Sentences with phrase «electoral power of»

It's this type of approach which could recapture the electoral power of housing policy.

Anyone who doubts the electoral power of the student vote should speak to former Education Secretary Charles Clarke, who lost his seat at the last election after refusing to commit to vote against higher tuition fees.»

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

Not exact matches

This yielded electoral systems that seek to prevent extremist parties from coming to power, including mechanisms to raise electoral thresholds for parliamentary accession and multiple rounds of voting.

Their variables measure how open and competitive the electoral system is and how controlled the executive is in its use of power — not the perfect measure of Hallow's idea, but the best that we have.

The new government should not just amend the timelines for the next commission, it should amend the Act to empower the commission to draw fair electoral boundaries that will ensure more effective representation and equality of the voting power in Alberta.

It is a moment of sensing both the possibility of political power, whether in an actual Revolution or a McGovernite electoral victory, and the possibility of the whole movement falling apart.

Their new strength is clear in their electoral successes and the appeal of their agitation and their new confidence about coming to power as rulers of India.

The win by Democratic Senate candidate Shelley Mayer in the 37th Senate district showed the power of anti-Trump fervor in the New York City suburbs, the usefulness of a united Democratic state Senate for the party and that the suburbs themselves are highly engaged right now electoral politics.

Some mechanisms help on the margin, but each with its draw backs, like representative Democracy, small government, pre requisite for voting, electoral college, separation of power, or even the right to bear arm,...

Electoral autocracies, are non-democratic regimes that combine the existence of otherwise democratic institutions, like courts, parliaments, electoral authorities, with an autocratic exercise of power.

However, Guarnieri argues in the same volume that «in a situation of electoral uncertainty, parties expect to rotate in and out of office and therefore to be in favour of limiting political power, also through independent courts.»

For instance, they struck a bargain with the Liberal Party (the so - called «Lib - Lab Pact») in a desperate bid to cling to power in 1977, by the terms of which Labour agreed to take on board certain policy proposals favoured by the Liberals, including electoral reform.

In non-specialist terms, this means these regimes might have the trappings of democracy, but electoral conditions are skewed to help keep the leadership in power.

This normative orientation of those who backed the electoral protest against the regime posed Putin a number of serious problems on his return to power.

Mr Nketia indicated that agitations of party supporters for immediate rewards after electoral victory mostly put parties out of power.

In Northern Ireland, the election compounds the political turmoil, which followed the failure of the DUP - led power - sharing government, electoral losses for the DUP, and the subsequent inability of the unionist and nationalist parties to come to a new agreement.

John P. McCormick: Well, I merely offered a sketch for how a modern institution that excluded wealthy citizens might wield some of the powers held by the Roman tribunes within modern electoral democracies.

That is exactly the issue at hand with our democracy today: politics concentrates power to a handful of voters in wealthier swing seats, while throwing 22m votes in the electoral scrapheap.

If the referendum educates the public in the power of their voice, and if it educates masses and elites to expand their moral imagination enough to recognize the complaints of the other side, this experiment, although probably not the best outcome, has the epistemic value desired by proponents of deliberation, and its long - term effect may be more electoral stability and a renewed aversion to change for the sake of change.

The reforms were designed to change the nature of electoral representation (the referendum on the alternative vote), alter the composition of both Houses of Parliament (boundary review and House of Lords reform), and to reduce the power of the Prime Minister to time elections.

Scholars of democracy and authoritarianism have already found that unpopular autocrats can remain in power if there is no real alternative and they have rigged the political and electoral system in their favor.

Most likely, if the regime does not guarantee a free and fair electoral process, Maduro will remain in power, despite the deep extent of crisis and suffering, shortages and hyperinflation Venezuela is experiencing.

The Deputy Registrar for an electoral district may, subject to the control of the Registrar for that electoral district, exercise or perform all of that Registrar's powers, duties, and functions.

The problem is that Blunkett is a compulsive statist who really loves power without the constraints that regular coalitions or party alliances would introduce as a consequence of electoral reform with some element of PR — such as the proposals of the Hansard Society in 1976 or the AV + prosposals of the Jenkins Commission: http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/article.php?id=56

In 2004, the Howard Dean campaign made electoral history by harnessing the power of the internet to raise more than any other Democratic contender: more than $ 25m raised, largely in small - money donations averaging $ 80 — a marked contrast to the usual way of doing things, which involves raising titanic sums from rich people whom you then owe a lot of favours to, whether or not you take office.

