Political science

Political science

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

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Monetarism

Politics; Political Science

The economic school that places growth in the money supply as central to economic planning.

Neoconservatism

Politics; Political Science

A movement that had a major influence on U.S. foreign policy in the first decade of the twenty-first century, following the terrorists attacks of 9/11. Neoconservatives, or neocons as they were ...

New Deal

Politics; Political Science

The far-reaching social and economic programmes enacted during the first and second terms of President Franklin Roosevelt. The New Deal was inaugurated in 1933, to overcome the Great Depression. ...

Neo-classical economics

Politics; Political Science

An economic theory that built on the foundation laid by the classical school of Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Neo-classical economics, developed in the twentieth century, retained a belief in the ...

The eternal law that governs the entire universe, instituted by God, present in humans, and which should be the basis on which human society rests. Humans can deduce what natural law is through their ...

Natural rights

Politics; Political Science

Similar to what the framers of the U.S. constitution called "unalienable rights," those rights that are given to humans by God or nature, such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The Bill ...

Neutrality

Politics; Political Science

Legal neutrality under international law is granted to a country that has renounced all war in favour of permanent neutrality. Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, and Ireland are examples of such ...