Political science

Political science

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

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security

Politics; Political Science

Something that gives protection or safety. National security, for example, relates to policies that provide for effective national defense against an external or internal threat.

sedition

Politics; Political Science

Plotting or rebelling against, or stirring up resistance to, a government.

The separation of people in society-in schools, the workplace, and public places-on the basis, usually, of race. The system of apartheid in South Africa was based on the principle of segregation, and ...

self-determination

Politics; Political Science

The principle that no nation should in peacetime interfere in the internal affairs of another nation. The principle is not always adhered to, particularly when a great power considers that a ...

separation of powers

Politics; Political Science

A system of government in which the three branches of government-executive, legislative, and judicial-are independent of each other. Each has powers that the others cannot impinge upon. The doctrine ...

separatism

Politics; Political Science

A movement by a region or territory or ethnic group to break away from a country of which it is a part. After the fall of communism in the 1990s, separatism broke out in many regions in Europe, as ...