The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
the existing imbalance, through the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction (MBFR) talks. By stressing the need to look completely a ...
referring to a privileged e ́lite network, to which counterparts could certainly be found in Western countries. One lasting cons ...
concentrate on a single issue, with no responsibility for the impact that their undoubtedly good work in one policy area may hav ...
nuclear power, although it is strongly believed that covert, and actually illegal, help was provided by citizens of at least one ...
was necessary, and why private enterprise policing was not enough, in a society of free individuals. The third main strand was t ...
orthodox strategic thinking and policy-making in the USA. In particular, the long-established policy of backingNATO’sweak conven ...
O Official Secrets Act The Official Secrets Act, originally passed by Parliament in 1911, is the main source of state control ov ...
Ombudsman An ombudsman is an officer of state appointed to provide an extra check on the rights of citizens against governmental ...
One-Party State (see Single-Party System) Opinion Poll Opinion polls are measures of public attitude, on any sort of issue, carr ...
others polled may give misleading answers, for a variety of reasons. Academic surveys taken after elections regularly find more ...
Insingle-party systemsthe opposition may exist as an underground movement, as in the past in the Soviet Union where no formal op ...
except in circumstances where the latter’s own Council would already be prepared to deploy force. In December 1994 the summit co ...
political and military dominance of the USA in the western hemisphere limits the utility of the OAS as a vehicle for genuine reg ...
servative in saying that courts cannot interpret liberally to bring an 18th- century document up to date. Thus with a majority o ...
P Pacifism Pacifism is not a particular political doctrine, but the general belief that all war is morally unacceptable, and tha ...
allow those with an objection to war to serve in a non-combatant role. An additional factor that has increased the attraction of ...
Christian denomination in the world, especially large (and growing) in the Third World, the Vatican and its various bureaucracie ...
power it would give to the executive. Nevertheless this constitutional position has not entirely removed the need for the functi ...
and a theory of social structure to explain power distribution, are common to most subsequent work in the field. Parliament A pa ...
passage of laws. Much attention is also given to parliament’s right to supervise and control public expenditure; indeed, the pow ...
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