Under the impact of the market system, political rule in China now is not far different from the authoritarian model familiar to East Asians.
Both are following the usual French political rule: spend the first round securing your base, then tack frantically back towards the centre in the second.
But since he is a member of Mr Mori's own parliamentary faction, traditions of political loyalty may rule him out.
Today at Holyrood there was a startling departure from this fixed rule of political life.
Another effect that is heating up political conversations is the rule of behavioral contagion to the third degree.
Measurements of political freedom and the rule of law are only loosely correlated.
The only way to promote growth is to foster competition, both economic and political, and the rule of law.
The country lacks three of the fundamental requirements of democracy political pluralism, the rule of law and respect for human life.
The country lacks three of the fundamental requirements of democracy -- political pluralism, the rule of law and respect for human life.
Few things would worry the Kremlin more than proof that political freedom, the rule of law and sensible foreign policy work well in nearby countries.
The vote is expected to be a barometer measuring Vision 2030's ability to create a truly democratic political system respecting the rule of law and protecting the rights and freedoms of all Kenyans.
It is not difficult to discover the basic rule of this political poker: 'Stability' and 'order' beat democracy and freedom.
But then, that would be a serious policy idea, and the White House is mostly interested in the Buffett Rule as a political gimmick.
But in a democracy, it is the people who rule, not political elites, and certainly not those members of political elites who will not be here in the next election and the next Congress having been repudiated at the polls.
Furthermore, the main characteristic of the French political system remains - weak parliamentary rule.
More than 3, 000 people died or disappeared and are presumed dead because of political violence under Pinochet's rule.
Spills, coups and leadership speculation have become so embedded in the political culture as to become the rule as much as the exception.
The delegation included experts on labor rights and economic development, rule of law and political reform, ethnic conflict and reconciliation, land-mine removal, and criminal justice.
Jawaharlal Nehru, India's political leader to independence from British rule in 1947, and its first prime minister, was born into a high-caste Hindu family and became a resolute secularist.
For Putin knew that, unlike the communists, the democrats were the only political element in Russia today capable of presenting a coherent political and economic alternative to his rule.
In particular, we support the right to free expression, political participation, confidence in the rule of law, and governments that are transparent and responsive and accountable to their people.
Mr. Obama endorsed the political ruse he calls the Buffett rule, which asserts as a matter of moral principle that millionaires should not pay a lower tax rate than middle-class wage earners.
Acknowledging the real war of ideas in Egypt and refusing to play the by the rule of this devious political game is the only way America can reclaim her role as a defender of those people seeking genuine liberty.
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We all know what is needed -- a transition that is timely, new laws and a constitution that uphold the rule of law, political parties and a strong civil society, and, for the first time in Libyan history, free and fair elections.
Regime change in Iraq has included the destruction of the Baath Party, the political instrument of Saddam Hussein's rule.
As a general rule, such a powerful political coalition is able to work its will in the smoke-filled room of a House-Senate conference committee on the foreign operations appropriations bill.
Nonetheless, the most likely scenario remains that the Dilma government, reaching new highs in popularity despite a slowing economy, will use its ample political capital to change the savings account rule before the May meeting and so allow for a larger rate cut of 50.
Some Brotherhood political leaders speculated this week that the SCAF was trying to delay the transition to civilian rule and engineer a constitution that protects the military's political and economic privileges.
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