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

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absolute advantage
Politics; Political Science

Term coined, and theory developed by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations (1776). A country has am absolute advantage if its output per unit of input for a good or service produced ...

absolute liability
Politics; Political Science

Where an individual may be held liable for a breech of the law without the requirement that criminal intent (mens rea) be proven by the prosecution. Usually the illegal action ...

absolute poverty
Politics; Political Science

When a section of a population can barely maintain a minimal living standard and can only meet a bare subsistence level of shelter, food, health care, and clothing. There are many ...

absolutism
Politics; Political Science

Political system in which total power is vested in a single individual or a group of rulers. Originally a Catholic theological conceptualization of God's absolute power to decide ...

abstention
Politics; Political Science

Refrain from voting either for or against a motion. Members are not obliged to vote and the records of the House take no official notice of an abstention; a list of paired Members ...

abstract motion
Politics; Political Science

A motion which merely recommends an expenditure, imposition or action. As it expresses only an opinion or desire, such a motion does not bind the House or the Government to any ...

academic freedom
Politics; Political Science

The right of a professor at a university to pursue his research and publish his findings, whether popular or controversial, without political or any other kind of pressure being ...

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