Political science

Political science

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

Contributors in Political Science

Political science

Meetings between the heads of governments of major powers that discuss the relations between them. During the Cold War, summit diplomacy developed as a major means by which the U.S. and the Soviet ...

Supply and demand

Politics; Political Science

The economic mechanism that operates in a free enterprise system, and that is responsible for prices, based on the assumption that sellers want to sell at the highest price they can, and buyers want ...

Syndicalism

Politics; Political Science

A form of socialism that aimed to combine public ownership of the means of production with the elimination of central government. This was to be accomplished through the labour movement, which would ...

Surplus value

Politics; Political Science

The difference between a worker's wages and the value of the goods he produces. According to Karl Marx, surplus value was a measure of the exploitation of the worker by the capitalist, i.e. the ...

Suffrage

Politics; Political Science

The right to vote. Democratic societies are characterised by universal suffrage, which means that all adult citizens have the right to vote. The U.S. has had universal suffrage since 1920, when the ...

Syndicate

Politics; Political Science

An association between two or more companies to carry out a joint enterprise that requires large capital, often to establish control of a particular market.