While the United States was not the first country to conduct elections, it was the first to implement a Presidential election system under a constitutional framework that established a representative democracy with a clear separation of powers. ...
The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo is Joseph Kabila. He heads the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD). At the 2011 legislative election, the PPRD itself won only 69 of the 500 seats in parliament. It was the biggest party, but no fewer than 23 parties ...
democracygood governanceThis article provides a systematic overview of the institutional basis of presidential power in 30 sub-Saharan African countries, using a broad comparative scheme to assess presidential power developed by Siaroff (2003). The dual purpose is, first, to compare the power of ...
As a result, many young voters are disillusioned with elections. In many countries, they question the validity of elections as a measure of a healthy democracy. Media, civil society, and the judiciary, which have traditionally upheld democratic values, have been weakened. The flames of democracy ...
I grew up with a stroller’s-eye view of the civil rights movement, and often I joke that as a child I was surrounded by adults marching and shouting for this thing called justice. My entire career I’ve only had one client: the people. ...
This is called a representative democracy. The people in this group are called Congress, and they have big responsibilities. They take on the day-to-day work of running the government, while the President is in charge of bigger problems and guiding the nation. The founders of the United ...
They talk about democracy, I'm a threat to democracy. They're the threat to democracy." During the most recent update on the investigation in a briefing with reporters on Aug. 28, FBI Executive Director Robert Wells said, "At this time, the ...
While at first it denoted structural reform in and between states in order to achieve democracy and economic growth, it gradually turned into “the establishment and operation of … the rules of the game that serve to define social practices, assign roles, and guide interactions” (Young, 1994...
The citizen as respondent: Sample surveys and American democracy presidential address... Examines the role of surveys in political participation and the nature of democratic representation. Sample surveys as the closest approximation to an unbi... Verba,Sidney - 《American Political Science Review》 ...
Negative campaigning is a campaign strategy almost as old as American democracy itself, dating back to one of Thomas Jefferson's supporters calling John Adams “a hermaphrodite” during the election of 1800. The term “mudslinging” comes from a Latin phrase meaning “throw plenty of dirt and so...