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Youth empowerment | Youth empowerment is a process where children and young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives. They do this by addressing their situation and then take action in order to improve their access to resources and transform their consciousness through their beliefs, values, and attitudes. Youth empowerment aim... | 0.778166 | 0.988929 | 0.76955 |
Political representation | Political representation is the activity of making citizens "present" in public policy-making processes when political actors act in the best interest of citizens according to Hanna Pitkin's Concept of Representation (1967).
This definition of political representation is consistent with a wide variety of views on wha... | 0.77602 | 0.991634 | 0.769528 |
Agonism | Agonism (from Greek ἀγών agon, "struggle") is a political and social theory that emphasizes the potentially positive aspects of certain forms of conflict. It accepts a permanent place for such conflict in the political sphere, but seeks to show how individuals might accept and channel this conflict positively. Agonists... | 0.780911 | 0.985333 | 0.769458 |
Consociationalism | Consociationalism is a form of democratic power sharing. Political scientists define a consociational state as one which has major internal divisions along ethnic, religious, or linguistic lines, but which remains stable due to consultation among the elites of these groups. Consociational states are often contrasted wi... | 0.773685 | 0.994495 | 0.769426 |
Political sociology | Political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with exploring how governance and society interact and influence one another at the micro to macro levels of analysis. Interested in the social causes and consequences of how power is distributed and changes throughout and amongst societies, political... | 0.774377 | 0.993571 | 0.769399 |
Polyarchy | In political science, the term polyarchy ( "many", arkhe "rule") was used by Robert A. Dahl to describe a form of government in which power is invested in multiple people. It takes the form of neither a dictatorship nor a democracy. This form of government was first implemented in the United States and France and gradu... | 0.77748 | 0.989464 | 0.769289 |
Third rail (politics) | The third rail of a nation's politics is a metaphor for any issue so controversial that it is "charged" and "untouchable" to the extent that any politician or public official who dares to broach the subject will invariably suffer politically. The metaphor comes from the high-voltage third rail in some electric railway ... | 0.779187 | 0.987285 | 0.769279 |
Procedural democracy | Procedural democracy or proceduralist democracy, proceduralism or hollow democracy is a term used to denote the particular procedures, such as regular elections based on universal suffrage, that produce an electorally-legitimated government. Procedural democracy, with its centering of electoral processes as the basis o... | 0.784778 | 0.980186 | 0.769229 |
Platform capitalism | Platform capitalism is an economic and business model in which digital platforms play a central role in facilitating interactions, transactions, and services between different user groups, typically consumers and producers. This model of capitalism has emerged and expanded with the rise of the Internet and digital tech... | 0.790464 | 0.973105 | 0.769205 |
Information society | An information society is a society or subculture where the usage, creation, distribution, manipulation and integration of information is a significant activity. Its main drivers are information and communication technologies, which have resulted in rapid growth of a variety of forms of information. Proponents of this ... | 0.775925 | 0.991264 | 0.769147 |
Démarche | A démarche (; from the French word whose literal meaning is "step" or "solicitation") has come to refer either to:
a line of action; move; countermove; maneuver, especially in diplomacy; or
a formal diplomatic representation (diplomatic correspondence) of the official position, views or wishes on a subject from one g... | 0.780222 | 0.985722 | 0.769082 |
Legitimation | Legitimation, legitimization (US), or legitimisation (UK) is the act of providing legitimacy. Legitimation in the social sciences refers to the process whereby an act, process, or ideology becomes legitimate by its attachment to norms and values within a given society. It is the process of making something acceptable ... | 0.782216 | 0.983195 | 0.76907 |
Communitarianism | Communitarianism is a philosophy that emphasizes the connection between the individual and the community. Its overriding philosophy is based on the belief that a person's social identity and personality are largely molded by community relationships, with a smaller degree of development being placed on individualism. Al... | 0.771524 | 0.996803 | 0.769057 |
Defective democracy | Defective democracy (or flawed democracy) is a concept that was proposed by the political scientists Wolfgang Merkel, Hans-Jürgen Puhle and Aurel S. Croissant at the beginning of the 21st century to subtilize the distinctions between totalitarian, authoritarian, and democratic political systems. It is based on the conc... | 0.784138 | 0.980734 | 0.769031 |
