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Jan 30, 2008 · The Opposition’s Basic Function. Under Canada’s parliamentary system, the basic function of the opposition is to oppose the government on a day-to-day basis (hence, the term “opposition”). In this role, the opposition takes on an adversarial role vis-à-vis the government. This includes routinely criticizing government legislation and ...
The government has a right and duty to govern. The opposition’s right and duty, if it believes the public interest is at stake, is to oppose the government’s policies and actions by every legitimate parliamentary means. In so doing, oppositions try to convince the electorate that they should change places with the government.
Jul 1, 2023 · To put resistance into perspective, when changes are made, one-third of the people involved will support the change, one-third will be skeptical and want more information about the change, and one-third will resist the change (Waldman & O’Reilly, 2022). There are multiple reasons for resistance to change, and understanding these reasons can combat such resistance and help inform leaders on ...
- Loss of control. Change interferes with autonomy and can make people feel that they’ve lost control over their territory. It’s not just political, as in who has the power.
- Excess uncertainty. If change feels like walking off a cliff blindfolded, then people will reject it. People will often prefer to remain mired in misery than to head toward an unknown.
- Surprise, surprise! Decisions imposed on people suddenly, with no time to get used to the idea or prepare for the consequences, are generally resisted.
- Everything seems different. Change is meant to bring something different, but how different? We are creatures of habit. Routines become automatic, but change jolts us into consciousness, sometimes in uncomfortable ways.
Nov 16, 2018 · To this end, we distinguish between two types of resistance—opposition and dissidence—in order to demonstrate how resistance and rule imply each other. We draw on two case studies of resistance in and to international institutions to illustrate the relationship between rule and resistance and close with a discussion of the normative implications of such a conceptualization.
- Christopher Daase, Nicole Deitelhoff
- 2019
Apr 21, 2021 · At the level of regime typologies, the uncertain status and inherent weakness of the opposition mark defining features of regimes beyond liberal democracy. However, even the performance and evolution of the latter tend to be shaped by oppositions and the regime’s approach to dealing with them. This article offers a bird’s-eye view of political oppositions in contemporary electoral ...
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Jun 28, 2023 · This combines three worldviews about change (Progress, Golden Age, Maintenance) that we propose (and show) are separable and are have different relationships with social issues, and theoretically it is unclear why it would be predicted that people would want to resist change when they believe the world is declining (and meta-analyses have failed to identify an overall association between ...
