Political science

Political science

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

Contributors in Political Science

Political science

The concentration of power and authority in the hands of one person. Usually, autocracy refers to a situation where state power is controlled by a monarch, religious leader or political dictator. The ...

autonomic reactivity

Politics; Political Science

A measurement of the extent to which an individual's physical organism reacts to external stimuli.

autonomy

Politics; Political Science

A limited form of self-government. In the U.S. states have a certain autonomy, which allows them to make their own laws regarding local matters. In international affairs, the Palestinians have been ...

backbencher

Politics; Political Science

Members of Parliament on the government side who sit on the backbenches and are not in cabinet or those similarly distant from shadow cabinet posts in opposition parties.

blue-slip resolution

Politics; Political Science

House resolution ordering the return to the Senate of a Senate bill or amendment that the House believes violates the constitutional prerogative of the House to originate revenue measures.

board of internal economy

Politics; Political Science

The governing body of the House of Commons. Presided over by the Speaker, the Board is responsible for all matters of financial and administrative policy affecting the House of Commons. The Board is ...

bolshevism

Politics; Political Science

The term comes from the Russian word bolshinstvo, which means majority, and referred to the party lead by Lenin (leader of the communist revolution in 1917), after it won a majority of votes at the ...