The Blackwell dictionary of political science : a user's guide to its terms

 Content: absentee voting --
 absolutism --
 abstention --
 accountability --
 activists --
 additional member system --
 administration --
 administrative board --
 administrative elites --
 administrative law --
 administrative tribunals --
 adversary politics --
 advice and consent --
 affirmative action --
 ageism --
 agenda setting --
 aggregative parties --
 aggression --
 agrarian parties --
 alienation --
 alliance --
 all-party groups --
 alternative vote --
 Althusser, Louis --
 amendment --
 amenity --
 amnesty --
 anarchism --
 ancien regime --
 anomie --
 anti-Semitism --
 anti-system parties --
 apartheid --
 apparatchik --
 apparentement --
 appeasement --
 apportionment --
 appropriations --
 approval voting --
 arbitration --
 Arendt, Hannah --
 aristocracy --
 Aristotle --
 armies --
 arms control --
 arms races --
 Aron, Raymond --
 Ashford, Douglas --
 association --
 autarky --
 authoritarian personality --
 authoritarianism --
 authority --
 autochthony --
 autocracy --
 autonomy --
 backbencher --
 backlash --
 Bagehot, Walter --
 balance of power --
 balkanization --
 ballot --
 ballot-rigging --
 bargaining --
 Barker, Ernest, Sir --
 Bassett, Reginald --
 Beard, Charles --
 Becker, Carl --
 Beer, Samuel --
 Bentley, Arthur F. --
 Berlin, Isaiah, Sir --
 bicameralism --
 bill of attainder --
 bill of rights --
 bills --
 bipolar --
 black power --
 blackleg --
 block grant --
 block vote --
 blue collar --
 bolshevik --
 bonapartism --
 bosses --
 bourgeoisie --
 boycott --
 brinkmanship --
 Brogan, Dennis W., Sir --
 Bryce, James --
 budget --
 Bull, Hedley --
 bureaucracy --
 bureaucratic authoritarianism --
 bureaucratic politics --
 Burke, Edmund --
 cabinet government --
 cadre party --
 campaigning --
 candidates --
 canvassing --
 capitalism --
 carpet-bagger --
 caste --
 catastrophe theory --
 caucus --
 cell --
 censorship --
 central banks --
 centralization --
 central-local relations --
 centre party --
 centre-periphery relations --
 chaos theory --
 charisma --
 charter --
 checks and balances --
 Chester, Norman, Sir --
 christian democracy --
 christian socialism --
 church and state --
 citizenship --
 city government --
 city manager --
 city state --
 civic culture --
 civil defence --
 civil disobedience --
 civil liberties --
 civil rights --
 civil service --
 civil society --
 civil-military relations --
 class conflict --
 class consciousness --
 class parties --
 cleavages --
 clericalism/anti-clericalism --
 clientelism --
 closed shop --
 closure --
 coalition government --
 coalition theory --
 coat-tails of President --
 codetermination --
 cohabitation --
 cold war --
 Cole, Gordon D.H. --
 collective action --
 collective leadership --
 collective responsibility --
 collective security --
 collectivism --
 collectivization --
 colonialism --
 colony --
 command economy --
 commission --
 committees --
 common law --
 common market --
 commonwealth --
 communalism --
 commune --
 communications --
 communism --
 communitarianism --
 community power --
 comparative politics --
 competitive party systems --
 compulsory voting --
 concentration camps --
 concurrent majority --
 condominium --
 confederations --
 conferences --
 conflict --
 congress --
 consensus --
 consent --
 conservation --
 conservatism --
 consociational democracy --
 constituency --
 constitutional courts --
 constitutional monarchy --
 constitutionalism --
 constitutions --
 containment --
 continuous revolution --
 contract --
 contradictions --
 conventions of the constitution --
 convergence theory --
 co-operatives --
 corporate management --
 corporations --
 corporatism --
 cost benefit analysis --
 council-manager plan --
 counter-insurgency --
 counties --
 county-manager plan --
 county-mayor plan --
 coup d\'état --
 covenant --
 crisis --
 critical theory --
 Crosland, Tony --
 Crossman, Richard --
 crown --
 cube rule --
 cult of personality --
 cumulative vote --
 customs union. Dahl, Robert --
 dealignment --
 decentralization --
 decisions --
 decolonization --
 decrees --
 deference --
 deficits --
 deflation --
 de-industrialization --
 delegate --
 delegated legislation --
 delegation --
 demagogue --
 democracy --
 democratic centralism --
 democratic elitism --
 democratization --
 département --
 department --
 dependency --
 deputies --
 derivations --
 destabilization --
 détente --
 deterrence --
 Deutsch, Karl --
 development --
 devolution --
 dialectical materialism --
 Dicey, Albert V. --
 dictatorship --
