Sentences with phrase «national elections»

Many voters only vote in national elections, but state and local offices have direct influence over policies and practices that impact access to reproductive health care and sexuality education in schools.

Many people find more meaning in city councils and voting for school boards than they do for national elections, but they all say local politics make them more passionate about politics in general.

On average estimates for the national level vote at local elections are different from the results of a subsequent national election by nearly 5 %.

The view from the beginning was that you don't necessarily need a party law to hold national elections.

Here are some thoughts by a thoughtful social scientist on our next national election.

These graphic organizers help students share their arguments about any local, state, or national election issue.

The graphs of the predicted vote share illustrate the predicted results of the model and the actual results of the subsequent national election and show the predictive power or the model is fairly accurate.

This is the second Greek national election in just over a month.

When that infrastructure is missing, national elections inevitably become a referendum on short - term interests.

His full article goes into a lot of good detail about what's been happening in the run - up to the French national elections, and it does seem quite interesting.

Yet again, the teachers unions are among the largest political funders in local and national elections alike from coast to coast.

National elections yielded a shocking result, with the previous government thrown out.

But it's no secret that unions are big players in national elections.

It won't have to negotiate a contract in the same year it holds national elections.

Using the right techniques local elections can give us a pretty good indication of how well parties might do at the next national election.

It means reaching beyond Mogadishu so all parts of the country see a demonstrable benefit from the new government...... and moving towards the ultimate goal of national elections in 2016, which we discussed this morning.

The briefing included a presentation by the ECOWAS Technical Support Team that was deployed to assist the Liberian National Election Commission evaluate their voter register and technical capacity.

Wise teachers around the United States are using news stories about the primary elections and the upcoming national election as a timely lesson in citizenship.

And, minority growth has been more rapid in many swing states the Republicans rely on to win national elections such as Florida, Arizona, Virginia and Colorado.

The Flux party's campaign is at its height in view of national elections on 2 July.

As we are approaching a key electoral year, with the elections of the European Parliament as well as with national elections in several countries including Germany, it is about time to draw some lessons from what happened in Europe and to envisage a possible way to move forward.

[2] While Europarties have the right to campaign EU - wide for the European elections, campaigns still take place through national election campaigns, advertising national delegates from national parties.

I've been involved to some degree at national election at every general election since 1983 and I don't think the Conservative party has ever been better organised for an election than it is for this one in all that time.

Cortland / Ithaca Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton says she supports a recount of national election results

In this regard, Greece's creditors have reaped what they sowed; by demanding yet more austerity two months before national elections, the IMF, EU Commission, and ECB facilitated the fall of Samaras» coalition government, rise of Syriza, and the chaos that has ensued, almost leading to the dissolution of the Eurozone.

... certain aspects of the pre-election period constituted a step backwards compared with recent national elections.

«We did not want to do two posters, local elections and national elections because people aren't going to have two posters in their gardens.

In particular, two surveys were produced after municipal elections (in France), seven surveys after regional elections (in Canada, Switzerland, Germany, and Spain), six surveys after national elections (in France, Spain, and Switzerland), and five surveys after the 2014 European election (in France, Spain and Germany).

About Blog This blog's mission is to provide informed analysis of US national elections by members of the Princeton academic community.

The UK is still working toward Brexit, while Germany, France and the Netherlands all have had to contend with distracting national elections where anti-establishment sentiment and populism posed a threat to real estate and capital markets more broadly.

Many along the coast are pinning their hopes on the upcoming national election in September.

The first official act of the new government in Australia — Prime Minister Rudd coming to power last month in what one Aussie noted as «the world's first national election decided on the issue of climate change» — was to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.

He said quite often than not, the number of registered party members the CPP have, does not show up to vote during national elections, thereby making the party record single digits at some polling stations.

No other EU institution is directly elected, with the Council of the European Union and the European Council being only indirectly legitimated through national elections.

They include national elections in Mexico in early summer, U.S. midterms in the fall, and the desire to get a new agreement ratified under the current Republican - controlled U.S. Congress.

However, you can get good quality public opinion data from the American National Election Survey for free.

The Lincolnshire Independents do reasonably well in local elections, and have retained a deposit or two at national elections so I think they have a good chance of retaining their deposit here, although that would reduce the UKIP protest vote a tad.

Our long national election season may be just about over, but not before Joe Lewis has his say.

The Accra Regional Police Commander COP George Akuffo Dampare has said that the CPP Congress, which will be held today January 30, will be used as dress rehearsal by the Ghana Police Service for national elections later in 2016.

This exhibition features works by caricaturist and cartoonist Thomas Nast for historical context along with works by award - winning editorial cartoonists Matt Davies, Walt Handelsman, Mike Keefe, Steve Kelley, and Signe Wilkinson that offer commentary on our current national election process, candidates, and key issues.

Still, as things now stand, Democrats go into national elections, and the majority of elections elsewhere, as presumptive underdogs.

If you are a student or teacher in Ontario, you may access data from the new Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure Initiative (ODESI) which will target Statistics Canada datasets, datafiles from Gallup Canada and other polling companies, public - domain files such as the Canadian National Election Surveys, and selected files from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).

Battle buses have been common parts of national election spending in recent years.

With national elections looming, we need to move FHA reform out of Congress this year so that the president can sign it into law.

The fallout from national elections in the U.S. and Europe aren't the only geopolitical events worth following in 2017.