Life: A Critical User's Manual , by Didier Fassin (Polity) .
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Moreover, given their polity, the task ahead is especially daunting.
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But it's a lot to ask of a modern polity.
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In that light, scenarios like Ovadya's polity simulation feel genuinely plausible.
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The most important of these challenges is Iran's highly fractured polity.
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The moral health of the polity is in even scarier shape.
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It is part of the polity, so it is inescapably political.
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"Libya remains a fragmented polity with multiple potential spoilers," it said.
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Built by Protestants, Boston had become a polity all its own.
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"The polity of the United Methodist Church presumes trust," she said.
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He touched on the need for conservative economic polity and strong borders.
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The devastating blow that it envisages might undo even the sturdiest polity.
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Re-integrating bitter Trumpkins into the polity will be a major challenge.
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His latest book, "Strangers at Our Door" is published with Polity Press.
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For years, mainstream conservatives winked at racist elements of the American polity.
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So you can't really imagine the American polity or economy without ongoing immigration.
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Polity Press, 2013"Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946", by Anthony Howe.
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First, fragile states experience social stresses which divide rather than unify their polity.
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But on what terms should diverse cultures and religions inhabit the common polity?
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Polity Press, 22014 Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present.
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Richard, dispensed advice for a polity: He thought that making his readers more
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For starters, this kind of inter-state accounting is corrosive to our polity.
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There's no normal economy, or normal polity, amid that kind of mass death.
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You believe hard right-wing media is a malign influence on our polity?
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In a pluralistic polity like ours, to govern is to seek common ground.
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Yet a well-functioning student body — not to mention polity — also needs followers.
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The first is that democracy is the best way to organize a polity.
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Polity Press, 2013 Unhappy Union: How the euro crisis – and Europe – can be fixed.
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At several points, he emphasized that his republic will be a polity of caring.
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They are arms of the Chinese government, a far more powerful polity than Riyadh.
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When all is well in the polity, they are relatively scarce on the ground.
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Their futures will be warmer and bleaker because they are excluded from the polity.
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But the United States is far from the first polity to undergo these changes.
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As a polity with a proud history of providing refuge, we face some hard choices.
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It is simply not an appropriate form of pan-European polity for the 21st century.
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Few countries have Singapore's graft-free civil service and polity, which make technocratic excellence easier.
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Polity; 200 pages; $19.95 and £14.99 The "Anglosphere" is not a term in common parlance.
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The right moral and civic values were essential to the survival of a liberal polity.
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The result is a polity that has increasingly given up on finding out the truth.
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I imagine many people will associate these rights with citizenship, or membership in a defined polity.
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Polity; 195 pages; $19.95 and £14.99No country has modernised its economy without also becoming a democracy.
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The implication is that "all other citizen-members" believe that universal birthright citizenship threatens the polity.
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The central challenge is to rebind a functioning polity and to modernize a binding American idea.
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He was the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, not Civil Policy.
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Yet over time, the American polity has become increasingly intolerant of what those trade-offs entail.
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And, in the tradition of Libya's unruly polity, even the royal family is not immune from factionalism.
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But America is actually a federated polity where electoral geography matters more than ethnic or class aggregates.
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They put the imperial line, hitherto mere props in Kyoto, back at the centre of the polity.
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Tunisia alone managed to create a polity with a chance to pursue serious reform and power-sharing.
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Its use has the potential to achieve much good for the polity or to increase political conflict.
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Agitation for referendums in other parts of the EU might grow, despite the convulsions in Britain's polity.
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The professoriate been even worse, intentionally undermining those shared values that bind us together as a polity.
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At its heart, Warrenism is a program to establish genuine popular sovereignty over our polity and economy.
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"It makes the United Kingdom look like the torn, deeply divided polity that it is," he said.
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Jeff Kingston is director of Asian Studies at Temple University Japan and author of Japan (Polity 2019).
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If population change is truly an existential threat to a polity, LA should've cracked apart long ago.
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Contemporary Western historians all too often see it simply as a victim of colonialism: a country to be pitied and ennobled, and with which greater powers had their way, rather than as a polity that has done what any other polity does: make the best of suboptimal situations.
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And yes, not every government or polity constitutes a nation (see Iraq, or Belgium, or half of Africa).
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Humanity's Polity AIs and aliens known as the prador have dispatched warships to the system, expecting a conflict.
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Although the country is experiencing one of its periodic phases of disharmony, Americans are generally a moderate polity.
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The Great Regression (2017) is published by Polity Press and is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.
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Conservative media is a tool built to drag opinion, among conservatives and the polity generally, to the right.
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Recognition and respect for personal freedom in a modern polity is an extension of that age-old wisdom.
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The primary threat against our polity is not from the Russians, the Chinese, the Europeans, or the Argentinians.
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It is a Goddamn miracle that any of us exist within the same polity at the same time.
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And then we will have a national polity with no shared consensus about the meaning of that nation.
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In the end, the press continues to serve a vital function in our polity as a guardian of democracy.
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The idea was not to let individuals reign over the American polity for the better part of four decades.
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And that's the kind of thing that's just fatal to that particular argument you find in The Macro Polity.
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But within the boundaries of our liberal polity, we're going to give one another the benefit of the doubt.
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Preventing billion-dollar hoards guards against the bad consequences of … having the best sort of polity that has ever existed?
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Until 21800, the US was categorized as a full democracy alongside countries like Switzerland, Canada, and Australia (Polity IV data).
