The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
First World First World is used less, but is no less useful as a term, than the commonly foundThird World, which describes the u ...
dominant in Western governments after the Second World War, the primary aim of fiscal policy was to produce balanced budgets, to ...
that the flexibility simply makes more credible, and therefore more likely, an outbreak of nuclear war. Though the period ofsupe ...
he developed a passionate concern for victims of oppressive situations, but especially those he considered ill-served by the mai ...
actually smaller than the minority which had approved the first draft. The main reason for this outcome was that the leaders of ...
Franchise The franchise is another name for the eligibility to vote. Conditions attached to such ability have varied both over t ...
by the sacrifices of the Civil War. Largely because of Franco’s own prepara- tions, Spain moved easily into a constitutional lib ...
an alliance is often termed a customs union. The most important example today is in theEuropean Union(EU), where there are no cu ...
would threaten a trade war, with punitive tariffs imposed by some countries on imports from certain other countries. The success ...
censorship, the media is dominated by capitalist enterprises, or the state, and thus rival, radical, views are prevented from be ...
on an almost entirely pejorative tone when its actual meaning is just that some people take the basic elements of their creed ve ...
G Game Theory Game theory is an application of mathematical reasoning to problems of conflict and collaboration between rational ...
Dilemma. One assumes that two prisoners are held in separate cells, accused of a crime they committed together. To each is made ...
negotiations steadily reduced tariffs on manufacturing products, so that by the end of the seventh round, known as the Tokyo rou ...
the leading figure in French politics, this time as president, cohabiting with a socialist prime minister, at the beginning of t ...
Gender Gap Social scientists suspect that there are a variety of gender gaps. In general, these all refer to a situation where w ...
seau believed that the supreme political value,liberty, could only be assured when each man only had to obey those laws he himse ...
politics were largely determined by geographical factors such as land and resource distribution, sea and waterways and so on. Ma ...
to have delayed implementation of the Commissioners’ recommendations, fearing that redistribution would aid the Conservatives an ...
publicity, with journals free to criticize the inefficient state-run enterprises, to help enforce perestroika, the restructuring ...
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