This change in Shiite orientation also reflects a very modern influence on politics.

Labour movements are particularly strong in Austria and have large influence on labour politics.

The picture is similar in Germany, where the overt influence of value politics is even smaller.

It was a period of violence and political turmoil with strong foreign influence exerted on Iraqi politics.

It stands in contrast to authoritarian capitalism by limiting the influence of special interest groups, including corporate lobbyists, on politics.

Throughout Iran s long history, Shiite seminaries exercised great influence on Iranian society and politics, but they had been considered civil institutions.

Gone are the days when military muscle and the politics of subversion could secure US influence in Latin America or anywhere else.

From mid World War I he had a major influence in Poland's politics, and was an important figure on the European political scene.

But, by re claiming a position of influence in the economies and politics of adjacent countries, Russia risks creating political tensions with the European Union.

The small landed class, however, lacked the political influence necessary with the king (and the dukes) to control the politics and legislation of the kingdom.

Under the influence of the information revolution and globalization, world politics is changing in a way that prevents America from achieving all its international goals acting alone.

We see the Occupy protests, we see spiraling debt crises, we see growing inequality, we see money's influence on politics, we see resource constraint, food and oil prices.

In a heartbeat, Cameron (who himself studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford, having previously attended that bastion of classical education, Eton) has signed away Britain s global influence.

This Confucian tradition aims to influence contemporary politics, but it also remains separate from state power and orthodoxy, always ready to point to the gap between ideals and reality.

For both camps, only great power politics matters for China s national security, and if diplomacy cannot influence the balance of power, there is little reason to engage with an issue.

IPED works to increase citizen participation in the Bulgarian government, limiting the influence of the mafia in politics, securing a fair electoral process, and combating corruption and abuse of power.

But neither France s near total control of money and credit, nor its strong influence over politics and security, is wholly responsible for keeping the franc zone countries mired in poverty and instability.

Unlike majority influence, minority influence can rarely influence others through normative social influence because the majority is indifferent to the minority's perspective of them.

In particular, the Buddhist priests, who are the guardians of the faith and have wielded much influence in Sri Lanka politics since the mid 1950's, were the least touched by foreign rule.

Thus, he may be reluctant to proceed with a dialogue with the Iraqi Kurds at a time when tensions with the military are running high over the influence of Islamists in Turkish politics.

Despite that, she managed to influence her husband to involve himself more directly in Spanish colonial politics, leading to the taking of Montevideo in 1817 and the annexation of Cisplatina Province in 1821.

Although the weight of global politics, economics, and, in turn, influence is largely shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific, it would be a mistake to underestimate America s role in the new world order.

Macro politics is structural, whereas micro politics is daily.

And, as Robert Jervis argued in Perception and Misperception in International Politics, published during the Cold War, the illusions that we create have an enormous influence on decision making even becoming a fundamental cause of conflict.

Arab artistic influence in Sicily mirrors the Lombard influence in the Mezzogiorno.

We influence our friends who in their turn influence their friends, meaning that our actions can influence people we have never met.

That subtlety reflects the distinction between macro politics and micro politics.

It researches the politics of law and the law of politics .

Minority and majority influence combined There is evidence to suggest that it is possible for minority influence and majority influence to work together.

The group's influence on comedy has been compared toThe Beatles' influence on music.

Homesick Politics

Blood Politics

Trading in influence

Later, the expression was used by F. G. Bailey, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, in his 1959 book Politics and Social Change , to refer to the electoral influence of the caste leader.

Advocacy strives to influence a program or policy either directly or indirectly therefore, the influence is being evaluated, rather than the results of that influence.

When I wrote about politics it was politics that was personal to me.

This is a good story, full of human drama and power politics. But I wonder whether, even within the next few decades, another factor will influence our work lives even more the exponential rise of applications of artificial intelligence.

Two other research teams have pointed out that the ecological footprint itself is nothing more than an important attention grabbing device, and that it is less a scientific measure than one designed to raise public awareness and influence politics.

I hate politics.

Blood Sport Politics

France s Identity Politics

Reforming Macho Politics

Women in Politics

We can influence behavior.

They will lose influence.