Classical realism (international relations) | Classical realism is an international relations theory from the realist school of thought. Realism makes the following assumptions: states are the main actors in the international relations system, there is no supranational international authority, states act in their own self-interest, and states want power for self-p... | 0.775982 | 0.990987 | 0.768987 |
Citizenship education (subject) | Citizenship education is taught in schools, as an academic subject similar to politics or sociology. It is known by different names in different countries – for example, 'citizenship education' (or just 'citizenship' for short) in the UK, ‘civics’ in the US, and 'education for democratic citizenship' in parts of Europe... | 0.78054 | 0.985137 | 0.768939 |
Centre-right politics | Centre-right politics is the set of right-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre. It is commonly associated with conservatism, Christian democracy, liberal conservatism, and conservative liberalism. Conservative and liberal centre-right parties have historically been more successful in the A... | 0.770779 | 0.997585 | 0.768917 |
Ad hoc | Ad hoc is a Latin phrase meaning literally for this. In English, it typically signifies a solution designed for a specific purpose, problem, or task rather than a generalized solution adaptable to collateral instances (compare with a priori).
Common examples include ad hoc committees and commissions created at the nat... | 0.770383 | 0.998085 | 0.768908 |
Christian nationalism | Christian nationalism is a form of religious nationalism that focuses on promoting its adherents' Christian views to be prominent or dominant in political and social life. Some believers in Christian nationalist ideas are more likely to support political violence and other anti-democratic ideas.
Ideology
Some branches... | 0.769542 | 0.99914 | 0.76888 |
Economics | Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyses what is viewed as basic elements within economies, including individual agents and marke... | 0.768992 | 0.999622 | 0.768701 |
Electoral reform | Electoral reform is a change in electoral systems which alters how public desires are expressed in election results.
Description
Reforms can include changes to:
Voting systems, such as proportional representation, a two-round system (runoff voting), instant-runoff voting (alternative voting, ranked-choice voting, or... | 0.777667 | 0.98846 | 0.768693 |
Cameralism | Cameralism (German: Kameralismus) was a German science of public administration in the 18th and early 19th centuries that aimed at strong management of a centralized economy for the benefit mainly of the state. The discipline in its most narrow definition concerned the management of the state's finances. Throughout the... | 0.772813 | 0.994657 | 0.768684 |
Mill's Methods | Mill's Methods are five methods of induction described by philosopher John Stuart Mill in his 1843 book A System of Logic. They are intended to establish a causal relationship between two or more groups of data, analyzing their respective differences and similarities.
The methods
Direct method of agreement
For a pro... | 0.776552 | 0.98975 | 0.768593 |
History of human rights | While belief in the sanctity of human life has ancient precedents in many religions of the world, the foundations of modern human rights began during the era of renaissance humanism in the early modern period. The European wars of religion and the civil wars of seventeenth-century Kingdom of England gave rise to the ph... | 0.774025 | 0.992906 | 0.768535 |
Capacity (law) | Legal capacity is a quality denoting either the legal aptitude of a person to have rights and liabilities (in this sense also called transaction capacity), or altogether the personhood itself in regard to an entity other than a natural person (in this sense also called legal personality).
Natural persons
Capacity cov... | 0.780934 | 0.984003 | 0.768441 |
Seeing Like a State | Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed is a book by James C. Scott critical of a system of beliefs he calls high modernism, that centers on governments' overconfidence in the ability to design and operate society in accordance with purported scientific laws.
The book make... | 0.772843 | 0.994239 | 0.768391 |
Liberal institutionalism | Liberal institutionalism (or institutional liberalism or neoliberalism) is a theory of international relations that holds that international cooperation between states is feasible and sustainable, and that such cooperation can reduce conflict and competition. Neoliberalism is a revised version of liberalism. Alongside ... | 0.777176 | 0.988591 | 0.768309 |
Legislature | A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city on behalf of the people therein. They are often contrasted with the executive and judicial powers of government. Legislatures can exist at different levels of government–national, stat... | 0.769142 | 0.998896 | 0.768293 |
Culture | Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, attitude, and habits of the individuals in these groups. Culture is often originated from or attributed to a specific region or location.
