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Party politics. Nonpartisan democracy (also no-party democracy) is a system of representative government or organization such that universal and periodic elections take place without reference to political parties. Sometimes electioneering and even speaking about candidates may be discouraged, so as not to prejudice others' decisions or create ...
Nonpartisan blanket primary. A nonpartisan primary, top-two primary, [1] or jungle primary[2] is a primary election in which all candidates for the same elected office run against each other at once, regardless of political party. This distinguishes them from partisan elections, which are segregated by political party.
The Nonpartisan League (NPL) was a left-wing political party founded in 1915 in North Dakota by Arthur C. Townley, a former organizer for the Socialist Party of America. On behalf of small farmers and merchants, the Nonpartisan League advocated state control of mills, grain elevators, banks, and other farm-related industries in order to reduce ...
Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Corona, and Democrat Will Rollins, a former federal prosecutor, meet again in this Riverside County district this November. The congressman, first sworn into office in 1993 ...
Nonpartisanship, also known as nonpartisanism, is a lack of affiliation with, and a lack of bias towards, a political party. [1]While an Oxford English Dictionary definition of partisan includes adherents of a party, cause, person, etc., [2] in most cases, nonpartisan refers specifically to political party connections rather than being the strict antonym of "partisan".
The Democracy Ranking is an index compiled by the Association for Development and Advancement of the Democracy Award, an Austria -based non-partisan organization. [1][2] Democracy Ranking produces an annual global ranking of liberal democracies. The applied conceptual formula, which measures the quality of democracy, integrates democracy and ...
The Bee spoke with nonpartisan analysts about why this 2024 race might become close. ... R-Roseville, over Democrat Jessica Morse, a wildfire resiliency specialist. ...
The North Dakota Democratic–Nonpartisan League Party has roots in the Progressive Era of American history. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, progressives – including lawyers, merchants, editors, and professors – joined both the Republican Party, which had strong control of state politics, as well as the state Democratic Party, the progressive faction of ...