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1) Social relations involving authority or power. 2) The art or science of governing.

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quisling
Politics; Political Science

A traitor or collaborator, after Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian who was a Nazi sympathizer and revealed state secrets about Norwegian defenses to German agents in 1940, six days ...

quorum
Politics; Political Science

The number of members of a legislature, or of any organization, that have to be present before official business may be conducted.

racism
Politics; Political Science

The discrimination against a person or group solely because of their race. Any political doctrine that claims the superiority of one race over another.

radical
Politics; Political Science

Favoring fundamental change in society. Traditionally radicalism has been identified with the left, but radicals can be on the right too. Often in twenty-first century America, ...

raison d'etat
Politics; Political Science

French phrase meaning a reason of state. A reason of state is something that is of vital importance to the state, which justifies the action that a state may perform in regard to ...

raison d'etre
Politics; Political Science

A French phrase meaning the reason for a thing's existence. The raison d'etre of the American civil rights movement was to secure equal rights for African Americans; the raison ...

rank and file
Politics; Political Science

In military usage, refers to the main body of soldiers in an army, excluding the officers. The term also applies to the ordinary people who form the main part of any group, as in ...

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