Sentence examples for Political technology from inspiring English sources
There is one more factor to consider about the new political technology: the candidate.
The problem is that America's governmental machinery, its outdated political technology, is even more packed with perverse incentives and arterial blockages than it used to be.
They were trying to set up a government that would be much stronger and energetic than the one it replaced, and they did a great job given the state of political technology in 1789.
The United States, some other former British colonies (e.g., Canada and India), and certain Latin American republics that made the mistake of aping the Colossus of the North still labor under the disadvantages of this eighteenth-century political technology.
One institute brochure explains political technology: Students are taught how to face down hostile reporters with "the media skills used so well by the 'Great Communicator' himself, President Ronald Reagan".
"We teach political technology," said Mr. Blackwell, 61, who was an aide in the Reagan White House and rarely appears in public without a tie bearing the image of Adam Smith.
It demonstrated the degradation of Russian politics into a television-based virtual reality where tricks and political "technologies" trump ideas and policies.As Kirill Rogov, a Russian commentator, said, the press conference again showed Mr Medvedev to be not an independent politician, but a "minder" selected by Mr Putin for his reliability.
"We, unfortunately, have to acknowledge that crude political technologies do work — up to a point.
Over the past years, says Boris Makarenko of the Centre for Political Technologies, a sizeable number of Russians have come to consider themselves as citizens, not merely subjects.
Boris Makarenko, deputy director of the Centre for Political Technologies, Russia's oldest political thinktank, said that in time the low-key Medvedev could emerge as a real leader.
Yet, he added, given "the way our life is developing and the relationship between those in power, and people — political technologies, manipulation and manipulative technologies — maybe as time passes, our opera will become a reality".
