( NewSouth Books, 2003 ); For Communities to Work ( Kettering Foundation, 2002 ); Politics for People: Finding a Responsible Public Voice ( University of Illinois Press, 1999 ); and Is There a Public for Public Schools?

The Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms defines the term Alford plea as: " A plea under which a defendant may choose to plead guilty, not because of an admission to the crime, but because the prosecutor has sufficient evidence to place a charge and to obtain conviction in court.

For American Christians, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics notes: " The GSS ... has asked a born-again question on three occasions ... ' Would you say you have been ' born again ' or have had a ' born-again ' experience?

In a policy document entitled New Politics, deputy Hogan has suggested creating a country with " a smaller, more dynamic and more responsive political system ," reducing the size of the Dáil by 20, changing the way the Dáil works, and in a controversial move, abolishing the Irish senate, Seanad Éireann.

Politics of Liberia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic modeled on the government of the United States, whereby the President is the head of state and head of government ; unlike the United States, however, Liberia is a unitary state as opposed to a federation and has a pluriform rather than the two-party system that characterizes US politics.

In Government and Politics in Southeast Asia ' The executive branch has tended to dominate political activity, with the Prime Minister's office being in a position to preside " over an extensive and ever growing array of powers to take action against individuals or organizations ," and " facilitate business opportunities ".

Politics of Pakistan () have taken place in the framework of a federal republic, where the system of government has at times been parliamentary, presidential, or semi-presidential.

Politics of Palau takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, where by the President of Palau is both head of state and head of government, and Palau currently has no political parties.

Politics in the United States has become intertwined with sexually related issues, called the " politics of sex ".

The 17th century fortress-monastery # Buddhist monasteries | monastery on the northern edge of the city, has been the seat of Politics of Bhutan | Bhutan's government since 1952.

Therefore the EGP is now turning its attention to Eastern Europe – all these countries have Green parties, but in materially poor Eastern Europe the success of Green Parties is very patchy, except for Hungary, where the local Green party, Politics Can Be Different ( LMP ), has succeeded in getting into the parliament and many city councils.

Among his activities with the Institute, which concentrates in part on helping liberal candidates and politicians with re-framing political metaphors, Lakoff has given numerous public lectures and written accounts of his message from Moral Politics.

The 17th century fortress-monastery # Buddhist monasteries | monastery, located on the northern edge of the city, has been the seat of Politics of Bhutan | Bhutan's government since 1952.

California's legislature has engaged in some rather unusual redistricting practices ( noted in detail in Politics of California # Bi-partisan gerrymandering ).

Moral Politics has two different purposes as a book.

Once titled Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't, it has been rechristened as Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think.

Journalist Dale Van Atta has written a biography of Laird entitled, " With Honor: Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics ," published by the University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.

In recent years the university has also expanded to The Hague which is home to Leiden University College The Hague a liberal arts and sciences college and the departments of Public Administration, International Relations and Politics.

Its archive is at the Keston Center for Religion Politics and Society at Baylor University, Texas, so the parish's name has spread surprisingly far.

The MCR hosts a large number of specialists in Law and Byzantine studies, and the JCR has a high concentration of students reading the popular Modern History and PPE ( Philosophy, Politics and Economics ) degrees.

In August 2009, a source for news that started out as a simple blog about animal abuse at a local shelter, Racine Uncovered has leapt to the forefront of up-to-date news for the City of Racine, with special interest in City Politics and Crime.

This prize for portraiture of a man or woman " distinguished in the Arts, Letters, Science or Politics " has grown to be Australia's most popular and prestigious art award.

The college places an increasing emphasis on Natural Sciences, with students of the discipline accounting for approximately 20 % of its undergraduate intake, and has developed traditional strengths in both Music and Politics ; in 2010, there were more Fitzwilliam graduates in Parliament than graduates of any other college ( 6 MPs and 4 life peers ).

Politics is not fun and therefore has nothing to do with psychobilly!

Koch Industries has spent more than $ 50 million to lobby in Washington between 2006 and October 2011, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Politics on the island, however, has never been sectarian, and both parties have always had voters and members from both populations.

Herman has written about the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in articles such as " The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre ", Herman writes: " the evidence for a massacre, certainly of one in which 8, 000 men and boys were executed, has always been problematic, to say the least " and " The ' Srebrenica massacre ' is the greatest triumph of propaganda to emerge from the Balkan wars ... the link of this propaganda triumph to truth and justice is non-existent ".

In his 1946 essay " Politics and the English Language ", George Orwell wrote: Bad writers – especially scientific, political, and sociological writers – are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

* Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Comparisons have been made between Doublespeak and Orwell's descriptions on political speech from his essays Politics and the English Language in which " unscrupulous politicians, advertisers, religionists, and other doublespeakers of whatever stripe continue to abuse language for manipulative purposes ".

For his part, Hayek dedicated a collection of papers, Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, to Popper and, in 1982, said that " ever since his Logik der Forschung first came out in 1934, I have been a complete adherent to his general theory of methodology.

The Politics of Haiti have often been defined with conflict when strongmen have taken over the government.

Politics surrounding the 1866 war against Austria allowed Italy to annex Venetia, which had been a kingdom of the Austrian Empire since the 1815 Congress of Vienna.

* Clare Birchall, '" There's been too much secrecy in this City ": The false choice between secrecy and transparency in US politics ' Cultural Politics, March, 2011.

Lakoff wrote Moral Politics soon after the Republican Party's " Contract With America " takeover of Congress under the Clinton presidency, and his usage of the terms " liberal " and " conservative " is strongly resembles how those labels might have been used in the 1994 elections, the former having much to do with the Democratic party and the latter with the Republican party ; indeed, chapter 9, " Moral Categories in Politics ", presents Hillary Clinton as a prototypical " liberal " and Newt Gingrich as a prototypical " conservative ".

Perhaps the most significant works commissioned for the library were those of Nicole Oresme, who translated Aristotle's Politics, Ethics and Economics into eloquent French for the first time ( an earlier attempt had been made at the Politics, but the manuscript is now lost ).

Besides his books on the State, we find quoted various treatises on Education, on Royalty, on the Best State, on Political Morals, and particularly his works on the Laws, one of which, containing a recapitulation of the laws of various barbarian as well as Greek states, was intended to be a companion to Aristotle's outline of Politics, and must have been similar to it.

remarks that this chapter is even less traditional than those it follows, not only in its treatment of criminal behavior, but also in the advice to take power from people at a stroke, noting that precisely the opposite had been advised by Aristotle in his Politics ( 5. 11. 1315a13 ).

The New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College brings hundreds of dignitaries and politicians to Goffstown annually, most notably for the New Hampshire primary presidential debates, which have been held at the college since 2004.

Politics in Edison since the 2005 mayoral election have been polarized by an attempt by retail giant Walmart to open a store in central Edison near the junction of Interstate 287 and New Jersey Route 27.

Politics in the City of Lorain have traditionally been closely tied to the local Democratic Party.

The race had been ranked as " leaning Democratic " by CQ Politics, but Buchanan scored a very narrow victory, winning the election by a few hundred votes.

* Clare Birchall, '" There's been too much secrecy in this city ": The False Choice between Secrecy and Transparency in US Politics ', Cultural Politics, March 2011.

The " Garaudy Affair " had been revealed in January 1996 by the Canard enchaîné satirical newspaper, which prompted a series of denunciations against his book, " The Foundational Myths of Israeli Politics ," and led Garaudy to be charged of negationism ( before being convicted in 1998, under the 1990 Gayssot Act ).

Since November 2010, Clarke has also been Visiting Professor of Politics and Faith in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University.