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2 unusual facts about Balance of Power


Balance of power

Separation of powers, a model of governance characterized by checks and balances among branches of government

Consociationalism, a form of government involving guaranteed group representation


Arthur Coles

Coles was one of the two independents (the other was Alexander Wilson) who held the balance of power through the early years of the Second World War, and crossed the floor in 1941 to remove the hapless UAP-Country Party government of Arthur Fadden and install John Curtin of the Australian Labor Party as Prime Minister of Australia.

Calling America

"Calling America" is a song by the rock music group Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) released as a single from their 1986 (see 1986 in music) album Balance of Power.

Gillis Bildt

The disqualification of Stockholm's 22 pro free-trade members of the democratically elected Lower House on a technicality (one member's non-payment of 11.58 kr in taxes a few years previously) and the appointment, in their place, of 22 protectionist members tipped the balance of power and brought about Themptander's resignation, opening the door for a new leader.

Pyramaze

After listening to many demos, the band selected American singer Lance King (formerly of Balance of Power) to be their lead vocalist.


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1918 flu pandemic

Academic Andrew Price-Smith has made the controversial argument that the virus helped tip the balance of power in the later days of the war towards the Allied cause.

Belarus–Libya relations

In 2008, al-Gaddafi visited Belarus and said "The world has become unipolar because violations of the balance of power...Nobody observes the principles of the United Nations, all international norms are being violated."

Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth

Whitworth was well received by Catherine II, who was then at war with Turkey, but the harmony between the two countries was disturbed during the winter of 1790–1 by William Pitt's subscription to the view of the Prussian government that the three allies – England, Prussia, and Holland — could not with impunity allow the balance of power in Eastern Europe to be disturbed.

Consociationalism

John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary argue that three conditions are key to the establishment of democratic consociational power-sharing: elites have to be motivated to engage in conflict regulation; elites must lead deferential segments; and there must be a multiple balance of power, but more importantly the subcultures must be stable.

Death Train

Malcolm Philpott (Patrick Stewart), the head of UNACO (United Nations Anti-Crime Organisation), entrusts the mission of stopping the train and its deadly cargo to field operatives Mike Graham (Pierce Brosnan) and Sabrina Carver (Alexandra Paul) who are forced to form a reluctant partnership as the international balance of power hits crisis point.

Elections in Hungary

This election has changed the balance of power in the National Assembly of Hungary the most significantly since the end of the communist one-party system, as two brand new political forces could have got to the National Assembly while two formerly parliamentary parties fell out and the support of previous ruling party had significantly decreased (from 48.2% to 15.3% of seats, from 40.3% to 19.3% of votes).

Lionel Hicks

Hicks entered film production in 2004, producing the Balance of Power documentary Heathenology (in which he also featured), and the music videos "Chemical Imbalance" for Balance of Power, and "Sateen in Mind" for Tamrah Aeryn.