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Political science
The social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics.
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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Politics; Political Science
Provides aid and development assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. The headquarters is in New York.
Universalism
Politics; Political Science
The theological doctrine that all people, rather than the selected few who belong to a particular faith, will eventually find salvation in God.
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 ...
Zeitgeist
Politics; Political Science
A German word now commonly used in English. It means literally spirit of the times, and refers to prevailing currents of thought and feeling in a society. For example, an aspect of the Zeitgeist of ...
Zero-sum
Politics; Political Science
A situation in which a gain for one must result in a loss for another.
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.
