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1) Social relations involving authority or power. 2) The art or science of governing.
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ratification
Politics; Political Science
The formal adoption of a treaty by a state, by a vote of its legislators. For example, the GATT treaty had to be ratified by the Senate before it became binding on the U.S. The ...
rationing
Politics; Political Science
The control by a government of the right to purchase essential goods, when those goods are scarce. Usually used as a wartime measure to ensure that everyone has at least a minimum ...
raw materials
Politics; Political Science
Materials in their natural state that are used in manufacturing to create something else. Raw materials become of political importance when their supply is obstructed or ...
reactionary
Politics; Political Science
Resisting progress; wanting to go back to the old ways of doing things, even if those ways are no longer appropriate. Usually used in a derogatory sense. People rarely describe ...
Reagan Doctrine
Politics; Political Science
The name given to a policy pursued by President Ronald Reagan, of American support for anti-communist revolutions. Reagan announced in his state of the Union address in 1985, "We ...
realism
Politics; Political Science
That which deals with the facts, with things as they are, not with idealistic notions of what they might or should be. Practical rather than visionary or imaginative. In politics, ...
Realpolitik
Politics; Political Science
German term now used in English that means politics based on strictly practical rather than theoretical or idealistic notions, and practiced with a hard or cynical edge, without ...
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