Why is support for social democratic parties falling everywhere in Europe, just when we are in a recession?
Besides, social democratic parties were in trouble all over Europe.
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The right-left divide, a product of the 1988 merger of the Liberal and Social Democratic parties, means the Lib Dems have no clear identity on which to draw when making policy.
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Instead, they should copy successful social democratic parties in places like Sweden and Denmark, and reform welfare systems to link receipt of benefits to paying taxes, and cracking down on benefit fraud.
If they lose the March 26th election in Rhineland-Palatinate, the only big state that still has a Social Democratic premier, both parties may start to have second thoughts about the grand coalition: the Social Democrats because they are losing votes, the Christian Democrats because they may be tempted to call a new federal election.
Aubyn, as social satirist, likes parties: he quickly gets to work on his grinning corpses.
"I'm not siding with anyone - I'd like parties and social forces to side with ideas, " he said.
Dinner parties and social gatherings brim with political gossip and strong opinions on everything from international policymaking to an arcane section of an energy bill.
Crews are brought together via parties and social functions.
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More than 50 percent of those with sinusitis said they'd inhaled secondhand smoke at private parties and social functions, compared with just 28 percent of those who did not have sinusitis, for instance.
It may not seem like a big deal to get together now and then, but it can mean the world to someone who has little social activity and few parties in her life.
Social organizations scale from small parties of a few adventurers to player nations inhabited by thousands.
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Mr Vande Lanotte, who is also a Flemish Social Democrat, said the parties would have to agree eventually.
Two opposition parties - the Social Democrats and the Greens - abstained, while the Left Party voted against.
In the 40 years before Mr Chavez's election last December, power had oscillated between two parties, one social democratic, the other Christian democratic.
Several lines of high-quality (and relatively high price-point) designer clothes are being sold at small social gatherings reminiscent of Tupperware parties, or one on one.
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Small religious parties seek greater social spending for their constituents, while a party representing secular Russian Jews focuses on undermining a law exempting ultra-Orthodox Israelis from military service.
Whereas polls in the past showed Democrats with a 20-point or more advantage on the question of which party would best handle Social Security, now the parties are running close to even.
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The social constraints at most of these parties make opening up and being real a tough challenge.
Or at parties, where the social strain of a couple being "on display" leads one spouse to seek refuge in the punch bowl, the other in the corner.
Traditional parties such as the Social Christians were weakened but their place has been taken by forces hardly more congenial to Mr Correa, including those of Mr Noboa.
Germans may well grumble, but they will be faced with a fait accompli accepted, almost certainly, by a majority in all the main parties including the opposition Social Democrats.
What better way to get their name in the paper, generate some buzz via social media and be mentioned at cocktail parties without going to jail?
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The new coalition is an odd-looking assortment of Christian Democrats and free-market liberals of the Democratic Union, plus a gaggle of Greens (themselves a front of three separate parties), conservatives and social democrats.
Although Sweden's Social Democrats, unlike other left-wing parties in Europe, never nationalised big swathes of industry, the government still has large shareholdings it could sell.
The former Philippine First Lady celebrated her 70th birthday with four days of sumptuous parties that attracted the cream of the social set.
Whenever left-leaning parties brought up a new issue or social program, the LDP would co-opt it and integrate it into their small-government framework.
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Luckily for me, it already exists in the concept of social business as an integrated view of collaboration across parties within and beyond the organization.
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Unlike in previous elections, the parties' campaigns have focused largely on social and economic issues, rather than the prospects for a permanent peace agreement with the Palestinians.
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Eventually Kotler came to see marketing as being about the exchange of values between two parties and, as such, a social activity, not just a business one.
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