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E-democracy | E-democracy (a blend of the terms electronic and democracy), also known as digital democracy or Internet democracy, uses information and communication technology (ICT) in political and governance processes. The term is credited to digital activist Steven Clift. By using 21st-century ICT, e-democracy seeks to enhance de... | 0.818587 | 0.992268 | 0.812257 |
Nordic model | The Nordic model comprises the economic and social policies as well as typical cultural practices common in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). This includes a comprehensive welfare state and multi-level collective bargaining based on the economic foundations of social corporatism, and... | 0.811259 | 0.998407 | 0.809967 |
Media democracy | Media democracy is a democratic approach to media studies that advocates for the reform of mass media to strengthen public service broadcasting and develop participation in alternative media and citizen journalism in order to create a mass media system that informs and empowers all members of society and enhances democ... | 0.815679 | 0.991789 | 0.808982 |
Democratic capitalism | Democratic capitalism, also referred to as market democracy, is a political and economic system that integrates resource allocation by marginal productivity (synonymous with free-market capitalism), with policies of resource allocation by social entitlement. The policies which characterise the system are enacted by dem... | 0.811506 | 0.988727 | 0.802358 |
Political system | In political science, a political system means the form of political organization that can be observed, recognised or otherwise declared by a society or state.
It defines the process for making official government decisions. It usually comprizes the governmental legal and economic system, social and cultural system, a... | 0.804104 | 0.997478 | 0.802076 |
Economic democracy | Economic democracy (sometimes called a democratic economy) is a socioeconomic philosophy that proposes to shift ownership and decision-making power from corporate shareholders and corporate managers (such as a board of directors) to a larger group of public stakeholders that includes workers, consumers, suppliers, comm... | 0.808217 | 0.991131 | 0.801049 |
Totalitarianism | Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society. In the field of political science, totalitarianism is... | 0.798626 | 0.999697 | 0.798384 |
Politicisation | Politicisation (also politicization; see English spelling differences) is a concept in political science and theory used to explain how ideas, entities or collections of facts are given a political tone or character, and are consequently assigned to the ideas and strategies of a particular group or party, thus becoming... | 0.810799 | 0.983271 | 0.797235 |
Comparative politics | Comparative politics is a field in political science characterized either by the use of the comparative method or other empirical methods to explore politics both within and between countries. Substantively, this can include questions relating to political institutions, political behavior, conflict, and the causes and ... | 0.798352 | 0.997505 | 0.79636 |
Mediatization (media) | Mediatization (or medialization) is a method whereby the mass media influence other sectors of society, including politics, business, culture, entertainment, sport, religion, or education. Mediatization is a process of change or a trend, similar to globalization and modernization, where the mass media integrates into ... | 0.809083 | 0.983163 | 0.79546 |
History of democracy | A democracy is a political system, or a system of decision-making within an institution, organization, or state, in which members have a share of power. Modern democracies are characterized by two capabilities of their citizens that differentiate them fundamentally from earlier forms of government: to intervene in soci... | 0.796397 | 0.998213 | 0.794974 |
Democracy indices | Democracy indices are quantitative and comparative assessments of the state of democracy for different countries according to various definitions of democracy.
The democracies indices differ in whether they are categorical, such as classifying countries into democracies, hybrid regimes, and autocracies, or continuous ... | 0.800255 | 0.992576 | 0.794315 |
Advocacy | Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group that aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social institutions. Advocacy includes activities and publications to influence public policy, laws and budgets by using facts, their relationships, the media, and messaging to educate government officials... | 0.799633 | 0.992857 | 0.793921 |
Social democracy | Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist and democratic approach towards achieving socialism. In modern practice, social democracy has become mainly capitalist, with the state regulating the economy in th... | 0.79416 | 0.99945 | 0.793723 |
Statism | In political science, statism or etatism (from French état 'state') is the doctrine that the political authority of the state is legitimate to some degree. This may include economic and social policy, especially in regard to taxation and the means of production.
