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  Winning Politics
They yearn for a politics that speaks to and includes them--affordable childcare, a good education for their children, health and retirement security, good jobs that will support their families, respect for the environment and human rights, clean elections and clean campaigns.
Progressive politics is successful when it is not top-down and elitist and when it respects the capacity of ordinary citizens.
Policy provides direction and an agenda for action; grassroots organizing builds a constituency to fight for change; and electoral politics is the main way, in the absence of sweeping social movements, that we contest for power and hold decision-makers accountable for progressive public policy.
www.thenation.com /doc.mhtml?i=20010219&s=wellstone   (1221 words)

  
  Gay Politics: It’s 2001, Not 1890
There is nothing in the present political world that is hindering two men from living together and affecting a family way, and they are perfectly free to negotiate terms of medical coverage with their employers.
A libertarian is bound by political principle to oppose all of it.
But because we live in 2001 and not 1890, the side of liberty is with the forces that are working to oppose special privileges for gays in the law.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig/tucker8.html   (1177 words)

  
 FT June/July 2001: Politics at Prayer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Liturgy and politics are not like the salt and pepper that can be added to your scrambled egg; they are more like the scramble and the egg.
Those who wish to purify the liturgy of politics and those who want to inject contemporary politics into the liturgy share a common basic outlook: both assume that politics and liturgy are separable zones of life, which can be mixed or not mixed as we please.
The Eucharist was a sign of the Church’s distinctness from the world, a sign that she constituted a new “city” that had invaded the ancient city, a sign that, contrary to Aristotle, the virtuous life was lived in the Church rather than in the Greek polis.
www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0106/opinion/leithart.html   (1211 words)

  
 Provincial Politics 1972-2001: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In keeping with the more conservative political climate of the 1990s and the precarious fiscal position of the province, Wells embarked on a program of selling government-owned corporations and cutbacks within the civil service.
Tobin returned to federal politics in 2000, and in 2001 the Liberal party and government was led by Roger Grimes.
While the sectarian divisions of Newfoundland politics that had existed for most of the 19th and 20th centuries are no longer dominant, the questions of economic development and the rural-urban divisions are still the source of political division.
www.heritage.nf.ca /law/prov_pol.html   (1398 words)

  
 AFT - Publications and Reports - AFT On Campus - 2001 - December-January - Politics
Although voting irregularities in Florida threw doubt on the outcome of the presidential race as AFT On Campus went to press, there was no doubt about the critical role labor played in turning out the vote Nov. 7, and providing margins of victory in key races across the country.
Political union activists registered 2.3 million new union household voters, made 8 million phone calls to union households and distributed more than 14 million leaflets at their workplaces.
Measure 92 would have applied to all workers in the state and banned the use of payroll deduction for any kind of political activity without annual written permission; Measure 98 would have banned any use of payroll deduction for political activities even if an employee had given his or her written permission.
www.aft.org /pubs-reports/on_campus/2001/dec-jan/politics.htm   (1092 words)

  
 Subject Overview Report - Politics - 2000 to 2001 - QO7/2001
Programmes in politics, international relations and European studies have wide-ranging subject-specific aims, which include knowledge and understanding of comparative politics, political theory, foreign policy, international organisation and current controversies related to contemporary developments in eastern and western Europe.
There are numerous examples of a multidisciplinary approach to politics, stemming in part from the character of the subject in focus, such as, war studies, peace studies or area studies.
Politics students experience a variety of types of assessment includes essays, examinations, including both unseen, open book and seen examinations, dissertations, assessed presentations, group projects, learning journals, short tests and data analysis exercises.
www.qaa.ac.uk /reviews/reports/subjectlevel/qo7_01_textonly.htm   (5579 words)