Hu... | 0.768644 | 0.99951 | 0.768267 |
Netocracy | Netocracy was a term invented by the editorial board of the American technology magazine Wired in the early 1990s. A portmanteau of Internet and aristocracy, netocracy refers to a perceived global upper-class that bases its power on a technological advantage and networking skills, in comparison to what is portrayed as ... | 0.794061 | 0.967467 | 0.768228 |
AGIL paradigm | The AGIL paradigm is a sociological scheme created by American sociologist Talcott Parsons in the 1950s. It is a systematic depiction of certain societal functions, which every society must meet to be able to maintain stable social life. The AGIL paradigm is part of Parsons's larger action theory, outlined in his notab... | 0.780864 | 0.983813 | 0.768224 |
Digital media | In mass communication, digital media is any communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronic device, including digital data storage media (in contrast to ... | 0.769914 | 0.997743 | 0.768176 |
Dirigisme | Dirigisme or dirigism is an economic doctrine in which the state plays a strong directive (policies) role, contrary to a merely regulatory or non-interventionist role, over a market economy. As an economic doctrine, dirigisme is the opposite of laissez-faire, stressing a positive role for state intervention in curbing ... | 0.770962 | 0.99631 | 0.768117 |
Civil and political rights | Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life of society and the state.
Civil rights generally include ensuring peoples' phy... | 0.769996 | 0.997385 | 0.767982 |
Democracy and economic growth | Democracy and economic growth and development have had a strong correlative and interactive relationship throughout history. Effects of democracy on economic growth and effect of economic growth on democracy can be distinguished. While evidence of a relationship is irrefutable, economists' and historians' opinions of i... | 0.781727 | 0.982395 | 0.767964 |
Andragogy | Andragogy refers to methods and principles used in adult education. The word comes from the Greek ἀνδρ- (andr-), meaning "adult male", and ἀγωγός (agogos), meaning "leader of". Therefore, andragogy literally means "leading men (adult males)", whereas "pedagogy" literally means "leading children".
Definitions
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Welfare state | A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to a... | 0.768709 | 0.998611 | 0.767641 |
Parochialism | Parochialism is the state of mind whereby one focuses on small sections of an issue rather than considering its wider context. More generally, it consists of being narrow in scope. In that respect, it is a synonym of "provincialism". It may, particularly when used pejoratively, be contrasted to cosmopolitanism. The te... | 0.774144 | 0.991599 | 0.76764 |
Institution | An institution is a humanly devised structure of rules and norms that shape and constrain social behavior. All definitions of institutions generally entail that there is a level of persistence and continuity. Laws, rules, social conventions and norms are all examples of institutions. Institutions vary in their level of... | 0.770008 | 0.996846 | 0.767579 |
Liberalism | Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law. Liberals espouse various and often mutually warring views depending on their understanding of these principles but generally ... | 0.767699 | 0.999821 | 0.767561 |
Biopolitics | Biopolitics is a concept popularized by the French philosopher Michel Foucault in the mid-20th century. At its core, biopolitics explores how governmental power operates through the management and regulation of a population's bodies and lives.
This interdisciplinary field scrutinizes the mechanisms through which polit... | 0.773198 | 0.992706 | 0.767558 |
Anti-statism | Anti-statism is an approach to social, economic or political philosophy that opposes the influence of the state over society. It emerged in reaction to the formation of modern sovereign states, which anti-statists considered to work against the interests of the people. During the 19th century, anarchists formulated a c... | 0.778021 | 0.986516 | 0.767531 |
Liberal conservatism | Liberal conservatism is a political ideology combining conservative policies with liberal stances, especially on economic issues but also on social and ethical matters, representing a brand of political conservatism strongly influenced by liberalism.
The ideology incorporates the classical liberal view of minimal gove... | 0.769159 | 0.997845 | 0.767501 |
Sortition | In governance, sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e. by lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample.
