Tullock, G. 17
Turkey 105, 147
Turner, J. 104
‘Two Swords’ doctrine 73
‘ultra vires’ 167
Unidentified Flying Object 239
Unilever 44
United Kingdom ( including
‘Britain’): centralisation 187–9;
comparable in part with ‘South’
131; communitarianism 99–101;
conservatism 92–5; corporatism
186–7; distribution of wealth and
income 234–6; electoral systems
173–5; and European Union
160–2, 163; interest groups
195–9; judiciary 179–81;
kingdom 34; local government
164–8; market economy 213;
media 197–202; localism and
ethnicity 107–8; political parties
191–3; politics curriculum 8,
247–8; socialism and New
Labour 97–9, 191–2; sovereignty
39; subsidiarity 157–8; universal
suffrage 87, 140; ‘unwritten’
constitution 181, 183–4;
voluntary organisations 195–7,
216–7; welfare state 141 see
also British Empire, English
Civil War, Northern Ireland,
Scotland, Wales
United Nations 40: General
Assembly 4; Security Council
41–2
United States of America (USA):
African-Americans 111;
assimilation 112; Christian
fundamentalism 82, 95; Civil
Rights Act 1965 112, 140;
communitarianism 99–101;
‘Confederation’ 163; congress
178; conservatism 94–5;
Constitution 181–2; co-operative
federalism 159; corporatism
186–7; democratic choice in 173;
direct democracy in states
172; elections & Internet 203;
electoral system 173; invasion
of Iraq 2003 121, 160; judiciary
180, 182; legislature 177–9; local
government 164–8; market
economy 213; media 198–9;
‘multinational’ companies
43–4; neoconservatives 94–5;
political parties 192–3; politics
curriculum 8; President G W
Bush 95; President Clinton 99,
100, 101, 176; President F D
Roosevelt 141; President Nixon
176, 198; presidential system
142–3, 146; race and ethnicity
110–12; Senate 178; universal
suffrage 87,140; urban riots 45;
voluntary organisations 217;
WASPS and agenda-setting
111, 209 see alsoAmerican
Revolution
‘United States of Europe’ 160,
163
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights 62
Universal Suffrage 87, 140
University of the Third Age 216
Ummat (community of the faithful)
83, 153
urban riots 45
utilitarianism 58values: policy-making 225, 236;
political science 9, 20
Venice 138
Verba, S. 105
Verney, D. 142–5
Versaille, Treaty of 38
videos 234
Vincent, A. 85, 98
violence: coups and revolutions
120–1; holocaust 75–6; state
use of 55; terror 79, 121–3,
149–51, 152; terrorism 22,
121–3,150–4;
voting: behaviour 124–5INDEX 279