The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
U Underclass The idea of an underclass, which has entered sociology theory from the USA, is a politically charged and controvers ...
integrated class locations. The concept is criticized both theoretically and empirically, but it has a certain robustness so tha ...
of unilateralism are diverse, as is the motivation of its supporters. They break down roughly into two aspects. The first, more ...
increase in the total number of internationally-recognized states after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the former Yugos ...
for disputes already on the agenda of the Security Council. However, it is largely a propaganda arena and ideological battlefiel ...
basic thesis states that whatever measure, policy, choice or decision maximizes the positive balance of pleasure over pain acros ...
a utility calculus, and until recently the prevailing theories of law and jurisprudence were derived from utilitarianism. Only i ...
possible realities of human nature and political incompetence, and thus practicable but hardly desirable. At the same time, whil ...
V Value Freedom Value freedom is a methodological requirement of a useful social science, and would be treated as one of the pri ...
socialized to believe in, and because the intellectual apparatus they have been trained in is only efficient given such assumpti ...
Church’s orientation to such problems in the previous century. Above all it involved a liberalization of the control of the hier ...
western France. The assembly of theThird Republicgave full power to the emergency prime minister, Henri Pe ́tain, who had been p ...
nist North led to President John F. Kennedy’s decision in 1961 to allow US military advisers to fight with the troops they were ...
candidates for office, or for policy alternatives, in every social system ever experienced. The recorded history of voting goes ...
a week later, in which only candidates gaining more than 12.5% in the first ballot, less any voluntary withdrawals, participate. ...
bargaining between parties can result in necessary decisions not being taken, and that therefore government by the biggest minor ...
W War Crimes Tribunals Until recently, the attempt to prosecute and punish individuals guilty of crimes against humanity during ...
defined in a way acceptable to powerful members of the international system. The court lacks full support, especially from the U ...
the Soviet Union. No non-Soviet member had any access to nuclear weapons, and the only seriously effective other member was beli ...
has lingered and become a journalistic cliche ́, so that almost any political scandal, especially if it involves the theft of do ...
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