  
 2001 In Politics - News news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In the first six months of 2001, the European Commi-ssion (EC) would decide which of the spheres, called chapters, could be opened for negotiations.
On February 16, President Petar Stoyanov vetoed the Political Parties Act, which was adopted by Parliament earlier in February, returning it for further consideration.
One of the clauses he objected to was a provision which concerned the possibility of political parties receiving anonymous donations.
www.sofiaecho.com /article/2001-in-politics/id_3576/catid_5   (1159 words)

  
 Nationalism
The state as political unit is seen by nationalists as centrally ‘belonging’ to one ethno-cultural group and as charged with protecting and promulgating its traditions.
The most general reason is that it should first be shown that the political form of a nation state has some value as such, that a national community has a particular, or even preeminent moral and political value and that claims in its favor have normative validity.
The conclusion of this type of argument is that the ethno-national community has the right, in respect to any third party and to its own members, to have an ethno-national state, and the citizens of the state have the right and obligation to favor their own ethnic culture in relation to any other.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/nationalism   (11796 words)

  
 Comparative Politics, Spring 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The main objective of this course is to introduce and explain the dominate concepts, theories, and methodology employed in the study of comparative politics.
This purpose is achieved by surveying a broad range of political systems which allows the student to better understand the differences and similarities that exist between different political systems.
Through knowledge gained from this course, the student acquires not only an broader understanding of political science and the role of a political scientist in the dynamic and changing world, but acquires a expansive understanding of diverse political systems.
www.uncp.edu /home/trapp/pls200/outlines/pl200s01.htm   (973 words)

  
 Salon.com Politics | The real quid pro quo in Washington
I wish there were a committee just as zealously looking at the spike in the political contributions from MBNA, the world's largest credit card issuer, right before the effort to convince Washington to toughen the bankruptcy laws began in earnest.
MBNA's political donations increased from $741,904 in 1996 to $3.5 million during the 2000 election.
The politically untouchable golf industry, where dangerous chemicals are par for the course.
www.salon.com /politics/feature/2001/03/06/bankruptcy/index.html   (1142 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | In Depth | Review of 2001 | British politics in 2001
But the Labour government elected on Thursday, 7 June 2001, is haunted by an army of specific, individual spectres living ordinary lives, people who will march alongside every day of its journey.
Its self-congratulatory "Cool Britannia" period was punctured by the failure of the Dome, a series of ministerial resignations (above all, Peter Mandelson's duo), ham-fisted attempts to exert control over devolved politics in Wales and London, and a series of policy failures in the health service and transport.
The Tories, meanwhile, had also decided that the future of public services was crucial to the politics of the next few years.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_depth/world/2001/review_of_2001/1706538.stm   (1583 words)

  
 Politics 2001--What Can Be Done To Save The Republic Before The Next Election.
The problem is a corruption of the political decision making process, not by "soft money" or the "religious right," or any of those things the Left decries, but by allowing a large number of unqualified and incompetent votes to be cast.
There were other reports of those who had managed to vote multiple times because of lax law enforcement: On every side, evidence of a corrupted process--corrupted by any standard by which a reasoning society can trust decisions to be made--that permitted large numbers of manipulated and controlled votes to be cast and counted.
Republicans are never going to be able to out-bid the demagogues on the Left for those minority voters who have bought the Socialist line, who look to Government for the modern equivalent of the "Forty Acres and a Mule," promised by an earlier class of demagogues during Reconstruction.
pages.prodigy.net /krtq73aa/politics.htm   (4599 words)

  
 Sunday Times - politics - 11 Mar 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
There are no plans to scrap the system of acting judges for South Africa's High Court, despite strong criticism of the practice by the United Nations official with special responsibility for the independence of the judiciary.
He gave the example of an acting judge who expressed concern that when interviewed for a permanent position, he would be grilled about his decision in a political case.
He said the system of acting judges was being used in SA as a form of "probation" and this was unacceptable.
www.sundaytimes.co.za /2001/03/11/politics/pol02.htm   (290 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: American Government and Politics Today 2001-2002/With Infotrac: Books: Steffen W. Schmidt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The photos and names of political leaders, Congressional committee assignments, and Cabinet members are about as up-to-date as a hard cover text can be.
Since political science has a lot of jargon, I like having the definitions of terms in the margins close to where the terms first appear--which is true of this textbook.
The essays (Politics Wired, Critical Perspectives) provide wonderful examples of the function of our Federal government that is discussed in a particular chapter and can be very effective discussion tools.
www.amazon.ca /American-Government-Politics-2001-2002-Infotrac/dp/0534571522   (306 words)

