Politics: The Basics, 4th Edition

Red Army Faction
(Baader-Meinhoff) 122
redistribution 133: welfare state
235–6 see alsodistribution
referendum 172
Reformation 33
Reiner, B. 22–3
‘reinventing government’ 230
Renaissance citystates 138
Republican Party (India) 104
Republican Tradition 100
republican states137–9 see also
democracy
resource allocation see decision
making mechanisms
revolutionary change 120–1;
anarchism and 53; coups and
revolutions 120–1; proletarian
revolution 20, 124,
Ricardo, D. 90
Right, the 125: classifying 71–2;
Old Right 72–4; Radical Right
74–6 see alsofascism, Nazism,
conservatism, neoconservatism,
Thatcherism
rights 61–2: constitutions and
182–5; equality 62–3; liberalism
90–2
Rio Earth Summit 85
riots, urban 45
Rhodes, R. 230
Roman Empire 36, 38, 120
‘romantic’ ecology 85
Rome, Treaty of 160
Roosevelt, F.D. 141
Rose, R. 133
Rousseau, J. J. 64, 156
Rowbotham, S. 89
Royal Dutch Shell 43, 44
Royal National Institute for the
Blind 197
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
216
Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA)
216
Royce, J. 91

rulers, choosing 173 see also

elections

rules, blind implementation of

215–6

Russell, B. 5

Russia 144

Rwanda 112

S.A. (Brown Shirts) 151

Said, E. 83

Sampson, Anthony 140

Sandel, M. 100

Sarkozy, N. 189, 213

Sartre, JP. 79

‘satisficing’ behaviour 222

Saudi Arabia 35, 154; see also

Wahhabist

Saunders, P. 140

Schapiro, L. 78, 159

Schattschneider, E.E. 22

school league tables 233–4

Scholte, J.A. 46

Schopenhauer, A. 75

‘scientific’ ecology 85

Scotland 34, 108, 155, 174; Scottish

Nationalist Party 103

Seckinelgin, H. 44

secret (title) societies 30

‘separate but equal’ doctrine 112

see alsoapartheid

Serbia 76, 109

Senate (USA) 178

service-provision by voluntary

organisations 215–7

Shaka, Chief 30

Shaw, G.B. 98

Sherif, M. 104

Simon, H.A. 222

simple societies 28

Singapore 131

Singer, P. 55

Single European Market (‘1992’)

161

single transferable vote 175

slavery 110

Slovakia 160

Smith, Adam 90

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