Political science

Political science

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

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democracy

Politics; Political Science

Government by the people; the rule of the majority. There is no precise definition of democracy on which all could agree. Even communist countries tend to call themselves democratic, and the mere ...

demographics

Politics; Political Science

Pertaining to demography, which is the science of statistics such as births, deaths, marriages, racial composition, etc., in a population. Political scientists study changing demographics in a ...

deport

Politics; Political Science

To send out of the country. An illegal immigrant, for example, may be deported if he cannot prove he has a right to stay in the country.

In economics, the term refers to a prolonged slump in business activity, leading to low production, little capital investment, mass unemployment and falling wages. The worst depression in American ...

desegregation

Politics; Political Science

The elimination of segregation by race in schools and public places. In the U.S. desegregation began in 1954, with the Supreme Court ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education case that "Separate ...