The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
wedded to the idea that capitalist economics is indeed the best possible way of arranging our economic life. From this position ...
analytically useful. Part of the logic of the argument depends on being able to strip away the particular details of an individu ...
The distinction is, inevitably, arbitrary. There is no obvious distinction between human interactions that are seen at some time ...
R Racism Racism is any political or social belief that justifies treating people differently according to their racial origins. ...
this is still a potent force in the mass cultures of Western societies, and from all available evidence racism of this type is a ...
important to keep this distinction clear. Extremeness of policy is highly relative. To deal with a crime wave by increasing the ...
order to enable the development of the National Missile Defence scheme). Nevertheless, ‘realist’ international relations theory, ...
the 20th century. The essence of the approach is very simple. It maintains that the primary explanation for an action is that th ...
place. Again it is because there seems to be no need to explainwhypeople prefer to buy cheaper goods that rational choice theory ...
up true socialist progress, though even the propagandists would not seriously hold that those they are attacking are actually co ...
being cut loose from any stable ties to parties, so that their vote loses long-term predictability. Realpolitik Realpolitik is a ...
large percentage of the eligible electorate to petition for recall prior to the question being placed before the electorate as a ...
in the 1980s Californian referendum results on intiatives proposing the control of insurance companies led to many companies sim ...
during the Depression. There are dozens of others, among the most important of which are the Environmental Protection Agency, th ...
Representative Democracy Representative democracy is a form of indirect rule by the majority of the electorate. In this system ( ...
those nominated by major political parties can be elected, and most parlia- mentary systems with tight party discipline controll ...
Republican president. The Republican Party is generally recognized as the more conservative of the two main American parties, th ...
sibility’, but whom they may never have met and whose actions they could not, in practice, conceivably have controlled. The poli ...
thinkers like RosaLuxemburgor, for that matter, LeonTrotskywere accused of revisionism for suggesting methods alternative toLeni ...
accepted ideology that, whether planned or not, whether violent or not, revolution seems the only term. Thus it was common to ta ...
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