Political science

Political science

The social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics.

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asymmetrical federalism

Politics; Political Science

A federal system of government in which powers are unevenly divided between provinces, i.e. some provinces have greater responsibilities or more autonomy than others.

A tendency to reproduce ancestral type in plants and in animals; to resemble one's grandparents or great- grandparents more than parents. In popular speech, a "throw back". This concept was used by ...

attorney general

Politics; Political Science

The highest legal officer in the United States, who heads the Justice Department, and is chief legal advisor to the president. Each state also has an attorney general.

auction politics

Politics; Political Science

A danger in democratic politics in which state power may be "sold" to the highest bidding groups.

audience

Politics; Political Science

A group of individuals attending to a common media. They receive communication from the same source, but are not active participants and do not communicate with each other. In sociology, the term is ...

audience studies

Politics; Political Science

Audience is defined as an individual's or a group of persons' cerebral and/or sensory and/or tactile intake/reception and/or perception of a culture product and/or products of communicative ...

auditor general

Politics; Political Science

The official of Parliament whose staff audit the expenditures of government departments and who provides an annual report on instances of funds being unlawfully or unwisely spent.