The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
powerful nuclear weaponry, especiallyICBMs(Intercontinental Ballistic Mis- siles), in the hope of achieving afirst strikecapacit ...
There remains a shade of difference in the implication, however. Because a full assembly (as in the school example) implies that ...
idealized civil society is rather unlikely to occur because of man’s innate wickedness. This of course reflects his Christian be ...
structured institution, as, for example, an army, and in explaining the attraction of political movements characterized by their ...
among the military, though any highly structured profession or society is likely to demonstrate it. The real opposition to autho ...
Finally, but seldom of relevance today, is thecharismaticmode of legitimate authority, the idea that a command should be obeyed ...
authority in the same way, and therefore no possibility of a routine transfer of power. Ayatollahs will continue to exercise eno ...
B Balance of Power Balance-of-power theory rests on the idea that peace is more likely where potential combatants are of equal m ...
Western Europe balance-of-power theories are likely to return to favour not only as explanations, but also as prescriptions. Bal ...
Ballot Ballots are votes cast in an election contested by two or more individuals or parties. By extension theballot boxis the b ...
the total number of Baltic nationals, but Soviet industrialization policies led to huge numbers of Russians moving into these co ...
of political science, concerned with measuring and statistical analysis, and the more traditional aspects, likepolitical theoryo ...
movement of the post-war period, while theoretically he was one of the founders ofpluralism. His main contribution to the analys ...
Supreme Court, if it is proved to the satisfaction of the courts that the rights of a citizen have been contravened by the imple ...
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), held in 1903 in Brussels and London, when the movement broke into two, theMenshe ...
19th century at least. In this more general usage, however, much precision has been lost. For example, in its general usage ther ...
policy. Above all he was amilitarist, increasing defence expenditure by 50% in his first five-year plan, and by even more later. ...
tion in all aspects of social life. Institutions as diverse as churches, legal systems and symphony orchestras were becoming bur ...
Burke Edmund Burke (1729–97) was a politically controversial writer, a journalist and pamphleteer as well as a member of the Bri ...
on direct controls, coercive economic planning and widespread nationaliza- tion. At the same time the right wing of theConservat ...
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