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The British needs to give more power to the provinces and reduce the power of London in its economy and polity.
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Rather, their imported ethnoreligious customs and pastiche Indo-Saracenic design are alien, and therefore unwelcoming, to a diverse British Muslim polity.
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I see no overlay other than the fact that we're all Americans, it's about the American polity, and this is government.
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For their own party's sake, and that of the larger polity, anti-Trump Republicans should swallow hard and let it happen.
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The territory ceded to the kibes by the Metabolist-Silicene Treaty of 2042, the semi-independent polity generally kept to itself.
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Ultimately, communication, and with it survival as a polity, depends on a shared body of facts and assumptions about the world.
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With that in mind, here are three easy steps each of us can take to help build a better civic polity.
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Governing an international polity, and doing so while making money off the results, poses unique problems of both legitimacy and operation.
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That is the kind of meddling that I don&apost think he would like if a foreign leader did in our polity.
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Once there is only a handful of self-qualified players, we no longer qualify as a democracy, or perhaps even a polity.
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In AFRICOM we had strong civil- affairs components but they were designed as tactical enablers, not strategic transformers of a country's polity.
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As long as this continues, its economy will remain stagnant and its polity will continue to be convulsed by anger and resentment.
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Populist insurgencies are written into the source code of a polity that began as a revolt against a distant, high-handed elite.
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Washington cannot transform the Iranian polity by force or fast-forward history through coercion and happily, it does not need to try.
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He is limited in what he can do to improve Russia, since those moves would undermine his personal control of the polity.
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But there are other parties seeking out some of the powerful technology from the system to launch an attack against the Polity.
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It was, rather, an "ever-given political possibility"—a reflex that could occur in any polity experiencing a certain kind of pain.
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But I think that this play brings out the fact that there can be a conflict between the philosopher and the polity.
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Through the model of civic affinity, Ben-Gurion was able to ensure the formal inclusion of Arab citizens in the Israeli polity.
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In the longer term, it means cracking down on tax cheats who grow powerful by leeching our polity of its fiscal lifeblood.
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Lilla concedes that many Americans think of themselves at once as members of identity groups and as citizens of a national polity.
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Biden appeals to our better angels, but the Trump era has shown that those angels are too often absent from our polity.
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Prudence is the virtue of the statesman who is properly ordered to what is good in human life and in his polity.
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It's proof, in the poet's view, that his country has existed for a millennium as a culture and polity separate from Russia.
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That might not be such a bad thing though - films should be political, especially if they lead to conversations around politics and polity.
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"That's not something that I think the American polity needs to outsource, or can afford to outsource, to Facebook and Google," he said.
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They put the imperial line, whose members had for centuries been living as ciphers in Kyoto, back into the centre of the polity.
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Historical context helps remind an unsettled electorate of the stability provided by the institution, and that the polity has weathered such bumps before.
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Rejecting the "Divine Right of Kings" to rule them, they embraced a representative model in which rights were lodged in the polity itself.
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In a failed or dysfunctional polity, which lacks any of these qualities, a bad, corrupt, incompetent judiciary is usually part of the problem.
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The poor and destitute, however they are identified in a given polity, serve as enablers for the size and power of the state.
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The Soldier by Neal Asher With The Soldier, Asher begins a new trilogy, Rise of the Jain, set in his vast Polity universe.
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Along similar lines is Thailand's political model, where recurring coups have led to a military-dominated, semi-civilian polity that bars competitive elections.
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One, known as Polity IV, uses a number of indicators to rate countries from -10 for full dictatorship to 10 for full democracy.
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In short, the GOP has made it clear, in word and deed, that it has no intention of sharing a polity with others.
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Instead, Hayek argues, a competitive economy and polity is "the only system designed to minimise by decentralisation the power exercised by man over man".
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This is what is "conservative" about it, and also what makes it inclined to view the entry of foreigners into the American polity skeptically.
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A thorough and transparent solution would look more interdisciplinary: presenting empirical findings alongside the economist's larger policy goals and ideas of a just polity.
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Botswana's wider economy and polity are similarly constrained by outmoded traditions and laws, even though at first blush the country is doing astoundingly well.
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But his corpse still lies at the heart of the Chinese polity, in a glass sarcophagus on Tiananmen Square, attended by streams of visitors.
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He's quite obviously a political conservative, while I'm a liberal who's uncomfortable with liberalism's frequent timidity when it comes to remaking the American polity.
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It laid out the two sides' understandings on the existence, or not, of a single Chinese polity encompassing both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
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Glover's fantasy league is top-heavy with Republicans because she's trying to solve a problem that besets the GOP rather than the larger polity.
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The fact is that people are rich or poor, free or not-free, because of the ideas that govern their souls and their polity.
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Confirmation hearings are also about constitutional politics — the debate, involving both institutions of government and the polity, about what the Constitution means and requires.
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The Iranians are also interested in making sure that no self-ruling Kurdish polity emerges in northeastern Iraq or elsewhere that Iran cannot control.
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Notwithstanding her life's journey toward becoming a viable president, Hillary Clinton and her husband were seriously disliked by a broad swath of the polity.
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Put colloquially, social trust is the feeling that we're all in this together (where "we" is a polity, like the citizens of a nation).
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It would also take generations of reformers and a bloody civil war to incorporate more than just landowning white men into the American polity.
