Zigzags of Israeli Democracy. Elections 2013

Author(s):  
T. Nosenko

The general elections of 2014 did not bring significant changes to the Israeli political scene. The Likud party repeated its performance of the previous elections and came out first, although with a slightly reduced number of vote. Accordingly, Benjamin Netanyahu stays on as a prime minister. His chief partner and rival, foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the party “Our Home Israel”, also retained his positions. Quite surprising was a high percentage of vote, obtained by Yair Lapid’s party “We Have the Future”, as well as “The Jewish Home“, led by a fast ascending politician Naftali Bennet.

2020 ◽  
pp. 318-359
Author(s):  
John Echeverri-Gent ◽  
Kamal Sadiq

Echeverri-Gent and Sadiq investigate the implications of the Rudolphs’ scholarship for the challenges of contemporary Indian politics. They contend that two of the Rudolphs’ most seminal, but contradictory, contributions help explain India’s transformational change under Narendra Modi and the National Democratic Alliance government. The authors apply the Rudolphs’ contentions that India’s social pluralism produces centrist politics and their innovative study of transformational political leadership to the 2014 and 2019 general elections and the NDA government. They show how the multilayered nature of Modi’s political leadership enables the prime minister to accommodate the forces of centrism while transforming India’s political mainstream. They show how the ascendance of Modi has simultaneously positioned the BJP at the centre of India’s political system while transforming Indian democracy in majoritarian and illiberal directions.


Author(s):  
J.S. Grewal

On Lord Wavell’s initiative, the Simla Conference was held to discuss the proposal of a new executive council and a new constitution for India after the war. Master Tara Singh represented the Sikh community at the Simla Conference. The Conference failed due to Jinnah’s insistence that the Muslim League alone had the right to nominate Muslim representatives on the Executive Council. The failure of the Conference made the general elections of 1945–6 all the more important. The general elections resulted in a large degree of polarization between the Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs. The Muslim League got Muslim mandate in favour of Pakistan. The Congress got a mandate of Hindus and a considerable proportion of the Sikhs for independence without partition. The Akalis got support of the large majority of the Sikhs for an independent political entity of the Sikhs. This polarization was of crucial importance for the future.


2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
Simon Otjes

AbstractFor the Netherlands, the single most important EU issue is the future of the eurozone.


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-408
Author(s):  
Miroslav Řádek

Abstract Department of Political Science at Alexander Dubcek University in Trencin prepared its own exit poll during election day on March 5, 2016. The survey asked seven questions that were aimed at determining the preferences of the respondents concerning not only the current but also past general elections. Interviewers surveyed the choice of political party or movement in parliamentary elections in 2016 as well as preferences in past elections. Followed by questions concerning motivation to vote - when did the respondents decide to go to vote and what or who inspired this decision. The survey also tried to found out how many preferential votes did the voters give to the candidates of political parties and movements. Final question asked about expectations for the future of individual respondents. This article is the information output of the survey. The interviewers were 124 university students and its return was 1,612 sheets. The aim of this paper is to communicate the findings of this unique survey, which is unprecedented in the Slovak political science.


1957 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 546-547 ◽  

The Council of the Baghdad Pact held its annual meeting in Karachi from June 3 through 6, 1957. Representatives were present from the five member countries—Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and the United Kingdom—and the United States was represented by an observer delegation. The Council had been scheduled to meet months earlier, but Iraq originally refused to meet with the United Kingdom. At the opening session, presided over by Mr. Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan, the Prime Minister of Iraq, Nuri es Said, was reported to have spoken forcefully about the dangers implicit in the problems of Israel, Algeria, Kashmir and Cyprus. Mr. Lloyd, Foreign Minister of the United Kingdom, was reported to have followed Mr. Nuri es Said's remarks with a speech in which he announced his government's offer of a contribution of £500,000 a year in cash and in kind for building up the minimum military infra-structure in member countries. The speeches of other delegates were reported to be noteworthy for their frank recognition of past weaknesses in the Baghdad Pact organization and the need to give it new effectiveness. In the course of the first session the United States formally accepted an invitation to join the Pact's Military Committee; and a United States military delegation headed by General Nathan F. Twining started participating in a separate concurrent meeting of the Military Committee. The United States thus became a member of the Pact's three main committees, but had still not become a formal member of the Pact.


Author(s):  
Jörg Baberowski

This chapter examines the changes that were made in Russia after Joseph Stalin's death. Within weeks of Stalin's death, the charges against the “murderer doctors” had been dropped, the use of torture had been outlawed, and the punitive authority of the security apparatus had been limited. Furthermore, the last remaining victims of the “Mingrelian Affair” were released from prison, and Solomon Mikhoels, the assassinated chairman of the Jewish Antifascist Committee, was rehabilitated posthumously. Despotism, the hallmark of Stalinism, would disappear from daily life, and fear and dread would no longer be the ruling standard. Nikita Khrushchev became the new party leader, Georgi Malenkov was made prime minister, Vyacheslav Molotov was allowed to return to his former post as foreign minister, and Stalin's executioner Lavrenty Beria assumed control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the state security apparatus. Throughout the years of de-Stalinization, it remained the great exception for any of the crimes against defenseless individuals to be prosecuted.


