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1 Mar 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
” Because no private party has been harmed, the court asserted, the McGahn case was . . . not a case. [read post]
There were previously proposals to ban the AfD as some German politicians considered the party as a “danger to democracy. [read post]
24 Jun 2016, 2:43 pm by Stephen Griffin
  But then again, America seems to be suffering from its own version of this split.Surely the version of such a split most dangerous to a political and constitutional order is when elites in both parties (in a two party democracy) are alienated from mass opinion. [read post]
10 Oct 2018, 5:10 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The library is quietly one of the places that is saving democracy,” says Tony Marx, president of the New York Public Library. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 9:46 am by Patricia Hughes
Their involvement means other actors can play their roles more easily: judges do not have to determine how far they need to assist parties without lawyers, as they are now required to do, for example. [read post]
7 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
One ever-present barrier to consolidating one-party rule is that that party could tear itself apart, preventing it from achieving its own goals.When it comes to a presidential election, however, what would cause the Republicans in Congress to blanch at the possibility of in [read post]
Deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) Phil Robertson commented that the Myanmar junta is “set[ting] the stage for [the] dissolution of the National League for Democracy party (NLD), landslide winner of the Nov 2020 election. [read post]
25 Dec 2011, 10:01 pm
 Communist parties participate in electoral politics in some democratic countries, even to the point of endangering their long-term democratic character (as in Venezuela, where the communist party is allied with Hugo Chavez's socialist party), but none of these countries is communist in the sense of being led by a single communist party with a collectivized economy. [read post]
7 Jul 2018, 10:30 am by Jen Patja Howell
It's been a bad week for Polish democracy, with the government removing a bunch of judges from the country's Supreme Court in order to replace them with party loyalists. [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 2:01 am by Jen Patja Howell
But over the past year, Chinese information operations have gained prominence with the Chinese Communist Party involved in aggressive online campaigns regarding unrest in Hong Kong and the ongoing pandemic. [read post]
22 Nov 2017, 7:01 am
Maybe the sociology department at UW-Madison and the John Nichols chapter of the Socialist Workers Party. [read post]
12 Feb 2017, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Section One discusses the rise of the regulatory state in western democracies in an age of concern about state expansion. [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 8:09 am by Lovechilde
That doesn't sound much like democracy. [read post]
7 Mar 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Rather than seek to expand the pool of voters for the party, the party has transformed itself into an overwhelmingly white, rural party that has a better chance of succeeding in close elections by shrinking the electorate and politicizing election administration. [read post]
10 Jun 2024, 8:05 am by Tom Smith
History chronicles theocratic despotisms, feudal lords, exploitative slavocracies, imperial autocracies, peaceful republics, small-scale democracies, divine-right monarchies, murderous party dictatorships, and many more besides. [read post]
28 Jun 2010, 9:41 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
The 5-4 vote on Citizens United has prompted an opposing response from Congress in the form of the DISCLOSE bill:The bill, the DISCLOSE Act (Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections), won narrow approval in the U.S. [read post]
12 Oct 2016, 5:09 am by Ryan McKeen
It is the most important role a citizen can play in our democracy. [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 9:41 pm by Rick Hasen
Rather than gush about this group, I fear many aspects of it: its secrecy; the uncertain security for its Internet election and, most important, the lack of democracy in its system for electing a presidential nominee. [read post]