Political science

Political science

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

Contributors in Political Science

Political science

The name was first given to the British legislature, which dates back to 1275, and has since been adopted in many other countries. Countries with parliaments operate under the parliamentary rather ...

Parity

Politics; Political Science

Equality. In political discourse, the term is employed in a variety of contexts: employment parity (when the makeup of a company's workforce is the same as the makeup of the population as a whole in ...

Paramilitary

Politics; Political Science

Forces that work along side of, or in place of, regular military forces. Often they do not have any official sanction and act in secret. Some of the citizens' militias that have recently sprung up in ...

Participatory democracy

Politics; Political Science

A system of government in which individuals and interest groups are involved directly in decision-making.

Panacea

Politics; Political Science

A cure-all, as in the government did not present its proposals as a panacea, but as a first step to tackling certain social problems.

Parochialism

Politics; Political Science

Thinking in small, local, narrow ways, opposed to universalism.

Populism

Politics; Political Science

The term was originally used to describe political movements in Europe at the end of nineteenth century that appealed to the rural poor. In the U.S. the Populist Party was formed in 1890 as a protest ...