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	New Zealand Progressive Party - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Progressive Party (initially the Progressive Coalition) is a political party in the New Zealand Parliament.
		The Progressive Party was established by a faction of the Alliance, a left-wing party that does not presently hold seats in parliament but which was once the third largest party there.
		In particular, the party's parliamentary leader (Jim Anderton) and the party's organizational leader (Matt McCarten) became involved in a significant dispute.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /new_zealand_progressive_party.htm (691 words)

	Progressive Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		That responsibility fell to the convention and the party machinery.
		In 1948, another Progressive Party (known in some states as the Independent Progressive Party) was formed with an eye toward electing former Vice President Henry A. Wallace as President.
		The Progressive Party disbanded in 1955, as the Cold War began to dominate the political spectrum in the United States, and any party which had not taken a stridently anti-Communist position was deemed to be unviable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Progressive_Party (752 words)

	Ontario Progressive Conservative Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Andy Brandt was the party's interim leader until a leadership election was held in 1990 in which Mike Harris defeated.
		In the 1995 election, Harris catapulted his party from third place to an election victory, running on a "Common Sense Revolution" platform, a right wing platform that highlighted a number of "wedge issues" and promised significant tax cuts, cuts to welfare, the introduction of workfare, privatization and other neo-conservative measures.
		Tory, a longtime associate of the PC Party, was elected to the Ontario legislature in a by-election in March, 2005, in the seat that Eves held.
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Ontario_Progressive_Conservative_Party (1831 words)

	Progressive Conservative party on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From 1986, the Progressive Conservative party under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney attempted to resolve the delicate constitutional issues of provincial status in the failed Meech Lake Accords and unsuccessful constitutional proposals, and negotiated a free trade agreement (1987) with the United States.
		Kim Campbell, the party's and Canada's first female leader, briefly governed and led the party (1993) before she and all but two of the party's parliamentary candidates were rejected at the polls.
		She was succeeded as party leader by Jean Charest, who led the national party to a partial recovery in the 1997 elections, but the party's full recovery was hampered by the emergence of the Reform party (later the Canadian Alliance).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/ProgC1ons.asp (822 words)

	Progressive Unionist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) are a small political party from Northern Ireland.
		Linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) they are the left-wing party of unionism in Northern Ireland, with their main support base in the Protestant working class communities of Belfast.
		Their position on the left of the political spectrum differentiates them from the other unionist parties (such as the Ulster Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party) which tend to be more conservative in outlook.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Progressive_Unionist_Party (242 words)

	Progressive Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Communist Party USA did not field a presidential candidate, and instead endorsed Wallace for President; given the tenor of U.S. politics, this endorsement was to hinder Wallace far more that it would help him.
		In 1952, the party ran for Vice President, making her the first African-American woman to run for national office; their presidential candidate was lawyer Vincent Hallinan.
		Statewide Progressive Parties are currently active in Vermont and.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Bull_Moose (763 words)

	MSN Encarta - Progressive Party (United States)
		The first Progressive Party, known colloquially as the Bull Moose Party, was founded after a bitter fight for the Republican presidential nomination among the incumbent president William H. Taft, the Wisconsin senator Robert M. La Follette (leader of the Republican Party's progressive “insurgents”), and the former president Theodore Roosevelt.
		Although the Progressives greatly outpolled the Republicans in the election, the net result was a victory for the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson.
		A third Progressive Party was formed in 1948 by dissident Democrats, most of whom had been prominent in developing the New Deal program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761558633&pn=1¶=2 (527 words)

	Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Even though the Quebec Conservative Party dominated politics in that province for the first thirty years of Confederation at both the federal and provincial levels, in the 20th century the party was never able to be a force in provincial politics, and ultimately dissolved into the Union Nationale in 1935.
		The union was ratified on December 5 and December 6 by both parties, and the new Conservative Party was formally registered on December 8.
		The Progressive Canadian party aims to be perceived as the successor party to the Progressive Conservatives.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/p/pr/progressive_conservative_party_of_canada.html (2328 words)

	Progressive Party
		The Progressive Party, first known colloquially as the Bull Moose party, was founded after a bitter fight for the Republican presidential nomination between William H. Taft, Robert La Follette and Theodore Roosevelt.
		Progressive candidates for state and local offices did poorly, and the party dissapeared in 1916 when Roosevelt returned to the Republican Party.
		Fearing that a formal party organization would be infiltrated by Communists, he ran as an independent, but later accepted the nomination of the Progressive party.
	www.course-notes.org /parties/progressive.htm (541 words)

