Many, including members of the CDU, attribute Stoiber's comments and behavior as a contributing factor to the CDU's losses in the 2005 general election.

The Western powers appreciated CDU's moderation, its economic flexibility and its value as an oppositional force to the Communists, which appealed to European voters at the time.

In 1951 she vocally opposed Adenauer's policy of German rearmament and joined forces with the CDU's Gustav Heinemann, the former Minister of the Interior.

The German economy was also recovering, thanks mainly to the currency reform of the CDU's Ludwig Erhard.

An economic downturn, frustrations with the emerging leftist youth counter-culture and the emergence of a coalition government between the center-right Christian Democratic Party ( CDU ), the Christian Social Union ( the CDU's present-day sister party ), and the center-left Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) helped pave the way for those NPD gains.

These accounts were not listed in the CDU's reports and were obviously used to mask illegal donations to the party.

Since 1984, he has sat on the CDU's regional party council of Lower Saxony, serving as its chairman since 1994.

He entered parliament by being on the CDU's party list for North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany's proportional representation electoral system.

Following the CDU's loss of a majority in Saxony, this risk was alleviated ; however, North Rhine-Westphalia had been governed by the SPD alone or in coalition since 1966, so a defeat there would be perceived as a grave blow to the SPD.

Rüttgers has also been one of the CDU's deputy party chairmen since 2000.

He was Secretary of State in the Federal Ministry of Defence ( 2005 – 2006 ), and the CDU's candidate for Governing Mayor of Berlin in the Berlin state election, 2006.

Carstensen was the CDU's candidate for premier of Schleswig-Holstein in the state election of 20 February 2005, but the coalition of the CDU and the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) failed to obtain a majority by some 700 votes.

In a black traffic light, the CDU's color black would replace the SPD's red.

* the views and policies of the Open Society Institute, since they explicitly claim to derive from the principles of a major liberal philosopher, Karl Popper.

Four billion dollars of the spending increase is for defense, an expenditure necessitated by the penny-wise policies of the Eisenhhower Administration, quite apart from the recent crises in Berlin and elsewhere.

Kennedy administration policies also have been assailed now from another direction by 70 Harvard, Boston University, Brandeis, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology educators.

The unsatisfactory 1958-60 expansion, he said, was not due to inadequate growth forces inherent in our economy but rather to the adverse effect of inappropriate economic policies combined with retrenching decisions resulting from the steel strike.

As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican party, Lincoln found his policies and personality were " blasted from all sides ": Radical Republicans demanded harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats desired more compromise, Copperheads despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists plotted his death.

Lincoln spent many hours a week talking to politicians from across the land and using his patronage powers — greatly expanded over peacetime — to hold the factions of his party together, build support for his own policies, and fend off efforts by Radicals to drop him from the 1864 ticket.

Angola and Vietnam have steadfast partners as both transitioned from Cold War-era foreign policies of international communism to pro-Western pragmatism following the fall of the Soviet Union.

Extreme instances of persecution include the pogroms which preceded the First Crusade in 1096, the expulsion from England in 1290, the massacres of Spanish Jews in 1391, the persecutions of the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion from Spain in 1492, Cossack massacres in Ukraine, various pogroms in Russia, the Dreyfus affair, the Final Solution by Hitler's Germany, official Soviet anti-Jewish policies and the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.

All churches apart from the Armenian Apostolic Church must register with the government, and proselytizing was forbidden by law, though since 1997 the government has pursued more moderate policies.

* 1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.

Johnson's reconstruction policies failed to promote the rights of the Freedmen ( newly freed slaves ), and he came under vigorous political attack from Republicans, ending in his impeachment by the U. S. House of Representatives ; he was acquitted by the U. S. Senate.

Johnson was the only Southern senator who did not resign his seat during the Civil War ; he became the most prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies.

Many supporters of globalization think that policies different from those of today should be pursued, although not necessarily those advocated by the anti-globalization movement.

It also sets forth the redressing of socio-economic differences stemming from colonial-and apartheid-era policies as a central focus of ANC policy.

Constantius, renewing his previous policies favoring the Arians, banished Athanasius from Alexandria once again.

During the tenure of the government from 1995 to 1999, Thackeray was nicknamed ' remote control ' since he played a major role in government policies and decisions from behind the scenes.

Indeed the urban areas of the country suffering heavily from unemployment, which might have been expected to respond the most to the radical economic policies of the Liberals, instead gave the party its worst results.

Selig enjoys a high level of support from baseball owners, but has been widely decried by both the MLB Players ' Union for his policies and by the general public for presiding over the game during one of its most contentious periods.

Repeatedly emerging victorious from these decisive wars has allowed Britain to influence world events with its policies and establish its self as great power and one of the world's leading military and economic powers.

