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Post-politics | Post-politics in social sciences is a term used, along with similar terms "post-democracy" and post-political, to describe the effects of depoliticisation (a move away from the antagonistic political discourse, empowering unelected technocrats with decisions) in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Arguably, the rep... | 0.772688 | 0.972621 | 0.751533 |
Unilateralism | Unilateralism is any doctrine or agenda that supports one-sided action. Such action may be in disregard for other parties, or as an expression of a commitment toward a direction which other parties may find disagreeable. As a word, unilateralism is attested from 1926, specifically relating to unilateral disarmament. Th... | 0.762003 | 0.986241 | 0.751518 |
Neo-capitalism | Neo-capitalism is an economic ideology which blends some elements of capitalism with other systems. This form of capitalism was new compared to the capitalism in the era before World War II.
Social and economic ideology that arose in the second half of the 20th century and in which the capitalist doctrine becomes deep... | 0.771439 | 0.974142 | 0.751492 |
From Dictatorship to Democracy | From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dictatorship and to prevent the rise of a new one. The book was written in 1993 by Gene Sharp (1928–2018), a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts. The book... | 0.781464 | 0.961628 | 0.751478 |
Internalization (sociology) | In sociology and other social sciences, internalization (or internalisation) means an individual's acceptance of a set of norms and values (established by others) through socialisation.
Discussion
John Finley Scott described internalization as a metaphor in which something (i.e. an idea, concept, action) moves from ou... | 0.765389 | 0.981819 | 0.751473 |
Evidentiality | In linguistics, evidentiality is, broadly, the indication of the nature of evidence for a given statement; that is, whether evidence exists for the statement and if so, what kind. An evidential (also verificational or validational) is the particular grammatical element (affix, clitic, or particle) that indicates eviden... | 0.761381 | 0.986983 | 0.751471 |
The Californian Ideology | "The Californian Ideology" is a 1995 essay by English media theorists Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron of the University of Westminster. Barbrook describes it as a "critique of dotcom neoliberalism". In the essay, Barbrook and Cameron argue that the rise of networking technologies in Silicon Valley in the 1990s was li... | 0.763123 | 0.984725 | 0.751466 |
Achieved status | Achieved status is a concept developed by the anthropologist Ralph Linton for a social position that a person can acquire on the basis of merit and is earned or chosen through one's own effort. It is the opposite of ascribed status and reflects personal skills, abilities, and efforts. Examples of achieved status includ... | 0.767138 | 0.979557 | 0.751455 |
Foresight (futures studies) | In futurology, especially in Europe, the term foresight has become widely used to describe activities such as:
critical thinking concerning long-term developments,
debate and for some futurists who are normative and focus on action driven by their values who may be concerned with effort to create wider participatory ... | 0.772694 | 0.972508 | 0.751452 |
Unenumerated rights | Unenumerated rights are legal rights inferred from other rights that are implied by existing laws, such as in written constitutions, but are not themselves expressly stated or "enumerated" in law. Alternative terms are implied rights, natural rights, background rights, and fundamental rights.
Unenumerated rights may b... | 0.760791 | 0.987719 | 0.751448 |
Hedge (linguistics) | In applied linguistics and pragmatics, a hedge is a word or phrase used in a sentence to express ambiguity, probability, caution, or indecisiveness about the remainder of the sentence, rather than full accuracy, certainty, confidence, or decisiveness. Hedges can also allow speakers and writers to introduce (or occasion... | 0.765484 | 0.981653 | 0.75144 |
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy | Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is a book on economics, sociology, and history by Joseph Schumpeter, arguably his most famous, controversial, and important work. It's also one of the most famous, controversial, and important books on social theory, social sciences, and economics—in which Schumpeter deals with capi... | 0.761897 | 0.986115 | 0.751318 |
High and low politics | In political science (and within the discipline of international relations in particular), the concept high politics covers all matters that are vital to the very survival of the state: namely national and international security concerns. It is often used in opposition to low politics, which often designates economic, ... | 0.773318 | 0.971551 | 0.751317 |
Social media mining | Social media mining is the process of obtaining data from user-generated content on social media in order to extract actionable patterns, form conclusions about users, and act upon the information. Mining supports targeting advertising to users or academic research. The term is an analogy to the process of mining for m... | 0.767165 | 0.979318 | 0.751298 |
Periodizations of capitalism | A periodization of capitalism seeks to distinguish stages of development that help understanding of features of capitalism through time. The best-known periodizations that have been proposed distinguish these stages as:
Early / monopoly / state monopoly capitalism (Sweezy)
Free trade / monopoly / finance capitalism (H... | 0.77185 | 0.973361 | 0.751289 |
Discontinuity (Postmodernism) | Discontinuity and continuity according to Michel Foucault reflect the flow of history and the fact that some "things are no longer perceived, described, expressed, characterised, classified, and known in the same way" from one era to the next. (1994).
