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A mandate is desirable for political parties, as it gives them leeway in policy implementation. [1] A party or candidate may claim to have a mandate, but it only confers a political advantage if this claim is widely accepted. [5] Non-electoral governments, such as dictatorships and monarchies, may also claim to have a popular mandate to rule. [6]
Majority rule or parliamentary sovereignty vs. bill of rights or arbitrary rules with separation of powers and supermajority rules to prevent tyranny of the majority and protect minority rights; Rule according to higher law (unwritten ethical principles) vs. written constitutionalism; Separation of church and state or free church vs. state religion
A diktat (from German: Diktat, [dɪkˈtaːt]) is a statute, harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor, or a dogmatic decree.The term has acquired a pejorative sense, to describe a set of rules dictated by a foreign power or an unpopular local power.
Mandate (politics), the power granted by an electorate; Mandate may also refer to: Mandate (after shave), British after shave brand; Mandate (criminal law), an official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; Mandate (international law), an obligation handed down by an inter-governmental body; Mandate, a monthly gay pornographic magazine
Governance is the overall complex system or framework of processes, functions, structures, rules, laws and norms born out of the relationships, interactions, power dynamics and communication within an organized group of individuals.
Autocracy is a system of government in which absolute power is held by the head of state, known as an autocrat.It includes some forms of monarchy and all forms of dictatorship, while it is contrasted with democracy and feudalism.
An unfunded mandate is a statute or regulation that requires any entity to perform certain actions, with no money provided for fulfilling the requirements. This can ...
The mandate system was established by Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, drafted by the victors of World War I. The article referred to territories which after the war were no longer ruled by their previous sovereign, but their peoples were not considered "able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world".