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the
Spiral Q Puppet Theater
in
Philadelphia
uses
puppetry
,
street theatre
and
pageantry
to promote
social
and
political
change?
the
Jawami ul-Hikayat
is an 800-year-old handwritten
book
of
Persian
political
anecdotes
, which—at 2500 pages long—has never been printed in full, but only in abridged editions?
the
Right Hegelians
took the
philosophy
of
Hegel
in a
politically
and
religiously
conservative
direction?
the
Regency era
British
women's magazine
La Belle Assemblée
featured original fiction and articles on
politics
and
science
in addition to
fashion plates
?
developmental biologist
PZ Myers
, who writes about
evolution
,
cephalopods
,
politics
, and
atheism
, is the top-ranked science
blogger
according to the journal
Nature
?
in
Irish
politics
, no
ordinary referendum
has ever occurred?
archaeologist
Natalia Polosmak
has been banned from her best known
excavation
, the
Ice Maiden
(pictured)
, because of
ethnic
politics
?
Facts on topics related to Politics
Political philosophy
the book
Nudge
, written by
Cass Sunstein
and
Richard Thaler
, defends the
political philosophy
of
libertarian paternalism
?
Political party
Shirley Chisholm
was the first
African American candidate for president of the United States
for a major
political party
when she
campaigned
during the
1972 election
?
booth capturing
is a kind of
electoral fraud
that is seen mainly in
India
, where armed gangs belonging to
political parties
try to "capture" a polling booth and indulge in bogus voting?
Caroline Anthonypillai
helped found the
Lanka Sama Samaja Party
, the oldest
political party
in
Sri Lanka
, along with her brother
Philip
?
preselection
is the process by which a
candidate
is selected, usually by a
political party
, to contest an
election
for political office, an example being the
United States presidential primary
?
Syed Hussein Alatas
is a
Malaysian
academic who formed two
political parties
before going on to become
Vice-Chancellor
of the
University of Malaya
?
after
Kent Williams
was elected speaker of the
Tennessee House of Representatives
, his
party
expelled him from its
caucus
?
despite not registering as a
political party
, the pro-independence
Sąjūdis
movement won a clear majority in the
Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1990
?
on July 20, 1964, the
National Movement of the Revolution
was declared the sole legal
political party
by law in the
Republic of the Congo
?
the
French
colonial administration in
Guinea
opposed the founding of the
political party
Socialist Democracy
in 1954, as they feared it would split the anti-
Sékou Touré
vote?
the
Indonesian
political party
Permai
was also a mystical religious movement?
Bureaucracy
Ciguli Miguli
is a 1952
Yugoslav
film that was banned for 25 years for its
satire
of
socialist
bureaucracy
?
Liberalism
José Ortega Spottorno
established the now-bestselling Spanish newspaper
El Pais
to advance
liberal
values at a time when the country was undergoing
a painful transition
from
fascism
to
democracy
?
in terms of
political ideology
, American
economists
tend to be
liberal
?
prominent sociologist
Nathan Glazer
has, at different points in his career, been referred to as a
Marxist
, a
neoconservative
, and an espouser of "armchair intellectual
liberalism
"?
the
liberal
Jewish
Folksgrupe
played an important role in the 1917
Russian Provisional Government
, but only obtained around 1% of the Jewish votes the same year?
the
Mexican War of Independence
(
1820
–
1821
) resulted in an unlikely alliance between
liberales
and
conservadores
?
International relations
India
's
"Look East" policy
aims to establish extensive
relations
with Asian countries to project its influence as a counterweight to that of the
People's Republic of China
?
a
diplomatic bag
is a term of art in both
international relations
and
cryptography
?
Federalism
the
United States
'
National Governors Association
serves as a key interface betweeen
state
governments and the
federal
government?
Democracy
Pedro Vuskovic
's
plan
to move
Chile
's
economy
to a
socialist
model by
democratic
means led to
runaway inflation
and
economic recession
?
Dashiin Byambasüren
was the first
democratically
elected
Prime Minister
of
Mongolia
?
Golden Liberty
, the
political system
of the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
, similar to
federation
and
democracy
, became ineffective when faced with the surrounding
mon
archies
?
José Ortega Spottorno
established the now-bestselling Spanish newspaper
El Pais
to advance
liberal
values at a time when the country was undergoing
a painful transition
from
fascism
to
democracy
?
William Phelps
was
foreman
of the first
grand jury
in colonial America and played a key role in establishing the first written
democratic
town government at
Windsor, Connecticut
, in 1657?
as the world's third largest
democracy
,
Indonesia
's
2004 legislative election
was the most complicated in the world?
the
Social Democrats
under leader
Hjalmar Branting
won the
Swedish general election in 1921
, the first fully
democratic
parliamentary
election in
Sweden
?
under the
Sino
-
Portuguese
Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau
,
Communist China
would guarantee complete
autonomy
and
democratic self-government
in
Macau
up to
2049
?
Public administration
the
Irish in Omaha, Nebraska
were singled out by the
American Protective Association
for exclusion from
public office
in the 1890s?
Political science
American
political scientist
Charles Merriam
pushed for the use of
quantitative analysis
in the practice of political science even though he had almost no mathematical training?
Brian McMenamin
graduated with a degree in
political science
, but is co-owner of the
McMenamins
chain of
brewpubs
?
Glenn D. Paige
is the
American
political scientist
known for developing the concept of
nonkilling
?
Thomas Christian Wyller
is regarded as one of the founders of
political science
as an academic discipline in
Norway
?
in addition to her academic career,
German
-
Norwegian
political scientist
Helga Hernes
has been a
State Secretary
as well as an
ambassador
to several European countries?
the
Power Transition theory
is used in
political science
to predict future wars between
great powers
and a
superpower
as it states that war is a cyclic event and is inevitable?
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