  
 NYC Election 2001: Schooled In Politics
Searchlight on Campaign 2001 is a guide to the political races in what many are calling New York City's most significant campaign season in modern history.
For the first time in memory, most political offices in the city will be wide open to people who have neither money nor connections.
Searchlight on Campaign 2001 is a project of Gotham Gazette, a non-profit, non-partisan, non-ideological (but non-boring) web site about New York City news, policy and politics published by Citizens Union Foundation, part of the oldest and largest good-government group in the city (founded in 1897).
www.gothamgazette.com /searchlight2001/feature2.html   (3397 words)

  
 TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS
This seminar explores the role of transnational politics in shaping contemporary global politics.
In this course we will examine the basic presuppositions of different analytical approaches to studying transnational politics – including various forms of transnational mobilization, their interaction with domestic actors, and their relations to international institutions – and the ways they give rise to different puzzles and research strategies.
Keck M. Social equity and environmental politics in Brazil: lessons from the rubber tappers of Acre.
www.ceu.hu /ires/courses/transnationalpolitics.htm   (1657 words)

  
 Washington Business Forward - September 2001 - Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Regardless of the outcome in November, the election could prove a small but significant development in the nexus of business and politics, nurturing a fresh crop of prospective campaign contributors and candidates from among the Latino immigrants remaking the local economy.
The latter bill, which stalled in the General Assembly this year, was seen as a way to force people in low-income housing, many of whom are Spanish-speaking immigrants, to move elsewhere.
Part of the solution: Explain politics to Latinos in their own terms and on their own turf.
www.bizforward.com /wdc/issues/2001-09/politics   (897 words)

  
 Nature and Politics (April 11, 2001)
Lay, a Republican loyalist with deep pockets, is the CEO of Enron, the natural gas giant and a major beneficiary of the California crisis.
But Bush was allowed to execute his political pirouette so easily because he enjoyed the discreet backing of three powerful Democrats: senators Robert Byrd of West Virginia and John Breaux of Louisiana, and congressman John Dingell of Michigan.
And here's the political moral for the future: the Bush crowd has learned some key survival lessons from the tenure of Bill Clinton.
eatthestate.org /05-16/NaturePolitics.htm   (878 words)

  
 Politics and Prose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Stock market-funded chains, characterized by their large size and aggressive discounting, often targeted independent stores and forced many out of business.
Politics & Prose was able to survive because of its location and loyal customers.
We were eventually able to flourish because other people tired of the predictable sameness of the chains and began to look again for a store with distinctive qualities and a well-informed staff.
www.politics-prose.com /article.htm   (195 words)

  
 University of Central Lancashire - Politics - February 2001 - Q175/2001
The subject of politics is located in the Department of Education and Social Science, which was formed in March 2000.
O3 recognise a range of different political ideologies and have a basic understanding of the working of the British Constitution (and, in the case of single honours students, have an introductory knowledge of international relations).
The single honours programme in politics and government, introduced in 1992, was suspended in 2000-01 owing to a decline in student numbers.
www.qaa.ac.uk /reviews/reports/subjectlevel/q175_01_textonly.htm   (4908 words)

  
 Political Science 342 CHINESE POLITICS I Fall 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Goals of Course:  We will survey the politics of the People’s Republic of China, including political organizations, leaders, and changing relations among social groups in a rapidly modernizing country.
Grades will be based upon command of course materials, originality of thought, and style of presentation (including care of preparation for papers).
Paper option: If you earn an A on exam #1, and wish to explore some aspect of Chinese politics through writing a paper, you may substitute a ten-paper for exam #3.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~polisci/syllabi/archive/PS300's/PS342/PS342F01.html   (315 words)

