A central goal of the democracy movement has been to eliminate the professional constituencies.
Currently, half of the members are elected from geographical constituencies by the public, while half represent professional constituencies like bankers, business owners, lawyers and other categories.
Ever since he was let out to campaign — knowing that he can be put back in jail at any time — he has held several neighborhood meetings each day, and has met for lengthy discussions with professional constituencies, such as academics, doctors, teachers, and businessmen.
He is not calling for a populism where the "community" replaces "experts," but for a better understanding of how knowledge "co-produced" among local and professional constituencies can lead to better health, science, and politics.
They observed that organizations experienced pressure to conform to their institutional environment because of the operation of coercive pressures from political institutions, normative pressures from occupational and professional constituencies, and mimetic pressures from other organizations with which they compare themselves [ 18].
Only 40 of the 70 members of the legislative council are elected by one-person, one-vote, the rest are selected by so-called functional constituencies, professional groups that represent industries like banking, law and teaching.
Since LegCo is a mixture of popularly elected delegates and representatives of "functional constituencies" (professional, commercial and other interest groups), its powers already weak are attenuated further by questions over its legitimacy.
As Leader of the Opposition Mr Cameron intervened after a professional huntsman from his constituency in the Cotswolds was charged with various offences of hunting a fox.
Below the leader there are three principal elements: the voluntary wing (comprising the local parties in the constituencies), the professional wing (the Central Office), and the parliamentary party.
Since the early seventies, the mustache, despite some memorable specimens (Rollie Fingers, Tom Selleck, Ned Flanders) and die-hard constituencies (cops, professional bowlers, Playgirl pinups), has failed to match the mainstream popularity of its questionable cousin the goatee.
