Questions tagged [political-system]
The set of formal legal institutions that constitute a “government” or “state” including actual as well as prescribed political behaviours: not only the legal organization of the state but also the reality of how the state functions.
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Does the Far East has records of majoritarianism in its early history? [closed]
The Europe has a long history of majoritarianism voting from ancient Greek to medieval. However, I find no event of majority voting in East Asia.
By "majoritarianism", I mean strictly the ...
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What kind of government organization does Alain de Benoist seek?
Alain de Benoist's main focus is "identity".
This article says that Alain de Benoist is both a "conservative and “socialist””. A wikipedia article says that he is also a radical ...
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How does a member of the National People's Congress become the General Secretary in China?
According to Wikipedia, the National People's Congress (NPC) elects the General Secretary of the Party. This member is elected from among the members of the Politburo standing committee. This ...
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Are there countries, besides Israel, that declare themselves nation-states for a particular ethnic group?
The Israeli Basic Law, controversially passed in 2018, specifies that
The State of Israel is the national home of the Jewish people, in which it fulfills its natural, cultural, religious, and ...
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What kind of political system do Palestinian political entities want?
What kind of political system do the key players of Palestinian politics (Fatah, Hamas etc.) want to establish, as the next step after a successful resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?
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What is the best country according to Popper's criterion? [closed]
Karl Popper judges a system of government by how it removes bad leaders and bad policies without violence. What would be the ranking of political systems of countries in the world according to this ...
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Do American elections affect the level of US foreign support?
This question is motivated by the slowly approaching US elections and the current state of world affairs. There are various countries that now critically depend on US support (e.g. Ukraine, Israel). ...
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Role of economic developement in political stability?
Often it is given that rapid economic progress is one the things that make the Chinese communist party acceptable to the Chinese people. Can this be accepted as a given fact? Conversely, if there was ...
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left vs Right politics and liberal vs conservative [closed]
Can we say left means liberal and right means conservative ?
In history we see lot of counterexamples.
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Besides Iran, are there any other countries which have held referendums to determine the future political system with only one candidate?
On 30-31 March, 1979 a referendum was held in Iran to determine the political system of the country (Previously the monarchial regime had been overthrown on February 11, 1979).
But the problem with ...
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How do "opposition parties" in the North Korean parliament get their seats?
When looking at Wikipedia, I noticed that the Parliament of North Korea has multiple parties in the Parliament besides the Workers' Party, united under one coalition.
From the question Is there ...
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Political system fairer than democracy? [closed]
Let's say a country has 1,400,000 citizens. Elections are held about, for example, joining the EU. 1,000,000 people decide to do A, while 300,000 people decide to B, and 100,000 decide to do C. In a ...
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Academic/technical term to describe China's "The Party" [closed]
I've read a few poli-sci books that had large sections about China, and slowly it began to strike me as very odd how unwieldy it is to describe the institutional setup in China using formal terms. It ...
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How can the Citizens provide a Better Environment for Politicians when Facing the News Media?
I recently watched a rather old video from Jay Foreman that seems even relevant today:
Why don't politicians answer questions?
As he explains the reasons behind it, I wonder are we placing too much of ...
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To what extent does a parliamentary system correlate with a decrease in corruption?
I have noticed that there seems to be a correlation between a country using parliamentary system and said country having a low level of corruption.
Top 10 countries with lowest perceived corruption in ...
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