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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on October 3, 1994. The length of the article is 415 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: A study by the American Tort Reform Assn (ATRA) indicates that plaintiffs' attorneys are evolving into a sort of third political party in the US through a political funding network beyond that of the Republican and Democratic National Committees. ATRA Pres Sherman Joyce says that the ability of plaintiffs' lawyers political committees, spouses and law firms to provide enormous amounts of money to political candidates, often in disguised form, raises serious questions about their effect on the civil justice system.

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Title: Plaintiffs' lawyers called 'third political party.' (American Tort Reform Association study)
Author: Steve Brostoff
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 3, 1994
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n40Page: p54(1)

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This digital document is a journal article from Electoral Studies, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Recently, the Colombian party system has undergone dramatic change as 'new' political actors have become increasingly successful in national legislative elections. This paper conducts a two-fold analysis of changes in the Colombian party system. First, the study explores several factors, linked to electoral and registration reforms, which have led to the increased share of seats awarded to 'new' actors, from 1982 to 1998. Next, it examines the substantive effects of those changes for the kinds of policies and issues pursued by new and traditional parties in the national legislature. The findings suggest that in spite of notable changes that have lead to a proliferation of new actors, the Colombian political system has not been radically changed. In other words, it is not evident that reforms have produced truly distinct political alternatives in Colombia. I argue that this is largely a function of incomplete reforms that allowed for the 'legalization' of traditional party factions and the persistence of electoral incentives that do not encourage distinct forms of behavior. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico, published by Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute on February 11, 2004. The length of the article is 1936 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: PRESIDENT VICENTE FOX'S ADMINISTRATION, GOVERNORS & POLITICAL PARTIES LAUNCH TAX-REFORM CONVENTION.
Publication: SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 11, 2004
Publisher: Latin American Data Base/Latin American Institute


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This digital document is an article from The Cato Journal, published by Cato Institute on March 22, 2009. The length of the article is 1473 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Small Change: Money, Political Parties, and Campaign Finance Reform.
Author: R. Sam Garrett
Publication: The Cato Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2009
Publisher: Cato Institute
Volume: 29Issue: 2Page: 368(5)

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Chapters: Reform Party of Canada, Ulster Independence Movement, Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution, Our Home - Russia, Democratic Party, Slovene Christian Democrats, Social Democracy, Political Spring, Communist Workers Party of Catalonia, 123 Democratic Alliance. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Reform Party of Canada (French: ) was a Canadian federal political party that existed from 1987 to 2000. It was originally founded as a Western Canada-based protest party, but attempted to expand eastward in the 1990s. It viewed itself as a populist party. The party became the more conservative Canadian Alliance and move more to the right in 2000, and merged with the PC party in 2003 to form the Conservative Party of Canada, which currently forms the Government of Canada. During its time on the Canadian political scene, Reform had only one leader, Preston Manning, the son of former Alberta Premier Ernest Manning. The Reform Party's agenda was profoundly influenced by its rejection of the dominant notion at the time that Canada was always divided between English and French Canada. The Reform party claimed that this thesis of two founding peoples was flawed and Preston Manning called for a New Canada with a new identity that would solve existing problems, and stated this in his book The New Canada (1992) and laid out a solution: The leaders of Canada's traditional federal parties continue to think of our country as "an equal partnership between two founding races, the English and French"a federation of founding peoples and ethnic groups distinguished by official bilingualism, government-sponsored multiculturalism, and government enterprise. The approach to national unity is to grant special status to those Canadians who feel constitutionally or...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=216395 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Australian Nursing Journal, published by Australian Nursing Federation on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 615 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Political parties must deliver on health reform.(editorial)
Author: Jill Hiffe
Publication: Australian Nursing Journal (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2004
Publisher: Australian Nursing Federation
Volume: 12Issue: 1Page: 1(1)

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An excellent illustrated history of the early days of the Reform Party of Canada. Contains photos of Stephen Harper in his early political days. Colour 8.5"x11" Reform photo of Preston Manning laid in. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on October 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1503 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: PRD: Refundación o división.(administración del Partido de la Revolución Democrática; México)(TT: PRD: political reform or chasm.)(TA: administration of Democratic Revolution Party; Mexico)
Author: Enrique Semo
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2000
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
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The lack of ideological depth and clarity of US political parties is often remarked on by observers. This book argues that appearances can deceive and seeks to introduce the complexity of the American party system to an international student audience. The text has been organized to examine the historical evolution of the party system and the forces that have shaped and re-shaped it. With this background established, the contemporary situation and scenarios for the future are closely examined. McSweeney and Zvesper focus their discussion on the main issues of party politics and interests, development, re-alignment, organization, elections and the electorate, parties in government and the debate over the decline and reform of the party system in the US. Essential reference information is included on the 1988 elections, and parties under the Bush presidency. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of American politics and government, and comparative party systems. ... Read more

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Campaign finance laws essentially prohibit political parties from fundraising on behalf of individual candidates, forcing candidates to finance campaigns independently. This system favors wealthy candidates and protects incumbents while discouraging challengers. In Better Candidates, Better Parties, Better Government, Peter J. Wallison and Joel Gora argue that allowing parties a greater role in campaign fundraising would strengthen the parties, attract more qualified candidates, and free officeholders to govern without undue financial influence. ... Read more

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A must read for those looking to better understand modern American democracy
Could restrictions on political spending actually be undermining America's democracy? "Better Parties, Better Government: A Realistic Program for Campaign Finance Reform" offers Peter Wallison and Joel Gora's opinion that major problems in American democracy stem from limits on campaign spending; the restrictions in place which all too often seem to protect incumbents, often giving them the election despite low approval ratings. "Better Parties, Better Government" is a must read for those looking to better understand modern American democracy.
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A thorough, fact-based theory on political party formation
How political parties form could be a subject too esoteric to gain interest outside of academic circles. But an understanding of what makes a political party, from intense policy demanders, to their long coalition, has merit to anyone curious about the American political process.The notion that American political parties are passing away is a widely disseminated one.Using copious amounts of statistical data, this book tells a different story. Hardly a potboiler, this book portrays the a history of political parties in an insightful way that will lead one to a different conclusion.You may disagree, but the authors have tried very hard to prove otherwise. ... Read more