Sentences with phrase «party system of government»

«If you believe in a two - party system of government like I do, then I need to win this election,» said McGrath, who pledged to fight for increased school aid and against Common Core standards.

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Entrepreneurs in the field say that focusing on the price of Bitcoin is missing the point — its value is as proof of concept for a new kind of payment system not reliant on third parties like governments, big banks or credit - card companies.

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

In these cultural circumstances, people in high places in both the government and Church see that, with an imperial outlook of her own, Orthodoxy might be able to fill the vacuum left by the defunct Communist Party in the system of post-Soviet administration.

It means self - government of a given body of people, as contrasted with non-democratic political systems in which rule is in the hands of a hereditary monarch, of a dictator, of an aristocracy (noblemen or intellectuals), of a class (rich people, the proletariat, or priests), or of a limited party.

Morrison much admired Thomas and shared most of his views, but he regarded the two - party system as essential to American government, corrupt and self - seeking though that system might be.

But «public relations» becomes absurd when we apply the same kind of advertising and promotional techniques alike to the American economic system, to business in general, to labor, to a political party or candidate, to the policies of a government, to a public utility, to a book, to a church.

The burden falls on the GOP establishment and conservatives to tell the employer lobbies that the party of lower taxes, lower government spending, and lower regulation will not design an immigration system to ensure that low - skill workers never get a raise.

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The President and party seem to have grown thick skins to constructive criticism; otherwise, no sane government, in spite of the open condemnation that it has received from Ghanaians over its shielding of criminals in the administration, will repeat another one as done in the case of the $ 2.5 digital address system.

Of course the current system is the only way to deliver strong one - party Governments that get things done.

FPEEG, the All - Party Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating sysParty Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating sysparty MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systems.

Bear in mind also that in parliamentary systems, there are more ways to remove the head of government (chancellor / prime minister) than just losing an election, including loss of support from their own party / coalition, or loss of confidence from the legislature.

With neither Labour nor the Conservatives likely to be capable of forming a majority government and given the SNP's fragmented unionist opponents north of the border, Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system could allow Nicola Sturgeon's party to exact a high price for support of a government in the Commons.

Your question also touches upon another problem: The fact that first - past - the - post and other systems based on gaining a plurality of the vote in single - seat constituencies distort the vote and can be used to durably keep minority parties out of the parliament and government politics.

Mr Amidu will also see to the establishment of structures and systems for a sustainable and effective running of the Office of the Special Prosecutor which was introduced by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government in fulfillment of their campaign promise to tackle corruption in Ghana.

This, it was argued, was the moment to demonstrate that coalition government could work, that the two - party system was no longer fit for purpose, and that politics could be done in a different way — ideas at the core of the party's ethos.

The other progressive parties know that an alliance is the only way to deliver a progressive government, short of a change to the voting system.

Tea Party Republicans may have decided hold hostage the functioning of government and the full faith and credit of the United States of America for now, but the fact that the uninsured WANT the new system means that this fight is essentially their last.

Sturgeon requires the continuing support of unionist voters, happy to back the SNP in government if not to endorse their view on the future of the UK, if she is to repeat her party's trick of winning an overall majority in a parliament elected under a system that's part first - past - the - post and part proportional representation.

The recently deceased Denis Healey once argued, «No Socialist Party with the prospect of forming a government could accept a system by which important fields of national policy were surrendered to a supranational European representative authority».

Shadow Defence Secretary Clive Lewis said that under the first past the post voting system, Labour will struggle to form a government without the backing of other left - leaning parties.

From the dawn of the modern party system until most hereditary peers were evicted in 1999, the Conservatives dominated the House of Lords, meaning their governments got a relatively easy ride.

Scotland has its own party system (with the Scottish National Party (SNP) currently running a majority government), its own Parliament and its own executive arrangements, so that a different set of pressures exert themselves party system (with the Scottish National Party (SNP) currently running a majority government), its own Parliament and its own executive arrangements, so that a different set of pressures exert themselves Party (SNP) currently running a majority government), its own Parliament and its own executive arrangements, so that a different set of pressures exert themselves here.

Having failed to achieve a change in the voting system for the House of Commons — with the loss of last year's referendum on the alternative vote — Nick Clegg's party is determined to push ahead in order that his party can boast having forced a major constitutional change on the country as a result of being in government.

Warning the Liberal Democrats must break the «stifling grip of the two - party system,» he said he «refused to believe the only alternative to a clapped out Labour government is a Conservative party which has no answers to the big issues.»

