The government's authority rests upon the popular mandate, established through the party political system of manifestos and public debate. |
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It may, as Michael suggests, turn out to be a good thing in the long run, revitalizing our political system and getting people engaged. |
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How can a party whose principles rest on an international workers' revolution advance socialist policies in a bourgeois political system? |
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Rather, he spends most of his time deprecating our political system and telling readers it's not worth getting involved in. |
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He's an advocate of a mixed political system that combines our present system with some proportional representation. |
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They thought socialism as an economic system was the necessary analog to democracy as a political system. |
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What Davis described in his speech, a nationwide drive to overturn elections and rig the political system, is a deadly serious matter. |
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Diminishing fiscal flexibility and a relatively rigid political system in China put constraints on the credit ratings, however. |
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In liberal democracies the devices of limited government are built into the Australian political system. |
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The party vowed to intensify the fight corruption within the state apparatus and the whole political system. |
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Gephardt referred to cynicism, loss of faith in the political system and the decline in voting. |
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Why, nothing, of course, given that the political system that permitted it to happen is irremovably entrenched. |
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The stability of the political system affects the attractiveness of a particular national market. |
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This country is still crying out for an effective political system that responds to them and listens to the people. |
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There can be little doubt that the Founding Fathers expected Congress to be the dominant institution of the US political system. |
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I suppose in due course I'll see him, but I'm really interested in the crack-up of a political system. |
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While the latter convulsed the entire political system during 1998, it has now remarkably all but vanished from public discussion. |
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It is a political system that is based totally upon the conveyance of privileges to special groups. |
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In our highly divided and partisan political system, people tend to lack the ability to understand a complex reality. |
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I am an idealist, and I believe that we can and will fundamentally change our broken political system. |
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Though I do understand people who have zero faith in the political system not voting as a protest against party politics. |
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To a visitor from a non-Islamic planet earth, the Hurrian political system would appear to be an exotic blend of Stalin and a militant Sweden. |
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Even by the cynical standards of our dishonest political system, this is world-class chutzpah. |
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Indeed, the political system accommodated the interests and choleric attitudes of both men with little difficulty. |
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By the 1980s, political life was suffocating and the political system had ossified. |
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Being up front is the only way to head them off and restore integrity and policy debate to our political system. |
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In the British political system a prime minister holds office so long as he or she maintains the confidence of his or her own MPs and cabinet. |
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Reform of the political system, said Mubarak, goes hand in hand with economic reform. |
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But reforming the media through policy changes may be the toughest nut to crack in the entire U.S. political system. |
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I hope we will learn from that history of non-inclusion of a significant portion of the population in the political system. |
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Meanwhile, the man and his family have retaliated against the county and its political system. |
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As a political system, democracy starts with the assumption of popular sovereignty, vesting ultimate power in the people. |
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This is completely at variance with what the political system should be all about. |
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The problems, the political system, the brain drain and the heavy competition from more talent rich competitors will tell the real story. |
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The project of fixing our political system is an unwieldy one for those of us with a theoretical bent. |
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A Serb, a Croat and a Bosniak held the post for 18 months each under a rotational system, reflecting the country's general political system. |
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Don't expect them to be too vociferous about the unfairness of the political system. |
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Businesses competed ruthlessly, sometimes unethically, and corrupted the political system through bribes, kickbacks, and illegal rebates. |
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Part of the Indian political system is controlled by musclemen, crooked corporate chieftains and other scoundrels. |
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The rebels took up arms against the government in 1996 with the aim of ending Nepal's monarchy and multiparty political system. |
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On January 3, 1990, he signed a law to re-establish a multiparty political system in Romania. |
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Today's news will come as a considerable shock to the Scottish political system. |
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We have the best political system in the world because it allows us to voice our criticisms without fear of reprisal. |
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In Mexico, the PRI has also took a beating when the political system was finally opened up following intense pressure from the people. |
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American workers confront a social and political system which turns them into second and third-class citizens. |
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Financially troubled banks and a sclerotic political system have halted its growth. |
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If the public does not trust the political system then our task is made doubly difficult. |
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The war created a new class of super rich drug barons, a mafia that is enmeshed in the country's political system. |
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A bankrupt political system has been a convenient peg on which to hang the blame for a consistently tardy response to humanitarian need. |
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The result is an indictment of the current political system as disturbing as any ideological tract. |
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Under Japan's political system, towns like Towa wield a disproportionate amount of influence. |
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Would that 20 per cent poll indicate the public's dislike and distrust of the local political system we have? |
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Fertile soils allow rich harvests for the large populations of Abyssinians, who live in a fairly complex political system. |
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The Supreme Court in America adjudicates on acts passed through the political system by Congress and President. |
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In fact the political system is likely to be endogenous to these basic American beliefs. |
