Political science

Political science

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

Contributors in Political Science

Political science

Areas in which another state wishes to exert its influence so that no hostile government or ideology can take root there. For example, the U.S. regards Central America as coming within its sphere of ...

zero-sum

Politics; Political Science

A situation in which a gain for one must result in a loss for another.

Zionism

Politics; Political Science

A movement that began in the nineteenth century for the return of the Jews to Palestine. Started by a Hungarian Jew, Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), Zionism was, and is, held together by the belief that ...

carbonari

Politics; Political Science

The name of a secret political society, which played an important part, chiefly in France and Italy, during the first decades of the nineteenth century.

the centre

Politics; Political Science

This name is given to a political party in the German Reichstag and to a number of parties in the diets of the various states of the German Empire.

Malthusian

Politics; Political Science

Refers to the theory of Thomas Malthus, an eighteenth century British clergyman and professor of political economy, whose Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) developed the theory that the ...

mandate

Politics; Political Science

An order or command; the wishes of constituents expressed to a representative. Politicians usually like to maintain that they have a mandate for the policies they pursue, which gives the policies the ...