In ancient Athenian democracy, sortition was the traditional and primary method for appointing political officials, and its use was regarded as a principal characteristic of ... | 0.770525 | 0.996055 | 0.767485 |
Home rule | Home rule is the government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens. It is thus the power of a part (administrative division) of a state or an external dependent country to exercise such of the state's powers of governance within its own administrative area that have been decentralized to it by th... | 0.772134 | 0.993937 | 0.767453 |
Social mobility | Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. It is a change in social status relative to one's current social location within a given society. This movement occurs between layers or tiers in an open system of social str... | 0.770198 | 0.996384 | 0.767413 |
Iron law of oligarchy | The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory first developed by the German-born Italian sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book Political Parties. It asserts that rule by an elite, or oligarchy, is inevitable as an "iron law" within any democratic organization as part of the "tactical and technical necessities" ... | 0.772046 | 0.993991 | 0.767407 |
Constitutional liberalism | Constitutional liberalism is a form of government that upholds the principles of classical liberalism and the rule of law. It differs from liberal democracy in that it is not about the method of selecting government.
The journalist and scholar Fareed Zakaria explains that constitutional liberalism "is about government... | 0.790988 | 0.970081 | 0.767322 |
Social development theory | Social development theory attempts to explain qualitative changes in the structure and framework of society, that help the society to better realize aims and objectives. Development can be defined in a manner applicable to all societies at all historical periods as an upward ascending movement featuring greater levels... | 0.773631 | 0.991802 | 0.767289 |
Social stratification | Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political). It is a hierarchy within groups that ascribe them to different levels of privil... | 0.768283 | 0.998705 | 0.767288 |
The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century | The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century is a 1991 book by Samuel P. Huntington which outlines the significance of a third wave of democratization to describe the global trend that has seen more than 60 countries throughout Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa undergo some form of democratic tra... | 0.786456 | 0.975595 | 0.767262 |
Political organisation | A political organization is any organization that involves itself in the political process, including political parties, non-governmental organizations, and special interest advocacy groups. Political organizations are those engaged in political activities (e.g., lobbying, community organizing, campaign advertising, et... | 0.776479 | 0.988127 | 0.76726 |
Resocialization | Resocialization or resocialisation (British English) is the process by which one's sense of social values, beliefs, and norms are re-engineered. The process is deliberately carried out in military boot camps through an intense social process or may take place in a total institution. An important thing to note about soc... | 0.782189 | 0.980867 | 0.767223 |
Independent media | Independent media refers to any media, such as television, newspapers, or Internet-based publications, that is free of influence by government or corporate interests. The term has varied applications.
Independence stands as a cornerstone principle within media policy and the freedom of the press, representing an "ess... | 0.779123 | 0.984696 | 0.7672 |
Bottom–up and top–down design | Bottom–up and top–down are both strategies of information processing and ordering knowledge, used in a variety of fields including software, humanistic and scientific theories (see systemics), and management and organization. In practice they can be seen as a style of thinking, teaching, or leadership.
A top–down appr... | 0.770315 | 0.995917 | 0.76717 |
Bellwether | A bellwether is a leader or an indicator of trends.
In politics, the term often applies in a metaphorical sense to characterize a geographic region where political tendencies match in microcosm those of a wider area, such that the result of an election in the former region might predict the eventual result in the latt... | 0.769387 | 0.997095 | 0.767152 |
There is no alternative | "There is no alternative" (TINA) is a political slogan originally arguing that liberal capitalism is the only viable system. At the turn of the 21st century the TINA rhetoric became closely tied to neoliberalism, and its traits of liberalization and marketization. Politicians used it to justify policies of fiscal conse... | 0.777074 | 0.987221 | 0.767143 |
Digital journalism | Digital journalism, also known as netizen journalism or online journalism, is a contemporary form of journalism where editorial content is distributed via the Internet, as opposed to publishing via print or broadcast. What constitutes digital journalism is debated by scholars; however, the primary product of journalism... | 0.77692 | 0.98734 | 0.767084 |
Quadruple and quintuple innovation helix framework | The quadruple and quintuple innovation helix framework describes university-industry-government-public-environment interactions within a knowledge economy. In innovation helix framework theory, first developed by Henry Etzkowitz and Loet Leydesdorff and used in innovation economics and theories of knowledge, such as th... | 0.779439 | 0.984044 | 0.767002 |
Total war | Total war is a type of warfare that includes any and all (including civilian-associated) resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets, mobilises all of the resources of society to fight the war, and gives priority to warfare over non-combatant needs.