Explanation
In developing the theory of archaeology of knowledge, ... | 0.780318 | 0.962758 | 0.751257 |
Classical school (criminology) | In criminology, the classical school usually refers to the 18th-century work during the Enlightenment by the utilitarian and social-contract philosophers Jeremy Bentham and Cesare Beccaria. Their interests lay in the system of criminal justice and penology and indirectly through the proposition that "man is a calculati... | 0.761442 | 0.986531 | 0.751186 |
Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union | Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union is a procedure in the treaties of the European Union (EU) to suspend certain rights from a member state. While rights can be suspended, there is no mechanism to expel a state from the union.
The procedure is covered by TEU Article 7. It would be enacted where fellow members id... | 0.767012 | 0.979294 | 0.751131 |
System justification | System justification theory is a theory within social psychology that system-justifying beliefs serve a psychologically palliative function. It proposes that people have several underlying needs, which vary from individual to individual, that can be satisfied by the defense and justification of the status quo, even whe... | 0.765952 | 0.980631 | 0.751116 |
Democratic journalism | Democratic journalism is a term describing a phenomenon where news stories are ranked by a vote among the stories' readers. This phenomenon has been brought about largely due to the creation of social networking sites such as Digg and Newsvine.
The effect of democratic journalism is that it promotes news based on the ... | 0.807391 | 0.930282 | 0.751101 |
Tietoevry | Tietoevry Corporation (natively Tietoevry Oyj, Tieto prior to June 2019) is a Finnish IT software and service company providing IT and product engineering services. Tietoevry is domiciled in Espoo, Finland, and the company's shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, NASDAQ OMX Stockholm and Oslo Stock Exchange. Tie... | 0.760728 | 0.987315 | 0.751078 |
Tax policy | Tax policy refers to the guidelines and principles established by a government for the imposition and collection of taxes. It encompasses both microeconomic and macroeconomic aspects, with the former focusing on issues of fairness and efficiency in tax collection, and the latter focusing on the overall quantity of taxe... | 0.767692 | 0.978357 | 0.751077 |
Self-interest | Self-interest generally refers to a focus on the needs or desires (interests) of one's self. Most times, actions that display self-interest are often performed without conscious knowing. A number of philosophical, psychological, and economic theories examine the role of self-interest in motivating human action. Individ... | 0.763362 | 0.983884 | 0.751059 |
History of citizenship | History of citizenship describes the changing relation between an individual and the state, known as citizenship. Citizenship is generally identified not as an aspect of Eastern civilization but of Western civilization. There is a general view that citizenship in ancient times was a simpler relation than modern forms o... | 0.761774 | 0.985887 | 0.751023 |
Verstehen | Verstehen (, ), in the context of German philosophy and social sciences in general, has been used since the late 19th century – in English as in German – with the particular sense of the "interpretive or participatory" examination of social phenomena. The term is closely associated with the work of the German sociologi... | 0.760207 | 0.987864 | 0.750981 |
Politics on the Edge | Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within is a political memoir by former Conservative Party politician and host of The Rest Is Politics podcast Rory Stewart. In the United States, the book was published under the title How Not to Be a Politician: A Memoir. In the book, Stewart argues that there has been a decline in ... | 0.762823 | 0.984463 | 0.750972 |
Connectivism | Connectivism is a theoretical framework for understanding learning in a digital age. It emphasizes how internet technologies such as web browsers, search engines, wikis, online discussion forums, and social networks contributed to new avenues of learning. Technologies have enabled people to learn and share information ... | 0.763941 | 0.983021 | 0.75097 |
Microsociology | Microsociology is one of the main levels of analysis (or focuses) of sociology, concerning the nature of everyday human social interactions and agency on a small scale: face to face. Microsociology is based on subjective interpretative analysis rather than statistical or empirical observation, and shares close associat... | 0.766932 | 0.979149 | 0.75094 |
Social phenomenon | Social phenomena or social phenomenon (singular) are any behaviours, actions, or events that takes place because of social influence, including from contemporary as well as historical societal influences. They are often a result of multifaceted processes that add ever increasing dimensions as they operate through indi... | 0.761183 | 0.986456 | 0.750874 |
Media and gender | Gender plays a role in mass media and is represented within media platforms. These platforms are not limited to film, radio, television, advertisement, social media, and video games. Initiatives and resources exist to promote gender equality and reinforce women's empowerment in the media industry and representations. F... | 0.760112 | 0.987839 | 0.750868 |
Feminist political theory | Feminist political theory is an area of philosophy that focuses on understanding and critiquing the way political philosophy is usually construed and on articulating how political theory might be reconstructed in a way that advances feminist concerns. Feminist political theory combines aspects of both feminist theory a... | 0.76756 | 0.978237 | 0.750855 |
Civitas (think tank) | Civitas: The Institute for the Study of Civil Society is a British think tank working on issues related to democracy and social policy. It was founded by David George Green.
