The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
orthodox communists dedicated to Marxism, and the left were understood to be in favour of liberal values and a capitalist system ...
many details of policy are affected, especially those, likeabortion, and birth control, which relate to family life and private ...
despaired of them ever being implemented in his contemporary Europe. Although his major book is called theSocial Contract,and al ...
S SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) A period ofde ́tentebetween the USA and the Soviet Union (formally, the Union of Soviet ...
Missile (ABM) Treatywas negotiated and signed as part of the same procedure. A second treaty, SALT II, was ready for signing by ...
simply, as an alternative to going to war against a state which is behaving against the interests or moral preferences of other ...
of age in most Western countries, and especially in the United Kingdom and the USA, with programmes such asThat Was the Week Tha ...
to modernize their teaching techniques, are using scenario-building along with simulation games to help students grasp the dynam ...
Secession Secession means the attempt by some region in a political system to become independent of the rest of the state and ru ...
with less than 12.5% of the votes withdraw, thereby freeing their supporters to vote for a candidate more likely to be elected. ...
reform the British House of Lords. The Labour government elected in 1997 found little problem in expelling most of the hereditar ...
the Netherlands being a good example, are ambiguous on the issue, having clearly identified parties with close religious connect ...
Western societies seem also to have experienced secularization. Furthermore, all religions, including Christianity, seem to have ...
Separation of Powers Separation of powers, a classic doctrine of liberal politics, is associated with bothLockeandMontesquieu, a ...
likely to demean the other. In practice it is nearly always the preferential treatment of men over women, or behaviour by men wh ...
goal of running a society entirely based on Islamic principles. Inevitably the Iranian Revolution played a major part in this im ...
where the choice of who should be the Democratic candidate was at issue, was the only effective election. (Many of the states co ...
more recent usages such ascivil society, as well as the older idea of acivic culture. Basically social capital is that set of ex ...
state of nature as so awful that he thought it likely that consent would freely be given to the most authoritarian and draconian ...
combination of the political theory concept of aliberal democracycom- bined with some general sense of a semi-legal right to the ...
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