Fascism, in its National Socialist form, was primarily a counterrevolutionary movement that mobilized middle- and lower middle-class groups to pursue nationalistic and militaristic goals and whose sole principle of organization was obedience to the Führer. By contrast, Soviet communism grew out of a...
Political action committees are among themost common sources of funding for campaignsin the United States. The function of a political action committee is to raise and spend money on behalf of a candidate for elected office at the local, state and federal levels. A political action committee is...
Opponents, who include almost all the school committees, town and city councils, and labor organizations in Massachusetts, take issue with this representation. For one thing, they point out that charter schools are not “public schools” in any meaningful sense since they do not answer to the ...
391 into congressional races and political committees in 1989 and 1990, according to a Times computer-assisted study of records filed with the Federal Election Commission. That number is a significant increase over the previous two-year cycle. The funds went largely to lawmakers who were in positi...
to invest in its own staff capacity clearly won’t be easy. But neither is it inconceivable. Even small-government conservatives are feeling pressure to do something about the influence of corporate lobbying. Improving congressional capacity is a reform action they can take that would increase their...
a political force whose appointment power over committees and their chairmen increased his control of legislative agendas. As speaker and one of the leaders of thefactioncalled theWar Hawks, Clay was key in securing a declaration of war against Great Britain in June 1812. He also served on ...
As he grew up, Cancel Miranda found out more and more about the truth behind the Ponce massacre and other brutal realities of U.S. colonial rule in Puerto Rico. "As the years went by I began to seek out the root of the problem, and the ideas advocated by my father and my Nationalis...
political spending but without requiring the recipient organization to disclose the name of the donor who contributed the funds. Basically, this applies to 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations, but not to political nonprofits like the traditional Political Action Committees (PACs) organized by political ...
2. Evolution of SOE reform and Party leadership in SOEs 3. The Party’s role in Chinese SOEs: A theoretical underpinning 4. Overview of political governance in Chinese SOEs 5. State ownership and reforms 6. Party cadre management in Chinese SOEs 7. Party committees’ participation in SOE deci...
Government Code, Elections Code, and Code of Regulations, 520,050 signatures were found to be valid and 195,783 were found to be invalid,” said Logan on Monday. “Therefore, the petition has failed to meet the sufficiency requirements and no further action shall be taken on the petition....