The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
One, obviously, is the size of an identifiable peasantry, or the size of the rural relative to the urban population. The other i ...
the occasional uses of troops whenstrikesstop essential public services such as the ambulance or fire brigade services. A more c ...
them to adolescents, immediately trigger deeply held conservative instincts among sectors of society. There is felt to be a pres ...
the later and more economics-oriented work of Marx, but it has continued to be of vital interest and importance in social though ...
Amendment An amendment is a change made to a bill, law, constitutional provision or regulation. The process of making such a cha ...
in part to bring comfort, but mainly to expose regimes practising such repression to international public opinion. More recently ...
ever, anarchist elements can be found in many social theorists. One good example isMarx, whose doctrine that thestatewill ‘withe ...
Durkheim this state of affairs was the result of the Industrial Revolution, which broke down the traditional pattern of existenc ...
(1993–2001), and the research focus shifted to more modest systems which could track and destroy a few missiles launched by a te ...
no guarantee that a form of opposition to religious involvement in politics, such as is already developing in USA, will not beco ...
conflict, and anti-Zionismin the Arab states and elsewhere, are not primarily anti-Semitic phenomena, but it is hard to determin ...
Apparatchik Apparatchik, properly speaking, means an employee of theapparat,perhaps best translated into English by the use of t ...
on reason rather thanauthority, had a radical aspect, and this is one of the reasons why Thomism remains most influential among ...
showed they could not expect easy victories in the future. The cease-fire was followed by extensive peace negotiations, led by t ...
require arbitration before either side can sue the other. The political use of arbitration is that it can reduce tension, as wel ...
famous works,The Origins of Totalitarianism(1951), attacksRousseau,other- wise seen as an exponent of democracy and an icon of t ...
Industrial Revolution, as in Britain and Germany, where the rising capitalist bourgeoisieand the relative decline of agriculture ...
military units for temporary or long-term defensive or offensive operations. Armies in a politically important sense are, with t ...
Arms Control While the idea of disarmament has been around, presumably, since the invention of thenation state, arms control is ...
numbers of warships needed no particular verification system, because heavy naval ships were impossible to hide, and normal meth ...
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