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However, they are proportionally under-represented in the white-collar professions and in the political system. |
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No political system is agnostic on the question of who owns various resources. |
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The keystone of Indonesia's political system, rooted in the constitution of 1945, is a strong presidency. |
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The political system, riddled with corruption, is held in increasing public contempt. |
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Can you see this process leading to more moderate Tamil voices emerging in the political system, very briefly, if you will? |
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And my constituency were the disengaged voters, the disengaged, those who had really given up on our political system. |
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It is therefore unsurprising that the political system itself has become stultified and its population disengaged and apathetic. |
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The structure of the political system and the workings of that system favour those who have economic influence. |
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Our political system, whoever is in power, is just puppetry by big business. |
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Of course, all of this is addressed in the broader context of religious pluralism in the American political system. |
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It is also a politically safe position for the narrator who must negotiate his way through a repressive political system. |
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Something unhealthy in our political system causes each president to be portrayed in the most vicious and derisive terms. |
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For all his defects, he had the qualities that are most needed to overcome the defects in our current political system. |
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A hundred ultra-wealthy liberal and conservative donors have taken over the political system. |
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In our political system, presidents are not empowered to promise to launch wars in backroom negotiations with foreign leaders. |
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The brokenness of the political system drives the former, and helplessness drives the latter. |
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Most of all, it made Qataris feel proud of their own political system. |
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These young adults have voluntarily checked out of a political system they consider corrupt and dysfunctional. |
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If anyone can wrest reform out of our deformed political system, it is this man. |
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Paradoxically, we have a political system where we democratically elect senators to work in undemocratic body. |
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What is distressing, however, is that our political system does not work that way. |
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And the rising star still standing just might be in the best position to offer some elixir to our deeply ailing political system. |
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Can federalism enhance the democratic legitimacy of a political system? |
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Efforts to liberalize the economy and democratize the political system have led to corruption and exacerbated the gap in wealth between government officials and the citizens. |
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It is hard to believe there is any other outcome for our gutless political system than to choose the second way out. |
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When I was there, I was just a second-class citizen, and I didn't feel even I was a human because I was completely dehumanised by the whole political system. |
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The political system, however, is not a meritocracy in the same sense. |
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Its voters are moving to Labor and Likud as their traditional role at the center of the political system reasserts itself. |
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Unfortunately our authorities and political system are so wrapped up in institutionalised deceit that we just get fobbed of with any old tosh wrapped up as facts. |
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But it also forms part of a two-decade effort to tap the benefits of private business without giving up the party's iron grip on the country's political system. |
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The Socialist Republic of Vietnam came into existence in July 1976 as a communist country modelling its political system after those of the Soviet Union and China. |
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Perhaps not in this election, and despite the moribundity of the political system, voters may eventually be able to bring some life to Japanese democracy. |
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Our adversarial political system, coupled to a five-yearly electoral cycle, is sadly blinkering many politicians and commentators to one stark fact. |
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They hate attack ads and want change, but believe the American political system is rigged. |
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Since the status quo is a product of the political system of the State it is ludicrous and illogical to conclude that more of it will somehow change things for the better. |
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Since the political system validates the commercial order, the oligarchy is vulnerable to a reassertion of control by the owners of public institutions. |
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The Electoral College would never have survived as a quaint anachronism of the American political system if its actions overturned the will of the people. |
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This not only has led to sweeping statements, but also to a misunderstanding of the Safavid political system and economy, and also to many factual mistakes. |
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What we resent is the deplorable, but democratic, success of junk culture and junk food, and of a political system which seems to be run by corrupt imbeciles. |
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Under the SPLM's proposed confederation, the south and north would establish their own constitutions, with a common non-religious political system in the capital city. |
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News of the move has filtered through the Northern Ireland political system as the British government has briefed local parties on developments as they unfold. |
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Can violence play a valid role in the political system of a free society? |
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The people nurse deep alienation with the political system and cynicism about the democratic process due to their sad experience of broken promises and forgotten assurances. |
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What they don't understand is that rapid, steady and endurable economic growth needs to be sustained by an open and transparent democratic political system. |
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His personality and his success epitomized the postwar Italian political system, marked by compromise, pragmatism, and an inability to overcome corruption. |
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He has been convicted of murder and is awaiting execution on death row while the US judicial and political system plays Russian roulette with his life. |
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Its presence is a must, since both Gagausian as well as Transnistrian minorities have decisive leverage on the political system in Chisinau. |
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The Luba political system was retained, and conquered peoples were integrated into the system. |
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Then, Guicciardini allied himself with Cosimo de' Medici, who was just 17 and new to the Florentine political system. |
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In 1990, the new constitution institutionalised ethnic Fijian domination of the political system. |
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British power, which depended on a liberal political system and the supremacy of the navy, lent these attributes to the image of Britannia. |