While in use since the 1850s, the term statism gained si... | 0.796463 | 0.995939 | 0.793228 |
Liberal democracy | Liberal democracy, western-style democracy, or substantive democracy is a form of government that combines the organization of a democracy with ideas of liberal political philosophy.
Common elements within a liberal democracy are: elections between or among multiple distinct political parties, a separation of powers i... | 0.794113 | 0.998796 | 0.793157 |
Postnationalism | Postnationalism or non-nationalism is the process or trend by which nation states and national identities lose their importance relative to cross-nation and self-organized or supranational and global entities as well as local entities. Although postnationalism is not strictly considered the antonym of nationalism, the ... | 0.804088 | 0.98485 | 0.791907 |
Grassroots democracy | Grassroots democracy is a tendency towards designing political processes that shift as much decision-making authority as practical to the organization's lowest geographic or social level of organization.
Grassroots organizations can have a variety of structures; depending on the type of organization and what the memb... | 0.801044 | 0.988308 | 0.791678 |
Deliberative democracy | Deliberative democracy or discursive democracy is a form of democracy in which deliberation is central to decision-making. Deliberative democracy seeks quality over quantity by limiting decision-makers to a smaller but more representative sample of the population that is given the time and resources to focus on one iss... | 0.79602 | 0.993472 | 0.790824 |
Democratic ideals | Democratic ideals is an expression used to refer to personal qualities or standards of government behavior that are felt to be essential for the continuation of a democratic policy.
In the 20th century, T. H. Marshall proposed what he believed to be central democratic ideals in his seminal essay on citizenship, citing... | 0.805365 | 0.981195 | 0.79022 |
Fourth Estate | The term Fourth Estate or fourth power refers to the press and news media both in explicit capacity of advocacy and implicit ability to frame political issues. The derivation of the term arises from the traditional European concept of the three estates of the realm: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners. The equi... | 0.792132 | 0.997242 | 0.789947 |
Anocracy | Anocracy, or semi-democracy, is a form of government that is loosely defined as part democracy and part dictatorship, or as a "regime that mixes democratic with autocratic features". Another definition classifies anocracy as "a regime that permits some means of participation through opposition group behavior but that h... | 0.794924 | 0.993365 | 0.789649 |
Epistemic democracy | Epistemic democracy refers to a range of views in political science and philosophy which see the value of democracy as based, at least in part, on its ability to make good or correct decisions. Epistemic democrats believe that the legitimacy or justification of democratic government should not be exclusively based on t... | 0.810615 | 0.973881 | 0.789443 |
Democratic backsliding | Democratic backsliding is a process of regime change toward autocracy in which the exercise of political power becomes more arbitrary and repressive. The process typically restricts the space for public contest and political participation in the process of government selection. Democratic decline involves the weakening... | 0.791288 | 0.997384 | 0.789218 |
Democratic transition | A democratic transition describes a phase in a country's political system as a result of an ongoing change from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one. The process is known as democratisation, political changes moving in a democratic direction. Democratization waves have been linked to sudden shifts in the distrib... | 0.803426 | 0.981419 | 0.788497 |
Decommodification | In political economy, decommodification is the strength of social entitlements and citizens' degree of immunization from market dependency.
In regards to the labor force, decommodification describes a "degree to which individual, or families, can uphold a socially acceptable standard of living independently of market ... | 0.795838 | 0.990667 | 0.788411 |
Pluralism (political theory) | Classical pluralism is the view that politics and decision-making are located mostly in the framework of government but that many non-governmental groups use their resources to exert influence. The central question for classical pluralism is how power and influence are distributed in a political process. Groups of indi... | 0.792493 | 0.993975 | 0.787718 |
Ethnocracy | An ethnocracy is a type of political structure in which the state apparatus is controlled by a dominant ethnic group (or groups) to further its interests, power, dominance, and resources. Ethnocratic regimes in the modern era typically display a 'thin' democratic façade covering a more profound ethnic structure, in whi... | 0.792887 | 0.993463 | 0.787703 |
Consensus democracy | Consensus democracy is the application of consensus decision-making and supermajority to the process of legislation in a democracy. It is characterized by a decision-making structure that involves and takes into account as broad a range of opinions as possible, as opposed to majoritarian democracy systems where minorit... | 0.79679 | 0.98757 | 0.786886 |
Political socialization | Political socialization is the process by which individuals internalize and develop their political values, ideas, attitudes, and perceptions via the agents of socialization. Political socialization occurs through processes of socialization, that can be structured as primary and secondary socialization. Primary sociali... | 0.791672 | 0.993884 | 0.78683 |
Workplace democracy | Workplace democracy is the application of democracy in various forms to the workplace, such as voting systems, debates, democratic structuring, due process, adversarial process, and systems of appeal. It can be implemented in a variety of ways, depending on the size, culture, and other variables of an organization.
