found that younger voters are the least likely to believe that voting can have at least some effect on the country's future direction. (timesfreepress.com)
  • This defensive posture is understandable when you think about the political era in which these younger voters came of age: a dizzying period of dysfunction, calamity and activism. (timesfreepress.com)
  • It's no wonder that younger voters are so frustrated and so thirsty for change, and they spare no one in pursuing it. (timesfreepress.com)
  • Younger voters are also much more supportive of automatic citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants. (rasmussenreports.com)
  • Of course, Americans as a whole don't pick standard-bearers for political parties, primary voters do. (reason.com)
  • He's well-liked among Republican primary voters. (dallasnews.com)
  • With the exponential growth of coronavirus cases worldwide, Orthodox churches around the globe face increasingly restrictive rules imposed by local governments. (lu.se)
  • It's about what has driven so many voters in the richest, most stable liberal democracies that human history has ever known to reject the political mainstream. (ipa.org.au)
  • It seems they don't trust voters to reject the initiative. (swissinfo.ch)
  • 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)
  • but this time the new grouping took the name Bharatiya Janata Party. (wikipedia.org)
  • Around the same time, Syama Prasad Mukherjee left the Hindu Mahasabha political party that he had once led because of a disagreement with that party over permitting non-Hindu membership. (wikipedia.org)
  • Rather, they are likely to see the most important trends of our time and the growing popular disillusion with the major parties-indeed, the growing disillusion with the entire political class. (ipa.org.au)
  • This is the politics of our time. (ipa.org.au)
  • This seems dramatic, but Labour had been in gradual decline in Scottish local government for some time with STV merely accelerating this trend. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Eighteen months earlier, a pre-election poll commissioned by Time magazine had found voters ages 18 to 24 expressing support for Reagan over his Democratic challenger, Walter Mondale, by an amazing 45-point margin - 63 percent to 18 percent. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Under the Gipper, the political tides reversed and first-time voters surged to the GOP. (bostonglobe.com)
  • By that time, it was clear that single party dominance had ended. (theconversation.com)
  • For the first time, the death anniversary of dalit icon Kanshi Ram on October 9 became major event for political parties in UP. (ipanewspack.com)
  • At a time when political commentators and experts are debating whether the BSP is becoming irrelevant politically or facing allegation of becoming B team of BJP, Mayawati too organised program to pay tribute to founder Kanshi Ram. (ipanewspack.com)
  • Enter current leader Vince Cable, a 76-year-old party veteran who was seen as an unexciting but reliable short-term leader to give the party time to work out what it was going to do. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Beyond research, Toby repeatedly served as teaching assistant for the department's graduate-level methods sequence and for undergraduate classes in comparative politics. (stanford.edu)
  • But while Trump still holds sway on his base, President Biden is underwater when it comes to support from his own party," observed Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy. (reason.com)
  • In the end, Biden led his party to victory in the contest for not only the White House, but the House of Representatives and (sort of) the Senate. (reason.com)
  • New voters didn't flock to Reagan in the 1980s because they were captivated by his views on supply-side economics and the Soviet Union. (bostonglobe.com)
  • The initiative, referendum, and recall are three power elements which are reserved to permit and empower the voters, by petition, to propose or repeal legislation or to remove an elected official from office. (assignmenthelp.net)
  • Support for the Labor Party (Ap) is at 34,1 percent according to September's poll. (norwaypost.no)
  • For the third month in a row, the support for the Labor Party remains above 40 percent. (norwaypost.no)
  • Now, the Inquirer noted, Reagan's support among the young was even greater: According to a new survey, voters younger than 25 were giving Reagan a 79 percent job-approval rating. (bostonglobe.com)
  • The latest polls predict National would need Winston Peters' support to form a right-bloc government after the election. (rnz.co.nz)
  • But, in the poll released Friday, the Lib Dems were out in front with 24 percent of the support, the Brexit Party had 22 percent, and the two main parties languished behind in joint third place with 19 percent of the voting intention. (thedailybeast.com)
  • The decrease in support for nuclear power can, thus, be explained by voters in fallout-affected areas reporting to be significantly more worried about adverse consequences of nuclear power. (lu.se)
  • Trump can be said to be ridiculed in that context, but the voter support he has is not affected. (lu.se)
  • That promises are often broken is one of the long-standing norms of democratic politics. (ipa.org.au)
  • The coalition's victory was important because it opened up a new narrative for populist political transformation. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Voters wanted something new and the Obama For America campaign promised a political transformation. (seattleweekly.com)
  • The BNP yesterday alleged that the government was pushing Khaleda Zia towards a tragic consequence through torturing her physically and mentally. (thedailystar.net)
  • 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)