 dictatorship of the proletariat --
 difference principle --
 diplomacy --
 direct action --
 direct democracy --
 directives --
 dirigisme --
 disarmament --
 discretion --
 discrimination --
 dissenters --
 dissidents --
 dissolution of the legislature --
 distributive justice --
 divine right --
 division of labour --
 dominion status --
 domino theory --
 droop quota --
 dual executive --
 due process of law --
 Duverger, Maurice --
 dyarchy --
 ecological politics --
 economic man --
 egalitarianism --
 Ehrmann, Henry --
 Einaudi, Mario --
 elections --
 electoral college --
 electoral geography --
 electoral systems --
 electoral volatility --
 elites --
 elitism --
 emergency powers --
 eminent domain --
 empires --
 employers\' organizations --
 enlightenment --
 entryism --
 equal protection --
 equality --
 equality of opportunity --
 escalation --
 establishment --
 estates --
 ethnicity --
 ethnocentrism --
 eurocommunism --
 executive privilege --
 executives --
 existentialism --
 exit, loyalty, voice --
 exit poll --
 exploitation --
 expropriation --
 externalities --
 faction --
 factors of production --
 false consciousness --
 fascism --
 fatwa --
 favourite son --
 federal government --
 feminism --
 Fenton, Jack --
 feudalism --
 field service administration --
 filibuster --
 Finer, Herman --
 Finer, Samuel E. --
 first chambers --
 first strike --
 first world --
 first-past-the-post --
 fiscal crisis --
 floating voter --
 floor leader --
 force majeure --
 fordism --
 formal organization --
 franchise --
 Frankel, Joseph --
 fraternity --
 free rider --
 free trade --
 free vote --
 freedom --
 freedom of association --
 freedom of expression --
 freedom of information --
 fronts --
 fudge --
 functional representation --
 functionalism --
 fundamental rights --
 fundamentalism --
 game theory --
 garden cities --
 gate keeping --
 gauleiter --
 gaullism --
 gay politics --
 Gellner, Ernst --
 gemeinschaft und gesellschaft --
 gender gap --
 general strike --
 general will --
 genocide --
 geopolitics --
 glasnost --
 globalization --
 Gosnell, Harold F. --
 governability --
 government --
 governor --
 governor-general --
 gradualism --
 grant-in-aid --
 Griffith, Ernest S. --
 Grotius, Hugo --
 group theory --
 guerrilla warfare --
 guided democracy --
 guild socialism --
 guillotine --
 gulag --
 habeas corpus --
 Hallowell, John --
 hawks and doves --
 Hayek, Frederick von --
 heads of state --
 Heckscher, Gunnar --
 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich --
 hegemony --
 hermeneutics --
 hidden agenda --
 hierarchy --
 historicism --
 Hobbes, Thomas --
 Hobhouse, Leonard --
 Hobson, John --
 hostages --
 hung parliament --
 hypothesis --
 ideal type --
 idealism --
 ideology --
 image --
 immigration --
 immobilisme --
 impeachment --
 imperial preference --
 imperialism --
 implementation --
 impoundment --
 incomes policy --
 incorporation --
 incrementalism --
 independent politics --
 indirect election --
 indirect rule --
 industrial democracy --
 industrial relations --
 industrial society --
 inflation --
 initiative --
 inner city --
 institutions --
 intellectuals --
 intelligence --
 intelligentsia --
 interdependence --
 interest groups --
 interests --
 intergovernmental relations --
 international law --
 international relations --
 international socialism --
 interpellation --
 iron curtain --
 iron law of oligarchy --
 irredentism --
 islamic fundamentalism --
 isolationism --
 issue politics --
 issues --
 item veto. jacobinism --
 Jennings, W. Ivor, Sir --
 jingoism --
 judicial activism --
 judicial function and process --
 judicial review --
 judiciary --
 junta --
 jurisprudence --
 jury --
 just war --
 justice --
 justiciability --
 Kelsen, Hans --
 Key, V.O. --
 keynesianism --
 kibbutz --
 kingship --
 kinship --
 kitchen cabinet --
 kremlinology --
 kulak --
 labour --
 labour aristocracy --
 labour courts --
 labour movements --
 labour parties --
 labour theory of value --
 laissez-faire --
 lame duck --
 land reform --
 Lane, Robert E. --
 Laski, Harold J. --
 Lasswell, Harold --
 law --
 law and order --
 Lazarsfeld, Paul F. --
 Le Bon, Gustave --
 leadership --
 leadership selection --
 league --
 left and right --
 leftie --
 legalism --
 legislative committees --
 legislative veto --
 legislatures --
 legitimacy --
 leisure class --
 liberalism --
 liberation theology --
 libertarianism --
 life chances --
 lifestyle --
 limited vote --
 limited war --
 Lindblom, C. Ed --
 Lindsay, Alexander --
 linguistic politics --
 lobbying --
 local government --
 local government finance --