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"In a secular polity, issues which are matters of deep religious faith and sentiment, must not ordinarily be interfered with by courts," she said.
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That well-functioning polity does not exist today, but empowering the bosses of big businesses to act as an expedient substitute is not the answer.
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Hong Kong, too, can design a process to envision how to operate a successful, liberal society with a high degree of autonomy within China's polity.
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"Our polity has slid so far that we are now compelled to turn to fundamental issues in order to cure what ails us," he writes.
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As such alternatives were defeated or retreated from the world stage, the salience of democracy as a defining feature of a polity became less important.
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The constitution locks out politicians while restoring a dusty "bureaucratic polity" in which the army provides stability, the monarchy legitimacy, and bureaucrats keep things running.
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But one thing is clear: the crises that the Boomers faced—whether it was a fractured polity or a corrupt political class—haven't gone away.
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By contrast, "The Ministry of the Utmost Happiness" is about India, the polity, during the past half century or so, and its griefs are national.
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Of course each side in our polarized polity trashes its opponents for actions that, if taken by its allies, would be excused, defended or rationalized.
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I asked him how, in a diverse polity, he dealt with the tensions of what some call identity politics and what some just call politics.
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The current crisis threatens Israel's relations with Jordan and efforts to build a regional coalition to contain Iran, while exacerbating tensions within the Palestinian polity.
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This crisis, which long predates Russian interference, stems from a polarized polity where one party actively encourages its followers to distrust news from non-partisan outlets.
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In graduate school, I read a book called The Macro Polity, which was published in 2002 by political scientists Robert Erikson, Michael Mackuen, and James Stimson.
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In this analysis, I will rely on the Polity IV index, as it is the least problematic of the measures that present a long-term perspective.
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Historically, the issues that have deeply divided the polity — mostly race, but also issues of political economy — have run through the parties rather than between them.
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That is an unintuitive way to think in a polity that obsesses over the president's every tweet but barely shows up to vote in midterm elections.
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Progressive intellectuals championed the moral imperatives of free speech and expression as keys not only to an effective academic environment but a thriving economy and polity.
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Each was, or will be, painful for the polity, but that doesn't mean impeachment should be avoided when circumstances require a robust defense of the Constitution.
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As a result, an unelected government has a limited capacity to understand what is going on in its polity—and thus tends to make bad decisions.
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What can we do concretely as a polity to deal with these kinds of issues of moral status and consideration for each other and other beings?
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For instance, as of 2016, 59 percent of countries were democracies, according to the Polity measure — up from 57 percent in 2010 and 50 percent in 2000.
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Because if you wanted to use him as a grenade, you'd want him to blow apart the American polity and also the whole Western political–economic structure.
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The main reason the one-state solution is so controversial is the challenge of creating a secular, democratic polity given the existing tensions between Jews and Arabs.
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The resurgent nationalism instigating this tendency nourishes itself on the fear of migrants and social contagion, while cherishing the impossible ideal of purity within the walled polity.
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The bar of reaction and protest against them must remain high or else conflicts will get out of hand and we'll regulate ourselves into a testy polity.
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Heather: One of the sources for both my optimism and my pessimism is that the adjustment that has to happen to our polity this time is so great.
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So it's clear from this latest research that Trump is often out of step with climate science and with the public's perception of climate science and polity issues.
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You try to persuade others in this polity that your argument is correct, and they say, "No, my argument is correct," and if you can't compromise, you vote.
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The official name of Bolivia changed from "The Republic of Bolivia" to "The Plurinational State of Bolivia", plurinationality recognizing the diverse array of nationalities within one state polity.
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Evangelicals, for their part, are perpetually at war with darkness, defending a Judeo-Christian polity from the forces of secularization and the encroachments of other religions, like Islam.
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The US polity has divided into geographic camps, people who live around and associate with people like themselves, so distanced from the other camps that dialogue becomes difficult.
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Since then, they have grasped at the highly imperfect electoral straws of Iran's constitutional theocracy, hoping for a gradual evolution toward a more open economy and pluralistic polity.
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The 22 stories featured are all stand-alones, though several are set in pre-existing fictional universes: Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch is here, as is Neal Asher's Polity.
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Desperate times call for desperate measures, and so the Suldlom forces annexed their former ally, the meek Shabtak Polity, as well as the already war-torn Nharr Colonies.
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He presided over the grinding recovery from a financial crisis, the controversial reshaping of America's social safety net, the end of two wars, and a bitterly divided polity.
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Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities by Navid Kermani, translated by Tony Crawford (2017), and published by Polity Press is available from Amazon and brick-and-mortar bookstores.
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More than that, graceful concessions by losing candidates constitute a sort of glue that holds the polity together, providing a cohesion that is lacking in less-well-established democracies.
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Some of the first philosophers argued that a function of rhetoric is to bring us together and create a common polity in which we can make critical decisions together.
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Trump has reinforced the lesson of Reagan: that we live in a polity where entertainment is one of the main prisms through which citizens see and understand the world.
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No liberal polity could survive on the basis of individualism, which the French theorist, Alexis Tocqueville, author of "Democracy in America," said was just a modern word for selfishness.
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"Basic income" is shorthand for a range of proposals that share the idea of giving everyone in a given polity a certain amount of money on a regular basis.
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As they read the coverage, they will find a polity that knew of the danger and importance of climate change, but preferred to talk about Hillary Clinton's emails instead.
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It would take a massive Western effort to displace him at this point, and there is no guarantee whatever person or polity that succeeded him would be any better.
