Political science

Political science

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

Contributors in Political Science

Political science

To make unstable, or insecure. Often used in a political sense about a government or a nation, especially when the destabilization is deliberately created by dissidents or rebels within a country, or ...

code of law

Politics; Political Science

A comprehensive set of interrelated legal rules.

codification

Politics; Political Science

The act of arranging laws in a code.

coercion

Politics; Political Science

The use of force or other powerful means of persuasion to get someone to do something. Often used to refer to government by force.

coexistence

Politics; Political Science

A tacit agreement between two or more groups, parties, nations etc., that are in fundamental disagreement or conflict, that they will not go to war. Coexistence is not quite the same as peace, ...

cold war

Politics; Political Science

The struggle between the U.S. and Western Europe against the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies. It involved confrontation but no actual "hot" warfare. The Cold War began in the 1940s when ...

collaboration

Politics; Political Science

Working with another person, or with many others, on a project, such as a literary or scientific endeavor. Collaboration also refers to cooperating with an enemy.