The overarching desideratum of civic engagement has enhanced the public governance since the millennium, creating assemblages of diverse actors pursuing participation beyond representative politics.
We performed our study in four GP cooperatives that were spread across the Netherlands and varied in size and degree of urbanisation because we pursued a nationally representative study.
Other studies based on large scale, often national, studies had much larger samples of between 1672 and 31,044 so were able to pursue a more representative sample in most cases.
For example, in 1850 Congress passed a new Fugitive Slave law which required all citizens, North and South, to come to the aid of the slaveholder (or his representative) who was pursuing a fugitive slave.
After losing the presidency and seats in both houses in Congress, the House leadership initially wanted to focus on pursuing an agenda crafted by Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the majority leader, aimed at softening the party's image by moving off an almost myopic focus on deficit reduction and budgets.
The Bush administration, particularly Robert Zoellick, the U.S. trade representative, deserves credit for pursuing these difficult talks in an election year.
Grimm's attorney has accused the federal government of pursuing a "politically driven vendetta" against the representative.
Later, party representatives denied they had been pursuing partisan goals.
And to add insult to continuing injury, few elected representatives are actively and passionately pursuing this cause.
At the federal level, Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, is pursuing his own legislation that would prohibit employers nationwide from using credit checks to discriminate in hiring.
