The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
liberty of a state of nature for membership of a state where some liberty would be lost, and hence endowing the state with autho ...
was seen very much as an advocate of much greater democracy, both in the movement itself, and in the post-revolutionary regime. ...
M Machiavelli Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) was a Florentine diplomat and civil servant whose writing included not only politi ...
motion. Majority vote has a hallowed, if theoretically insecure, position in democratic belief, resting on the argument that a d ...
the legal power to make. Versions of this can come about where an official, although entitled to use their discretion to make a ...
War theLeague of Nationscreated mandates transferring administrative controls over colonial territories of the defeated German a ...
was enshrined in the party’s election manifesto; a manifesto has been submitted to the electorate, whereas the House of Lords is ...
of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 he was fully engaged in revolu- tionary and military activities. He proved a great gue ...
The final push by Mao to stop the development of a new party-based ruling middle class was thecultural revolution. This he launc ...
the need directly to work with and listen to ‘the people’. As a doctrine it is completely anti-e ́litist, rejecting not only hie ...
especially if they were white and northern, and their conservative and racist social views made them, for him, poor material for ...
with the increasing political tension, especially over theKorean War. Other countries, notably France, were able to take advanta ...
thereafter working as a writer and revolutionary activist, in close association with FriedrichEngels, whose contribution to the ...
Marxist regimes in Russia and Eastern Europe has invalidated Marxism—the fact that no Marxist had accepted these self-descriptio ...
abolition ofcapitalismthroughrevolution, and those, for exampleGramsci andEurocommunismin general, who favourgradualism. Marxist ...
literacy and extensive ownership of television and radio sets in the developed world; in the countries of the European Union, fo ...
Massive Retaliation Massive retaliation became the official policy of the administration of US President Dwight D. Eisenhower af ...
only five years after its founding congress, the RSDLP split at a crucial party congress held in London (at that time the vast b ...
tion in the economy, perhaps to have a large public sector running state- controlled industries, as required by traditional soci ...
integrity, in the case of the Soviet Union. The end of the cold war was thought to offer some hope for a more peaceful future in ...
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