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Simon Hix is a British political scientist, holder of the Stein Rokkan chair in comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence. [2] He was also Harold Laski Professor of Political Science and pro-director for research at the London School of Economics and Political Science. [3] Hix is an expert in European Union politics ...
Delia Ramirez, IL-3. The Squad is an informal group of nine Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives. [ 1 ] The Squad is known for being among the most progressive and left-wing members of the United States Congress. The squad was initially composed of four women under age 50, [ 2 ] elected in the 2018 United States House of ...
The electoral threshold, or election threshold, is the minimum share of votes that a candidate or political party requires before they become entitled to representation or additional seats in a legislature. This limit can operate in various ways, e.g. in party-list proportional representation systems where an electoral threshold requires that a ...
Ranking member. In United States politics, a ranking member is the most senior member of a congressional or state legislative committee from the minority party. [1] On many committees the ranking minority member, along with the Chair, serve as ex officio members of all of the committee's subcommittees. Both the United States Senate [2] and ...
Historical institutionalism (HI) is a new institutionalist social science approach [1] that emphasizes how timing, sequences and path dependence affect institutions, and shape social, political, economic behavior and change.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) [a] is the Democratic Hill committee for the United States House of Representatives, working to elect Democrats to that body. [1] The DCCC recruits candidates, raises funds and organizes races in districts expected to yield politically notable or close elections.
In the European Union, there are two sources of democratic legitimacy: the European Parliament, chosen by the electorates of the individual EU countries; and the Council of the European Union (the "Council of Ministers"), together with the European Council (of heads of national governments), that represent the peoples of the individual states.
That means supporting state-owned enterprises and other domestic firms, giving them a leg up in the market as they compete against foreign firms for a piece of China's shrinking economic pie ...