Political science

Political science

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

Contributors in Political Science

Political science

Final adjournment of an annual or two- year session of Congress. Adjournment without fixing a definite day for reconvening; literally "adjournment without a day." A session can continue when, under ...

adjournment to a day and time certain

Politics; Political Science

Adjournment under a motion or resolution that fixes the next time of meeting for one of both houses. Under the Constitution, neither house can adjourn for more than three days without the concurrence ...

adjudication

Politics; Political Science

The hearing and deciding of a legal case in a court of law.

administration

Politics; Political Science

The management of institutional or governmental affairs; a term for the government itself and its policy-makers; as in the Clinton administration; the period in which a government holds office; as in ...

administrative law

Politics; Political Science

The rules and regulations made and applied by federal regulatory agencies and commissions.

administrative system

Politics; Political Science

A twentieth-century system of ownership in which land is owned and managed by the state; found in China, the Soviet Union, and some parts of Africa and Latin America.