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Along with weakening the opposition, the factionalism has also brought to the fore an enduring malaise in Zimbabwean polity: its fear of single, independent women in the public sphere.
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Fears abounded: mass media would make us passive, manipulate our desires, corrupt our polity, and separate us from each other by substituting the private screen for the public square.
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But those whose views are excluded from public discourse are effectively excommunicated from our democratic polity, and in such circumstances the repressed tends to return with redoubled fury and ressentiment.
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She is frustrated by a polity that doesn't share her "thrill" over incremental policies that help real people or her skepticism of sweeping plans that will never come to fruition.
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If citizens in a democratic polity can agree on the facts, they should be able to agree about what to do, or at least their disagreements should be greatly narrowed.
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The classical statements are still those of this same Aristotle in the "Politics:" From within a given polity, dissensions can arise that have little to do with immigration or emigration.
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And you know I'm a great believer in releasing the energies of everybody in the polity and giving them all a stake in the enterprise of our shared democratic institutions.
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Every polity in the Four Kingdoms generates magic, which wells up from the intentions and labors of its people and invests local rulers with hereditary, semi-sentient spirits called Immanents.
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In the worst of all worst cases, they might even take up arms — especially if the ousted president refuses to depart gracefully and instead terrorizes the polity that rejected him.
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Or, like Jesus, can we also suggest that the Kingdom of God — also called "the Caliphate" — will be established not within any earthly polity, but within our hearts and minds?
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Like earlier Hammons shows, this one feels like a combined diplomatic mission from an ominous polity and a guerrilla raid by a force that departs as swiftly as it pounces.
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The spiritual argument that the drive to explore is noble, that exploring as a polity gives society collective purpose and individuals hope for the future, is deeply moving to some.
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When citizens cease to listen to speech but insist on rioting or otherwise silencing others, we know that a polity has ceased to contain a ruling body that depends on persuasion.
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Only when return on investment ceases to be the measure of value can the polity decide for itself what counts as valuable, what kind of activity should be rewarded and cultivated.
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However, the act that surpassed these efforts to navigate the American polity was just a simple, unexpected phone call from the physician who had denied me a test the day before.
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People like Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg are not the people who ought to be making these decisions for a democratic polity, but they have no choice but to make them.
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The more permanent this antipathy becomes, the more it is likely to challenge the very fundamentals of India's democratic polity, which, however awkwardly, has so far managed to accommodate its diversity.
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If only other senators would put the country's interests above their political future, we might return to a functioning polity where civility and problem-solving take precedence over invective and intransigence.
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He had a sneaking suspicion that a polity ruled by educated voters probably would perform better than a democracy, and he thought that some of the resulting inequities could be remedied.
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Many, including Tadamichi Yamamoto, head of the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan, view these elections as a significant next step in the country's slow progression towards becoming a prosperous, democratic polity.
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This isn't entirely willful self-delusion; it's based on the notion that separation through negotiations into some kind of semi-sovereign Palestinian polity is likely the least bad solution to the conflict.
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Now, 10 years later, polarized Americans claw at each other to prove that the other side doesn't have the right information, destroying friendships and the fabric of our polity in the process.
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Whereas Moses was a leader without a state and Jesus was a dissident executed by one, the Prophet Muhammad was a political leader who founded a polity, and Muslim scripture reflects that.
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But that doesn't mean the official hasn't been elected to represent everyone — that the people who voted for someone else, or didn't vote, or couldn't vote, simply fall out of the polity.
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A solar system designed by a long-dead civilization known as the Jain borders the Polity, a civilization of human-held worlds and the Prador kingdom, a civilization of crab-like aliens.
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However, they are framed differently by the news media, politicians, and law enforcement — as politically motivated and therefore existential threats to our polity, even when the motivation for the act is ambiguous.
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If we had an emotionally healthy polity, it would be completely easy to pass eight or 10 sensible restrictions to at least make it harder for lonely attention-seekers to get guns.
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Now the Union Jack has little appeal to me; it has been appropriated by Brexiteers, whose recklessness may in any case spell the imminent demise of the United Kingdom as a polity.
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Yet what does it mean to be French at a time when a brilliant young technocrat is elected president on his promises to restore a flagging economy and mend a fragmented polity?
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But by 1796, when Washington announced that he would not run for a third term, the polity had divided into parties, a development that the Electoral College was not designed to accommodate.
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And have those states become so willful, stable and risk-ready that they will accept Netanyahu's Palestinian state and compel the Palestinians to accept some downsized polity that leaves Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty?
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Our constitutional system focuses attention on a single individual, the president, who is, correctly or not, praised or blamed for what occurs in the wider polity during his or her term in office.
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Few of these states have had any more than a brief and often crisis-ridden experience of a polity in which democracy, rule of law and respect for independent institutions were the norm.
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"Our society is consumed by the poison of hypocrisy and by an institutionalized culture of lies," she asserts, arguing that repression is as corrosive to the polity as it is to the psyche.
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This could include negotiating a Status of Forces Agreement or new terms that would both govern U.S. presence in Iraq and symbolize a broader commitment from the Iraqi polity for U.S. presence there.
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Instead, he argued for what he called a "polity," or a regime in which popular will is channeled through representative institutions and political decision-making is governed by laws enshrined in a constitution.
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Even if the front end of war could be rationalized (Saddam's supposed possession of weapons of mass destruction programs), the back end (trying to turn Iraq into a pro-Western democratic polity) could not.
