Taiwan's government has long discarded most of the fictions that used to sustain its claim to legitimacy over all of China: parliamentary seats for mainland constituencies, government bodies planning for the reconquest, and so on.
Which is, if you don't have a constituency representing that body of information going forward, you don't necessarily have people with the economic motive or incentive to maintain it continuously". He wrote "Storing Knowledge," as part of the preparatory material for the conference discussion.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service, which has had no constituency in the body politic and has been treated accordingly, needs to be equipped with information technology so that it can work alongside the nation's intelligence agencies in tracking visitors who may pose a danger to us.
For them, this is far more effective way to govern than publicly mobilizing different constituencies of the body politic against each other.
The ongoing irresolution of the fiscal challenge by President Obama and the U.S. Congress suggests to any sober minded person that politics as usual in our adversarial democracy, where different constituencies of the body politic are passionately mobilized against each other, cannot solve the problem.
Interviewees described how they monitored funding bodies' constituency and values.
While Young Alumni Trustees are elected by a defined subset of the alumni body, their "constituency" on the Board is not their electorate, but the University as a whole.
Conversely, whereas Abbas professes to seek peace based on a two-state solution, he is weak and his hands are tied as there is a significant constituency within the Palestinian body politic led by Hamas and other extremist groups that still demand that all of Mandated Palestine become the State of Palestine.
Above this level the most important bodies are constituency associations, which propose candidates on the basis of a nationally approved list.
In the end this mismatched buddy film set against the backdrop of major personal and political trauma won out, thanks to the power of the performances, especially meaningful to a voting body whose largest constituency is actors.
