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1) Social relations involving authority or power. 2) The art or science of governing.
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strategy
Politics; Political Science
The science of planning military operations, as in U.S. strategy during the Iraq War. Also used more loosely to refer to any form of planning for action, as in the President's ...
straw vote
Politics; Political Science
An unofficial vote that is used to either to predict the outcome of an official vote, or to gauge the relative strength of candidates for office in a future election. For example, ...
strawman
Politics; Political Science
A weak argument or opposing point of view that is set up by a speaker so that he can knock it down easily and appear to win an argument or debate. Sometimes a strawman may ...
strike
Politics; Political Science
The withdrawal of labor by a group of workers, acting collectively, in order to achieve some goal such as higher wages or better working conditions, or to resist management ...
structural unemployment
Politics; Political Science
Job losses caused by major shifts in the economic environment, and which are hard to alleviate. For example, if the coal mining industry in a country is in a long-term decline, it ...
subsidy
Politics; Political Science
A grant made out of public funds to support some private enterprise that is considered to promote the public good. Often debated in the U.S. is the question of whether the ...
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