Sentences with phrase «on electoral campaigns»

I held the position of Research Fellow on The Northern Ireland Assembly Election Study 2016 and I am currently undertaking collaborative research on electoral campaigning, citizen attitudes to parties, partisan engagement and apathy.

The secret donation — a much larger sum than the DUP has ever spent on an electoral campaign in its history — attracted particular interest because almost none of the cash was spent in Northern Ireland.

The # 435,000 donation — a much larger sum than the DUP has ever spent on an electoral campaign in its history — attracted particular controversy because almost none of the cash was spent in Northern Ireland.

Not exact matches

«In recent campaigns around the world — from India and Indonesia across Europe to the United States — we've seen the candidate with the largest and most engaged following on Facebook usually wins,» Zuckerberg himself wrote earlier this year, starkly underscoring his company's electoral clout.

Following the announcement of a parliamentary committee to study electoral reform with a special emphasis on gender equity and inclusiveness, a growing number of supporters have come on board the campaign for proportional representation.

Ross Douthat had a nice piece recently showing the electoral and rhetorical stupidity of this strategic move on the part of Huntsman's campaign in attacking the base of what conservatives think is important.

I pointed out above that the politicians who campaigned on a strident culture - wars theme were not particularly successful in electoral politics.

In the process, the Obama organization achieved both a scale and a level of effectiveness unlike any electoral campaign we've ever seen, and all because of one basic idea: that you can trust people to work on your behalf if you give them the tools and the training.

Note that Ivan is describing something very different than traditional mass communications: he's talking about working closely (no doubt frequently one - on - one) with people on Facebook and other networking sites over a long period of time to help build a cadre of very committed activists — something that most electoral campaigns (and even most issue advocacy campaigns) simply can't do, whether because of lack of time or lack of resources.

The first leader of the new Party, Walter Veltroni, embraced the liberal agenda in a powerful speech given in Turin in June 2007 and, on the basis of that political platform, engaged Silvio Berlusconi in the 2008 electoral campaign.

In the past, most electoral campaigns have typically lasted only relatively a short time and haven't have to worry much about list exhaustion, but with this year's extended political season, Obama, Romney, Clinton, Giuliani, et al, have already been sending emails to the same people for months on end.

What really jumped out at me were his numbers on data: small electoral campaigns will tend to buy voter lists from their county elections agencies, but the quality can be atrocious.

He conducts research on political attitudes, public opinion and elections with a particular interest in campaigns, political representation and electoral accountability.

I interviewed many participants on [the Progressive Exchange listserv] in the course of researching the book, which tells the history of the uptake of new media in Democratic electoral campaigning over the last decade.

Let this campaign be a lesson to all political Web 2.0 enthusiasts — in electoral politics, the voter opinions that ultimately matter are the ones they have in mind when they pull the lever on a voting machine.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

Indeed, can't I equally argue that Neal Lawson risks narrowing his coalition of support for electoral reform by suggesting that the existence of a national campaign on PR means postponing or vetoing any consideration of party reform issues on their merits (where he seems to argue that the principle would be one he would support, were it not for this context)?

On Rivers» general electoral anarchy: «Shocking cases of cold blooded killings and beheading, obstruction of votes, arson, voter intimidation, ballot snatching, missing result sheets, presenting of fake ballot papers, multiple thumb - printing, campaigning at polling units, compromise of ad - hoc staffs, absence of level playing environment, violence against media personnel and impunity were witnessed in different magnitude across the length and breadth of the state.

Plus, more - traditional mass outreach may still work in online social settings, since extensive advertising on MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn is still relatively untested, and campaigns with the resources to buy ads targeted at their particular electoral districts may find them an effective way to tap a politically active audience.

It is well known that those candidates who collude with special interest groups are better placed to run extravagant electoral campaigns — often devoid of any real content — and that the same interest groups that donate to candidates will later on demand privileges and benefits from them.

Alas, the «Yes» campaign has been lacklustre - but, it is absolutely right that AV will leave the Tories with profound problems - they have based their electoral success on the fact that in many seats the progressive centre left is split.

Besides being cheaper and faster compared with traditional surveys, social media analysis can monitor an electoral campaign on a daily (or on an hourly) basis.

This shouldn't surprise us, as it is in line with the incentives that electoral campaigns face — as I wrote in my book Ground Wars based on research on previous election cycles:

As the 2015 campaign sprint gets underway, it's already clear that the Conservatives will be promoting an electoral message focused upon economic recovery while Labour will concentrate on the NHS and the cost of living.

