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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)
Stein said the Democratic Party, along with the Republican Party, represented corporate interests and has not allowed progressives to take charge. (cnn.com)
2011-01-14T17:00:24-05:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvOTZjXC8yOTc0NDctMDItbS5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ== Frank Fahrenkopf talked about the state of the Republican Party and the politics of the 112th Congress. (c-span.org)
Frank Fahrenkopf talked about the state of the Republican Party and the politics of the 112th Congress. (c-span.org)
That potential advantage is why Susan Hutchison, chairwoman of the state Republican Party, expressed concern that the county council Democrats might bypass Harmsworth, even if he is the top choice of the GOP. (heraldnet.com)
On July 4, Representative Justin Amash of Michigan announced that he was leaving the Republican Party to which he had long belonged, and would henceforth represent his constituents as an independent. (bostonglobe.com)
Another interesting finding: Most of the fund managers donated exclusively to either the Democratic or Republican Party -- 44.9 percent and 46.6 percent, respectively. (mercatus.org)

In late-March Sondhi demanded the party boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections according to PAD's extra-parliamentary opposition strategy and its abstention campaign ("Vote No"). This was rejected by Somsak and NPP functionaries who were keen to field candidates and seek parliamentary representation. (wikipedia.org)
Fairly or unfairly, Day became a symbol of a form of political belief and activism that many Canadians would associate with elections south of the border, not with their own tradition," says Kevin Christiano, a sociologist from Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana, who specializes in Canadian politics. (csmonitor.com)
The BBC did allocate a small article to the Green Party, Greens becoming 'national party' says Natalie Bennett , and two more small articles on Saturday to cover Green Party's John Barry elected to North Down council and Bristol elections: Green party 'growing every day , however the tone of these articles is markedly different to those about Ukip. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
Sometimes there's a third-party option - in four presidential elections, I have voted Libertarian - but in general it's impossible to escape the two-party duopoly. (bostonglobe.com)
We have no choice but to boycott the elections when foreign embassies and a marginal vote dictate Bulgarian politics", VMRO said. (bnr.bg)
According to the party's declaration, "for two years the same political parties have been reproducing themselves in the National Assembly, spending millions on campaigns and elections. (bnr.bg)
Alex Salmond is standing as leader of a new pro-independence party at the Holyrood elections in May. (stv.tv)
And here, the Brexit Party's message is far clearer than the messages of the other parties standing in next month's EU elections. (spiked-online.com)
It qualified to run in the 2015 elections as a party, but it does not have the internal apparatus of normal parties. (p2pfoundation.net)
Blog of Sebasti Gallardo, candidate of the PSM-Entesa Nacionalista political party for Mayor of sa Pobla in the municipal elections of the 27th of May, 2007. (mallorcaweb.com)
The FDP, a party with an economic (neo)liberal program that is both pro-European and culturally liberal, has collapsed into virtual irrelevance both at the federal level and, since the 2013 election, at the state level wherever elections have been held. (newpol.org)
This phenomenon was repeated in the state-level parliamentary elections in 2014: between 15,000 and 20,000 voters who had previously supported the Left Party switched to the AfD. (newpol.org)
Huckabee criticized the establishment Republicans and GOP leadership for expressing the notion that if the party does not change its stance on gay-marriage then it will have no chance at winning future elections. (christianpost.com)
Huckabee argued, though, that if the GOP abdicates its stance, it will drive away social conservatives and only guarantee losses for the party in future elections. (christianpost.com)
The outcome of Uribe's trial looks bleak for the former president and the ruling party, who were humiliated in local elections last year. (colombiareports.com)
Some on the left advocated never ever voting for Democratic Party candidates, so they supported protest votes in elections (or non-votes? (newpol.org)
The transparency and accountability of funding sources have become crucial factors in ensuring fair elections and maintaining public trust in political parties. (fsmm2008.org)
She has published on themes related to the politics of contemporary Cambodia, addressing in particular the role of nationalist imaginings in shaping the era of multi-party elections, as well as the role of transforming perceptions of legitimate power and of citizenship. (lu.se)
My research examines Cambodia's post-conflict reconstruction politics since the 1993 reintroduction of multi-party elections until present. (lu.se)
The fieldwork, which was completed right before the elections on March 31st, revealed how far politics in general, and local politics in particular, to gender, just by looking at the commonalities across and divergences among female local politicians from AK Party, CHP, HDP and MHP/İyi Parti. (lu.se)