The Alliance party is opposed to the Northern Ireland power sharing executive on the grounds that it believes the people of Northern Ireland should be able to elect their own executive and decide their own system of government without systems imposed on them by Westminster.

Syracuse, NY — If Green Party candidate for mayor in Syracuse Howie Hawkins had his way, the current system of city government would scrapped and replaced by a system of what he calls «grassroots democracy and proportional representation.»

On Tuesday, the state Republican Party released its first TV advertisement of the campaign season, declaring that Albany has been broken by a Democrat - controlled one - party system that has engaged in fiscal mismanagement and produced a «state government that is a national embarrassment.&rParty released its first TV advertisement of the campaign season, declaring that Albany has been broken by a Democrat - controlled one - party system that has engaged in fiscal mismanagement and produced a «state government that is a national embarrassment.&rparty system that has engaged in fiscal mismanagement and produced a «state government that is a national embarrassment.»

And yet (here we may diverge from Labour First), rather than put behind us the triangulation of New Labour and the neo-Blairites in the Tory party which has made us seem all the same, they'd rather adopt a system which made sure those in government actually are all the same — give or take a few at the margins.

This country has got used to yet another of the distortions of the existing electoral system, by which one party or another forms the government on a minority of the vote.

The clean - elections system, legislated in 2005 and refined in later years, bans executives of firms that have contracts with the state government from contributing to state election campaigns and political party committees that provide money to those campaigns.

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.

In a full - fledged presidential system, a politician is chosen directly by the people or indirectly by the winning party to be the head of government.

Lord Elis - Thomas defended the drawn out process and eventual minority Labour government, telling AMs Wales should not attempt to ape the two - party system of Westminster.

Neither country has faced problems with government formation of the kind nations using purer party list systems often do.

In addition to John Preston becoming President, Ray McCann today becomes Deputy President and Glyn Fullelove Vice President of CIOT.1 On tax simplification John Preston will say: «Whichever party wins on June 8th, we hope they take seriously the unquestionable need to simplify the UK tax system... Whilst the OTS has achieved a great deal under John [Whiting]'s leadership and, I'm sure, will continue the great work under his successor Paul Morton, it must feel at times that they are fighting with one hand tied behind their back with the Government deciding certain reforms are simply politically unacceptable.

Being a one - party state does not necessarily mean the system is not democratic in the original meaning of the word: the government can be more responsible and accountable for what they do.

The latest push comes from an unusual coalition of progressive labor interests, political (Democratic Party, that is) and environmental groups, health care interests and good government advocates who are urging Cuomo to enact a «voluntary» public campaign finance system early in the 2011 legislative session — one of the many camapign promises outlined in his «New New York Agenda» books.

The question is a natural one for someone who is familiar only with parliamentary systems in which the contemplated situation can not arise because the head of government is chosen by the majority party or a majority coalition.

This suggests a continuation of the anti-developmental practice of «party in government» system (conflation of the ruling party and the government), whereby political appointments are treated as «jobs - for - the boys» or some form of material reward for individuals who played key roles in the election campaign of the president and his party, and an opportunity for them to rake in «rents.»

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

A minority government, or minority cabinet or minority parliament, is a cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament.

This system heavily biases the vote towards increasing the number of seats of the top two parties and reducing the seats of smaller parties, a principle known in political science as Duverger's law, and thus minority governments are relatively uncommon.

To deal with situations in parliamentary systems where no clear majority to support a government exists, two or more parties may establish a formal coalition government, commanding a clear majority of the parliamentary members, or a party might enter into less formal alliances or agreements with other parties, or individual members, to allow the minority government to stay in office.

Nat le Roux argues that a one - off electoral reform pact between Labour and some or all of the minor parties in 2020, with a common manifesto commitment to introduce a new voting system, would likely result in a broad - left coalition government.

With broad support from the parliamentary parties, Philippe confirmed the intention of the government to prepare a draft law to change the voting system to that end in 2018, while still preserving the 5 % threshold for representation and 3 % for reimbursement of campaign expenses.

«So what happened to the system after May 29,2015 that this present government took over?How did we get to this level of inconclusive and questionable elections in which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies appear to have become part of the ruling party?»

The ICB report was commissioned by the Government to honour a pledge in the Conservative Party General Election Manifesto in which it said it would «reform the regulation and structure of the banking system».

In domestic policy during the Fifth Party System (1932 — 66), liberals seldom had full control of government; for that matter, conservatives never had full control in that period.