Author(s):  
Simon Moorhead

Liz Fell’s interview in 2011 with the Australian Shadow Minister for Telecommunications, Malcolm Turnbull MP, was notable for his combativeness (rare amongst her interviewees). In tribute to both Ms Fell and Mr Turnbull, we republish that interview with the future Prime Minister who, as Minister for Communications in 2013-15, implemented the multi-technology mix redesign of the National Broadband Network.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-158
Author(s):  
Erindi Bejko

Abstract Political parties in Albania on several occasions during the past two decades have won the election in certain areas over 3 times in a row. While victory and governance of the same area, for sure creates a margin consumption which has affected the dynamics of the bastions at least in the recent national election. Parties are consumed in their strongholds if they decide the same candidates, either as a political force. In the focus of this article, will be the consuming steps of political parties in their stronghold areas, either reflecting the fall results during the election process. Will we have a final rupture in Albania consumption bastions of political parties and how would be the future of dynamic bastion, will be the question of this article scientific research. A fracture would have strongholds in shqipare perfuindimtare the consumption of political parties and how will be the future of dynamics will be bastions of this artikulil question scientific research. Bastion’s consumption occurs mainly from major political forces on the left if either of right on the study will be taken 4 constituencies which voted for the same party in three elections one by one. In our focus will be general elections, not local elections.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 470-475
Author(s):  
Lita Tyesta ALW

Abstract The aim of this paper is to find out the administrative evaluation of the implementation of simultaneous elections in 2019 on the actualization of the values of Pancasila. Writing is an ingredient in the framework of participation in Focus Groups Discussion with the theme "Evaluation of the Implementation of the 2017 Election Law Against the Values of Pancasila" held by BPIP, Jakarta 5 to 7 August 2019, and arranged using the conceptual approach and factual approach. The results of the study indicate that the implementation of general elections in the future must be more planned and well-programmed so that things that become weaknesses in the simultaneous elections in 2019 do not occur. In the future, simultaneous elections must be carried out including: separating national and local elections; there must be an improvement in the recruitment and time management model especially for the organizers; Preparation of the final voter list should be cross-institutional related to population; A review of the provisions of the Presidential Threshold is required if the General Elections are still held simultaneously; Time management in the preparation of ballot distribution to the most remote, remote, most challenging, outermost areas, so that voting can be done simultaneously, including at the time of collection for ballot counting, and; Development of an accurate and trusted information technology system in the vote-counting process. Keywords: Administrative Evaluation, Election Implementation, Pancasila Values, Abstrak  Tulisan bertujuan untuk mengetahui evaluasi administrasi pelaksanaan pemilu serentak tahun 2019 terhadap aktualisasi nilai nilai pancasila. Penulisan merupakan bahan dalam rangka keikutsertaan pada Focus Groups Discussion dengan tema “Evaluasi Implementasi UU Pemilu Tahun 2017 Terhadap Nilai-Nilai Pancasila“ yang diselenggarakan oleh BPIP, Jakarta 5 sampai dengan tanggal 7 Agustus 2019, dan disusun menggunakan pendekatan conceptual approach dan Factual Approach. Hasil kajian menunjukan bahwa pelaksanaan pemilihan umum ke depan harus lebih terencana dan terprogram dengan baik agar hal hal yang menjadi kelemahan pelaksanaan pemilu serentak tahun 2019 tidak terjadi. Kedepan pemilu serentak harus melakukan diantaranya: memisahkan Pemilu tingkat pusat dan tingkat daerah; harus dilakukan perbaikan model perekrutan dan manajemen waktu khususnya bagi penyelenggara; Penyusunan daftar pemilih tetap sebaiknya lintas institusi terkait kependudukan; Wajib dilakukan tinjau ulang ketentuan  Presidential  Treshold apabila Pemilu  tetap dilaksanakan secara serentak; Manajemen waktu pada persiapan distribusi surat suara ke pelosok, wilayah terjauh, terpencil, tersulit, terluar, sehingga pemungutan suara dapat dilakukan serentak waktunya, termasuk pada saat pengumpulan untuk penghitungan surat suara, dan; Pengembangan sistem teknologi informasi  yang akurat dan terpercaya dalam proses penghitungan suara. Kata Kunci: Evaluasi Administratif, Pelaksanaan Pemilu, Nilai Nilai Pancasila,


1951 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 619-620

On May 14, 1951 meetings were held of the Council and Political Committee of the Arab League in Damascus. Press reports indicated that the meeting of the Political Committee concerned the question of whether or not the Arab states should put into effect a real military alliance. On the same day the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Egyptian Chamber of Deputies had discussed the ratification of the Arab collective security pact. Egypt had been the originator of the pact which although initialled by six of the seven Arab nations had only been ratified by Saudi-Arabia. The press deduced from these reports that Syria wanted to know where it stood in case the Israeli-Syrian conflict became more serious. Iraq had already offered any support Syria asked for and sent some military detachments and an anti-aircraft unit through Syrian territory to the Israeli border. The Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Israel (Sharett), however, in an address to the Knesset Parliament in Jerusalem, warned the Political Committee that Israel was firmly resolved to defend every inch of her territory against encroachment or domination by Syria.


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