The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
captive markets and resources on the periphery. Britain’s Colonial Office, for example, was largely staffed with those who belie ...
be regarded as the economic equivalent to theWarsaw Pact. The dominance which the Soviet Union had over COMECON made this latter ...
Command Economies Both in the old Soviet Union and in the East European Soviet satellite countries, economies were structured ac ...
constitutes a well-informed and demanding customer able to communicate its needs. Ordinary consumers, however, with no competiti ...
Often committees exercise their power not so much against the parent body, but against another committee. For example, proposals ...
the interests of a special group, hill farmers perhaps, who would lose economic rights. Common Law Common law is the name usuall ...
countries has diverged to some extent from English common law, but reference is often made to the decisions of English courts in ...
independence since the Second World War, often after a political and even armed struggle. The Commonwealth has never been more t ...
rather as members of a particular social group with only a coincidental neighbour relationship to other citizens. Where there is ...
operation, without classes or any social divisions requiring the exercise of authority. Most post-Marxist writers, and especiall ...
planning the overall production of steel in a centralized and authoritative way (seecommand economies), the Chinese encouraged a ...
social life, controlled the trade unions, and had the sole right to put up candidates in elections. However, because of the shee ...
with social norms is as powerful and common as a desire to maximize utility (seerational choice theory). What they all have in c ...
seen as valid. Political theory has often concerned itself with the idea of community in this latter sense, where all members of ...
studying power in Western Europe. However, the idea that local studies can help in making generalized analysis of an equally unc ...
Another problem is that a fruitful comparison of two societies involves a very deep knowledge of their history, culture and lang ...
everything could eventually be understood and explained scientifically. Sociol- ogy, as the latest and most far-reaching of all ...
Confederacies need not be confined to the nation-state level: in Britain the major pressure group for business interests is the ...
promoting a rival religious community. Until the 1970s the Dutch political system was characterized by this form of rival confes ...
Confidence-Building Measures (see Stockholm Declaration) Congress In general terms a congress is a meeting of representatives or ...
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