Examples of Democratic presidential republic in the following topics:
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- The United States is a democratic presidential republic: a democratic government headed by a powerful elected executive, the president.
- Hereditary rule is often a common characteristic, but elective monarchies are also considered monarchies (e.g., The Pope) and some states have hereditary rulers, but are considered republics (e.g., the Dutch Republic).
- Blue represents full presidential republics, while green and yellow are presidential republics with less powerful presidents.
- Orange represents parliamentary republics.
- Brown represents single-party republics, green shows countries where government has been suspended (e.g., military dictatorships), and grey countries do not fit any of the above categories.
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- The United States is a federal constitutional republic in which the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments.
- The United States is a federal constitutional republic in which the President of the United States (the head of state and government), Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments.
- The modern political party system in the United States is a two-party system dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
- These two parties have won every United States presidential election since 1852, and have controlled the United States Congress since at least 1856.
- Among the two major parties, the Democratic Party generally positions itself as left-of-center in American politics and supports a liberal platform, while the Republican Party generally positions itself as right-of-center and supports a conservative platform.
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- Orange countries are parliamentary republics.
- Green, yellow, and blue are presidential republics with less (green) or more (blue) presidential power.
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- In the United States, transfers of authority generally occur after presidential elections.
- A presidential transition refers to the period of time between the end of a presidential election and the inauguration of a new president.
- In the United States, the presidential transition extends from the date of the presidential election, in early November, until the twentieth day of January in the following year.
- During a presidential transition, the outgoing president, also known as the "lame duck," has lost many of the intangible benefits of a presidency.
- As a project, transitional justice has a number of goals, including rebuilding social trust, repairing a fractured judicial system, and building a democratic system of governance.
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- The large majority of African Americans support the Democratic Party.
- In the 2004 Presidential Election, Democrat John Kerry received 88 percent of the African American vote, compared to 11 percent for Republican George W.
- The African American trend of voting for Democrats can be traced back to the 1930s during the Great Depression, when Franklin D.
- The African American vote became even more solidly Democratic when Democratic presidents John F.
- This is a chart illustrating voter turnout by race for the 2008 Presidential Election using data from the U.S.
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- Social democrats propose selective nationalisation of key national industries in mixed economies, while maintaining private ownership of capital and private business enterprise.
- Social democrats also promote tax-funded welfare programs and regulation of markets.
- The People's Republic of China, North Korea, Laos and Vietnam are Asian states remaining from the first wave of socialism in the 20th century.
- Communist candidate Dimitris Christofias won a crucial presidential runoff in w: Cyprus, defeating his conservative rival with a majority of 53% of the vote.
- In France, the Revolutionary Communist League candidate in the 2007 presidential election, Olivier Besancenot, received 1,498,581 votes, 4.08%, double that of the Communist candidate.
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- In the 2008 presidential election, 76.2% of graduate degree holders voted, while only 23.4% of people without high school degrees voted.
- An illustration of this is the presidential election between George W.
- Identity politics is a phenomenon that arose first at the radical margins of liberal democratic societies in which human rights are recognized, and the term is not usually used to refer to dissident movements within single-party or authoritarian states.
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- The most common system that is deemed democratic in the modern world is parliamentary democracy in which the voting public takes part in elections and chooses politicians to represent them in a legislative assembly.
- Democracy is often confused with the republic form of government.
- In some definitions of republic, a republic is a form of democracy.
- Other definitions make republic a separate, unrelated term.
- However, the democratic principle has also been expressed as "the freedom to call something into being which did not exist before, which was not given … and which therefore, strictly speaking, could not be known. " This type of freedom, which is connected to human natality, or the capacity to begin anew, sees democracy as "not only a political system… [but] an ideal, an aspiration, really, intimately connected to and dependent upon a picture of what it is to be human—of what it is a human should be to be fully human. "
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- Angela Merkel is the first female Chancellor of Germany and Chairwoman of Christian Democratic Union.
- In South Asia, Benzir Bhutto, a democratic socialist, served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988-1990 and then again from 1993-1996.
- Even in democratic societies in which gender equality is legally mandated, gender discrimination occurs in politics, both in regards to presumptions about political allegiances that fall along gender lines, and disparate gender representation within representative democracies.
- In the primary season, New York Senator Hillary Clinton ran against future President Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination.
- Commentary about the role of gender in the 2008 presidential election further snowballed when Republican presidential nominee John McCain chose female Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate.
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- However, there are two main parties in presidential contention:
- Thus, for an American to say that he or she is a member of the Democratic or Republican party, is quite different from a Briton's stating that he or she is a member of the Labour party.
- At the federal level, each of the two major parties has a national committee (See, Democratic National Committee, Republican National Committee) that acts as the hub for much of the fund-raising and campaign activities, particularly in presidential campaigns.
- The map below shows the results of the 2008 Presidential Election in the United States, illustrating the strength of the two major parties varies by geographic region in the U.S., with Republicans stronger in the South, Midwest, and some Mountain states while Democrats are stronger along the coasts.
- The Electoral College results of the 2012 Presidential Election in the U.S.