By the time the ruling Conservative party, under Theresa May , called a snap election six weeks ago, Labour's political fortunes did not look good: it was 20 percentage points behind in the polls, while Corbyn's personal ratings were frighteningly low. (aljazeera.com)

The graph below shows the relative changes in political party support levels in Estonia since early 2019 (Key: Yellow=Reform, green = Center, black = EKRE, light blue = Eesti 200, red = SDE, royal blue = Isamaa, light green = Estonian Greens). (err.ee)
Making use of a new item in the 2019 Chapel Hill Expert Survey that measures party support for protection of domestic producer groups versus support for trade liberalisation, we examine the applicability of explanations for European integration positioning for the topic of trade. (lu.se)
Staging China: the Politics of Mass Spectacle (Leiden University Press, 2019, recipient of the ICAS Book Prize 2021 Accolades), China's Digital Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2018), and Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series (Brill, 2013, recipient of the 2014 EastAsiaNet book prize). (lu.se)

Clarke, Nicholas (2023) Parties: The fall and rise of mass party politics. (soton.ac.uk)

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)
In 1796, President George Washington was so distressed by the way America was splitting into two political factions - the Democratic-Republicans led by Thomas Jefferson, and the Federalists of Alexander Hamilton - that he devoted much of his Farewell Address to warning his countrymen "in the most solemn manner, against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. (bostonglobe.com)
The US has two main political parties: the Democrats and the Republicans. (listverse.com)
Ideally, then, Catholic Democrats and Catholic Republicans should serve as moral leaven in each party, and it is a great shame that neither Biden nor Ryan seem capable of contributing to that effort. (commonwealmagazine.org)
As Trump went largely unchallenged from his party, he demanded fealty from Republicans, they gave it to him, and his hold on the base grew. (wglt.org)
After the Supreme Court decided Monday that it will not hear appeals from states where lower courts ruled against same-sex marriage bans, Huckabee told the American Family Association's "Today's Issues" radio program that if the establishment Republicans surrender their stance on same-sex marriage and adapt to the modern pro-gay political climate, then he and others would leave the party. (christianpost.com)

The hardline PAD position, however, was that all party politicians-including NPP members-should retreat for a certain period while the king would appoint a non-partisan, expert government. (wikipedia.org)
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)
If we had had more competent and honest elected politicians and more principled political parties, (and if more voters rewarded such politicians and parties with their vote) much of what we see in coalition governments in Gauteng might have been avoided. (dailymaverick.co.za)
Can female politicians be effective in local politics despite the worrying representation rates? (lu.se)
Researchers conducted face-to-face, structured, in-depth interviews with 31 female politicians from five different parties in six different provinces. (lu.se)
Female politicians from different political parties in Istanbul, Bursa, Diyarbakır, İzmir, Ankara and Adana, and their views on politics, on running for office, and their political views, their take on their parties' is a reminder of how rich the local politics are and how important the farreaching into the society gender is. (lu.se)

In May 2009, The People's Alliance for Democracy, better known as the "Yellow Shirts" movement, announced to create a political party. (wikipedia.org)
Thailand's People's Alliance for Democracy: From "New Politics" to "Real" Political Party? (wikipedia.org)
The book shows how far international support still has to go if it is to achieve its aims of helping party politics make a constructive contribution to furthering democracy. (routledge.com)
It advances our understanding both of the role the political parties are playing in the different polities and the sometimes negative impact of democracy promotion actors from outside. (routledge.com)
When Obama decried the unexpected revival of "strongman politics," rising assaults on "every institution or norm that gives democracy meaning" and the "utter loss of shame among political leaders" who, when caught in a lie, "just double down and they lie some more," you could tell from the jolly crowd reactions that everybody knew who he was talking about. (chicagotribune.com)
But in a statement that drew an intriguing mix of praise and criticism from conservative critics, Obama's defense of democracy jabbed exclusionary identity politics, the kind that seek to exclude voices who were not born into the aggrieved group. (chicagotribune.com)
These are people coming together to say: democracy is an essential value, the glue of civilised politics, and it must be protected from a political class that seems hell-bent on selling it out. (spiked-online.com)
We are the party you can trust to trash democracy! (spiked-online.com)
The Brexit Party is more unified than these parties and it isn't hard to see why: standing up for democracy is a naturally unifying message. (spiked-online.com)
Defending Brexit is about defending democracy, and defending democracy is the precursor to making politics interesting again. (spiked-online.com)
The book was shortlisted for EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize 2017, with the motivation "Astrid Noren-Nilsson's Cambodia's Second Kingdom: Nation, Imagination, and Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program 2016) is a thought-provoking book about Cambodia's politics that is highly original in its approach, and grounded in some remarkable research, including numerous interviews with prominent figures. (lu.se)

