elective representation
1Elective dictatorship — The phrase elective dictatorship (also called executive dominance in political science) was coined by the former Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom, Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, in a Richard Dimbleby Lecture at the BBC in… …
2Elective rights — Two central issues for democracies are the right to candidate, and suffrage or the franchise mdash;that is, the decision as to who is entitled to vote. For example, Athenian democracy limited the vote to male citizens, while slaves, foreigners,… …
3Proportional representation — (sometimes referred to as full representation, or PR), is a category of electoral formula aiming at a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates (grouped by a certain measure) obtain in elections and the percentage of… …
4Jalan Besar Group Representation Constituency — (Traditional Chinese: 惹蘭勿剎集選區;Simplified Chinese: 惹兰勿刹集选区) is a five member Group Representation Constituency, and therefore an electoral district composed of several city suburbs surrounding the Central Area of Singapore, of which the street… …
5Colonial Mauritania — History of Mauritania Precolonial era Colonial era 1960 1978 1978 1991 1991 present The period from the mid nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries is the colonial period in Mauritania. Contents 1 …
6Tekena Tamuno — Infobox Scientist image width = 150px name = Tekena Tamuno box width = birth date = birth place = Okrika, Port Harcourt death date = death place = residence = Ibadan citizenship = nationality = Nigeria ethnicity = Ijaw field = Historian work… …
7Adeniyi-Jones — Crispin Curtis Adeniyi Jones (1876 1957) was a medical director of Sierra Leonean heritageRichard L. Sklar, Nigerian Political Parties: Power in an Emergent African Nation. Africa World Press, 2004. p47. ISBN 1592212093] and the pioneer director… …
8Crispin Adeniyi-Jones — Crispin Curtis Adeniyi Jones (1876–1957) was a medical doctor of Sierra Leonean heritage[1] and the pioneer director of the Yaba asylum. He became one of Nigeria s foremost nationalist as a member and later president of the Nigerian National… …
9United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
10India — /in dee euh/, n. 1. Hindi, Bharat. a republic in S Asia: a union comprising 25 states and 7 union territories; formerly a British colony; gained independence Aug. 15, 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Jan. 26, 1950.… …