The term has been defined as "A war that is unrestric... | 0.768248 | 0.998374 | 0.766999 |
Defensive realism | Defensive neorealism is a structural theory in international relations that is derived from the school of neorealism. The theory finds its foundation in the political scientist Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Politics in which Waltz argues that the anarchical structure of the international system encourages sta... | 0.775434 | 0.989115 | 0.766993 |
Scenario planning | Scenario planning, scenario thinking, scenario analysis, scenario prediction and the scenario method all describe a strategic planning method that some organizations use to make flexible long-term plans. It is in large part an adaptation and generalization of classic methods used by military intelligence.
In the most ... | 0.776292 | 0.988018 | 0.766991 |
Democracy-Dictatorship Index | Democracy-Dictatorship (DD), index of democracy and dictatorship or simply the DD index or the DD datasets was the binary measure of democracy and dictatorship first proposed by Adam Przeworski et al. (2010), and further developed and maintained by Cheibub, Gandhi, and Vreeland (2009). Note that the most recent datase... | 0.767887 | 0.998816 | 0.766978 |
Enculturation | Enculturation is the process by which people learn the dynamics of their surrounding culture and acquire values and norms appropriate or necessary to that culture and its worldviews.
Definition and history of research
The term enculturation was used first by sociologist of science Harry Collins to describe one of t... | 0.774608 | 0.990046 | 0.766898 |
Securitization (international relations) | Securitization in international relations and national politics is the process of state actors transforming subjects from regular political issues into matters of "security": thus enabling extraordinary means to be used in the name of security. Issues that become securitized do not necessarily represent issues that are... | 0.779262 | 0.98409 | 0.766864 |
Pleonasm | Pleonasm (; , ) is redundancy in linguistic expression, such as in "black darkness," "burning fire," "the man he said," or "vibrating with motion." It is a manifestation of tautology by traditional rhetorical criteria. Pleonasm may also be used for emphasis, or because the phrase has become established in a certain for... | 0.770727 | 0.994977 | 0.766856 |
How Democracies Die | How Democracies Die is a 2018 comparative politics book by the Harvard University political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt about democratic backsliding and how elected leaders can gradually subvert the democratic process to increase their power. The book also offers stark warnings about the impact of the... | 0.775827 | 0.988435 | 0.766855 |
Structuralism | Structuralism is an intellectual current and methodological approach, primarily in the social sciences, that interprets elements of human culture by way of their relationship to a broader system. It works to uncover the structural patterns that underlie all the things that humans do, think, perceive, and feel.
Altern... | 0.767788 | 0.998681 | 0.766775 |
Democratic consolidation | Democratic consolidation is the process by which a new democracy matures, in a way that it becomes unlikely to revert to authoritarianism without an external shock, and is regarded as the only available system of government within a country. A country can be described as consolidated when the current democratic system ... | 0.784959 | 0.97676 | 0.766717 |
Power (social and political) | In political science, power is the ability to influence or direct the actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors. Power does not exclusively refer to the threat or use of force (coercion) by one actor against another, but may also be exerted through diffuse means (such as institutions).
Power may also take structural for... | 0.768191 | 0.998032 | 0.766679 |
Intergovernmentalism | In international relations, intergovernmentalism treats states (and national governments in particular) as the primary actors in the integration process. Intergovernmentalist approaches claim to be able to explain both periods of radical change in the European Union because of converging governmental preferences and pe... | 0.782168 | 0.980175 | 0.766662 |
Republic | A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica ('public affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy.
