Political science

Political science

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

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clan

Politics; Political Science

A close-knit social group held together by ties of kinship (as in clans in the Scottish Highlands) or other common interests. Sometimes writers refer to large or well-known political families as ...

class

Politics; Political Science

A number of people or things grouped together; a group of people that are linked together because of certain things held in common, such as occupation, social status, economic background: Ruling ...

Conflict between different classes in a society. The idea of class struggle held an important place in Marxism. Karl Marx divided society into two broad groups: the capitalists, or bourgeoisie, and ...

classical economics

Politics; Political Science

The dominant theory of economics from the eighteenth century until superseded by neoclassical economics in the twentieth century. It is associated with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776) John ...