* Party History Research Centre ;

During Thatcher's only visit to the Conservative Research Department in the summer of 1975, a speaker had prepared a paper on why the " middle way " was the pragmatic path the Conservative Party should take, avoiding the extremes of left and right.

* In 1994, the year of the centenary of Menzies ' birth, the Menzies Research Centre was created as an independent public policy think tank associated with the Liberal Party.

Agricultural and regional interests, associated with The Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners ( Maa-ja metsätaloustuottajain Keskusliitto, MTK ) and the Centre Party, are researched by Pellervo Economic Research ( Pellervon taloustutkimus, PTT ).

The Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions ( Suomen Ammattiliittojen Keskusjärjestö, SAK ) and the Social Democratic Party are associated with the Labour Institute for Economic Research ( Palkansaajien tutkimuslaitos, PT ).

Though he voted for the Labour Party in their 1945 landslide victory, because he wanted to punish the Conservative Party for the Munich agreement, after the war he joined the Conservatives and worked for the Conservative Research Department under Rab Butler, where his colleagues included Iain Macleod and Reginald Maudling.

In a 1994 report Right Woos Left, published by the Political Research Associates, investigative journalist Chip Berlet argued that right-wing populist conspiracy theories about the Bilderberg group date back as early as 1964 and can be found in Schlafly's self-published book A Choice, Not an Echo, which promoted a conspiracy theory in which the Republican Party was secretly controlled by elitist intellectuals dominated by members of the Bilderberger group, whose internationalist policies would pave the way for world communism.

After a disastrous spell at stockbroking with Buckmaster and Moore, in 1931, 25-year-old Pakenham joined the Conservative Research Department where he developed Education policy for the Conservative Party.

The New Ulster Political Research Group ( NUPRG ) was initially the political wing of the UDA, founded in 1978, which then evolved into the Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party in 1981 under the leadership of John McMichael, a prominent UDA member killed by the IRA in 1987, amid suspicion that he was set up to be killed by some of his UDA colleagues.

He worked for the Conservative Party from 1966, first as desk officer and then director ( from 1974 to 1979 ) of the Conservative Research Department.

Historian Xiang Da then persuaded Yu Youren, a prominent member of the Kuomintang ( Chinese Nationalist Party ), to set up an institution, Research Institute of Dunhuang Art ( which later became the Dunhuang Academy ), at Mogao in 1944 to look after the site and its contents.

He worked for four years from 1979 as a Research Officer with the Labour Party.

Chicago: Committee on Education and Research of the Socialist Party of America, 1934.

) In this role she was a key player in the first stages of the ' modernisation ' of the Labour Party, and along with Lord Hollick, helped set up the Institute for Public Policy Research and was its deputy director 1989 – 1994.

According to Roy Morgan Research, Peacock's attack on the MFP did not help him politically, and the Labor Party used the issue to highlight division within the Liberal Party, as John Elliott and others supported the MFP.

Turnbull was Federal Treasurer of the Liberal Party and a member of the party's federal and New South Wales executives from 2002 to 2003 and was also a director of the Menzies Research Centre, the Liberal Party's research centre.

internal problems of the Workers Party New York, N. Y.: Prometheus Research Library 2000 ( reprint of internal documents from the 1930s )

It was established in June 1981 as the Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party by the Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) to replace their New Ulster Political Research Group.

Before becoming Deputy Leader, Bachand served as the Deputy House Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, as well as its critic for the Intergovernmental Affairs, Industry, Science Research and Development, and the Deputy Prime Minister portfolios.

The Indochinese Communist Party was formally dissolved in 1945 in order to hide its Communist affiliation and its activities were folded into the Marxism Research Association and the Viet Minh, which had been founded four years earlier as a common front for national liberation.

He also served on a number of positions as vice-president of the Central Party School and director of the CPC Policy Research Office.

* a member of All Party Parliamentary Groups on Ethiopia, Botswana, Tanzania, Great Lakes Region, India, the Falklands, Seaside Towns, Town Centre Management, Cancer Research, Cardiac Arrest in the Young and Animal Welfare.

The present Mayor is Élio Manuel Delgado da Maia, elected by a coalition between the Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Social Centre.