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We well recognize that our polity will not function as it is supposed to without two strong and vibrant parties whose goal is to solve societal problems within the rubric of our constitutional system.
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Consequently, over the last two decades we have allowed successive waves of mergers that make a mockery of the 1950 law, and have concentrated economic power in ways that are dangerous to the polity.
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Much of the book is devoted to describing how nonwhites and disfavored European immigrant groups in previous generations were excluded by illiberal nationalists both from the polity and from mainstream accounts of American history.
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This entails unifying the Palestinian polity and mobilizing grass roots support around the central objective of projecting the reality of Palestinian statehood on the territory Israel occupied in 1967, in spite of the occupation.
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However, to those who believe the salvation of the American polity requires a revival of the ideals of civic republicanism, to modify those of individualistic liberalism, Alexander Hamilton is at best an ambiguous figure.
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That reflects the difference between a democracy and authoritarian polity; but it also reveals the perils of calling repeatedly for a dictator's demise -- as Obama did -- without the willingness or capacity to make it happen.
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But a move to centralize, and a further weakening of national administrations in favor of "more Europe", is unlikely to work; it simply cannot be squared with a democratic polity which enjoys respect and assent.
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The long post World War II process of the knitting together of the global economy and polity featured two huge advances: the coming together of Europe and the integration of China into the global economy.
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Others claim that only those permanently living here and part of the polity are covered, since the framers of the amendment, adopted in 85033, could never have imagined either mass illegal immigration or airborne tourism.
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Other Armenian scholars perceive Azerbaijan's anti-Armenian destruction as part of a larger agenda of realizing a vision of pan-Turkism: an ethnically homogenous Turkic polity comprising Turkey, Azerbaijan, and their ethnolinguistic brethren across Eurasia.
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Undeterred, Mr. Lugar spent the last few years pleading, along with Mr. Hamilton, for a return to a less polarized polity that would seek constructive outcomes to problems like climate change and feeding the world.
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And unlike Trump, he recognized the conflict of interest inherent in a businessman leading a polity and stepped down as CEO of his media companies when he became mayor, not resuming until he left office.
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But the external validity of the Perceptions of Electoral Integrity Index has been widely tested in previous research and found to be strongly correlated with other standard sources of evidence, like Freedom House and Polity.
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This ordinary outcome to an election that was anything but highlights a contradiction between an American polity that by most measures seems to be in flux and voting habits and outcomes that don't always reflect that.
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Commenting on Macron's European ambitions, one senior EU diplomat even compared the French centrist leader to Charlemagne, the mediaeval emperor who united much of western and central Europe in a polity that did not include Britain.
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My colleague Tom Ginsburg and I recently mined Polity— a database with information about the democratic attributes of countries worldwide — and identified 37 recent instances in which the quality of a nation's democratic institutions shrank substantially.
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What is the Declaration of Independence but a document where the embryonic American polity casts itself as a victim of George III, listing grievances that can only be satisfied by the formation of a new state?
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I have to believe that we will craft a better politics and better polity that will come to reject the idea that caging children is a necessary part of protecting our borders or enforcing the law.
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From the Nero-esque Governor to those ravenous Terminus lunatics to Officer Dawn's actual police state to the predatory Wolves to the despicable Saviors, "The Walking Dead" has so far equated post-apocalyptic polity with toxicity.
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The initiative also offers removal of the names of Taliban commanders from the sanctions lists maintained by the United Nations and others, which limit their movements and hinder their inclusion into mainstream Afghan society and polity.
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"We need the money and, really, we need assistance," said Mr. Abbas, who presides over a divided Palestinian polity that has long depended on the largess of donor nations and that is in perpetual financial crisis.
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"If our society were truly committed to a democratic project, we would ensure that these debates are universally accessible across all major media so that all members of the polity could engage with them," he said.
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Aristotle's six-fold classification of political regimes from monarchy to aristocracy to polity to democracy to oligarchy to tyranny is in effect a theory of revolution, of regime changes from good to bad and back again.
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These politicians are largely immune to charges that Russian meddling in elections is damaging to their countries' polity and to democratic governments everywhere – since most of them have benefitted from Russian support, both overt and (probably) covert.
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Unlike other jihadist movements, IS set itself up as a standing challenge to existing structures, an alternative theocratic polity that expunged borders, plumbed new depths of televised barbarity and acted as a magnet for its death-cult.
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The answer, at least in part, is that Americans failed to consider how shock therapy reforms might contribute to inequality—which can, in turn, devastate the social trust necessary to sustain and consolidate a newly liberal polity.
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The vote to leave the European Union and the constant threats from the Scottish National Party — a virtual political monopoly in Scotland — to demand a second referendum on independence have made Britain into a nervy, febrile polity.
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African-American anthem dissidents are heirs to a venerable tradition of critical patriotism that dates to what W.E.B. Du Bois termed "double consciousness" — the feeling of being part of the American polity yet not fully of it.
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But if not a political movement, the church was a kind of polity, and the form of life it assumed was not merely a practical strategy for survival, but rather the embodiment of its highest spiritual ideals.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A new Australian political party is using the virtual currency bitcoin as a model to replace what they say is an outdated political system - representative democracy - with a streamlined new polity for the information age.
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Nationalism is perhaps closer to the essential core of the type of politics practiced by conservatives for more than half a century, because it is more explicitly about defining the boundaries of a polity against an Other.
