As Tim Dickinson says in Rolling Stone, this people-powered revolution became part of the amorphous mass of partisan bodies and lost its edginess.
And, for an avowedly non-partisan body, its links with the Conservative party are remarkable.
The Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan body, reported that the deal would cut federal spending by $2.1tn over 10 years.
Going over the fiscal cliff could knock enough points off the growth rate to drive America into a recession, predicts the Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan body that analyses the economic effects of federal laws.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the non-partisan body that analyses fiscal proposals for lawmakers, announced that the Clinton budget for fiscal 2000 would break the statutory spending caps by $30 billion.The caps on discretionary spending (that is, all spending excluding entitlements such as Medicare) were last set as part of the 1997 bipartisan budget deal.
The second step will come only if the Liberals win the 2015 election, after which Mr Trudeau promises to set up an independent, non-partisan body to vet and recommend people for the prime minister to appoint to the Senate.Ending a 147-year-old tradition of party representation in the Senate was a bold move, and a difficult one.
An analysis of the electoral roll (as it stood on June 19th) by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), a non-partisan body, showed that city dwellers, who are more likely to tick the MDC box, were not nearly as well represented as rural folk.
More revolutionary still, ordinary citizens can now initiate legislation or launch an impeachment on the back of a mere 50,000 signatures, in a country of 60m people.The authors of the constitution so mistrusted Thailand's ruling class that they even tried to engineer a new class of politician, by turning the second chamber of parliament into a non-partisan body.