Th... | 0.795399 | 0.988391 | 0.786166 |
Political polarization | Political polarization (spelled polarisation in British English, African and Caribbean English, and New Zealand English) is the divergence of political attitudes away from the center, towards ideological extremes. Scholars distinguish between ideological polarization (differences between the policy positions) and affec... | 0.789596 | 0.99565 | 0.786161 |
Neorealism (international relations) | Neorealism or structural realism is a theory of international relations that emphasizes the role of power politics in international relations, sees competition and conflict as enduring features and sees limited potential for cooperation. The anarchic state of the international system means that states cannot be certain... | 0.788746 | 0.996023 | 0.78561 |
Political egalitarianism | Political egalitarianism describes an inclusive and fair allocation of political power or influence, fair processes, and fair treatment of all regardless of characteristics like race, religion, age, wealth or intelligence. Political egalitarianism, and its close cousin political equality, are key founding principles an... | 0.800561 | 0.980967 | 0.785324 |
Regime | In politics, a regime (also spelled régime) is the form of government or the set of rules, cultural, or social norms, that regulate the operation of a government or institution and its interactions with society. The two broad categories of regimes are democratic and autocratic. Autocratic regimes can be further divided... | 0.791161 | 0.992124 | 0.784931 |
Political globalization | Political globalization is the growth of the worldwide political system, both in size and complexity. That system includes national governments, their governmental and intergovernmental organizations as well as government-independent elements of global civil society such as international non-governmental organizations ... | 0.788372 | 0.995602 | 0.784905 |
Polity | A polity is a group of people with a collective identity, who are organized by some form of political institutionalized social relations, and have a capacity to mobilize resources.
A polity can be any group of people organized for governance, such as the board of a corporation, the government of a country, or the gov... | 0.78573 | 0.998338 | 0.784425 |
Libertarian socialism | Libertarian socialism is an anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist political current that emphasises self-governance and workers' self-management. It is contrasted from other forms of socialism by its rejection of state ownership and from other forms of libertarianism by its rejection of private property. Broadly defin... | 0.785462 | 0.998291 | 0.78412 |
The Economist Democracy Index | The Democracy Index published by the Economist Group is an index measuring the quality of democracy across the world. This quantitative and comparative assessment is centrally concerned with democratic rights and democratic institutions. The methodology for assessing democracy used in this democracy index is according ... | 0.784125 | 0.999669 | 0.783866 |
State capacity | State capacity is the ability of a government to accomplish policy goals, either generally or in reference to specific aims. More narrowly, state capacity often refers to the ability of a state to collect taxes, enforce law and order, and provide public goods.
A state that lacks capacity is defined as a fragile state ... | 0.795639 | 0.984707 | 0.783471 |
Macrosociology | Macrosociology is a large-scale approach to sociology, emphasizing the analysis of social systems and populations at the structural level, often at a necessarily high level of theoretical abstraction. Though macrosociology does concern itself with individuals, families, and other constituent aspects of a society, it do... | 0.801534 | 0.977435 | 0.783447 |
System D | System D is a manner of responding to challenges that require one to have the ability to think quickly, to adapt, and to improvise when getting a job done. The term gained wider popularity in the United States after appearing in the 2006 publication of Anthony Bourdain's The Nasty Bits. Bourdain references finding the... | 0.795415 | 0.984292 | 0.782921 |
Dimensions of globalization | Manfred Steger, professor of Global Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa argues that globalization has four main dimensions: economic, political, cultural, ecological, with ideological aspects of each category. David Held's book Global Transformations is organized around the same dimensions, though the ecologic... | 0.792983 | 0.987225 | 0.782852 |
Political culture | Political culture describes how culture impacts politics. Every political system is embedded in a particular political culture.
