"Argentine electoral compaigning seldom uses television debates, telephone banks, or mass mailings. But radio and television ads are heavily used, as are opinion surveys. Carlos Menem was very effective with his automobile caravan, the 'Menemovil,' which brought him into direct contact with the voters. Interesting look at Argentine campaign styles and techniques of 'image-building.'"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57
"Some six decades of socialisation by the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) has ingrained in a majority of Singaporeans the instinct that it is not unusual to give up certain personal liberties for the greater good as long as the PAP State ensures the material well-being of Singaporeans. The general election of 2020 (GE2020) during the COVID-19 pandemic, put this social compact between the people and the State to the test. Significant job losses, wage cuts, and an erosion of personal wealth - due to measures to counter the pandemic - cut substantially into the PAP popular vote nationally, and resulted in an unprecedented 10 candidates from the opposition Workers' Party (WP) being elected to Parliament. GE2020 confirmed the trend from GE2011, when the WP first made a breakthrough, that Singaporeans will only accept a party in moderate opposition to the PAP. This narrative differs markedly from conventional wisdom. Breakthrough 2.0 explores the aforementioned phenomena. The book analyses critically the issues surrounding parliamentary elections in Singapore. It also focuses on issues not explored by many other observers, namely voter psychology; election processes; and, party branding. A comparative analysis of election practices and processes in other jurisdictions is also employed to determine where parallels can or cannot be drawn with the situation in Singapore. The author has had direct access to personalities across the political parties. Consequently, he utilises primary sources, supported by evidence, in sketching out backstories to events which exposes certain myths that were prevailing in social media in the months running up to GE2020"--
This essay challenges the theory-driven approach to early American statecraft that was popularized by political scientist Stephen Skowronek by surveying recent historical writing on the early American state. Much of this writing falls into one of three overlapping genres that sets out to answer a different question. Was the early republic a prelude to things to come; a project with a distinctive character; or a promise that a later generation might wish to redeem? The first genre analyzes the early American state as a prelude to later events such as the New Deal and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The second genre treats governmental institutions in the early republic as a project that had a coherence and integrity that has been overlooked, disparaged, or forgotten. The third genre follows the lead of colonist John Murrin and tries to recover the promise of the early American state by emphasizing the founders' ideals, the magnitude of the challenge they confronted, and the distinctiveness of the governmental institutions that they built. While this historical writing is diverse, it shares three premises that Murrin rejected. First, that the Jeffersonians were not the only or even necessarily the primary actors even on the national stage; second, that governmental institutions, as distinct from the interests of specific social groups, can be agents of change; and, third, that the state in the early republic diverged in substantive ways from the state in the colonial past.
[p. 2] ; column 1 ; 2 ½ col. in. ; The Utah Bill from the Senate is on the Speaker's table in the House and several motions to take it up have been voted down. The Washington correspondent of the New York Express predicts that the bill will go back to the Senate with the Wilmot Proviso on it and that the Senate will send it back again to the House.
The collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe--the Revolution of 1989--was a singularly stunning event in a century already known for the unexpected. How did people divided for two generations by an Iron Curtain come so suddenly to dance together atop the Berlin Wall? Why did people who had once seemed resigned to their fate suddenly take their future into their own hands? Some analysts have explained the Revolution in economic terms, arguing that the Warsaw Pact countries could no longer compete with the West. But as George Weigel argues in this thought-provoking volume, people don'
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Provides solutions to long-festering problems like out-of-control benefits spending, the pension debacle, high corporate tax rates, and the soaring cost of higher education.
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Evolutionary Trajectory of Rashtra -- Chapter 2 Hindu, Hinduism and Hindutva -- Chapter 3 Manusmrti and Social Marginals -- Chapter 4 Jurisprudence in Pre-colonial India -- Chapter 5 Kingship in Medieval South India -- Chapter 6 Democratic Traditions in Lingayat Movement -- Chapter 7 Interpreting Meerabai's Bhakti -- Chapter 8 Indic Islam -- Chapter 9 Idea of Justice in Tribes of Manipur -- Chapter 10 Colonial Roots of Aryan Invasion Theory -- Chapter 11 Deconstructing the Colonial -- Conclusion
This article argues that bureaucracy plays politics in Indonesia, not only during the electoral periods, but also in public service. Using the case of environmental evaluation in local government, where natural resources comprise most of the local economy, this article discusses the politics of bureaucracy in undergoing daily governing processes. The environment and natural resource businesses are two opposing fields. Environmental evaluation becomes a contentious area and is usually highly political. This article identifies the bureaucracy's politicisation in environmental evaluation as occuring in at least in two forms—in measurement and in project implementation. In terms of measurement, bureaucracy tends to use minimum standards, while in project implementation, there are some occasions where bureaucracy tends to sub-contract the work to the third party, usually NGOs, especially in relations to sensitive issues, so that it is politically safer for them, once the result is not as pleasing as expected. This article uses some cases in Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, Central Java, and Bangka Belitung, and applied case study as research approach.
Preliminary Material /T. Sim -- Chapter One. The Portuguese Empire In Asia /T. Sim -- Chapter Two. The Empire On The Eve Of The Eighteenth Century /T. Sim -- Chapter Three. Leadership From Lisbon To Goa /T. Sim -- Chapter Four. Diplomacy And War /T. Sim -- Chapter Five. Commercial Challenges Of The Eastern Empire /T. Sim -- Chapter Six. Imperial Power Through Culture And Religion /T. Sim -- Chapter Seven. Beginning Of A Reversal? 1741–57 /T. Sim -- Chapter Eight. Conclusions /T. Sim -- Appendices /T. Sim -- Bibliography /T. Sim -- Index /T. Sim.
"The fall from power of Indonesia's President Suharto in 1998 has drawn much media and academic attention but the focus has been on the elite perspective, the role of the regime and military; little has been published on civil society, let alone gender issues." "This study, which covers the period from Suharto's fall up until the latest democratic elections in 2004, analyses the role of civil society in Indonesia's transition towards democracy. Here, the author argues that social movements are civil society's primary catalysts for change."--BOOK JACKET
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During the period from 1931 to 1967 -- thirty-six years -- Kentuckians elected only one Republican as governor of the Commonwealth. Yet that man, a former justice of the state's highest court, seldom appears as other than a footnote in the standard histories. That is unfortunate, for Simeon Willis of Ashland made a fine record as governor, assuming the office during World War II and leaving it strengthened in a postwar world. In this new volume in the Public Papers of the Governors of Kentucky series, editor James C. Klotter has assembled 173 documents and public statements, so that the Willis
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