Said Labour could call time on the cross-party talks within days if it became clear no new offer was forthcoming. (sky.com)
The UK Labour party did not win - the outcome of Thursday's snap election was a hung parliament, meaning that no party has enough seats to form an overall majority and govern. (aljazeera.com)
The UK Labour party, led from the left by Jeremy Corbyn , had been written off as a political force by many of the country's political pundits. (aljazeera.com)
Running a populist left programme, the Labour party tapped into a disillusion and discontent over current politics, perceived as dishonest, disconnected and in the service of the very wealthy. (aljazeera.com)
The Privileges Committee, which has seemingly sealed Mr Johnson's fate for the time-being, was reported to have been split equally along party lines as to whether it should give the ex-prime minister a 10-day suspension until Sir Bernard Jenkin sided with Labour. (express.co.uk)
By the way, the rules of the Labour Party as they currently stand are somewhere in the middle. (tutor2u.net)

9. In search of the impact of international support for political parties in new democracies: Malawi and Zambia compared. (routledge.com)

Labour's Sir Keir Starmer has turned up the heat on the government ahead of new cross-party Brexit talks by demanding a referendum as the price of a deal. (sky.com)
Even before the Brexit Party has taken part in an election, it has done something incredibly important - shattered the caricature of the Brexit voter. (spiked-online.com)
And now here comes the Brexit Party with a dose of reality. (spiked-online.com)
The Brexit Party is the most dynamic and diverse new party to have emerged in years. (spiked-online.com)
In the Brexit Party there is diversity of experience but unity of outlook. (spiked-online.com)
Yet now the Brexit Party will surely open other people's eyes to this reality. (spiked-online.com)
The Brexit Party candidate line-ups represent a cross-section of political and cultural life that most parties would kill for. (spiked-online.com)
Those complaining that the Brexit Party hasn't released its manifesto yet are missing the point. (spiked-online.com)
Mr Johnson has told close pals he's the victim of a plot to reverse Brexit but insists he has no intention of giving up, leading some to believe the former prime minister could form a new party in an effort to shake up the Westminster status quo. (express.co.uk)

In France's National Assembly, political parties are mostly organised into groups of parties with similar leanings, which must have at least 15 MPs each. (connexionfrance.com)
Trends, leanings, and parties. (abovetopsecret.com)

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)

Stein's third party bid for the presidency is centered on student debt, climate change and opposition to the economic and political establishment - also focal points for the Sanders campaign, a similarity Stein readily acknowledged. (cnn.com)
Studies suggest that devout Christians who might agree with Day's opposition to abortion and gay rights do not necessarily gravitate toward the right-wing politics of the Canadian Alliance, says Dennis Hoover, a political scientist at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. Mr. Hoover says social conservatives in Canada "are to the right of center on the moral issues, and pretty much at the center for other issues. (csmonitor.com)
Deniz Baykal, former head of the main opposition Republican People's Party ( CHP ), has urged his party not to fall into the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) "trap" over the new charter. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Which party is the 'Opposition' in current French politics? (connexionfrance.com)
Your question, answered: Who and what party is the political "Opposition" in France? (connexionfrance.com)
It is true that in the UK the situation is simpler - the political party with the second-largest number of seats in the House of Commons becomes the Official Opposition, headed by the party's leader - at present Labour's Keir Starmer. (connexionfrance.com)
Identity politics can limit a person's ability to compromise and engage with opposition in meaningful dialogue. (dailyevergreen.com)
Support for the opposition Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE) has continued to rise in the past week, according to one recent survey, and the gap between it and the coalition Reform Party is now just 3.8 percentage points. (err.ee)