Political culture is what the people, the voters, the electorates believe and do based on their understanding of the political system in which they have found themselves. These may be regarde... | 0.787753 | 0.993446 | 0.78259 |
Active citizenship | Active citizenship involves citizens having control over their daily lives as users of public services, allowing them to influence decisions, voice concerns, and engage with service provision. This includes both choice and voice, enabling citizens to impact service provision by participating in local policies, interact... | 0.795281 | 0.983927 | 0.782498 |
Vox populi | ( ) is a Latin phrase (originally Vox populi, vox Dei -The voice of the people is the voice of the God) that literally means "voice of the people." It is used in English in the meaning "the opinion of the majority of the people." In journalism, vox pop or man on the street refers to short interviews with members of the... | 0.783674 | 0.997957 | 0.782073 |
Sources of law | Sources of law are the origins of laws, the binding rules that enable any state to govern its territory. The terminology was already used in Rome by Cicero as a metaphor referring to the "fountain" ("fons" in Latin) of law. Technically, anything that can create, change, or cancel any right or law is considered a source... | 0.786267 | 0.994222 | 0.781724 |
Representative democracy | Representative democracy, electoral democracy or indirect democracy is a type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public. Nearly all modern Western-style democracies function as some type of representative democracy: for example, the United Kingdom (a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy), G... | 0.782212 | 0.998964 | 0.781402 |
Nation-building | Nation-building is constructing or structuring a national identity using the power of the state. Nation-building aims at the unification of the people within the state so that it remains politically stable and viable in the long run. According to Harris Mylonas, "Legitimate authority in modern national states is connec... | 0.784844 | 0.99502 | 0.780936 |
Civic virtue | Civic virtue is the cultivation of habits important for the success of a society. Closely linked to the concept of citizenship, civic virtue is often conceived as the dedication of citizens to the common welfare of each other even at the cost of their individual interests. The identification of the character traits tha... | 0.789012 | 0.989745 | 0.780921 |
Hybrid regime | A hybrid regime is a type of political system often created as a result of an incomplete democratic transition from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one (or vice versa). Hybrid regimes are categorized as having a combination of autocratic features with democratic ones and can simultaneously hold political repres... | 0.785084 | 0.994695 | 0.780919 |
Internet activism | Internet activism involves the use of electronic-communication technologies such as social media, e-mail, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster and more effective communication by citizen movements, the delivery of particular information to large and specific audiences, as well as coordination. I... | 0.790743 | 0.987505 | 0.780862 |
Politics and technology | Politics and technology encompasses concepts, mechanisms, personalities, efforts, and social movements that include, but are not necessarily limited to, the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICTs). Scholars have begun to explore how internet technologies influence political communication an... | 0.799677 | 0.976462 | 0.780854 |
Liberalism (international relations) | Liberalism is a school of thought within international relations theory which revolves around three interrelated principles:
Rejection of power politics as the only possible outcome of international relations; it questions security/warfare principles of realism
Mutual benefits and international cooperation
The role ... | 0.78456 | 0.994936 | 0.780587 |
Comparing Media Systems | Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics (2004), by Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini, is a seminal study in the field of international comparative media system research. The study compares media systems of 18 Western democracies including nine Northern European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark,... | 0.80128 | 0.973985 | 0.780435 |
Socialism | Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes the economic, political, and social theories and movements associated with the implementation of such systems. So... | 0.780201 | 0.999908 | 0.78013 |
Monism and dualism in international law | The terms monism and dualism are used to describe two different theories of the relationship between international law and domestic law. Monism and dualism both offer approaches to how international law comes into effect within states, and how conflicts between national and international law are resolved. In practice, ... | 0.788067 | 0.989879 | 0.780091 |
Democratization | Democratization, or democratisation, is the structural government transition from an authoritarian government to a more democratic political regime, including substantive political changes moving in a democratic direction.
