Search results for: “interest group”
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Unrepresented Groups
Unrepresented Groups in Election Law Category of the population that can be distinguished by gender, ethnicity, age, social class, occupation, religion, disability, etc., whose interests are not represented, or are poorly represented, by their members within representative assemblies, […]
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The Function of Rights: The Will Theory and the Interest Theory
Main source: Wenar, Leif, “Rights”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . The Function of Rights: The Will Theory and the Interest Theory From: Introduction to Rights 2.2.1 Conceptual Analysis versus Definitional Stipulation All rights can be represented by Hohfeldian diagrams like the diagram of the part…
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Public Hearing
Hierarchical Display of Public hearing Politics > Parliamentary proceedings > Parliamentary procedurePolitics > Politics and public safety > Politics > Interest group Public hearing Concept of Public hearing See the dictionary definition of Public hearing. Characteristics of Public hearing […]
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Civic Education
Civic Education in Election Law Didactic programme that takes into account the relationship between citizen participation and democracy, in particular the role and responsibility of the individual, government, political organisations, interest groups and the media. The objective is both to […]
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Subgovernments
Resources See Also Political Participation Interest Groups Lobbying
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Amici Curiae in NAFTA Cases
Public attention to cases brought under NAFTA Chapter Eleven has grown commensurately with the increased numbers of those cases. While media coverage has increased, most of that attention stems from particular interest groups. Many of these groups are not satisfied with newspaper reports or government-supplied information available on the internet, but wish to participate more…