The Blackwell dictionary of political science : a user's guide to its terms / Frank Bealey.
A clear and lively introduction to the terminology of political science for students. Comprises rigorous definitions and explanations of around 1000 key terms presented in an engaging style, cross-referenced, and easiliy accessible to readers new to the subject. Includes short biographies of the mos...
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Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. :
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1999.
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| Physical Description: | 384 pages ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- 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.