Whether and to what extent democratization occurs can be influenced by various factors, includin... | 0.784124 | 0.99438 | 0.779717 |
Populism | Populism is a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group with "the elite". It is frequently associated with anti-establishment and anti-political sentiment. The term developed in the late 19th century and has been applied to various politicians, parties and movemen... | 0.780015 | 0.999607 | 0.779708 |
Position paper | A position paper (sometimes position piece for brief items) is an essay that presents an arguable opinion about an issue – typically that of the author or some specified entity. Position papers are published in academia, in politics, in law and other domains. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience tha... | 0.787569 | 0.98983 | 0.779559 |
Citizen journalism | Citizen journalism, also known as collaborative media, participatory journalism, democratic journalism, guerrilla journalism or street journalism, is based upon members of the community playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information. Courtney C. Radsch ... | 0.785019 | 0.993014 | 0.779534 |
Egalitarianism | Egalitarianism, or equalitarianism, is a school of thought within political philosophy that builds on the concept of social equality, prioritizing it for all people. Egalitarian doctrines are generally characterized by the idea that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or moral status. As such, all people should b... | 0.779958 | 0.998902 | 0.779102 |
Oligarchy | Oligarchy (; ) is a conceptual form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may or may not be distinguished by one or several characteristics, such as nobility, fame, wealth, education, or corporate, religious, political, or military control.
Throughout history, power struct... | 0.779288 | 0.999499 | 0.778898 |
Political structure | Political structure is a commonly used term in political science. In a general sense, it refers to institutions or even groups and their relations to each other, their patterns of interaction within political systems and to political regulations, laws and the norms present in political systems in such a way that they ... | 0.788879 | 0.987229 | 0.778804 |
Direct democracy | Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies. This differs from the majority of currently established democracies, which are representative democracies. The theory and practice of direct democracy and participa... | 0.779425 | 0.99913 | 0.778746 |
V-Dem Institute | The V-Dem Institute (Varieties of Democracy), founded by Staffan I. Lindberg in 2014, studies the qualities of government. The headquarters of the project is based at the department of political science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Democracy indices
The V-Dem Institute publishes a number of high-profile datase... | 0.791099 | 0.984292 | 0.778672 |
Authoritarianism | Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law. Political scientists have created many typologies describing variat... | 0.779034 | 0.999486 | 0.778633 |
Citizens' assembly | A citizens' assembly is a group of people selected by lottery from the general population to deliberate on important public questions so as to exert an influence. Other types of deliberative mini-publics include citizens' jury, citizens' panel, people's panel, people's jury, policy jury, consensus conference and citize... | 0.790394 | 0.985103 | 0.778619 |
The Political Compass | The Political Compass is a website soliciting responses to a set of 62 propositions in order to rate political ideology in a spectrum with two axes: one about economic policy (left–right) and another about social policy (authoritarian–libertarian).
History
The Political Compass website was established by political jo... | 0.780968 | 0.996803 | 0.778471 |
V-Dem Democracy Indices | The Democracy Indices by V-Dem are democracy indices published by the V-Dem Institute that describe qualities of different democracies. It is published annually. In particular, the V-Dem dataset is popular among political scientists and describes the characteristics of political regimes. Datasets released by the V-Dem ... | 0.780911 | 0.996812 | 0.778421 |
Economic system | An economic system, or economic order, is a system of production, resource allocation and distribution of goods and services within a society. It includes the combination of the various institutions, agencies, entities, decision-making processes, and patterns of consumption that comprise the economic structure of a giv... | 0.779638 | 0.998177 | 0.778218 |
Types of democracy | Types of democracy refers to the various governance structures that embody the principles of democracy ("rule by the people") in some way. Democracy is frequently applied to governments (ranging from local to global), but may also be applied to other constructs like workplaces, families, community associations, and so ... | 0.779676 | 0.998076 | 0.778177 |
Reflexivity (social theory) | In epistemology, and more specifically, the sociology of knowledge, reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect, especially as embedded in human belief structures. A reflexive relationship is multi-directional when the causes and the effects affect the reflexive agent in a layered or complex s... | 0.782368 | 0.994522 | 0.778082 |
Social media use in politics | Social media use in politics refers to the use of online social media platforms in political processes and activities. Political processes and activities include all activities that pertain to the governance of a country or area. This includes political organization, global politics, political corruption, political pa... | 0.781628 | 0.995319 | 0.777969 |
Plutocracy | A plutocracy or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income. The first known use of the term in English dates from 1631. Unlike most political systems, plutocracy is not rooted in any established political philosophy.
