The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition
Directed Democracy Directed democracy, also called guided democracy, is a term sometimes used to justify the absence of anything ...
(whereas an EUregulationis directly applicable without any need for national legislation). However, theEuropean Court of Justice ...
Dissent While dissent obviously means disagreement, its political usage usually means a strongly held opposition on moral ground ...
purposes for man. It is notable that the first commonly-accepted political theories to use some other form of justification aros ...
minister in Tito’s communist government at the time Tito was managing so successfully to develop Yugoslavia’s independent positi ...
and more experience the criticisms that many of Lenin’s contemporaries had made. Doomsday The idea of a doomsday machine is an i ...
approaches that play down the role of rationality in favour of a political model of human behaviour much closer to the psycholog ...
those too poor to afford one, or a right to challenge the composition of a jury, but not necessarily to exclude jurors on any pa ...
E Effectiveness of Government The question of the effectiveness of government has come to worry many Western governments. Many o ...
abated with the late 20th century’s experience of Western governments finding external commitments deeply entangling. Egalitaria ...
universally known to be adictatorshipormilitary regimewill frequently use fraudulent elections to disguise their actual mechanis ...
election into the House: however, it is rare for such candidates even to win any seats in the college. The states are not equall ...
parliament (MPs), but in fact the special conference called to set up the new machinery voted for a system which gave MPs 30% of ...
members. In the 1930s Schumpeter mapped out what was to become, with Dahland others, thepluralistmodel. He reinterpreted democra ...
exclude individuals from the United Kingdom. (Although the ultimate power, that of suspending rule from Belfast and administerin ...
the intellectual leader of that faction, Eugen Du ̈hring, entitled simplyAnti- Du ̈hring, became perhaps the most important vehi ...
emphasis on the power of independent human thought, and may well be seen as the precursor of modernliberalismandsocialism, espec ...
widely regarded as a legitimate alternative to all the traditional political parties. Broadly, environmentalism refers to a poli ...
degree of political power in their own right. At the turn of the century environmentalism even developed its own political extre ...
Equality of Opportunity Increasingly, in most Western countries, during the 20th century it became accepted that individuals sho ...
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