While shows of activist art are not uncommon, this is the first major exhibition to focus on the actual instruments of direct action.
In systems of representative democracy, the introduction of instruments of direct democracy is not very likely, since they are regarded as undermining established power structures.
The Federal Reserve System exercises its regulatory powers in several ways, the most important of which may be classified as instruments of direct or indirect control.
That counter-balance is best secured through instruments of direct democracy such as primary elections, referendums, and an electoral system such as the single transferable vote enabling voters to exercise a wider degree of choice.
More than one of the instruments of direct democracy are also provided for and practiced on the national level in Uruguay and, more recently, in some of the Eastern European countries such as Latvia and Lithuania.
Although the party was supported by some wealthy western Canadian business leaders, it had a populist dimension evident in suspicion of traditional party politics and support for instruments of direct democracy, both in its internal organization and for the entire political system.
The exogenous characteristics of k, xk,g, directly affect j's outcome, but not (directly) that of i, hence forming valid instruments for the outcome of i's neighbours (i.e. j's outcome) in the equation for node i. Intuitively, this method uses the characteristics of second-degree neighbours who are not direct neighbours as instruments for outcomes of direct neighbours.
While most of Dunbar's fiction was designed primarily to entertain his white readers, in the hands of Harper, Sutton E. Griggs, and Charles W. Chesnutt, the novel became an instrument of social analysis and direct confrontation with the prejudices, stereotypes, and racial mythologies that allowed whites to ignore worsening social conditions for blacks in the last decades of the 19th century.
That said, Gazprom is a direct instrument of Russian state policy, while the Chinese [PetroChina and Cnooc] are just a shambles, with the government telling them what to do, says Charles Maxwell, oil analyst with Weeden & Co.
We nevertheless included those indicators in our data collection instrument, as we saw this dearth of direct effects on population health or health inequalities as indicative of a knowledge gap in the literature.