Under these new policies, the rate of inflation dropped from about 1, 000 % per year to about 10 % per year.

Growth in real GDP averaged 8 % from 1991 – 1997, but fell to half that level in 1998 because of tight monetary policies ( implemented to keep the current account deficit in check ) and because of lower export earnings, the latter which was a product of the Asian financial crisis.

With the establishment of democratically-elected governments in all Central American nations by the 1990s, Costa Rica turned its focus from regional conflicts to the pursuit of neoliberal policies on the isthmus.

Complementing these, the Political and Security Committee ( PSC ) brings together ambassadors to monitor international situations and define policies within the CSDP, particularly in crises.

Political goals include changing laws and policies in order to gain new rights, benefits, and protections from harm.

Political correctness ( adjectivally, politically correct ; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC ) is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, certain other religions, beliefs or ideologies, disability, and age-related contexts, and, as purported by the term, doing so to an excessive extent.

Political scientists study matters concerning the allocation and transfer of power in decision making, the roles and systems of governance including governments and international organizations, political behavior and public policies.

Political opponents chided his policies as " Trickle-down economics ", due to the significant cuts in the upper tax brackets.

Political involvement was minimized and loaning policies were changed.

In later editions of his Principles of Political Economy ( 1848 ), Mill would argue that " as far as economic theory was concerned, there is nothing in principle in economic theory that precludes an economic order based on socialist policies.

An early and prominent example of this was The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries by Piers Blaikie in 1985, which traced land degradation in Africa to colonial policies of land appropriation, rather than over-exploitation by African farmers.

According to The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought, the Right has gone through five distinct historical stages: ( i ) the reactionary right, which sought a return to aristocracy and established religion ; ( ii ) the moderate right, who sought limited government and distrusted intellectuals ; ( iii ) the radical right, who favored a romantic and aggressive nationalism ; ( iv ) the extreme right, who proposed anti-immigration policies and implicit racism ; and ( v ) the neo-liberal right, who sought to combine a belief in a market economy and economic deregulation with the traditional Right-wing beliefs in patriotism, élitism, and law and order.

* The Political Reformed Party ( SGP ), the most orthodox Protestant party with conservative policies: government is only to serve God.

* The work of the scholar of political communication Murray Edelman ( 1919 – 2001 ), starting with his seminal book The Symbolic Uses of Politics ( 1964 ), continuing with Politics as symbolic action: mass arousal and quiescience ( 1971 ), Political Language: Words that succeed and policies that fail ( 1977 ), Constructing the Political Spectacle ( 1988 ) and ending with his last book The Politics of Misinformation ( 2001 ) can be viewed as an exploration of the deliberate manipulation and obfuscation of the map-territory distinction for political purposes.

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.

Within the Council, there is the Foreign Affairs Council ( FAC ) configuration, essentially a meeting of foreign ministers and the Political and Security Committee or PSC, which monitors the international situation in the areas covered by the CFSP and contributes by delivering opinions to the Council of Ministers, either at its request or its own initiative, and also monitors the implementation of agreed policies.

List's 1841 Das Nationale System der Politischen Ökonomie ( translated into English as The National System of Political Economy ), which emphasized stages of growth, proved influential in the US and Germany, and nationalist policies were pursued by politician Henry Clay, and later by Abraham Lincoln, under the influence of economist Henry Charles Carey.

The People ’ s Political Consultative Daily ( 人民政协报 ) is the press window of information on direct policies and viewpoints of the CPPCC.

The CPB is a Marxist-Leninist organisation, whose main policies are set out in the Alternative Economic and Political Strategy, the fifth section in the party's manifesto, Britain's Road to Socialism.

While these philosophies do criticize these policies, general criticism of the economics of the consensus is now more widely established, such as that outlined by US scholar Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University, in his paper Goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion ?.

The society awards honorary memberships to particularly distinguished individuals and maintains reciprocal membership policies with similar societies such as the Yale Political Union and the Oxford Union Society.

The oldest was the Democratic Party ( originally known as the Social Credit Political League, and dedicated to Social Credit policies ).

Political activist and author Tim Wise, however, argues that the emergence of red-baiting may be motivated by racism towards U. S. President Barack Obama and fear that the progressive policies of his administration will erode white privilege in the United States.

These policies had been set out by their predecessors in the New Ulster Political Research Group in their Beyond the Religious Divide policy document.

Political scientists debate how much of this was due to Social Credit policies and how much was merely a " protest vote " against the established parties, but one poll recorded Social Credit with as much as 30 % of the vote.

* Political correctness, language, ideas, policies, or behaviour seeking to minimize offence to groups of people