That's the road of advance we have to return to if we're going to challenge the Tories for power and turn the huge growth in the Labour party into the electoral support we need across Britain.

Having seized power through the electoral college used to elect the President of the United States, Donald Trump now intends to redeploy federal power away from civilian to military expenditures, to dismantle health care and other forms of income support, and to advance a neoliberal environment fostering business activity and investment.

Party secretaries have been weakened by the rising power of internal factions, used as scape - goats after electoral defeats and blamed for both lack of charisma (Pierluigi Bersani) and excessive protagonism (Massimo D'Alema and especially Matteo Renzi himself).

This situation has only been exacerbated by the election of Mursi, which should have signalled the end of the transition, but which has not been received as such, due to the flawed electoral process, and the military council's ongoing domination of executive powers in Egypt.

However, despite the popularity of this opinion, it is of considerable significance to state that, apart from the youths non-possession of the financial strength to execute the electoral projects as being speculated in some quarters, there are of cause other probable factors that may render the move fruitless irrespective of the demographic advantage enjoyed or the glamour that graced their much celebrated not - too - young - to run campaign recently embarked on to press for power shift.

On the reasons why the party lost the 2016 election, implicitly in agreement with Former President Mahama's assertion that the reasons are multifaceted, he said the electoral college constituted by the party and failure to monitor the process effectively led to malfeasance and manipulation of the process which usurped the power of the genuine supporters of the party which automatically, denied the party the opportunity of going into the election with some genuine supporters on its side.

But, one fundamental obstacle that will prevent this from coming to fruition is the subjective view of the electoral process / positions by the youths as a right which must be given, even in the face of obvious inabilities, and gross absence of planned programs and pragmatic strategies to making a positive impact by the power - seeking youths.

In that spirit, your TechBytes author has launched a new consulting practice, aiming to use my 15 - plus years of experience in the field to help electoral and advocacy campaigns leverage the power of online and digital tools to achieve their goals.

And as a matter of fact, some of the battle men Buhari came into the warfront with may actually be more corrupt that those his electoral victory edged out of power.

That said, if the Tories manage to get an actual majority, go about their own electoral «reform» and keep themselves in power for a while without going anywhere near PR, I suspect Nick Clegg will go down as the worst player of a good electoral hand in history.

town versus country) or by artificial «fixing» of divisions (such as gerrymandering, in which the boundaries of electoral districts are abused by the party in power, or by varying the number of electors in different districts).

The right of voting was restricted to «appointed electors» (which is still the case in the electoral college in the US and many other institutions), which were often local men of power, in other words wealthy bourgeois.

Criticizing the political power of governmental unions, the billionaire mayor said a «labor - electoral complex» has stymied reform.

The Speaker charged civil society to intensify public education on the need to collect and preserve their PVCs, asserting that people must be driven to partake in electoral processes so that they we continue to wield power as enshrined in the constitution of the federal republic.

If it takes place after millions of people are removed from the electoral register we could see the biggest transfer of parliamentary representation and political power from urban to rural areas for more than a century.

No amount of wielding of unchecked executive power and dismissal of vital select committee findings can wish away the progress that NOTA UK and other groups campaigning for electoral reform have made — so we crack on.

Supporters also argue that electoral systems using proportional representation (PR) often enable smaller parties to become decisive in Parliament, thus gaining a power of leverage against the Government.

«These, among others, account for the incremental improvements in our electoral process culminating in the seamless and unprecedented transfer of power from one political party to another in the nation's political history.

Africa is now characterized by political instability, electoral problems, civil wars and the desire for some Africa leaders to cling to power giving rise to all sort of issues.

The phrase racial gerrymandering refers to the practice of drawing electoral district lines to dilute the voting power of racial minority groups.

What's more, the lunatic fringe of politicians and their apple - polishers should note that the fact that they are seeking power, or are aiming to cling onto power, does not give them an audacity to engage in electoral violence, before, during and after the 2016 general elections.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 mandates that electoral district lines can not be drawn in such a manner as to «improperly dilute minorities» voting power.»

If Mr Hain is found in breach of the rules governing party donations the electoral commission can do no more than chastise him, as it only has the power to fine political parties, not individuals.

The chairperson of the electoral management body (EMB) Charlotte Osei said giving legal backing to IPAC will give political parties the powers to dictate to the EC, which will be inimical to the functions of the independent establishment.