I regard myself as Left of Centre which … is where a Party Leader ought to be … It is no use asking, “ What would Keir Hardie have done ?” We must have at the top men brought up in the present age, not, as I was, in the Victorian Age .’

A 1924 right-wing German political cartoon showing Philipp Scheidemann, the Social Democratic Party of Germany | German Social Democratic politician who proclaimed the Weimar Republic and was its second Chancellor, and Matthias Erzberger, an anti-war politician from the Centre Party ( Germany ) | Centre Party, who signed the Armistice with Germany ( Compiègne ) | armistice with the Allies ( World War I ) | Allies, as stabbing the German Army in the back

The Independence Party and Centre Party were against accession to the EU, but only the Independence Party still wants Estonia to withdraw from the European Union.

Centre Party, Christian Democratic Party, Socialist Left Party and Liberal Party were against EU-membership in both referendums.

Centre Party and Socialist Left Party are also against the current membership in the European Economic Community.

Centre Party is generally considered to have the hardes stance against EU membership.

The Centre Party are also moderately skeptic towards the EU.

The parliament has, since equal and common suffrage was introduced in 1906, been dominated by secular Conservatives, the Centre Party ( former Agrarian Union ), and Social Democrats.

Fine Gael was founded on 8 September 1933 following the merger of its parent party Cumann na nGaedheal, the National Centre Party and the National Guard, popularly known as the " Blueshirts " ( a name still used colloquially to refer to the party ).

In the so-called Kulturkampf ( 1872 – 1878 ), he tried to limit the influence of the Roman Catholic Church and of its political arm, the Catholic Centre Party, through various measures — like the introduction of civil marriage — but without much success.

With accommodations to the Catholic Centre Party, Hitler succeeded in convincing a required two-thirds of a rigged Parliament to pass the Enabling act of 1933 which gave his government full legislative power.

Sherman's capture of Atlanta in September and David Farragut's capture of Mobile ended defeatist jitters ; the Democratic Party was deeply split, with some leaders and most soldiers openly for Lincoln.

In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.

He was elected as Governor of Tennessee for two terms ; all these offices were gained as a member of the Democratic Party.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

A. S. Roma was founded in the summer of 1927 when a secretary of the National Fascist Party, Italo Foschi, initiated the merger of three older Italian Football Championship clubs from the city of Rome ; Roman FC, SS Alba-Audace and Fortitudo-Pro Roma SGS.

From him it has descended continuously, through fifteen individuals, the title being increased to an Earldom in 1784 ; and in 1876 William Nevill 5th Earl ( b. 1826 ), ( d. 1915 ) an indefatigable and powerful supporter of the Tory Party, was created 1st Marquess of Abergavenny.

The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.

The number of ratification for the entry-into force of the Ban Amendment is under debate: Amendments to the convention enter into force after ratification of " three-fourths of the Parties who accepted them " 17. 5 ; so far, the Parties of the Basel Convention could not yet agree whether this would be three fourth of the Parties that were Party to the Basel Convention when the Ban was adopted, or three fourth of the current Parties of the ConventionReport of COP 9 of the Basel Convention.

As prime minister 1868 to 1874 he headed a Liberal Party that was a coalition of Peelites like himself, Whigs and radicals ; Gladstone was now a spokesman for " peace, economy and reform.

The story got around that he had refused to join the new party because he feared he would not be able to keep his Hamilton seat at a general election ; local Scottish National Party supporters nicknamed him " Chicken George ".

*" Rinkagate ": Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was arrested and tried for allegedly paying a hitman to murder his homosexual lover, model Norman Scott, while walking his dog on Exmoor ; the hitman only shot the dog, Rinka.

As of 2002, 50 % of Parties lacked one or more of the four major requirements for a Party: designation of Management and Scientific Authorities ; laws prohibiting the trade in violation of CITES ; penalties for such trade ; laws providing for the confiscation of specimens.

Canada, Ireland, and Portugal had right-wing political parties that defied categorization: the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ; Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and Progressive Democrats in Ireland ; and the Social Democratic Party of Portugal.

A major split between the Nationalists and Communists occurred in 1927 ; and, under Chiang's leadership, the Nationalists fought a nation-wide civil war against the Communist Party of China ( CPC ).

* Central Party School ;

* Central Leading Group for Party Building ;

* Central Leading Group for Protection of Party Secrets ;