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Political science

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

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borrowing authority

Politics; Political Science

Power required by the Government to make up any shortfall between revenues and expenditures, and obtained by way of a borrowing authority bill.

Used by Marxist theorists to describe anything associated with capitalists, including manufacturers, merchants, and small business owners such as shopkeepers. These groups were the opposite of the ...

bourgeois class

Politics; Political Science

From the French meaning a citizen of a city or burgh. In feudal time the cities had become the place of business and residence of a growing class of merchants, professionals and crafts persons, who ...

bourgeois democracy

Politics; Political Science

Marxist term designating Liberal Democracy in a Capitalist Economic system. A Capitalist state, according to Communism, is not truly democratic because State institutions place the interests of the ...

boycott

Politics; Political Science

To refuse to do business with an organization or nation, as when the Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Also refers to a refusal to buy or sell something, as when, say, ...

bracketing

Politics; Political Science

A term derived from Edmund Husserl and describing a method used by phenomenological sociologists and ethnomethodologists. This approach focuses on revealing the beliefs, ideas and values that are ...

brave new world

Politics; Political Science

The title of a 1932 book by futurist and social critic, Aldous L Huxley. In the "brave new world" Huxley imagines the authorities of society use new technologies, drugs and instruments of propaganda ...