Political science

Political science

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

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welfare

Politics; Political Science

Public financial or other assistance (food stamps, for example) given to people who meet certain standards of eligibility regarding income and assets.

welfare state

Politics; Political Science

A state which supplies a large number of social services to its citizens, as a right, without requiring them to pay directly for them.

The adopting of Western habits, customs, forms of government and social organization, often applied to Third World countries seeking to modernize and industrialize their economies. Westernization can ...

whip

Politics; Political Science

The term is derived from fox-hunting in England. It was adopted by political parties in the British parliament, and the U.S. borrowed the term from the British. A whip is the legislator responsible ...

women's movement

Politics; Political Science

The modern women's movement began in the 1960s, when it was known as the Women's Liberation Movement. It arose out of the civil rights movement, when women began to perceive that like an oppressed ...

world government

Politics; Political Science

The goal of some internationalists for centuries. William Penn, the founder of the Quakers, had a plan for a world government, as did the eighteenth century German philosopher Immanuel Kant. The ...

working class

Politics; Political Science

Industrial workers, and others, skilled and unskilled, who work in manual occupations, as a class. In Marxist thought, the working class is referred to as the proletariat.