If he wins this battle, he could hasten the passage toward cleaner, more competitive politics.

After 36 years of one-party dominance, Japan appears headed toward competitive politics.

The rise of a more competitive politics is likely to give ordinary Japanese greater influence in public affairs.

This is the first multiparty federal election in Yugoslavia's history, and most voters, as well as most electoral officials, lack experience with competitive politics.

The imperatives of competitive politics required that you ran flat-out from the start.

In the longer term, a new era of competitive politics has almost certainly arrived.

In both countries he should encourage more representative, competitive politics.

But she added: "We believe in competitive politics, not adversarial politics.

In a sense, in competitive politics, the common good gets lost:

For now they are banking more on perestroika's promise to provide for competitive politics in the next union elections.