The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
good if applied nation-wide. For similar reasons parties resist suggestions to refrain from nominating candidates in constituenc ...
branch ofIslam(hence their support in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia), rather than Shi‘a: members of this latter Muslim minority prov ...
from power by a combination of US-led and ex-Mujahidinforces during the ‘War Against Terrorism’ in November 2001 proved popular ...
fundamentalists whose aim is to drive the USA out of all influence and presence in the Muslim world. Even terrorist leaders like ...
dominated British party politics since the era ofButskellism. Her political philosophy, though always eclectic, had two main thr ...
Iran since the overthrow of the Shah could be an example, andTaliban Afghanistan another. Sometimes the term is used extravagant ...
much run by, and for, the middle classes and the peasantry, with the result that the frequently changing governments had neither ...
parties are still ‘progressive’—a term they do not define. The third way is supposed to be a method by which the traditional val ...
East, have enormous international political influence while otherwise being obvious candidate members. The economically highly p ...
Threat Assessment Militarystrategy, and the designing and equipping of a nation’s defence posture, requires some assessment of t ...
them. Indeed President George W. Bush in his 2002 declaration of ‘war on terrorism’ would clearly prefer to be able simply to at ...
Trade Unions Trade unions are organized groups of working people, usually but not invariably in industrial and commercial rather ...
in union politics. In the USA, in contrast, as few as 15% of workers are still in unions. Unionism in France, though existing as ...
Treaty ‘Pacta serva sunt’—promises must be kept to—is one of the oldest maxims, perhaps the very corner stone, ofinternational l ...
well. He can, however, in more limited ways, bind the USA to behave in a certain way by signing an executive agreement with anot ...
the extent to which the formal law courts are only part of the adjudication and decision-making system. Trotsky Leon Trotsky (18 ...
army. He lost power, after Lenin’s death, toStalinand his faction, who advocated ‘socialism in one country’, and because he oppo ...
working for the creation of international and national co-operation by all left- wing parties inpopular frontgovernments. In any ...
secondary problem for social science is to design social institutions that can help foster trust at both individual and societal ...
long as it hurts no one, will be seriously at risk in majoritarian democracy. For Mill the uneducated working-class majority was ...
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