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 most eminent writers in the discipline -- both classical (e.g. Mill) and modern (e.g. Hayek).

"Companion volume to the Blackwell dictionary of sociology by Allan Johnson"--Preface.

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.

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