Of course, what is really important about a party is not where its candidates were born or what they look like, but what they stand for. (spiked-online.com)
The party leader cannot automatically dictate the party's slate of candidates. (p2pfoundation.net)
There is no elected element in involving the parliamentary party, but candidates must secure the backing of at least 10% of MPs . (tutor2u.net)

1 That is how the Left Party formulated its programmatic approach in its new Erfurt Party Programme of 2011. (newpol.org)

Most news coverage has failed to include the Green Party figures despite positive projections indicating that the Greens would double their seats, which did in fact happen. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
The problem is not that Green Party leader Natalie Bennett fails to make as newsworthy-statements as Farage, as demonstrated by the leader's Twitter page and Green MP Caroline Lucas's Twitter page , which are rich with bold and informed statements that are certainly worthy of news coverage. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
Real Time host Bill Maher wrapped up his show Friday night by slamming both parties for using Russia's invasion of Ukraine to score partisan points, Fox News reports . (theweek.com)
Relevant and even prescient commentary on news, politics and the economy. (angrybearblog.com)

Inspired by Occupy-style movements working from the bottom up, local municipal parties want to make all governance more transparent, horizontal, and accessible to newcomers. (p2pfoundation.net)
According to the philosopher, in the century the subject would had been welded to the conception of "us", and, both art and politics, while subjective movements, would have been marked by its generic name of the beginning, innovation, break taken to its ultimate consequences. (bvsalud.org)
The main finding was that the farmers' movements, despite trying to be non-political and fight for farmers rights to water, electricity, remunerative prices, etc., got involved in party politics and lost much of its strength. (lu.se)

Abolishing the secret ballot requirement for the election of speakers, mayors, premiers and the president, and limiting secret ballot voting for the removal of these office bearers to cases where the vote is clearly aimed at holding the elected office bearer accountable, may also limit the ability of unscrupulous actors to "buy" the votes of elected officials of other political parties. (dailymaverick.co.za)

Simply put, the term refers to the ideological distance between the two parties within government growing farther and farther apart in Congress, which have various consequences on the American way of life. (ipl.org)
If the managers at a fund gave to only one of the two major political parties, that fund is then classified as having an intellectual or ideological connection to that party. (mercatus.org)
Voters who switched from the Left Party to the AfD mostly consist of two groups: those who want to "protest" at the polls by voting for the new "protest party," and ideological conservatives who feel that their views are best articulated by the populist right. (newpol.org)

The conservatives (liberal) are really just associated with being the business party, where as the progressives (labor) are associated with the union movement. (abovetopsecret.com)

Eventually, the party received 0.1% of votes in the July 2011 election. (wikipedia.org)
We've already seen in a number of opinion polls that his ratings are actually quite low but launching a big party six weeks before the actual election - what a massive gamble that is. (stv.tv)
In the federal election of 2013, this party was able to attract two million voters from all other parties, including more than 340,000 Left Party voters. (newpol.org)
as well as an extended discussion of the rise and fall of the royalist political party FUNCINPEC, which won the 1993 post-UNTAC election but within two decades had been practically wiped out by Hun Sen's CPP. (lu.se)

The course provides an introduction to Swedish politics. (lu.se)
A few evenings ago, Johanna and I went to Café Athen to listen to a lecture about Lund alumni in Swedish politics. (lu.se)
Keynote speaker was Ingvar Carlsson , leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party 1986-1991 and Prime minister in Sweden 1986-1991 and 1994-1996. (lu.se)
Tage Erlander , Ernst Wigforss and Östen Undén are three other alumni from Lund University who have played important roles in Swedish politics during the 1900's. (lu.se)

Corbyn's leadership refashioned the party, making it more about democratic socialism, pushing redistributive policies to deal with rampant inequalities, taxing the most-wealthy few to benefit the many. (aljazeera.com)
Parts of the middle class who are threatened by downward mobility actually reject redistributive policies demanded by the Left Party. (newpol.org)

Sanders has made changing the Democratic Party a key pitch to his voters. (cnn.com)
But as Trump's unexpected Electoral College victory demonstrated, a voice that is a loud and forceful advocate for what voters want can score major political gains, regardless of whether I like their politics or style. (chicagotribune.com)

