The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
L Labour Party The original title of the Labour Party, the Labour Representation Committee (LRC), makes clear what the party was ...
boom that kept them in power until 1964. During this period Labour went through a period of fierce internal debate over how soci ...
etarism. It won the 1997 and 2001 elections easily, expounding a rather vague doctrine of theThird Waymeant to replace evensocia ...
system, it was in fact dependent on political support for established power relations. Nevertheless, advocates of laissez-faire ...
as with the Indian need to operate in English because of the multiplicity of local languages. Language probably has its deep pol ...
no justifiable appeals to anything but majority opinion, so the impersonal regulation of life by rules set out, ultimately by th ...
Stalinistperiod when one-man leadership was the order of the day. In many countries—especially newly independent countries with ...
Left The term left, or left-wing, to signify socialist or radical political tendencies dates as a symbol from the days immediate ...
in which a specific decision not to deport an allegedly illegal immigrant had been overruled by the House of Representatives usi ...
empirical usage, especially inpolitical sociology. Here the concentration is principally on how any given political system comes ...
what became the official doctrine of the Soviet Union, under the label of Marxist-Leninism. The first point, which caused confli ...
would collapse through its own internal contradictions had not held, and why, as a result, the revolution could not be a spontan ...
Furthermore, because those elected to the assembly are usually seen as unbound representatives, as argued byBurke, rather than a ...
defeating the Conservatives was slight. Thus, in 1997 the Liberal Democrats increased their representation in Parliament from 20 ...
developed a modern political creed in which the independence of the ordinary citizen against any powerful body, whether the stat ...
expect spiritual growth when living in a cardboard shack outside some Latin American city ruled by a corrupt and violentoligarch ...
drugs, for example. Needless to say, no tax-based provision of welfare services can be countenanced by a libertarian, to whom th ...
depends on a specially privileged position by which those who are ideologi- cally sound are allowed to stipulate what other peop ...
position. It can be used either in an institutional setting, where a representative of apressure groupmay lobby a parliamentaria ...
provinces, and it is unclear how far-reaching the subsequent reform of prefectoral power has been. In Italy the nationally-appoi ...
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