 local government reorganization --
 local politics --
 localism --
 Locke, John --
 logrolling --
 Lowell, Abbott L. --
 lower class --
 Machiavelli, Niccolo --
 machine --
 Mackenzie, William --
 magistrate --
 majoritarianism --
 majority leader --
 majority party government --
 majority rule --
 majority voting --
 maladministration --
 managerial revolution --
 managerialism --
 mandate --
 mandate theory --
 manifestoism --
 Mannheim, Karl --
 Marcuse, Herbert --
 marginal seat --
 market forces --
 market socialism --
 martial law --
 Marx, Karl --
 marxism --
 mass media --
 mass parties --
 mass politics --
 mass society --
 massive retaliation --
 materialism --
 matriarchy --
 mayor --
 mayor-administrator --
 mayor-council --
 McKenzie, R.T. --
 meritocracy --
 Merriam, Charles --
 methodology --
 Michels, Robert --
 microanalysis --
 middle class --
 migration --
 Miliband, Ralph --
 militarism --
 military regimes --
 military-industrial complex --
 militias --
 Mill, John Stuart --
 millenarianism --
 Mills, Wright --
 minister --
 ministry --
 minorities --
 minority government --
 mixed government --
 mob --
 mobility --
 mobilization --
 mode of production --
 model --
 modernization --
 monarchism --
 monetarism --
 monopoly capitalism --
 moral majority --
 Mosher, Frederick --
 multiculturalism --
 multi-ethnic politics --
 multilateralism --
 multi-nation state --
 multinationals --
 multiparty systems --
 mutually assured destruction --
 myth --
 nation --
 national socialism --
 nationalism --
 nationality --
 nationalization --
 nation-state --
 natural rights --
 neo-colonialism --
 networks --
 neutralism --
 neutrality --
 new class --
 new left --
 new right --
 new social movements --
 nihilism --
 nimby --
 nomenklatura --
 nomination --
 non-alignment --
 non-intervention --
 non-proliferation --
 norms --
 Nove, Alec --
 nuclear parity --
 nuclear proliferation. Oakeshott, Michael --
 obligation --
 Olson, Mancur --
 ombudsman --
 one-party states --
 open government --
 operationalize --
 opinion polls --
 opposition --
 organization theory --
 oriental despotism --
 Ostrogorski, Moisei --
 overkill --
 pacificism --
 pacifism --
 panel --
 pantouflage --
 papal encyclicals --
 paradigm --
 paramilitaries --
 parastatals --
 parish --
 parliamentary business --
 parliamentary privilege --
 parliamentary procedure --
 parliamentary questions --
 parliamentary sovereignty --
 parliamentary systems --
 participant observation --
 participatory democracy --
 party conferences --
 party conventions --
 party identification --
 party labels --
 party lists --
 party organization --
 party systems --
 passive resistance --
 paternalism --
 patriarchalism --
 patrimonialism --
 patriotism --
 patronage --
 peacekeeping --
 peasants --
 Pennock, J.R. --
 people --
 people\'s democracy --
 perestroika --
 permanent revolution --
 petite bourgeoisie --
 pillarization --
 planning --
 platform --
 plebiscite --
 plural society --
 pluralism --
 plurality --
 pocket veto --
 polarization --
 police --
 police state --
 policy analysis --
 policy making --
 policy outputs --
 political action committees --
 political anthropology --
 political attitudes --
 political behaviour --
 political business cycle --
 political class --
 political communication --
 political correctness --
 political corruption --
 political culture --
 political demography --
 political ecology --
 political economy --
 political education --
 political finance --
 political generations --
 political integration --
 political participation --
 political power --
 political psychology --
 political recruitment --
 political science --
 political socialization --
 political sociology --
 political stratification --
 political succession --
 political system --
 political theory --
 political violence --
 politician --
 politics --
 polity --
 poll tax --
 polyarchy --
 Popper, Karl --
 popular fronts --
 populism --
 pork barrel --
 positional goods --
 positive discrimination --
 positivism --
 post-colonial state --
 post-fordism --
 post-industrial society --
 post-materialism --
 postmodernism --
 poujadism --
 pragmatism --
 Prebisch, Raul --
 prefect --
 prerogative --
 presidential systems --
 presidents --
 pressure groups --
 pre-state political systems --
 primaries --
 prime ministerial government --
 prime ministers --
 primitive accumulation --
 primitive communism --
 privatization --
 pro-choice --
 programme --
 progressive taxation --
 progressives --
 pro-life --
 pronunciamento --
 propaganda --
 property --
 provinces --