Representation in a republic may or may not be freely elected by the general citizenry. In many historical republics, representation h... | 0.767042 | 0.99948 | 0.766643 |
Europeanisation | Europeanisation (or Europeanization, see spelling differences) refers to a number of related phenomena and patterns of change:
The process in which a notionally non-European subject (be it a culture, a language, a city or a nation) adopts a number of European features (often related to Westernization).
Outside the soci... | 0.791915 | 0.968079 | 0.766636 |
E-government | E-government (short for electronic government) is the use of technological communications devices, such as computers and the Internet, to provide public services to citizens and other persons in a country or region. E-government offers new opportunities for more direct and convenient citizen access to government and fo... | 0.771152 | 0.994101 | 0.766603 |
Kleptocracy | Kleptocracy (from Greek , "thief", or , "I steal", and from , "power, rule"), also referred to as thievocracy, is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the ex... | 0.767447 | 0.998844 | 0.76656 |
Policy | Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent and is implemented as a procedure or protocol. Policies are generally adopted by a governance body within an organization. Policies can assist in both subjective and objective decision making.... | 0.768628 | 0.997301 | 0.766553 |
Social services | Social services are a range of public services intended to provide support and assistance towards particular groups, which commonly include the disadvantaged. They may be provided by individuals, private and independent organizations, or administered by a government agency. Social services are connected with the concep... | 0.769887 | 0.995647 | 0.766536 |
Power politics | Power politics is a theory of power in international relations which contends that distributions of power and national interests, or changes to those distributions, are fundamental causes of war and of system stability.
The concept of power politics provides a way of understanding systems of international relations: i... | 0.775546 | 0.988341 | 0.766504 |
Knowledge extraction | Knowledge extraction is the creation of knowledge from structured (relational databases, XML) and unstructured (text, documents, images) sources. The resulting knowledge needs to be in a machine-readable and machine-interpretable format and must represent knowledge in a manner that facilitates inferencing. Although it ... | 0.787201 | 0.973678 | 0.766481 |
Non-state actor | A non-state actor (NSA) is an individual or organization that has significant political influence but is not allied to any particular country or state.
The interests, structure, and influence of NSAs vary widely. For example, among NSAs are non-profit organizations, labor unions, non-governmental organizations, banks,... | 0.770134 | 0.995254 | 0.76648 |
Ideological bias on Wikipedia | Ideological bias on Wikipedia, especially in its English-language edition, has been the subject of academic analysis and public criticism of the project. Questions relate to whether its content is biased due to the political, religious, or other ideologies its volunteer editors may adhere to. These all draw concerns as... | 0.770697 | 0.994491 | 0.766452 |
Participatory democracy | Participatory democracy, participant democracy, participative democracy, or semi-direct democracy is a form of government in which citizens participate individually and directly in political decisions and policies that affect their lives, rather than through elected representatives. Elements of direct and representativ... | 0.770098 | 0.995264 | 0.766451 |
Radical centrism | Radical centrism, also called the radical center, the radical centre, and the radical middle, is a concept that arose in Western nations in the late 20th century. The radical in the term refers to a willingness on the part of most radical centrists to call for fundamental reform of institutions. The centrism refers to ... | 0.769341 | 0.996234 | 0.766443 |
Post-truth politics | Post-truth politics, also described as post-factual politics or post-reality politics, amidst varying academic and dictionary definitions of the term, refer to a recent historical period where political culture is marked by public anxiety about what claims can be publicly accepted facts.