	Marc J. Epstein on the Progressive Party of 1948 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The party members were all leftists of a more or less liberal stripe who blended on their own left wing with communist sympathizers and on their right with establishment liberals and old time populists.
		The situation was inopportune for a new party, however, and Wallace and the Progressives were thoroughly trounced in the election that autumn.
		Among their objectives were progressive taxation, federal aid to education, the end to all forms of Jim Crow, a women's rights amendment to the Constitution, government ownership of the power industry, national economic planning and wide expansion of the federal welfare system-social security, health and unemployment insurance.
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/Bai/epstein.htm (2594 words)

	Progressive party. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The success of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, sponsored by the railroad brotherhoods, in the congressional elections of 1922 led to the nomination at Cleveland in 1924 of another Progressive party ticket, with La Follette for President and Burton K. Wheeler for Vice President.
		At Philadelphia in July, 1948, a new third party, organized as a challenge to the Democratic party, adopted the name Progressive and nominated Henry A. Wallace for President and Senator Glen H. Taylor for Vice President.
		Endorsed by the Communist party and by the American Labor party of New York state, the Progressive party accused the Truman administration of failing to cooperate with the Soviet Union to end the cold war and advocated repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and reestablishment of wartime price controls.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pr/Progrsv.html (599 words)

	Progressive Majority * Progressive candidates and elections * Civil Rights
		Progressive activism in electoral politics is the price required to have our voices heard and our values echoed in the halls of government.
		Progressive Majority is recruiting the next generation of progressive champions to follow in the footsteps of these great leaders.
		This compilation is one tool we use to remind our candidates about what it means to be a progressive, to reinforce their sense of conviction about progressive politics, and to motivate them to become true champions in the fight for social change.
	www.progressivemajority.org (1358 words)

	Teddy Roosevelt, Progressive Party, 1912
		Partially as a result of this public-oriented paradigm, T.R. introduced the concept of the "bully pulpit" and the public presidency by holding daily press briefings and going on national speaking tours to raise support for his policies.
		LaFollette's Progressive League switched its endorsement to T.R. Republican party leaders had different plans, though, and supported Taft's nomination at the June, 1912 party convention in Chicago.
		The Bull Moose party platform - "New Nationalism" - included direct election of U.S. Senators, the creation of an initiative, referendum, and recall process, woman suffrage, a national tariff reduction, child labor laws, old-age pensions, and other social reforms.
	www.geocities.com /dave_enrich/ctd/3p.roosevelt.html (562 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Progressive candidates for state and local offices did poorly, and the party disappeared after 1916, when Roosevelt returned to the Republican fold.
		Wallace declared his candidacy for president in 1948, and a new Progressive party was formed to nominate him.
		In 1950 the Progressive party was further weakened when it denounced U.S. entry into the Korean War, and Wallace left the party.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=0322300-00&templatename=/article/article.html (585 words)

	Progressive Federal Party -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Afrikaans Progressiewe Federale Party (PFP) former South African political party established in 1977 in the merger of the Progressive Reform Party (founded 1975) and defectors from the United Party (founded 1934; see New Republic Party).
		The party was formed in 2003 by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party.
		The idea for a merger of Canada's main conservative parties arose in the 1990s when national support for the Progressive Conservatives dwindled and the Reform Party (later the Canadian Alliance) was unable to expand its...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9061505?tocId=9061505 (794 words)

	Social Security Online
		The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly what should be said on the vital issues of the day.
		They represent the allied Reactionaries of the country, and they are against the new party because to their unerring vision it is evident that the real danger to privilege comes from the new party, and from the new party alone.
		Taft at Chicago was a fraud upon the rank and file of the Republican Party; it was obtained only by defrauding the rank and file of the party of their right to express their choice; and such fraudulent action does not bind a single honest member of the party.
	www.ssa.gov /history/trplatform.html (11489 words)

	Progressive Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We of the Progressive party here dedicate ourselves to the fulfillment of the duty laid upon us by our fathers to- maintain the government of the people, by the people and for the people whose foundations they laid.
		The Progressive party, believing that no people can justly claim to be a true democracy which denies political rights on account of sex, pledges itself to the task of securing equal suffrage to men and women alike.
		The Progressive party demands such restriction of the power of the courts as shall leave to the people the ultimate authority to determine fundamental questions of social welfare and public policy.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAprogressive.htm (1244 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Progressive Conservative Party of Canada [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This party is not to be confused with the new Conservative Party, into which the Progressive Conservative Party merged.
		The party adopted the "Progressive Conservative" party name in 1942 when Manitoba Premier John Bracken, a long-time leader of that province's Progressive Party, agreed to become leader of the Conservatives on condition that the party add Progressive to its name.
		Following the departure of Jean Charest to become leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec, Joe Clark returned to the party's leadership, and prevented the expected obliteration of the party in the 2000 election.
	encyclozine.com /Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada (2494 words)

