New Tunisian president may struggle to enact reforms

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Law Making ◽  
Legislative Election

Significance The success of candidates outside the main political parties is also reflected in the legislative polls, where independents performed well and existing parties performed poorly, resulting in a fragmented political landscape with many parties holding few seats and many independents holding one seat. Impacts Ennahda has two months to form a coalition before the president asks another party to form a government. If no government is formed in four months, there may be another legislative election. Law-making and reforms will be put on hold as coalition-building and government forming will take precedence.

New Zimbabwe opposition will face uphill battle

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Presidential Succession ◽  
White Farmers

Subject Outlook for Zimbabwe's political parties. Significance President Robert Mugabe's ousted deputy, Joice Mujuru, last month launched a formal opposition manifesto, the strongest sign yet that she seeks to challenge Mugabe in 2018 elections. This adds a new dimension to a political landscape already unsettled over presidential succession within the ruling ZANU-PF. Impacts Mining firms may use a recently proposed additional tax, coupled with power cuts, as reasons to slow or even halt certain operations. The issue of compensation to white farmers over land invasions in the 2000s remains unresolved and could stymie a detente with donors. High inputs costs for firms and deflation will dampen growth and raise unemployment, providing fertile ground for the opposition.

Tunisian lawmakers will likely back next cabinet list

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Majority Vote ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Law Making ◽  
Legislative Election

Significance Saied made the appeal after the previous prime minister-designate, Habib Jemli, resigned on January 12, following parliament’s rejection of his proposed cabinet line-up. Lawmakers had questioned the extent to which the candidates were politically independent and suitably qualified. Under the constitution, the president is now tasked with leading consultations before picking the next nominee for the premiership as the country remains without a permanent government, three months after October’s legislative election. Impacts Law-making and reforms will remain on hold for several weeks or even months. Ennahda’s failure to secure a majority vote may incentivise smaller parties to coalesce to control the agenda. Civil society activists will take comfort from the fact that the process, albeit tortuous, is strictly following constitutional frameworks.

Qatar’s legislative election plans carry risks

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Domestic Demand ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Legislative Body ◽  
Gulf State ◽  
Fiscal Reforms ◽  
International Image ◽  
Voting Mechanisms ◽  
Legislative Election

Significance The emir in November 2019 ordered work to begin on long-delayed legislative polls for the Shura Council, requiring decisions on voting mechanisms and electoral districting. The move seems to have been an effort to burnish the country’s international image during the boycott by Arab neighbours, rather than a response to domestic demand. Impacts An elected Shura Council in Qatar could put pressure on Saudi Arabia, left the sole Gulf state without an elected national legislative body. If political parties were also legalised, ideological blocs might be able to use the legislature to set policymaking agendas. The Shura Council’s power to hold ministers to account might act as a drag on any fiscal reforms reducing subsidies to citizens.

Controversy over new Ethiopian electoral law will fade

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Internal Resistance ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
National Party ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Law ◽  
Electoral Law

Subject Reform of Ethiopia's electoral law. Significance The Joint Council of Political Parties, representing 107 opposition groups, warned on September 3 that they may boycott the planned May 2020 elections unless changes are made to new registration requirements for political parties under a revised electoral law. This came ten days after parliament, which is fully controlled by the ruling Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition, unanimously approved the law. While the law seeks to arrest the extreme proliferation of political parties, it will result in the exclusion of existing and would-be parties. Impacts Fewer registered parties would reduce the already significant logistical burden of organising the elections. Efforts to transform the EPRDF into a single, unified national party will face internal resistance, notably from Tigray. The salience of identity politics for most parties may hinder pre-electoral coalition building, but pragmatic alliances could form later.