This book offers a critical and comparative examination of international support to political parties and party systems in emerging and prospective new democracies in several world regions. (routledge.com)
Richard S. Katz discusses the essential role that political parties play in modern democracies, with politics taking place within and among parties. (e-elgar.com)
This Advanced Introduction by a leading scholar covers all major aspects of political parties in parliamentary and presidential democracies. (e-elgar.com)

For Jill Stein, 2012 Green Party presidential nominee and current candidate, the answer seems to be keep on going. (cnn.com)
The presence of these two Catholics on the presidential tickets reminds us of how complicated political choices always are, how often politics involves unpalatable tradeoffs, and how difficult it is to translate religious conviction into law and public policy. (commonwealmagazine.org)
against their party interest, a lot of this is ink-blot politics," said Kevin Madden, a GOP strategist and former senior adviser on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. (wglt.org)

We could be in a -position of having to renew the Conservative Party from the ground up," he said. (express.co.uk)
At the same time, we are witnessing the almost unchecked rise of a national-conservative, Euro-sceptical and value-conservative party with ultra-right-wing tendencies: the AfD. (newpol.org)
Only the coalition Conservative Party said they "regretted the situation the former ex-president is in," but expressed its support for the Supreme Court. (colombiareports.com)
In Australia, its just the same old two party system that's purposely designed so only these two parties have any kind of chance of gaining power, the liberal party (conservative) and labor (progressive). (abovetopsecret.com)
Aussies tend to be far less extreme with there political ideologies than they are in America though, there for both parties would probably be considered more progressive leaning than conservative leaning by US standards. (abovetopsecret.com)
Former Researcher at Queen Mary's Mile End Institute Mercy Muroki, took centre stage at the Conservative Party conference during its second day to introduce Chancellor Sajid Javid to the stage. (qmul.ac.uk)
The results show that party positions on international trade correlate with parties' underlying two-dimensional ideology: parties of the economic left and culturally conservative parties support trade protection. (lu.se)

Senior Conservatives have reportedly accused Mr Johnson of trying to "blow up the Tory party" and allies of Mr Sunak fear his predecessor-but-one could set up his own political party in a bitter act of revenge. (express.co.uk)
One might say that a new party first established itself to the left of the SPD, and now the same process is occurring to the right of the conservatives. (newpol.org)

These articles about the Greens use subdued, fact-based language like 'The Green Party is celebrating gaining two seats and holding onto another in Bristol' and 'The Green Party. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
This last example is an article about all five political Parties, although the Greens are only given a very small mention and Ukip dominate the headline. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
Superficially, it looks particularly bad obviously bad for the SNP and the Greens because they'll be targeting independence supporters but I think it's bad for all of the parties that are already established in the Scottish Parliament because they are all after list seats. (stv.tv)
The Estonian Greens picked up 1.4 percent of support in the Norstat poll, again unchanged on the previous week, while the newly formed Parempoolsed party saw a slight fall on last week, to 0.9 percent, Norstat says. (err.ee)

Noren-Nilsson explores notions of monarchy and politics that resonate well beyond the Cambodian case. (lu.se)
This thesis explores the relationship between politics and new media in the context of digital diplomacy. (lu.se)

This party contains both the former Tory rabble-rouser Ann Widdecombe and my old comrade from the Revolutionary Communist Party, Claire Fox. (spiked-online.com)
Those concerns were fuelled by leading Tory party figure David Campbell Bannerman who said he thinks a new Johnson-led party was possible. (express.co.uk)

Party polarization in American politics is a phenomenon that has been pervading into American government for the last few decades. (ipl.org)
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)
Could they be a new archetype for the reinvention of politics and government itself? (p2pfoundation.net)
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)
Ahora Madrid's people in city government include ecologists, political independents, traditional party people, and others. (p2pfoundation.net)
Like his party, the president believes that the federal government has a limited but indispensable role to play in regulating commerce and the financial industry, protecting the environment, funding education, providing health-care coverage, and maintaining a safety net for the elderly and those who cannot provide for themselves. (commonwealmagazine.org)
Mitt Romney, like his party, would severely limit the role of government in the economy and opposes any expansion of the welfare state. (commonwealmagazine.org)
If the ANC loses its overall majority in the National Assembly (and it remains an "if"), and if this leads to the formation of unstable and dysfunctional coalition or minority governments, it may lead to further erosion of trust in government and its institutions, and, more broadly, in party politics in South Africa. (dailymaverick.co.za)
They are also supposed to curtail the abuse of power as well as corruption within government as it is thought that coalition parties will check on each other to ensure they are not tainted by the shenanigans of their coalition partners. (dailymaverick.co.za)
Uribe's ejection from politics caused an unprecedented crisis in the government and the ruling party, which is now headless, and virtually nobody cared. (colombiareports.com)
In addition to facilitating citizen engagement, political parties serve as vital mediators between the government and society at large. (fsmm2008.org)
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)