Usage
The term plutocracy is generally used as a pejorati... | 0.77885 | 0.998786 | 0.777904 |
Electoral system | An electoral or voting system is a set of rules used to determine the results of an election. Electoral systems are used in politics to elect governments, while non-political elections may take place in business, non-profit organisations and informal organisations. These rules govern all aspects of the voting process: ... | 0.779165 | 0.998357 | 0.777884 |
Framing (social sciences) | In the social sciences, framing comprises a set of concepts and theoretical perspectives on how individuals, groups, and societies organize, perceive, and communicate about reality. Framing can manifest in thought or interpersonal communication. Frames in thought consist of the mental representations, interpretations, ... | 0.782613 | 0.993459 | 0.777494 |
Voting | Voting refers to the process of choosing officials or policies by casting a ballot, a document used by people to formally express their preferences. Republics and representative democracies are governments where the population chooses representatives by voting.
The procedure for identifying the winners based on votes... | 0.780333 | 0.996168 | 0.777343 |
Civic education in the United States | Rationale
The promotion of a republic and its values has been an important concern for policy-makers – to impact people's political perceptions, to encourage political participation, and to foster the principles enshrined in the Constitution (e.g. liberty, freedom of speech, civil rights). The subject of "Civics" has... | 0.79665 | 0.975387 | 0.777042 |
Localism (politics) | Localism is a range of political philosophies which prioritize the local. Generally, localism supports local production and consumption of goods, local control of government, and promotion of local history, local culture and local identity. Localism can be contrasted with regionalism and centralized government, with it... | 0.786677 | 0.987671 | 0.776978 |
Corporate statism | Corporate statism, state corporatism, or simply corporatism, is a political culture and a form of corporatism the proponents of which claim or believe that corporate groups should form the basis of society and the state. By this principle, the state requires all citizens to belong to one of several officially designate... | 0.783017 | 0.992245 | 0.776944 |
Democratic peace theory | Proponents of democratic peace theory argue that both electoral and republican forms of democracy are hesitant to engage in armed conflict with other identified democracies. Different advocates of this theory suggest that several factors are responsible for motivating peace between democratic states. Individual theoris... | 0.780958 | 0.994722 | 0.776836 |
Social liberalism | Social liberalism is a political philosophy and variety of liberalism that endorses social justice, social services, a mixed economy, and the expansion of civil and political rights, as opposed to classical liberalism which favors limited government and an overall more laissez-faire style of governance. While both are ... | 0.777925 | 0.998518 | 0.776772 |
Synecdoche | Synecdoche is a type of metonymy; it is a figure of speech that uses a term for a part of something to refer to the whole (pars pro toto), or vice versa (totum pro parte). The term is derived .
Common English synecdoches include suits for businessmen, wheels for automobile, and boots for soldiers. Another example is t... | 0.777944 | 0.998408 | 0.776706 |
The Sovereign Individual | The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age is a 1997 non-fiction book by William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson. Later republished on 26 August 1999 by Touchstone, it forecasts the development of the twenty-first century; focusing on the rise of the internet and cyberspace, digital cu... | 0.782771 | 0.992168 | 0.77664 |
Geniocracy | Geniocracy is the framework for a system of government which was first proposed by Raël (leader of the International Raëlian Movement) in 1977 and which advocates a certain minimal criterion of intelligence for political candidates and also the electorate.
