Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton emerged as the leaders for the republicans and democrats respectively at the end of the decisive Super Tuesday on March 1. These results, though not final raise important questions on the notion and the role of American leadership in the 21st century. The US has always been characterized by a certain exceptionalism. Since Woodrow Wilson this nation has been driven by its strong will to make the world ‘safe for democracy’[1]. For the liberals it translated...
The upcoming presidential election in the United States will obviously affect global politics and the relationship between Moscow and Washington. Pravda.Ru sat down with General Director of the Russian Board of the International Affairs, candidate of historical sciences, Andrei Kortunov, to speak about the pros and cons of the two main presidential candidates.
The difference between the candidates for US president
— In one of your recent articles, you wrote that the US-Russian relations have...
... principle of representative democracy. Obviously, not everyone has the time, knowledge, interest, and skill to participate much in self-government, so we elect people to represent us. From time to time, we pass judgment on their performance by means of elections. And yet, according to Jean-Jacques Rousseu, Englishmen are slaves, except for once every five years when they elect their representatives. According to the highly influential tradition of participatory democracy, when citizens are not actually ...
... election in a landslide.
80 %
of the voters who came to the polling stations on November 8, 2015, cast their ballots for the NLD. After decades of being in peaceful opposition to the military regime, the NLD has become the ruling party. The latest elections were truly historical since, for the first time in 56 years, the legislative power was transferred peacefully to a legally elected parliament in accordance with the constitution. Previously, it happened in the spring of 1960.
The NLD received ...
... theory and political history is weak. What he writes is often a mixture of brilliant insight and nonsense. "Putin has made any alternative unthinkable" thinks Pavlovsky, ... because "his political system has destroyed the legitimacy of elections as an instrument for the peaceful change of power." Putin's United Russia party is a "valuable instrument for winning rigged elections, but unlike the Chinese Communist Party, it lacks the autonomy and ideological coherence ...
... among
Integration Groupings
Mauricio Macri started out as a businessman before being elected President of the popular football club Boca Juniors in 1995, which helped to get him over with the people. After leaving the club in 2007, he won the mayoral elections of the City of Buenos Aires in 2007, thus carving out his political career towards the Casa Rosada – the seat of the Argentinian government. The recently published book
The World of Pro. The Anatomy of a Party Made to Win (Mundo Pro. ...
... inextricably linked to the electoral design, election cycles and the strategies of spin. This periodization correlates somewhat with the “student, apprentice, master” paradigm
used
by Recep Erdoğan and his party in the run-up to the 2011 elections to describe the stages of the electoral cycle.
Birth and Maturation of the Party (2001–2007)
The Justice and Development Party grew out of the National Vision (Milli Görüş) Islamist movement. After the 1997 military memorandum ...
... campaign, both Liberals and New Democrats condemned Mr. Harper for his failure to preserve Canada's hard-fought reputation as a dynamic UN member, peacemaker and mediator in conflict resolution. Among other things, this concerned Ottawa's defeat during the elections for the UN Security Council non-permanent members in October 2010, the first since World War II.
The Conservatives were also accused
of excessive militarization and a bias towards the U.S.
THE CANADIAN PRESS / Adrian Wyld
Prime Minister Justin ...
... representatives will now hold the posts of both President and Prime Minister. This means that relations with Russia, bad as they may be right now, could get even worse. And relations with the European Union and Germany look set to become more complicated.
The elections held
on October 25, 2015 saw more than 39 per cent of voters back the conservative Law and Justice Party (link in Polish). This gave it more than half the seats in parliament, thus enabling it to form a one-party government. The new head of ...
... as are those where a harmless communication mistake can ruin even the most prudent politician.
Some politicians, including Radoslaw Sikorski, demanded change in the party itself, as two defeats in a row – at the presidential and parliamentary elections – were too frustrating for them.
There’s nothing new about the fact that a successful political campaign in terms of marketing is much more important than the essence of competition, but it’s quite impressive how soon leading ...