Even as recently as 2010, Clegg helmed a campaign built on the promise of a «new politics», and much of its previous electoral message emphasised egalitarian, progressive values and fairness.

BRASILIA (Reuters)- Brazil's top electoral court on Tuesday decided to hear new witnesses in an illegal campaign financing case that could remove President Michel Temer from office, delaying any verdict in the trial until at least May.

His former immigration spokesman Phil Woolas's shameless tactics in Oldham East and Saddleworth during the last general election campaign, and subsequent ejection from Parliament, have offered a well - timed opportunity for Labour to give the coalition and, in particular, Nick Clegg, a thrashing in the by - election on 13 January - the first significant electoral test of the coalition's popularity.

By focusing Labour's local and European elections campaign on the «bread and butter» issues of housing stock shortage, rising housing prices, zero - hour contracts and a widespread sense of general economic insecurity, Miliband is trying to diffuse the electoral challenge posed by UKIP.

However, it did influence an already contentious electoral campaign in Austria, consumed substantial amounts of time and attention, and, forced the incumbent to spent time defending himself and his campaign, failing to distance himself from the underhanded tactics of his erstwhile campaign advisor Silberstein, while looking somewhat incompetent and ignorant about what was going on.

Manjoo's article focuses on how the new feed emphasis is leading certain LOLCats - style word / picture combos to go viral, which may be useful for some advocacy and electoral campaigns to know, but it also suggests that our substantive content is LESS likely to get noticed now than before.

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.

The campaign group Saving Labour has claimed that the polling translates into a loss of 44 seats for Labour, while angry Labour MPs have seized on the figures as further evidence that Corbyn can not lead the party to electoral success.

Finally, I'd argue the huge number of nonprofit advocacy campaigns on the left provides a real laboratory to experiment with tactics and techniques, and the skills developed there naturally jump the 501 (c) 3 firewall into electoral campaigns.

First, the Obama campaign trained a huge number of staff and volunteers in the dark arts of digital organizing in 2008, and many have gone on to sharpen their skills on other electoral and advocacy campaigns.

His first challenge was the legislation for the AV referendum on electoral reform that was defeated after Harper's other boss — David Cameron — asked Tory donors to donate to the No campaign that trashed his Cabinet Office boss.

Speaking outside St. Mary Gate of Heaven church in Ozone Park Malliotakis laid out her broad campaign themes and parried repeated questions focused on the many electoral challenges she faces.

In a radio interview this week, Gov. Cuomo renewed the call for statewide campaign finance reform, decrying the corrosive effect that super PACs and high contribution limits continue to have on electoral politics in Albany.

While Cuomo said after his speech that such groups would be included in what he was proposing, materials provided by the administration appear to show the governor's legislation will only focus on independent expenditure groups that operate during electoral campaigns.

Every four years, presidential candidates lavish attention (and, more important, campaign promises) on a dozen or so swing states whose electoral votes are up for grabs.

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.

NOP's poll in the Independent also concentrated on electoral reform, as part of the Indy's ongoing pro-reform campaign.

The governor's campaign had $ 25.7 million on hand as of July, which means Cuomo could plausibly have $ 30 million by April of next year — probably the latest he could wave off a reelection run given New York's electoral calendar.

She said the talks have focused on environmental and climate change issues, not electoral politics heading into the governor's 2018 re-election campaign.

The party claimed electoral victory on the back of many campaign promises aimed at boosting social infrastructure and providing a convenient economic environment for private businesses to thrive.

J. whereas electoral campaigns continue to focus primarily on national issues, pushing debate on specifically European issues into the background, which has a negative impact on the level of participation in elections to the European Parliament;

Attention will inevitably focus on electoral reform, but success in the «yes» campaign launched by Clegg as the conference began is far from guaranteed.

Perhaps the insurgent nature of his political identity spurred Mr Williams on to become Chris Huhne's electoral agent in the 2006 leadership campaign against eventual winner Menzies Campbell.

This one - two punch, on the SNP's electoral and emotional sweet - spots, poses an existential threat for Salmond's campaign for Scottish independence.

Speaking on the Daily Politics today, Danczuk also laid into former leader Ed Miliband for leaving Labour with an electoral system that had allowed the Corbyn campaign to flourish.

It aimed to limit spending on campaign activity in the year ahead of a general election and redefined electoral activity as anything which could affect the outcome of an election.