Parliamentarism and the Legislative Branch

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
András Sajó ◽  
Renáta Uitz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Legislative Branch ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
The Law ◽  
Internal Operations ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Law Making

This chapter examines the relationship between parliamentarism and the legislative branch. It explores the evolution of the legislative branch, leading to disillusionment with the rationalized law-making factory, a venture run by political parties beyond the reach of constitutional rules. The rise of democratically bred party rule is positioned between the forces favouring free debate versus effective decision-making in the legislature. The chapter analyses the institutional make-up and internal operations of the legislature, the role of the opposition in the legislative assembly, and explores the benefits of bicameralism for boosting the powers of the legislative branch. Finally, it looks at the law-making process and its outsourcing via delegating legislative powers to the executive.

scholarly journals User engagement with political “facts” in the context of the fake news phenomenon

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 1082-1099 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Marcella ◽  
Graeme Baxter ◽  
Agnieszka Walicka
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Subject Knowledge ◽  
Perceived Credibility ◽  
North East ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Quality Awareness

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study that explored human behaviour in response to political “facts” presented online by political parties in Scotland. Design/methodology/approach The study consisted of interactive online interviews with 23 citizens in North-East Scotland, in the run-up to the 2017 UK General Election. Findings Participants demonstrated cognitive and critical responses to facts but little affective reaction. They judged facts swiftly and largely intuitively, providing evidence that facts are frequently consumed, accepted or rejected without further verification processes. Users demonstrated varying levels of engagement with the information they consume, and subject knowledge may influence the extent to which respondents trust facts, in previously unanticipated ways. Users tended to notice facts with which they disagreed and, in terms of prominence, particularly noted and responded to facts which painted extremely negative or positive pictures. Most acknowledged limitations in capacity to interrogate facts, but some were delusionally confident. Originality/value Relatively little empirical research has been conducted exploring the perceived credibility of political or government information online. It is believed that this and a companion study are the first to have specifically investigated the Scottish political arena. This paper presents a new, exploratory fact interrogation model, alongside an expanded information quality awareness model.

Political radicalization and fragmentation of the democratic blocs and the legislative council elections in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-384
Author(s):  
Chung Fun Steven Hung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Special Administrative Region ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Legislative Council ◽  
Administrative Region ◽  
Two Systems ◽  
History Of ◽  
One Country Two Systems ◽  
Historical Comparative

Purpose After direct elections were instituted in Hong Kong and the sovereignty was transferred from Britain to China, politicization inevitably followed democratization. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the pro-democratic political parties’ politics in Hong Kong in recent history. Design/methodology/approach The research was conducted through a historical comparative analysis, within the context of Hong Kong after the sovereignty handover and the interim period of crucial democratization. Findings With the implementation of “One country, Two systems,” political democratization was hindered in Hong Kong’s transformation. The democratic forces have no alternative but to seek more radicalized politics, which has caused a decisive and ineluctable fragmentation of the local political parties. Originality/value This paper explores and evaluates the political history of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under “One country, Two systems” and the ways in which the limited democratization hinders the progress of Hong Kong’s transformation.

COVID-19 may trigger an ideological shift over decades

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Global South ◽  
Borrowing Constraints ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Key Driver ◽  
Thomas Piketty

Significance Research by Thomas Piketty shows that a form of free-market ideology has been a key driver of rising income inequality since the 1980s. The airing of alternative ideas, the challenge of decarbonising economies and the potential for the COVID-19 crisis to reset politics raise the prospect of a paradigm shift. Impacts In much of the global South, borrowing constraints and obstacles to taxing the wealthy will make redistribution harder. Strengthening democratic institutions may be as important as strengthening pro-equity political parties to advance redistributive agendas. Political parties in OECD nations have focused on ‘identity’ issues since the 1980s; COVID-19 is bringing redistribution back to the fore.

Elections will fragment Moroccan political landscape

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Type ◽  
Political Landscape

Headline MOROCCO: Elections will fragment political landscape

The World. Challenges of the Global Crisis. Germany

2014 ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
I. Semenenko ◽  
G. Irishin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Economy Model ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Market ◽  
The Eu

The economic crisis of 2008–2009 highlighted new problems in the development of the German social market economy model and brought to the forefront the factors of its resilience that have ensured Germany’s leadership positions in the EU. Changes in economic policy have affected in the first place the energy and the financial sectors. Shifts in the political landscape have led to the appearance of new political parties. These changes have affected the results of the 2013 elections, the liberal democrats failure to enter the Bundestag has made the winner – CDU – seek new coalition partners.

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