  • 1 . List the sources of our political attitudes, and indicate which are the most important. (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • Assess the significance of race in explaining political attitudes. (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • 4. Identify which elite groups have become liberal, and compare their present attitudes with the past political preferences of these groups. (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • In this context, this study aimed to investigate the role played by morality and belief in Fake News in the relationship between political orientation and attitudes towards social isolation in Brazil. (bvsalud.org)
  • The public also have reservations about the Afghan's ability to maintain order, as two-thirds (67%) think the Afghan government will not be able to maintain peace and security in the country following the withdrawal of Western troops and 65% feel it is likely that the Taliban will return to power. (yougov.co.uk)
  • The election results confirm the trend that started in 2012 - that voters have the power to replace governments. (theconversation.com)
  • However, it is within the MFP's power to set its own pre-conditions that it would not get into a government with either the PPRP or UTN. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Ben Gvir's Otzma Yehudit party - the name translates to Jewish Power - is the ideological successor of the far-right and racist Kach party which was founded and led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was assassinated in 1988 in New York. (timesofisrael.com)
  • At the end of the day, political parties care about themselves and political power," Lopez said. (tpr.org)
  • To devise a party that avoids hierarchical control, centralized power and celebrity-leaders, Ahora Madrid developed an open process that invites anyone to join and participate. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Can a political party - regardless of whether they are in power or in opposition - use public property to attend a party rally? (thedailystar.net)
  • Look at their record in power from 1994 to 2008, and you'll find a party that loves to spend. (seattleweekly.com)
  • It could be proven that newspapers associated with either one of the two political power blocs have engaged in a further division between liberals and conservatives by disseminating partisan conspiracy narratives before the presidential election. (lu.se)
  • The Italian decision to abandon nuclear power is very similar to the one made by the German government after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. (lu.se)
  • In Swedish politics, the future of nuclear power has been a major issue for several decades. (lu.se)
  • The frosty relationship between potential coalition partners New Zealand First and the Act Party was on full display Thursday night in TVNZ's minor parties debate. (rnz.co.nz)
  • But the impressive win fell short of a majority that would have ended the era of unstable coalition politics in the country. (theconversation.com)
  • These two parties have taken turns to lead coalition governments since 2012. (theconversation.com)
  • What is the history of coalition politics in Lesotho? (theconversation.com)
  • The 2007 election did not produce coalition governments. (theconversation.com)
  • An early election was held in 2015 , which returned a coalition of seven parties led by the Democratic Congress. (theconversation.com)
  • It resulted in an All Basotho Convention-led coalition government with its leader, Tom Thabane, as the prime minister. (theconversation.com)
  • My focus with Greater Georgia has been on identifying underrepresented voters and making sure we bring them in as part of a coalition where we have much more in common than our differences. (ajc.com)
  • Clegg's popularity put the Lib Dems in the strong position to form a coalition government with David Cameron's Conservatives. (thedailybeast.com)
  • But, while Clegg still insists the Lib Dems were a moderating force on the center-right Conservatives-and, given events since, he may have a point-the coalition proved disastrous for the party. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Despite constant talk of a chirpy #LibDemFightback, the party has spent four years in the political wilderness as voters punished them for the coalition. (thedailybeast.com)
  • To get a clearer grasp of this phenomena, Stacco Troncoso of the P2P Foundation recently interviewed two members of Ahora Madrid, a city-based party comprised of former 15M activists who forged a new electoral coalition that prevailed in Madrid in 2015. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Change due to shift in party policy positions (abortion, equal pay/equal work, etc. (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • Before the election, Gillard had punted the divisive issue of an emissions trading scheme to the 'citizen's assembly'-150 ordinary Australians who would listen to experts on climate change and what to do about it, and provide recommendations to the government. (ipa.org.au)
  • The gridlock and universally perceived lack of leadership in government adds to our sense that the tangible problems we worry about are unsolvable: the long stagnant economy, the effects of globalization, immigration, poor public education, climate change, health care and whatever you care to add to the list. (wptv.com)
  • Small wonder that smart political commentators assume that the current status quo will continue ad infinitum. (newrepublic.com)
  • This was followed in government by a fixed price emissions trading scheme that all commentators on the left and right admitted was functionally equivalent of a carbon tax. (ipa.org.au)
  • But today, the party is itself facing political annihilation, driven by the government's decision to ally with the Arab Ra'am party, and rudderless after Bennett decided to step away from politics. (timesofisrael.com)
  • 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)
