The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
sociological theory,Marx,WeberandDurkheim, all of whom made serious attempts at theoretical explanation of political phenomena. ...
federalism. Unfortunately, the word federalism translates very badly among the languages of Europe, carrying very different impl ...
just as a suggestion that men might be better suited to some forms of work and women to others would be banned. One way of defin ...
1930s between the socialists and the left-radicals (who were in fact a centrist party of the lower-middle classes and richer pea ...
Populism Populism is a political tradition especially prevalent in Latin America, though various European and North American mov ...
classes is sometimes referred to as a populist. Margaret Thatcher was often described as populist because she voiced traditional ...
positive law, and one who is simply finding the positive law obscure and exercising such discretion. Positivism Positivism is a ...
Western technologically developed societies. Apart from the non-obvious assumption that there is a fundamental distinction, this ...
Though the old motivation for political behaviour had lapsed, the parties and other major institutions like trade unions had not ...
claims of rationality, and the hubris of thinking society on the way to real truth rather than local belief, are the objects of ...
important modern theories about the nature of politics, especiallye ́litismand pluralism, depend on answers to these questions. ...
who consider each problem separately and all solutions ‘on their merits’. Despite the almost ‘knock-about’ way the term and its ...
threat of countries (indeed, even of non-national revolutionary forces) outside the ‘nuclear club’ getting nuclear weapons is li ...
the function of appointing aprime ministeror other official to head the government. Forms of presidential government vary but in ...
the Progressive Movement was seeking to break the hold on the political process of what were often seen as corrupt party machine ...
Prime Minister The prime minister emerged as a distinct figure in Britain in the early 18th century and Sir Robert Walpole is ge ...
the present French polity (seeFifth Republic) it is clear that the prime minister is subordinate to the president who is the rea ...
with the Conservative governments of her successor, John Major, undertaking a complex privatization of the country’s railway sys ...
incremental steps, so that each year’s policy in an area has to consist of doing more or less what was done in the previous year ...
Proportional Representation Somevoting systems, but in particular the plurality system, can have the effect of distributing elec ...
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