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The abolition of enslavement posed one crisis, the expansion of enfranchisement, another; both efforts are works in progress, as persons of color, women, and others continue to struggle, despite setbacks, for their due place in the American polity.
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Noxious censorship laws even prevent the matter of the succession from being openly discussed—though it will be the most significant moment for the national polity in decades and seems likely to inflame the country's smouldering class wars.
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A series of explosions and gunfire that rocked Jakarta on Thursday marks a new style of militancy in Southeast Asia as the Islamic State (ISIS) increasingly mobilizes local terror groups to establish a global Islamic polity, or caliphate.
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So the European Union, probably for the indefinite future, will have to remain a looser form of polity than America, while nevertheless developing greater collective power and speed of decision-making, to confront immediate and longer-term crises.
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"In a nutshell, we take this announcement as an attempt by Putin to shake up Russia's polity and refocus the administration on implementing the president's well-telegraphed but slowly progressing public spending program," Citi said in a note.
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"In a nutshell, we take this announcement as an attempt by Putin to shake up Russia's polity and refocus the administration on implementing the president's well-telegraphed but slowly progressing public spending programme," Citi said in a note.
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Turkey, Poland and Hungary — and, strikingly, the United States — saw worrying attacks on democratic norms, but according to the Polity database, a touchstone for political scientists, the proportion of countries worldwide that are democracies is a record: 58 percent.
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The fissures in American politics, the anger and fear that we feel toward each other, the cracks that demographic change are opening in our polity, all of that long predates Trump, and all of it will outlast his presidency.
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The same thing is happening across Europe—in Poland, in Austria, in Northern Ireland, in every polity where strongmen are elected by a population easily swayed by promises to put women and people of color in their proper place.
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It ought to go without saying that no truly left foreign policy can emerge prior to the unforeseeable refoundation of the United States as a truly left polity—one, that is, committed to overcoming rather than reinforcing world capitalism.
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Many see it as an overt erosion of India's secular identity, and when paired with a "citizenship test" called the National Register of Citizens (NRC), could be used in draconian ways to exclude vulnerable groups from the Indian polity.
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Trump, who is expected to underline U.S. economic gains in his 2020 re-election bid, has frequently blasted Fed policy and said other countries are using monetary polity to manipulate their currency and gain advantage in the global markets.
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The United States Government, with the full support of our American polity, should quarantine their useless asses in a giant dome filled with soccer fields and other such equipments until they figure out how to kick the dang ball good.
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As the ceremonial high point of Vladimir Putin's visit to Greece, one of the few European Union members where he can count on a warm welcome, the Russian leader paid a visit to the ancient monastic polity of Mount Athos.
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So long as your polity offers mechanisms for eventually changing unjust laws, it's better to accept the system's basic legitimacy and work within it for change than to take steps, violent or otherwise, that risk blowing the entire apparatus up.
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To get it right this time, these same officials and analysts proclaim, the US has to stick it out in Iraq: staying in force, overseeing the Iraqi government, and tamping down sectarian tension until the Iraqi polity is fully matured.
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Laws of this type strike at the rights and the dignity of some of our fellow citizens: A great majority of us will be unaffected, but to others the message sent is that they do not quite belong to the polity.
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The United Methodist Church's rejection this year of L.G.B.T.-affirming measures, for instance, was less an act of exclusion than the result of the inability of that church's internal polity to keep pace with its flourishing ministry among L.G.B.T. Americans.
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Sending more troops to distant wars where our vital interest pales before that of our enemy to compel him to negotiate is a recipe for failure, especially in an open-ended strategy that must continually be accepted by a democratic polity.
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The resting place of many rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, itself a Europe-spanning polity, Speyer Cathedral was seen by Kohl as a symbol of European unity — a place he showed to contemporary leaders including Gorbachev and Britain's Margaret Thatcher.
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He was telling a story not just about how a demagogue rises to power, but a story about how there is a kind of justice in that rise, a sign from God that the polity deserves to be scourged in this fashion.
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The result is, well, this ugly mess — President Donald Trump, red and blue Americas, polls showing we fear and hate the other party more than ever before, conspiracy theories growing like weeds, a polity where agreement is impossible and everyone is angry.
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It already has done so for the two millennia of its existence as a nation, during which time South Koreans have maintained a separate proud culture and polity, yet have generally found ways to avoid conflict with their much larger Asian neighbor.
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Both center on an idea that adherents to a particular religion cannot be truly loyal to a majority-Christian polity, that there is something about their faith and ethnic identity that makes them want to subvert and work against their fellow citizens.
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At the end of the little unpleasantness that ensued, General Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington and Americans were free of our pettifogging rapacity and incompetent interference, and able to turn toward the construction of a new polity, founded upon a new Constitution.
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Mandatory gun ownership went hand-in-hand with strict gun restrictions, and in the emerging racialized polity of British North America, this meant banning guns among enslaved Africans and free blacks as well as strong prohibitions on selling guns to indigenous people.
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He can thrive only in political conditions conducive to the effective practice of these dark arts, such as widespread distrust of institutions, a polarized polity and a fractured media environment in which it is possible to construct alternative pictures of social realities.
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Therefore, in those instances where our expectations inevitably confront the daily reality of power rationing, grid collapse, exorbitant fuel costs, lack of electricity metering, and tariff increases a potent brew of disillusionment and pessimism overwhelms the polity, promising a strong hangover to boot.