 psephology --
 public administration --
 public choice theory --
 public good --
 public interest --
 public opinion --
 purge --
 5050 quango --
 quantitative methods --
 quasi-judicial --
 queens --
 questionnaires --
 quorum --
 quotas --
 race --
 racism --
 radicalism --
 ranking member --
 rates --
 rational choice theory --
 rationalism --
 rationalization --
 reactionary --
 realignment --
 realism --
 realpolitik --
 recall --
 reciprocity --
 redistribution --
 reference groups --
 referendum --
 reform --
 refugees --
 regionalism --
 registration --
 regressive taxation --
 regulation --
 reification --
 relative deprivation --
 rent-seeking --
 representation --
 representative --
 representative democracy --
 reproductive politics --
 republic --
 reselection --
 residues --
 responsibility --
 revenue sharing --
 revisionism --
 revolutions --
 rhetoric --
 rider --
 Riker, William --
 rising expectations --
 risk --
 Robson, William A. --
 Rokkan, Stein --
 roll calls --
 romanticism --
 Ross, Alf --
 rotten boroughs --
 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques --
 royalty --
 rule of law --
 ruling class --
 Rustow, Dankwart --
 sample surveys --
 sanctions --
 Schapiro, Leonard --
 Schmitt, Carl --
 Schumpeter, Joseph A. --
 scientific revolution --
 secession --
 second ballot --
 second chambers --
 secret police --
 secret services --
 sect --
 secularization --
 security --
 segregation --
 select committees --
 self-determination --
 senates --
 seniority --
 separation of powers --
 separatism --
 serfdom --
 sexism --
 shadow cabinets --
 Siegfried, André --
 single issue politics --
 single transferable vote --
 slavery --
 small group politics --
 social choice theory --
 social class --
 social contract --
 social credit --
 social democracy --
 social engineering --
 social market economy --
 social mobility --
 social order --
 social partners --
 social stratification --
 socialism --
 society --
 solidarity --
 sovereignty --
 sovereignty of the people --
 soviets --
 spatial theory --
 speakers --
 spin doctors --
 sponsorship of candidates --
 stability --
 standing committees --
 state --
 state capitalism --
 state socialism --
 states\' rights --
 statism --
 status --
 statute law --
 statutory instruments --
 sticks and carrots --
 Stokes, Donald --
 strategic weapons --
 strategy --
 strong mayor plan --
 structural functionalism --
 structuralism --
 student politics --
 subsidiarity --
 subversion --
 successive voting --
 superpower --
 supply-side economics --
 supranational government --
 supreme courts --
 surplus value --
 survey research --
 swing --
 syndicalism --
 systems analysis --
 tactical voting --
 Tawney, Ralph H. --
 tax revolts --
 taxation --
 taylorism --
 technocracy --
 territorial politics --
 terror --
 terrorism --
 thatcherism --
 theocracy --
 think tanks --
 third world --
 threat assessment --
 ticket-splitting --
 Tingsten, Herbert --
 Tocqueville, Alexis de --
 Toinet, Marie France --
 toleration --
 totalitarianism --
 town meetings --
 trade unions --
 traditionalism --
 treaties --
 tribalism --
 trotskyism --
 trusteeship --
 turnout --
 tutellage --
 two-party systems --
 typology --
 tyranny of the majority --
 ultra vires --
 underclass --
 unicameralism --
 unilateralism --
 unitary government --
 united fronts --
 upper class --
 urban politics --
 urbanization --
 utilitarianism --
 utility --
 utopianism --
 value judgements --
 vanguard of the proletariat --
 vetoes --
 virtual representation --
 voice --
 voluntary associations --
 voting --
 voting behaviour --
 Wallas, Graham --
 war --
 wards --
 warlords --
 weak mayor plan --
 Webb, Beatrice --
 Webb, Sidney --
 Weber, Max --
 welfare state --
 weltanschauung --
 Wheare, Kenneth C., Sir --
 whigs --
 whips --
 white primary --
 Wildavsky, Aaron --
 Wildenman, Rudolf --
 Williams, Philip --
 Wilson, Thomas Woodrow --
 withering away of the state --
 women\'s liberation --
 women\'s suffrage --
 workers\' control --
 working class --
 world government --
 xenophobia --
 youth movements --
 yuppies --
 Zimmern, Alfred Sir --
 zionism --
 zoning.
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              Comprising definitions and explanations of around 1000 key terms presented in an engaging style and cross-referenced to readers, this guide provides students and readers with an introduction to the terminology of political science. It includes a section of short biographies of the most eminent writers in the discipline - both classical and modern.                 �Read more...