I wish he had said it throughout his presidency instead of relying on identity politics to coalition-build. (chicagotribune.com)
But even if there is no realistic prospect of weakening the two-party grip on the presidency, why should it be so hard for independents to get elected to other offices? (bostonglobe.com)

Not too surprisingly, cadres at all levels ended up using the app, for collaborative work, to demonstrate their commitment to party ideology, and to assure positive work assessments. (lu.se)

At the same time, the Liberal Party, the FDP, appears to be making its final bow on the political stage, although that is not yet certain. (newpol.org)

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)
For as long as political parties believe they will get away with it, the squabble for positions will continue to dominate coalition politics in South Africa. (dailymaverick.co.za)
I also fear that coalition chaos at the national level will fuel rising populism, and will further entrench the kind of scapegoat politics at which political parties across the political spectrum in South Africa seem to excel. (dailymaverick.co.za)
As I have previously suggested , introducing an electoral threshold of 1% or 2% to limit the number of smaller parties might help to stabilise at least some of these coalition governments. (dailymaverick.co.za)
Radical Change party leader German Vargas , whose party also is in the coalition, stayed quiet. (colombiareports.com)

Two years ago, that began to change when Stockwell Day, a devout evangelical Christian, won the leadership of Canada's second-largest political party. (csmonitor.com)
This Advanced Introduction will be essential reading for students and scholars in political science, public policy, leadership, and international politics. (e-elgar.com)
Corbyn came to Labour's helm unexpectedly in 2015 after changes to the party rules meant that ordinary members could vote for its leadership. (aljazeera.com)
Last summer, he saw down a challenge to his leadership by his own parliamentary party who took a vote of no confidence against him and then took turns to explain to the media why he was not a competent leader. (aljazeera.com)
But at the heart of the campaign were the party's politics, which under Corbyn's leadership tacked firmly to the left. (aljazeera.com)
Its party structure and leadership are more consolidated than those of Ahora Madrid, which considers itself an "instrumental party. (p2pfoundation.net)
The conclusion is that mediatization of politics happens through an interaction of media logic and the hosting political context, where expectations, threats, leadership, resources, skills, learning, and individuals influence the practices where new media and diplomacy ultimately blends. (lu.se)

Ukip was trending on Twitter every day, and the Party appeared to be going from strength to strength, or so many journalists were arguing. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
Social Advocacy and Politics: Which Party Rules Twitter? (socialmediatoday.com)

Analysing the significant diversity found between political parties, Katz illustrates the profound impact that the legal definition and organisation of parties can have on a democratic system. (e-elgar.com)
This allows for a wider diversity of party leaders. (p2pfoundation.net)

But this wasn't always the climate of America or our politics. (dailyevergreen.com)
The chief principled idea of America above party politics has always been that you should be the architect of your own future. (dailyevergreen.com)
What makes America exceptional and identity politics so regressive are the values we place in our group identity over our national identity. (dailyevergreen.com)

Yellow referred to the constitutional monarchy of Thailand, and green represented "clean politics", in which corruption is repelled by an independent judiciary. (wikipedia.org)
The party claimed to defend the supposedly endangered monarchy. (wikipedia.org)

The After Party is our hilarious subscription-only Friday podcast, featuring uncensored conversation about topics from politics to human sexuality to movies and television and all points in between, hosted by Bob along with Kimberley A. Johnson from The Huffington Post and Liberals Unite. (bobcesca.com)

First, with the Left Party, a nationwide party considerably to the left of the Social Democrats (SPD) has established itself. (newpol.org)