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Most puzzling of all are left reformers who are continuing to push favorite procedural nostrums that have precisely zero chance in a GOP-dominated polity — pie-in-the-sky causes like abolishing the Electoral College, instituting the public financing of elections, or banning gerrymandering.
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A MINUS Nicki Minaj: Queen (Young Money/Cash Money/Republic) I missed this August 2018 item while homing in on Eminem's September album because hip-hop's bureau of standards brushed hers aside as inconsequential while actively attacking his as an offense against the polity.
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I know, as I type this, that these words will either fall on deaf ears or be ignored altogether by a certain segment of our polity (as well as those who are content to break out the popcorn as Trump burns it all down).
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The current state government of Jammu & Kashmir, a polity that ties the Muslim-majority valley to adjacent regions of starkly different complexion, is an ungainly coalition between a traditional Kashmiri party and the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of the prime minister, Narendra Modi.
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"Graceful concessions by losing candidates constitute a sort of glue that holds the polity together, providing a cohesion that is lacking in less-well-established democracies," writes Shaun Bowler, a political scientist at UC Riverside, and co-author of Losers' Consent: Elections and Democratic Legitimacy.
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In a restless polity, such single-mindedness would earn the ruling party a risky degree of unpopularity, but nothing seems to dent the P.A.P. It won an election in 2011, even though Singaporeans were angry over housing shortages and an overburdened public-transportation system.
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The answers won't be found if we accept that the differences between Democrats and Republicans are so great that we can never find common ground…in a polity as closely divided as ours…in a government with as many checks and balances as ours.
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In the opinion, the judge found that the census can inquire into the age, sex, race, and ethnicity of the resident, but not into the one thing that colorblind government should care about, which is who is a member of the polity and who is not.
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How we frame the question of the United States' relationship to Puerto Rico, either under the Constitution or under international law, responds to how we perceive the people of Puerto Rico, either as a foreign polity or as part of the people of the United States.
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Those for whom the imperative to "do you" feels like an unaffordable luxury may take some solace from Svend Brinkmann's book " Stand Firm: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze " (Polity), first published in his native Denmark, in 2014, and now available in an English translation by Tam McTurk.
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Epistemology is the branch of philosophy having to do with knowledge and how we come to know things; the crisis is that, as a polity, we have become incapable of learning or knowing the same things, and thus, incapable of acting together in a coherent fashion.
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Consider the most critical issue that plagues the Nigerian polity at this moment, a devastating menace that threatens the very base of national existence: the deadly exploits of so-called nomadic herdsmen, whose grisly clashes with farmers have claimed thousands of Nigerian lives in recent years.
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Saudi Arabia is a strange polity in that it is an absolute monarchy that functions simultaneously as an almost perfect socialist state, where most of the population work for the government, pay no taxes, receive subsidies for energy and electricity and enjoy free health care and education.
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Candidate Trump's stereotyping of African-Americans and his persistent demonizing of immigrants and Muslims leaves important segments of the American polity deeply uneasy, facing one-party rule by the same Republican Party that devoted itself this year to raising obstacles to full participation at the polls.
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In that location, in the space of a few minutes, Mr Putin was able to bring home to his guest the kind of state he aspires to lead: a worthy legatee of the self-sacrifice and military prowess of every previous Russian polity, from the tsars to the commissars.
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Or, perhaps Russian officials are waiting until after the election to dump information from the Bundestag hack – what Segal described as "a sword hanging over the German polity" – figuring that the information therein would work better to discredit Merkel than block her path to a fourth term as chancellor.
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He blames the EU's travails on the misplaced belief that Europe's peoples are so disparate—too many languages, too many histories, too little "demos"—that they must choose between an authentically democratic polity at national level and technocratic diktat at a supranational one devoid of a common culture.
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"Future growth in cyber premiums will likely come from more consistent polity terms and conditions as insurers gain better understanding of loss potential and coverage, better cyber underwriting models, as well as efforts to comply with increased cyber regulatory standards across numerous industries, particularly financial institutions," added Auden.
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Finally, for Israel's institutions that have so far acquitted themselves admirably in this historic process, Netanyahu's departure would provide a real boost of confidence and a lesson that others should heed —that no one in a democratic polity, no matter how talented or powerful, is above the law.
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But regardless of the ultimate outcome, when this tumultuous chapter of American history is written, the dog days of summer 2017 will hopefully be seen as pivotal, a period in time when the American polity restored its sense of balance and purpose, vindicating the wisdom of the Founding Fathers.
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They returned to an increasingly dysfunctional and polarized polity; to the financial disaster of 2008; to the mystery of what the spending of trillions of dollars in those wars had achieved; to stagnant incomes; to the steady diminishment of American uniqueness and the apparent erosion of its power.
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Even when a polity is at its lowest — as this town was sometime in 1857 when "an 8-year-old boy was seen crawling along the gutter on hands and knees, dead drunk, mouthing oaths and obscenities" — even when it looks impossible to undo the damage, rehabilitation is possible.
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"A majority of Maine voters have rejected that criticism and Article I (of the U.S. Constitution) does not empower this Court to second guess the considered judgment of the polity on the basis of the tautological observation that RCV may suffer from problems, as all voting systems do," he wrote.
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In an urbanized polity in which a handful of dense, multicultural metro areas contain most of the people and produce most of the wealth and tax receipts, our federal scheme of representation, which effectively gives extra votes to dirt in low-population states, defies both moral and prudential common sense.