  
 The Bridging Tree - Winter 2000-2001 - Spiritual Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
For the two of us, finding a more spiritual approach to politics evolved out of our personal sense of frustration as political activists, having taken part in the anti-war and anti-racism movement of the 1960s and in the early environmental movement.
In research for our book Spiritual Politics, we found that a new spiritually-based politics is beginning to emerge in many places around the world today that embodies the principles and values common to the world’s spiritual traditions.
Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson are co-founders of The Center for Visionary Leadership in Washington, D.C, and co-authors of Spiritual Politics and Builders of the Dawn.
www.lifebridge.org /news6/page2.htm   (1188 words)

  
 Department of Politics: Fall Seminar 2001 Schedule
Regular Department Seminars are scheduled from 12:30 to 2:00 Monday in the Department conference room (715 Broadway, 4th floor).
Political Economy of Development (PED) seminars are scheduled from 10:30 to 12:00 on Mondays, location to be announced.
"Political Determinants of Central Bank Misgovernance: Asia and Latin America under Liberal Capital Flows." PED, Monday 10:30-12.
www.nyu.edu /gsas/dept/politics/seminars_fall01.html   (418 words)

  
 Political Science Reference Guide
References and abstracts for journals for political science and other related social science disciplines.
Politics1.Resources on parties, candidates, ideological positions, issues, and general political news.Nonpartisan and covers a wide variety of organizations and viewpoints.
Keyword searching for political science topics.Good place to start your Web searching.
www.cod.edu /library/libweb/Blewett/gdpoli.htm   (857 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Years in politics: 2001-2002-2003-2004-2005 - list of years in politics See also: 2003 in Canadian politics 2003 in United States politics 2003 state leaders Events January 1 January 1: Brazil.
The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.
Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi is said to be to be the true identity of Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad, pseudonymous paymaster behind the September 11, 2001 attacks against New York and Washington D.C. He is believed to have been captured by authorities in Pakistan in March, 2003, but no information regarding...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/2003   (7681 words)

  
 Weisman on Politics: February 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
While these moves clearly show activism, they also show political guts.
Ryan was willing to incur the wrath of his party's tax-freezing conservatives by hiking license and liquor taxes, which have been low compared with other states'.
And, if we really re-elect people for what they've accomplished in their previous terms, it seems George Ryan has an awfully lot of positive things on which to run.
www.chicagobusiness.com /cgi-bin/article.pl?portal_id=29&page_id=898   (656 words)

  
 Sunday Times - politics - 22 Apr 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In a militant discussion document published in the latest edition of the ANC's journal Umrabulo, which will be released this week, the ANC leadership suggests greater cooperation with the Azanian Peoples Organisation but dismisses the Pan Africanist Congress as an organisation "pursuing an agenda that coincides with right-wing liberalism".
They warn ANC members that the Democratic Alliance "is the coming together of the networks of the former ruling political elite, the counter-revolutionary former security establishment, elements of white business and sections of white middle and working classes who yearn for the past under a veneer of liberalism".
Direct political campaigns at the ANC's most senior leaders and attempt to divide the party and its alliance; and
www.sundaytimes.co.za /2001/04/22/politics/pol02.htm   (362 words)

  
 Post September 11th 2001 Journalism - Politics Journalism - Reporting
Politics: A current affairs commentary on politics in Scotland, UK, USA, Iraq and elsewhere.
David Weinberger points to a great piece on the impact of Sept 11th on Journalism.
when you draw the reckoning forward from the 11th, into the wars--in Afghanistan and Iraq, against terror everywhere--where we are now engaged, then all the explanations and ideas you nursed along through events prior to September 11th, 2001 don't explain as much as they once did.
www.anoasis.co.uk /content/2004/08/17/Politics/post_september_11th_2001_journalism.html   (124 words)

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