Political party, a group of persons organized to acquire and exercise political power. Political parties originated in their modern form in Europe and the United States in the 19th century, along with the electoral and parliamentary systems, whose develo
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA - The DSA is the official US full member party of the Socialist International (which includes UK's Labour Party, the French Parti Socialiste and nearly 140 other political parties around the globe). Unlike most other members of the Socialist International, the ...
Swiss political parties: Between persistence and change PreviewDownload full text Access options DOI: 10.1080/01402380108425436 Andreas Ladnera pages 123-144 Publishing models and article dates explained Published online: 03 Dec 2007 Article Views: 201 Article usage statistics combine cumulative total PDF...
The rise of the permanent campaign has made it difficult for politicians to work together and find common ground on important issues. The permanent campaign has changed the way that politicians and political parties operate, with a greater emphasis on fundraising and mobilization efforts....
In addition the model is applied to the recent decline in the membership of the UK Conservative Party. Conclusion The Limited Activist model was developed to investigate the hypothesis that political parties grow through the action of activists persuading non members to join through word of mouth. ...
These patterns are best explained by the parties' different attitudes towards equality guarantees – measures that, all other things being equal, return women MPs to Parliament. In other words, Labour's All Women Shortlists once again delivered. The other parties' efforts were simply less efficient...
Predatory behaviour on the part of leaders – that is, making money out of perpetuating civil war – cannot be assumed or simply described, but needs to be explained. Predation will occur as a consequence of the failure to adopt much more lucrative and broad-based legitimacy-enhancing ...
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The ultimate origin of that support is the central bank: the Bank of England in the UK, the Federal Reserve in the USA. Both banks know that the major corporates are playing what Mark Blyth has called a “moral hazard extortion game” against the central banks with, as he also notes, ...
"From today, all advertisers wanting to run ads in the UK that reference political figures, political parties, elections, legislation ... will need to verify their identity and location and carry a 'Paid for by' disclaimer," Facebook said in a statement. ...