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As a polity, we are in a bizarre place where workers whose lives and prospects have been damaged by the increasingly skewed distribution of wealth and income have helped bring to power a government whose most significant legislative accomplishment is the passage of a tax law that effectively redistributes wealth upward.
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In the Indian polity there is an effort to declare that just one version of that past history is the one that is supposed to be the correct one—and everybody else who tries to introduce complexity or critiques this idea are anti-nationals, they are traitors, they are coolies of the West.
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" For the next three years, the Episcopal leaders will not be allowed to represent the Anglican Communion at meetings with other churches or other faiths, will not be appointed or elected to internal committees and will not be allowed to participate in decisions in the Anglican Communion "relating to doctrine or polity.
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"A majority of Maine voters have rejected that criticism and Article I (of the U.S. Constitution) does not empower this Court to second guess the considered judgment of the polity on the basis of the tautological observation that RCV may suffer from problems, as all voting systems do," the Trump appointee explained.
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It's the country that at its founding was confronted with the practical need to stitch a range of different strands of Protestant Christianity into a single polity and came away with the higher principle of religious tolerance — a principle that helped make the country infinitely stronger over the decades and centuries to come.
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And, just as in the physical world, some problems simply require a clear response as swift and decisive as our available resources and best technologies allow, whereas others demand that we grapple with what we view as the proper roles and responsibilities in managing the all-important transmission of ideas throughout our society and polity.
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Medieval Armenia was not a centralized polity, and frequent foreign incursions — from the seventh century, when overlords practicing the new religion of Islam invaded greater Armenia; to the 13th century, when Mongol warriors raided the east of Anatolia; to the invasions of the Ottomans and Safavids in the later medieval era — were a constant threat.
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But, make no mistake, the beleaguered and all-but-written-off Netanyahu now has options -- from a National Unity government to his dream come true, a right-wing coalition that would transform the Israeli polity, muzzle an independent judiciary, undermine the rule of law and bury any hope of a negotiated settlement with Palestinians.
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Elazar enumerated the Torah's main requirements for an acceptable Jewish polity: It must be just, pursuing justice as an end in itself; it must provide succor to the less fortunate member of society; and it must be based on the consent of the governed, requiring active participation by its members in the governing process.
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The best guess is that the entire monastic peninsula was on the verge of veering out of control because of the theological dispute which had been gathering pace for several years; and there were fears in St Petersburg that Greece might use the chaotic situation as an excuse to expel all Russians from the monastic polity.
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The benefits of the New Deal and the years of government-aided, post-war growth had been met with malaise in the 1970s, providing fertile ground for the merger of market/monetarist economics with the dog-whistle politics of the then, so-called, "silent majority," whose offspring we are well acquainted with in the polity of today.
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An intellectually dishonest media, as mouthpieces for the Democratic Party, may try to spin the Sanders candidacy as the lesser of two evils, but the degree to which his policies would transform our economy, polity and society dwarfs the New Deal, Great Society and most certainly anything associated with President Trump, in both word and deed.
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With a few exceptions — Kenya, where a big experiment in universal basic income (UBI) is underway; Iran, which has a nationwide unconditional cash transfer program; and Alaska, which gives an annual dividend to everyone in the state — basic income programs are offering money to small groups of a few hundred or a few thousand people, not an entire polity.
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Though in itself insufficient to save South Vietnam, the election and its accompanying constitutional order represented a necessary first step toward reform, a blueprint for how a workable republican polity might have evolved, and perhaps the sole means of uniting the South's implacable factions, save their shared mutual aversion to the Communists' much more capable authoritarianism.
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The progressive response was that no, he was saying instead that (to quote the noted theologian Wiggum of Springfield) the Bible says a lot of things, nothing it says on abortion is definitive, and so even a polity influenced by Christian piety should leave both believers and nonbelievers alone to decide the fetal personhood question themselves.
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It's fair to question whether or not these experts — political scientists, in the case of many countries like the US — are reliable, but Norris and her collaborators Holly Ann Garnett and Max Grömping note that the ratings jibe well with those from Freedom House and the Polity dataset, two other widely used metrics of how democratic a regime is.
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And what we need to know, I think, Judge, is in a larger country, polity, we need to find ways of depolarizing this whole debate over abortion and start to focus on things like prenatal care, post-natal care, child care, universal health care, living wage, and shift the debate to really show that whatever your position, we can appreciate life.
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But if the court doesn't try — if it continues to refuse to adjudicate challenges to gerrymandered districts — and allows grossly politically manipulated district lines to stand, no matter how egregiously unfair and undemocratic they may be, it risks reaching the tipping point where no national governmental institution, including the court itself, will be able to command the respect of the polity.
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They had much to draw on: Pericles' ideal polity ("not the few but the many govern"), the Hanseatic League (a trade and defense pact in the Middle Ages), the Age of Reason, Adam Smith's advocacy of open markets and the division of labor to enhance the wealth of nations, and Immanuel Kant's conviction that "perpetual peace" depended on democratic nations' conducting vigorous commerce.
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In an email, Tribe wrote: The supposed "rights" of those who are upset or psychologically threatened by the homeless, the deinstitutionalized, or others similarly situated are what I would call second-order rights, rights that a polity cannot fairly treat as having as strong a claim to protection, as trumps that override utilitarian claims as is true of genuine rights.
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