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Few of the developments in the political system that have been taking place since then have been codified as amendments. |
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The division of powers, a fundamental idea in liberal thinking, is the core of the political system. |
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Political parties are the dominant organisations in the modern UK political system. |
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However he did build up the army and created a more stable political system in Britain and helped bring peace to northern Europe. |
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The country's constitution establishes a representative democracy as the political system. |
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Under the English Restoration, the political system returned to the constitutional position of before the wars. |
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However, the rebel leaders proclaimed no articles of faith that presaged a new political system. |
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However, the exact political system of a state is not limited, with each state having its own system based on its historical evolution. |
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While advocated by many pluralists, pluralism need not embrace social democracy given it does not a priori assume a desirable political system. |
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There is disparity in the size, wealth and political system of member states, but all have equal rights. |
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Like baseball, our political system is more engaging if you participate. |
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In Brazil, the Constitution of 1824 expressed the option for the monarchy as political system after Brazilian Independence. |
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Soon after the conclusion of the peace the political system of the Republic entered a crisis. |
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Unlike the Aztecs and the Inca, the Maya political system never integrated the entire Maya cultural area into a single state or empire. |
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The earliest political system used during the conquista period was the encomienda system, which resembled the feudal system in medieval Europe. |
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Ghana's growing economic prosperity and democratic political system have made it a regional power in West Africa. |
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As a result, the trend for unicameralism as well as other political system reforms are more contentious in the Philippines. |
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That means the protests could shake the Chinese political system. |
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He founded a political system that survived until 1922 with the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. |
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Kublai received the brothers with hospitality and asked them many questions regarding the European legal and political system. |
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In a democracy or other political system run in the public interest, it is a public force. |
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The Pope and the German princes had surfaced as major players in the political system of the empire. |
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In the Westminster political system, the principle of separation of powers is not as entrenched. |
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Especially states with a fragile political system have to fear that investors from Western states withdraw their money because of the crisis. |
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The druids were not the only political force, however, and the early political system was complex. |
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Sweden is currently leading the EU in statistics measuring equality in the political system and equality in the education system. |
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Evans concludes the Reform Act marked the true beginning of the development of a recognisably modern political system. |
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An independent press, an effective judiciary, and a functioning democratic political system combine to ensure freedom of speech and of the press. |
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The hybrid political system is divided between an elected parliament and appointed government. |
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He also wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary ideal island nation. |
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After a period of sustained expansion throughout the 20th century, liberal democracy became the predominant political system in the world. |
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He would be integrating them with the way the British political system is put together. |
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As part of the United Kingdom, the basic political system in England is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary system. |
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It is a political system controlled by unelected rulers who usually permit some degree of individual freedom. |
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Direct democracy and federalism are hallmarks of the Swiss political system. |
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These radical elements are trying to steamroll the political system and Balkanize America. |
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This is one of the main reasons people are dead right to be cynical of politicians and cheesed off with the whole old-style political system. |
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Under the new political system, the Oprichniki were given large estates, but unlike the previous landlords, could not be held accountable for their actions. |
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Democratic socialism is frequently used to draw contrast to the political system of the Soviet Union, which critics argue operated in an authoritarian fashion. |
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The political system that was set up however, slowly but surely failed to forge a true union between the northern and the southern parts of the Kingdom. |
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There has been a marked rise in attacks on motorcades of Iraqi government and security officials recently amid deep mistrust in the country's political system. |
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His Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro, welcomed the announcement but said detente would not lead Cuba to change its single-party political system or centrally planned economy. |
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It gave a new prominence to clerics within the political system, with the most senior Shia religious leader, Sheikh Isa Qassim, playing a vital role. |
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Dawish also notes the Lebanese political system, despite numerous shortcomings, is far from the suffocating authoritarianism found in many other Arab states. |
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The political system of the principate, which had retained some features of the republican constitution, began to transform itself into the absolute monarchy of the dominate. |
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The working class, which increased dramatically with the industrial revolution, and industrialists remained effectively excluded from the political system. |
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The two most important examples of constitutional conventions in the Norwegian political system are parliamentarism and the declining power of the King. |
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The idea of feudalism was unknown and the system it describes was not conceived of as a formal political system by the people living in the Medieval Period. |
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By the 19th century, Victorian scholars such as William Stubbs, James Ramsay, and William Hunt sought to understand how the English political system had evolved under Henry. |
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The Druids were not the only political force in Gaul, however, and the early political system was complex, if ultimately fatal to the society as a whole. |
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