In the past month, the Kremlin has also alienated Mikhail Prokhorov, one of Russia's richest tycoons, who threw in the towel after making an attempt to participate in public politics.
What do federal subsidy rip-offs for green energy and Chicago low-cost public housing politics have in common?
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Indeed, the only politician involved in this game of political chicken who appears to have a reason to actually put the public before politics would be the President not because he is above playing the game, but because he no longer has to run for political office.
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Yet the demand for total cleanness could, paradoxically, end up fuelling public disenchantment with politics.
Non-citizens are forbidden to participate in demonstrations or express opinions in public about domestic politics.
Keralans became aggressively involved in public work and politics in an effort to rebuild their disintegrating society.
Justice officials said Ashcroft discussed his childhood and his faith, but he was not asked about public policy or politics.
In another sign of public disaffection with politics, only 69% of voters went to the polls, the lowest turnout since 1958.
Fifth we will set out proposals for increasing public engagement in politics.
Like his father, Prescott Bush, who was elected a Senator from Connecticut in 1952, George became interested in public service and politics.
These pockets form around public subjects: politics, law, economics and knowledge professions.
In a climate of widespread public disillusionment with politics, comedian and blogger Beppe Grillo is also making gains by capturing the protest vote with his Five Star Movement.
The report from the Hansard Society - a charity which aims to strengthen parliamentary democracy and encourage greater public involvement in politics - also suggests that 33% of people believed peers were elected.
For many years, as Microsoft grew, Bill Gates eschewed public relations and politics as tawdry activities unbecoming of a pure entrepreneur only to find himself up to his eyeballs in government law suits.
And again, that's a process we should all feel good about as Americans, so instead of just a public relations and politics and spin and the rest, that's a process that, as Judge Howard during our trial of Governor Tucker and Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, kept reminding the jury, don't pay attention to what goes on outside.
But it has the potential to alter the dynamics of public debate, and the interaction between politics, media and the public, beyond recognition.
Whoever wins, the hardest task may be to restore public faith in democratic politics.
The firm is a master of the "have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too" brand of politics and public relations.
Their family, which made its fortune from nickel mining, has a long tradition of politics and public service.
I've been around long enough to appreciate that in politics the public interest isn't always a priority for everyone of us.
The only way out of this crisis is to embrace the politics of public purpose rooted in the economics of Keynes.
Replacing the old guard of civil rights activists, black mayors are emerging as a powerful force in national politics and public policy.
New movements hoping to inject life into politics and public discourse have sprung up in the past year, only to wither within months.
Mr Gandhi railed against the "gross" centralisation of political power by the elites, and the lack of meritocracy in politics and public systems.
German politicians are constrained by a complex federal system, a sceptical public, messy coalition politics and jealous institutions such as the constitutional court.
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Politicians and unions have expressed concern about the job cuts, claiming they damaged the newspaper group's ability to cover Welsh politics and public affairs.
The survey was based on 40, 000 interviews conducted over the past eight months by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
His knowledge of Italian politics, public finances and financial markets may make him willing to play games of brinkmanship, says Marco Annunziata, the chief economist at GE.
The second reason is that politics stimulate public debate .
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