
Elections
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office.Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organizations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations.The universal use of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern representative democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, …
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Coherent Digital · 26 October 2024 English
In recent years, scholars and political analysts have drawn comparisons between contemporary American society and the Weimar Republic, Germany's short-lived democratic experiment between the world wars. Both societies grappled with …
resulted in short-lived coalitions and frequent elections. The President had significant emergency powers …
5 May 2022 English
Notes of interest with links to documents in Cold War Eastern Europe. Links to photos, maps and compelling stories.
33/239 ??? Textual Gerrymandering of West German elections to prevent the National Democratic Party from … Succinct summary of the entirely predictable "elections" in communist states. FCO 28/835 115 Textual Contents … Soviet leaders casting their ballots in the Soviet elections FCO 28/1628 Visual Organization chart of Yugoslav …
AU: American University · 1 January 2017 English
The Cold War in Europe was intertwined with the Second World War in a rather circular fashion. The East/West conflict arose from the circumstances of the end of the world …
line, in exchange for promises to hold free elections. A year later, with those promises unfulfilled …
RU: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · 1 January 2017 English
1968 was a momentous year. In the West, it is primarily remembered as a moment of global youth revolt.1 Events in Eastern Europe took place within the context of this …
truly opposition political parties to contest elections.3 The incredible outspokenness in the Czechoslovak …
LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 1 January 2017 English
As well as heralding a series of momentous changes within Soviet domestic politics and society, the death of Stalin on March 5, 1953 also brought forward important shifts of tone …
organizations demanded rights to free speech, multi-party elections, a free press, and the withdrawal of Soviet troops …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
the Yalta agreement that there should be free elections in Poland; and on the part of some European commentators …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
the Polish Sejm were elected at the general elections held on 23rd March 1982 and in accord- f • VV' …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
RHETORIC BUT WILL ALSO INCLUDE IN ITS PROCEEDINGS ELECTIONS FOR THE PDPA POLITBURO, CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
of a new constitution later this year and for elections next year. CONFIDENTIAL /10. C O N F I D E N …