The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
provision of a large standing army to protect against French invasion than with the provision of a navy which had little obvious ...
of politicallegitimacy. Such is probably the case with the regime in power in Pakistan at the beginning of the 21st century. In ...
training, part-time soldiers are unlikely to be relied upon except in limited roles. The most important militia in a modern coun ...
racy was somewhat limited, however, because his distrust of the working class was almost as profound as his contempt for the tra ...
Mills C. Wright Mills (1916–62) was an American sociologist, one of few who dominated the field in the 1940s and early 1950s, an ...
The most common politically-important minorities are racial, religious, ethnic or linguistic groups in a society who are seen as ...
a long time Mitterrand had been dismissed as a permanent loser, partly because of his association with the Fourth Republic, but ...
then one is fully modern. If this is so, then we may indeed be seeing an end to modernity. Increasingly the recent is not automa ...
increasing the capacity of a system to maintain and apply complex modern politics oriented to satisfying as many different polit ...
national unity, and a focus for citizen loyalty, than do presidents. Monarchist tendencies have not entirely died out among ultr ...
preferred means of reducing the money supply will inevitably be high interest rates and/or reducing public expenditure. In many ...
have deflationary effects on the economy. An economy undergoing deflation produces less tax revenues, forcing further expenditur ...
aid to left-wing movements in Latin America was both financed and encour- aged by the Soviet Union, it remains true that the doc ...
government are independent of each other, and have the power to act as checks and balances over each other’s actions. This, whic ...
Moral Philosophy As students of philosophy rapidly find out, often to their disappointment, moral philosophy does not consist of ...
Third Republichad not entirely accepted Roman Catholics as having a legitimate place in politics, and it was in part the Resista ...
of a company are not achieved mainly in one economy. For this reason the European Union (EU)is seen by many as a necessary devic ...
full-blooded a multi-party system is one with at least three and usually more, often many more, political parties, each of them ...
largely because a civil war between communists and conservatives seemed imminent, the King, Victor Emanuel III, appointing him p ...
N Nation Nation has come to be important in political terms largely either through the idea ofnationalism, or as part of thenati ...
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