  • The currency and fuel shortages in the country burdened many voters and election officials and therefore marginalised many groups, especially women, who continue to face barriers to political office. (bvsalud.org)
  • That is the percentage of voters in the exit polling that said they expect life for the next generation of Americans to be worse than it is today. (wptv.com)
  • The percentage of voters who thought the next generation would be worse off was 39 percent and 32 percent thought they'd have it better. (wptv.com)
  • This reached 66-70 per cent for Labour and the SNP, but the point holds across all four main parties. (lse.ac.uk)
  • With transfers between parties, otherwise called 'split-ticket voting', where parties did not stand more than one candidate, there is evidence of second preference transfers across the main centre-left parties i.e. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Ghana's two main political parties - National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP) - have vied for and traded leadership of the country since 1992. (iri.org)
  • Yeah, I agree that voters are responsible for criminalization of politics as it depends on the voter to cast their vote in the right direction. (indiabix.com)
  • If the voter caste their vote according to the party which can perform well than the winning party will be leading towards growing this country. (indiabix.com)
  • But some voters take bribes from the politician and caste their vote in the wrong direction due to which that one vote gets wasted. (indiabix.com)
  • Some of the voters vote to the caste leader even if they are rowdy. (indiabix.com)
  • The government announced Tuesday it would overhaul the rules that govern how Canadians vote and run for office - cracking down on rogue robocalls that have embarrassed the Conservatives and increasing by 25 per cent the maximum allowable contributions to parties. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • It's not ok when around one million New Zealanders don't vote," said Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei. (greens.org.nz)
  • He said after casting the vote we must keep a watch on the activities of the government and the public representatives. (organiser.org)
  • Seven million out of 12 million elligible voters lined up to vote in Afghanistan yesterday, in the face of Taliban vows to disrupt proceedings. (yougov.co.uk)
  • Gauging the mood of voters attending demonstrations and talks, it's difficult to judge how the November 30 vote on limiting population growth may swing. (swissinfo.ch)
  • Côté's departure at the end of this month comes amid these new technological challenges that likely couldn't have been imagined 10 years ago when headlines were dominated by the robocall voter suppression scandal during the 2011 election, when voters in several ridings received automated telephone calls with recorded messages directing them to the wrong place to vote. (cbc.ca)
  • Only 27% of registered voters came out to vote. (bvsalud.org)
  • It is clear, however, that political activists are much more likely than the average citizen to think in ideological terms and to take "consistent" positions on issues. (socialstudieshelp.com)
  • When Abbott abandoned the promise, he undermined the vision of liberal-conservative government he had cultivated in opposition. (ipa.org.au)
  • In a recent interview with CBC Radio's The House, former Conservative leader Erin O'Toole revealed that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) informed his party during the last election of attempts on WeChat to influence the race in a number of ridings with false information. (cbc.ca)
  • Although PiS, which in English translates to Law and Jus- tice, and PO, also known as Civic Platform, are both conservative parties, most of the Poles usually end up favoring one over the other as the PO is liberal conservative while the PiS is national conservative. (lu.se)
  • MK Itamar Ben Gvir of the far right Otzma Yehudit party tours the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on July 22, 2022. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Ahora Madrid's party program was similarly built through an open, collaborative process, said Arana. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • America's experiment with strongman politics may turn out to be blessedly brief. (reason.com)
  • Government ministers, business leaders, newspaper editorialists and even rightwing strongman Christoph Blocher all are slightly nervous, warning against strict immigration caps. (swissinfo.ch)
  • 22 percent say they would like to keep current Prime Minister Erna Solberg as the head of government. (norwaypost.no)
  • The Yamina party, which inherited Jewish Home's more moderate right-wing voter base, was able to crown its leader Naftali Bennett prime minister for a year. (timesofisrael.com)
  • High-profile members of both political parties have campaigned with Kirkmeyer and Caraveo. (wmfe.org)
  • They will also be informed of detailed lists of work done by BJP government for the members of scheduled Caste and Scheduled tribes. (ipanewspack.com)
  • As the number of older New Zealanders grows, they are likely to become a powerful bloc of voters. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Major opposition party Samajwadi Party is also appropriating BSP founder Kanshi Ram to win over dalit voters. (ipanewspack.com)
  • The party was ready to be part of any alliance formed by the current opposition to set up a new administration. (bangkokpost.com)
  • He insisted the opposition parties have the best policies to overcome the country's challenges. (bangkokpost.com)
  • The opposition has filed a motion for the debate which critics said was a campaign gimmick to dig up dirt on the government before the election. (bangkokpost.com)
  • What, if anything, would it take to persuade today's youngest voters to give the GOP a serious look? (bostonglobe.com)