Voters have sometimes contrived to spread power still more evenly by electing minority administrations at both levels.
This, he felt, spread power away from the centre and fostered the emergence of democratic habits and a civil society.
At stake is a fragile peace process and ambitious plans to spread power among its bewildering array of ethnicities and castes.
The "collective Presidency," which spread power across the Standing Committee, had constrained Hu Jintao so thoroughly that he was nicknamed the Woman with Bound Feet.
Members would elect representatives to a new membership council to oversee the board and spread power from about 100 activists who guide the group.
Some less fair systems produce governments with enough power to actually do things, though most voters may disapprove; some fairer systems spread power so thinly that any attempt at government descends into partisan infighting.
An elected mayor for London and eventually for other British cities is part of the plan called "devolution" under which the Blair government has spread power -- "devolved" it -- to regional legislatures in places like Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
For many in the African-American neighborhoods on the North Side of this city, it was a chance to make history, to spread power, to open up the field of possibilities for black Milwaukeeans.
Labour is drawing up plans to spread power out to our cities, regions and communities and open up decision-making to make public services more accountable to the people who use them.
Each of its 336 articles reflects a strong mistrust of those in authority and a commensurate determination to spread power thinly and monitor its exercise closely.The document enshrines all the usual provisions one might find in a western constitution, and a lot more besides.
Victory boosts testosterone but what is less well known is that merely adopting some of the trappings of victory - faking a chest out, arms and legs spread "power posture", for instance - also boosts testosterone, Dana Carney and her colleagues from Columbia and Harvard Universities showed.