	Progressive Party of Missouri
		The Progressive Party of Missouri is a party of grassroots activists, environmentalists, advocates for social justice, and concerned citizens who believe that we can make a difference.
		We are committed to bringing Progressive values and processes to politics and decision-making in Missouri.
		Progressive Party of Missouri, P.O. Box 33106, Kansas City, MO 64114.
	www.ppmo.org (363 words)

	Articles - Progressive Canadian Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Following the merger of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance into the new Conservative Party of Canada, the Progressive Canadian Party was formed by former Progressive Conservatives who opposed the merger.
		The party nominated 16 candidates for the 2004 general election, mostly in Nova Scotia, and in the London, Ontario area, and elsewhere in Ontario.
		The new party's official logo and initials are similar to that of the old party, apparently in an effort to capitalize on the well known PC name.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Progressive_Canadian_Party (487 words)

	Progressive Dane
		As member Pat Kelly said, "This proposal is at the heart of what Progressive Dane is all about." The mayor agreed that it is a good idea but believes that the time is not right for him to support it.
		Progressive Dane believes that ordinary citizens should control public policies at the community and national levels.
		Progressive Dane's "In The News" blog keeps you up to date on the latest news from (and about) PD. Check here for information on PD's policy initiatives and to read about what our endorsed elected officials are up to.
	www.prodane.org (1444 words)

	Progressive Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term Progressive Party is used to describe several groups, both past and present, around the world.
		In the United Kingdom - Progressive Party (UK), a defunct municipal party for the London County Council based around the Liberal Party
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Progressive_Party (153 words)

	Selection - From Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Taiwan, the ruling party is called the governing party (zhizheng dang), but the opposition is called the party in the wildness (zaiye dang).
		The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has thus come out of the wildness in the general elections in March 2000 to become the governing party, an unprecedented upset in Taiwan's democratic system that saw the overthrown of the Kuomintang's (KMT) more than 50-year-rule over the nation island.
		Readers will learn that the development of political parties in Taiwan is not based on socio-economic classes, which is the case in some Western countries like Britain's Labor and Conservative parties which are vying for the interests of their own classes.
	www.taipei.org /teco/cicc/currents/56/Selections/Html/selection4.htm (607 words)

	Is South Carolina ready for a progressive third party?
		The UCP offers the opportunity to develop a new party with a different ideological orientation and a different base of legitimacy based on the support of working people, poor people, environmentalists, gays and lesbians — people who recognize that the Democrats have not served their interests.
		The party was dormant but retained ballot status until the law governing parties changed in 1986.
		While UCP organizers think their party will help boost voter participation — bringing more progressives to the polls — and that the Democratic Party would benefit from the new blood, a decision to run fusion candidates this November might end up in court.
	www.scpronet.com /point/0006/p04.html (2444 words)

	Progressive Canadian Party of Canada Parti Progressiste Canadien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We are guided by the Constitution and Policies of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada as they were at the time it was removed from the registry of Elections Canada on December 7, 2003.
		Our purpose is returning the PC Party to its proper place in Canadian political life as a moderate, centrist option for the electorate.
		In 1854 Sir John A. Macdonald called for all “progressive Conservatives” to join together to defeat a corrupt government and provide a moderate but courageous vision.
	www.progressivecanadian.org (273 words)

	Bull Moose Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Roosevelt for the presidency in 1912; the formal name and general objectives of the party were revived 12 years later.
		The group became the Progressive Party the following year and ran Theodore Roosevelt for president; it called for revision of the political nominating machinery and an aggressive program of social legislation.
		The party's popular nickname of Bull Moose was derived from the characteristics of strength and vigour often used by Roosevelt to describe himself.
	www.britannica.com /elections/micro/92/6.html (167 words)

	DPP Democratic Progressive Party
		At an extraordinary session of the National Congress held April 20, 2002, the DPP adopted a proposal stipulating that the president double as chairman whenever the party is in power.
		A two-stage process, involving a closed primary for party members and an open primary for all eligible voters, with each given equal weight, would be used to nominate candidates for president, provincial governor, special municipality mayors, county magistrates, provincial municipality mayors, Legislative Yuan members, National Assembly members, and special municipal councilmen.
		It was further decided at the meeting that the party chairman be elected directly by all members of the party starting in 1998.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/taiwan/dpp.htm (765 words)

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