It suggests that the public (... | 0.77055 | 0.994621 | 0.766405 |
Fundamental rights | Fundamental rights are a group of rights that have been recognized by a high degree of protection from encroachment. These rights are specifically identified in a constitution, or have been found under due process of law. The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 17, established in 2015, underscores the link bet... | 0.768408 | 0.997357 | 0.766377 |
Tellurocracy | Tellurocracy (from and ) is a concept proposed by Aleksandr Dugin to describe a type of civilization or state system that is defined by the development of land territories and consistent penetration into inland territories. Tellurocratic states possess a set state-territory in which the state-forming ethnic majority l... | 0.778155 | 0.984786 | 0.766316 |
Distributism | Distributism is an economic theory asserting that the world's productive assets should be widely owned rather than concentrated. Developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, distributism was based upon Catholic social teaching principles, especially those of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Rerum novarum (1891) ... | 0.768978 | 0.996537 | 0.766315 |
Hanseatic League | The Hanseatic League was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German towns in the late 12th century, the League expanded between the 13th and 15th centuries and ultimately encompassed nearly 200 settlements across eight ... | 0.766697 | 0.999396 | 0.766235 |
Economist Intelligence Unit | The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is the research and analysis division of the Economist Group, providing forecasting and advisory services through research and analysis, such as monthly country reports, five-year country economic forecasts, country risk service reports, and industry reports. The EIU provides count... | 0.771165 | 0.993471 | 0.76613 |
Lobbying | Lobbying is a form of advocacy, which lawfully attempts to directly influence legislators or government officials, such as regulatory agencies or judiciary. Lobbying involves direct, face-to-face contact and is carried out by various entities, including individuals acting as voters, constituents, or private citizens; c... | 0.767705 | 0.997919 | 0.766107 |
Timocracy | A timocracy (from Greek τιμή timē, "honor, worth" and -κρατία -kratia, "rule") in Aristotle's Politics is a state where only property owners may participate in government. More advanced forms of timocracy, where power derives entirely from wealth with no regard for social or civic responsibility, may shift in their fo... | 0.772199 | 0.992091 | 0.766091 |
Internet culture | Internet culture is a quasi-underground culture developed and maintained among frequent and active users of the Internet (also known as netizens) who primarily communicate with one another as members of online communities; that is, a culture whose influence is "mediated by computer screens" and information communicatio... | 0.769709 | 0.995226 | 0.766035 |
Structural inequality | Structural inequality occurs when the fabric of organizations, institutions, governments or social networks contains an embedded cultural, linguistic, economic, religious/belief, physical or identity based bias which provides advantages for some members and marginalizes or produces disadvantages for other members. This... | 0.790912 | 0.968545 | 0.766034 |
Democratic revolution | A democratic revolution is a political science term denoting a revolution in which a democracy is instituted, replacing a previous non-democratic government, or in which revolutionary change is brought about through democratic means.
According to Tocqueville, a democracy, as well as other forms of regimes, is a social... | 0.780498 | 0.981456 | 0.766024 |
Industrial democracy | Industrial democracy is an arrangement which involves workers making decisions, sharing responsibility and authority in the workplace. While in participative management organizational designs workers are listened to and take part in the decision-making process, in organizations employing industrial democracy they also ... | 0.781469 | 0.980198 | 0.765995 |
Regional organization | Regional organizations (ROs) are, in a sense, international organizations (IOs), as they incorporate international membership and encompass geopolitical entities that operationally transcend a single nation state. However, their membership is characterized by boundaries and demarcations characteristic to a defined and ... | 0.771756 | 0.992518 | 0.765981 |
Polder model | The polder model is a method of consensus decision-making, based on the Dutch version of consensus-based economic and social policymaking in the 1980s and 1990s. It gets its name from the Dutch word (polder) for tracts of land enclosed by dikes.
The polder model has been described as "a pragmatic recognition of plurif... | 0.777097 | 0.985688 | 0.765976 |
News | News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. News is sometimes called "hard news" to differentiate it from soft media.
Subject ... | 0.766928 | 0.99859 | 0.765847 |
Civics | In the field of political science, civics is the study of the civil and political rights and obligations of citizens in a society. The term civics derives from the Latin word civicus, meaning "relating to a citizen". In U.S. politics, in the context of urban planning, the term civics comprehends the city politics that ... | 0.768712 | 0.996166 | 0.765765 |
Opinio juris sive necessitatis | Opinio juris sive necessitatis ("an opinion of law or necessity") or simply opinio juris ("an opinion of law") is the belief that an action was carried out as a legal obligation. This is in contrast to an action resulting from cognitive reaction or behaviors habitual to an individual. This term is frequently used in le... | 0.780654 | 0.980877 | 0.765725 |
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