It introduces to the study of political parties by drawing on the major contributions to research, which makes it a truly advanced introduction in that it engages superbly with relevant scholarly debates. (e-elgar.com)
The worsening malice and meanness of American politics are clearly not deepening public affection for the two major parties. (bostonglobe.com)
The party's manifesto, fully costed - to bat away lingering myths over Labour's mismanagement of the economy - carried this left alternative to politics in its DNA: it was all about major investment in the economy, renationalisation of rail and energy companies, investment in the welfare state, the scrapping of university tuition fees, free school meals, chasing after corporate tax avoiders while raising taxes only for the wealthiest five percent of the population. (aljazeera.com)
What are the political trends as far as left VS right and libertarian VS authoritarian of your country and what major parties fall in line with them? (abovetopsecret.com)
This reduction has been carried out without any major protests from any political party. (lu.se)

It was said to symbolise that "the people are at the centre of new politics", referring to the four main regions of Thailand and four occupational groups. (wikipedia.org)

With that subscription, you'll get both the After Party and two "Post Mortem" shows every week, plus other bonus content. (bobcesca.com)

What's the Green Party, which has been railing against the Democratic Party for years, to do in the year of Bernie Sanders? (cnn.com)
The Green Party has been trying to contact Bernie Sanders since 2011 through emails, paper letters and phone calls," Stein said. (cnn.com)
Who's Afraid of the Green Party? (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
The Green Party of England and Wales has been sorely under-represented in the press. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
The Guardian newspaper reported on media bias in favour of Ukip on Tuesday in a Comment is Free piece titled 'Green party support is surging - but the media prefer to talk about Ukip' , but at least 40 articles about Ukip have appeared in the Guardian since May 23rd while only three have been about the Green Party. (huffingtonpost.co.uk)
Without that element, a third party is just a "protest vote," such as a vote for the Socialist Workers Party (or another small socialist party) or P & F or the Green Party. (newpol.org)

By providing platforms through which individuals can articulate their ideologies and interests, parties foster dialogue and negotiation among various societal factions. (fsmm2008.org)
These relations which prove to be stable and encouraging due to the persistent contacts between the two parties and the ongoing dialogue, are based on the common understanding that health and medicine should not be mixed with politics and that sincere cooperation in the spheres of health and medicine is essential for the sake of the two neighbouring populations. (who.int)

5. An uneasy symbiosis: the impact of international administration on political parties in post-conflict countries. (routledge.com)

Sweeping in coverage, this volume provides an insightful, high-level survey of the internal organization of parties, the contours of party systems, and the centrality of parties within democratic politics. (e-elgar.com)
But because, also as Rich mentions, Paul soon attributed the BP spill to mere accident-"Accidents happen"-rather than to premeditated negligence, and because a cascade of internal BP memos leaked to the New York Times, which reported on them on Saturday, detail in jaw-dropping fashion exactly how this particular accident happened, the Tea Party movement is likely to be, rather than enhanced by this situation, fatally wounded by it. (angrybearblog.com)

Politics and Business Group Formation in China: The Party in Control? (cambridge.org)
Ahora Madrid realized that the formation of political parties can actually make a movement's goals more vulnerable. (p2pfoundation.net)

The party aspired to solicit more than 5,000 members and set up branches in all regions of Thailand, within the one-year deadline. (wikipedia.org)
Its army of Remain-backing members are furious that the leaflet doesn't say the party backs a 'confirmatory referendum' - Newspeak for a second referendum, which Labourites support because they think us plebs behaved idiotically in the first referendum. (spiked-online.com)
This paper documents that until 1812, bank charters were only available to members of the Federalist Party in Massachusetts. (nber.org)
Members of Colombia's far-right ruling party lost their wits on Tuesday after historic criminal charges against former President Alvaro Uribe left them without a leader. (colombiareports.com)
The nomination process is a fairly easy hurdle to clear, before going to a vote by party members. (tutor2u.net)

But unity doesn't stand a chance when American politics are dominated by an unhinged two-party duopoly. (bostonglobe.com)

By revealing financial contributions, preventing corruption, and promoting a level playing field, political parties can regain public trust. (fsmm2008.org)

This consists of MPs from La République en Marche and politically centrist allies the Agir Ensemble group . (connexionfrance.com)

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