Definition
The term geniocracy comes from the word genius, an... | 0.786564 | 0.987371 | 0.77663 |
Postliberalism | Postliberalism is an emergent political philosophy that critiques and seeks to move beyond the dominant liberal paradigm of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Proponents argue that liberalism, with its emphasis on individual rights, free markets, and limited government, has failed to adequately address societal ch... | 0.778619 | 0.997421 | 0.776611 |
Sovereigntism | Sovereigntism, sovereignism or souverainism (from , , meaning "the ideology of sovereignty") is the notion of having control over one's conditions of existence, whether at the level of the self, social group, region, nation or globe. Typically used for describing the acquiring or preserving political independence of a... | 0.78635 | 0.98755 | 0.77656 |
Democracy | Democracy (from , dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state. Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitive elections while more expansive definitions link democracy to guarantees of c... | 0.776692 | 0.999816 | 0.776549 |
Autonomy | In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy is the capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision. Autonomous organizations or institutions are independent or self-governing. Autonomy can also be defined from a human resources perspective, where it denotes a (relatively high)... | 0.778347 | 0.997599 | 0.776478 |
Ideocracy | Ideocracy (a portmanteau word combining "ideology" and kratos, Greek for "power") is "governance of a state according to the principles of a particular (political) ideology; a state or country governed in this way". It is government based on a monistic ideology—as distinct from an authoritarian state, which is characte... | 0.780344 | 0.994814 | 0.776297 |
Nomothetic and idiographic | Nomothetic and idiographic are terms used by Neo-Kantian philosopher Wilhelm Windelband to describe two distinct approaches to knowledge, each one corresponding to a different intellectual tendency, and each one corresponding to a different branch of academia. To say that Windelband supported that last dichotomy is a c... | 0.786362 | 0.987158 | 0.776264 |
Democratic socialism | Democratic socialism is a left-wing set of political philosophies that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers' self-management within a market socialist, decentralised planned, or democratic centrally pla... | 0.776495 | 0.999336 | 0.77598 |
European social model | The European social model is a concept that emerged in the discussion of economic globalization and typically contrasts the degree of employment regulation and social protection in European countries to conditions in the United States. It is commonly cited in policy debates in the European Union, including by represent... | 0.796679 | 0.974003 | 0.775968 |
Means of production | In political philosophy, the means of production refers to the generally necessary assets and resources that enable a society to engage in production. While the exact resources encompassed in the term may vary, it is widely agreed to include the classical factors of production (land, labour, and capital) as well as the... | 0.77836 | 0.996893 | 0.775942 |
Democracy Ranking | The Democracy Ranking is an index compiled by the Association for Development and Advancement of the Democracy Award, an Austria-based non-partisan organization. Democracy Ranking produces an annual global ranking of liberal democracies. The applied conceptual formula, which measures the quality of democracy, integrate... | 0.783607 | 0.990216 | 0.77594 |
Digital citizen | The term digital citizen is used with different meanings. According to the definition provided by Karen Mossberger, one of the authors of Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation, digital citizens are "those who use the internet regularly and effectively." In this sense, a digital citizen is a pers... | 0.782611 | 0.991369 | 0.775856 |
Corporatism | Corporatism is a political system of interest representation and policymaking whereby corporate groups, such as agricultural, labour, military, business, scientific, or guild associations, come together on and negotiate contracts or policy (collective bargaining) on the basis of their common interests. The term is der... | 0.77679 | 0.998698 | 0.775779 |
Euroscepticism | Euroscepticism, also spelled as Euroskepticism or EU-scepticism, is a political position involving criticism of the European Union (EU) and European integration. It ranges from those who oppose some EU institutions and policies and seek reform (Eurorealism, Eurocritical, or soft Euroscepticism), to those who oppose EU ... | 0.777243 | 0.998069 | 0.775742 |
Constructivism (international relations) | In international relations (IR), constructivism is a social theory that asserts that significant aspects of international relations are shaped by ideational factors. The most important ideational factors are those that are collectively held; these collectively held beliefs construct the interests and identities of acto... | 0.779242 | 0.995496 | 0.775733 |
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