History and activities
According to ConservativeHome, Civitas "started as the Health & Welfare Unit of the Institute of Economic Affairs, but d... | 0.773526 | 0.97069 | 0.750854 |
Zero copula | Zero copula is a linguistic phenomenon whereby the subject is joined to the predicate without overt marking of this relationship (like the copula "to be" in English). One can distinguish languages that simply do not have a copula and languages that have a copula that is optional in some contexts.
Many languages exhibi... | 0.762382 | 0.98487 | 0.750848 |
World-system | A world-system is a socioeconomic system, under systems theory, that encompasses part or all of the globe, detailing the aggregate structural result of the sum of the interactions between polities. World-systems are usually larger than single states, but do not have to be global. The Westphalian System is the preeminen... | 0.764234 | 0.982445 | 0.750818 |
Umbrella organization | An umbrella organization is an association of (often related, industry-specific) institutions who work together formally to coordinate activities and/or pool resources. In business, political, and other environments, it provides resources and identities to the smaller organizations. In this kind of arrangement, it is s... | 0.76069 | 0.986988 | 0.750791 |
Paradiplomacy | Paradiplomacy is the involvement of non-central governments in international relations. The phenomenon includes a variety of practices, from town twinning to transnational networking, decentralized cooperation, and advocacy in international summits. Following the movement of globalisation, non-central governments have... | 0.774473 | 0.969293 | 0.750691 |
Americentrism | Americentrism, also known as American-centrism or US-centrism, is a tendency to assume the culture of the United States is more important than those of other countries or to judge foreign cultures based on American cultural standards. It refers to the practice of viewing the world from an overly US-focused perspective,... | 0.765405 | 0.980683 | 0.75062 |
Arusha Declaration | The Arusha Declaration and TANU’s Policy on Socialism and Self Reliance (1967), referred to as the Arusha Declaration, is known as Tanzania’s most prominent political statement of African Socialism, ‘Ujamaa’, or brotherhood (Kaitilla, 2007). The Arusha declaration is divided into five parts: The TANU “Creed”; The Poli... | 0.772301 | 0.971889 | 0.750591 |
Liquid democracy | Liquid democracy is a form of Proxy voting, whereby an electorate engages in collective decision-making through direct participation and dynamic representation. This democratic system utilizes elements of both direct and representative democracy. Voters in a liquid democracy have the right to vote directly on all polic... | 0.76294 | 0.983813 | 0.750589 |
Neomercantilism | Neomercantilism (also spelled neo-mercantilism) is a policy regime that encourages exports, discourages imports, controls capital movement, and centralizes currency decisions in the hands of a central government. The objective of neomercantilist policies is to increase the level of foreign reserves held by the governme... | 0.762391 | 0.984463 | 0.750546 |
Algorithmic radicalization | Algorithmic radicalization is the concept that recommender algorithms on popular social media sites such as YouTube and Facebook drive users toward progressively more extreme content over time, leading to them developing radicalized extremist political views. Algorithms record user interactions, from likes/dislikes to ... | 0.760321 | 0.987111 | 0.750521 |
Media hegemony | Media hegemony is a perceived process by which certain values and ways of thought promulgated through the mass media become dominant in society. It is seen in particular as reinforcing the capitalist system. Media hegemony has been presented as influencing the way in which reporters in the mediathemselves subject to pr... | 0.774987 | 0.968424 | 0.750516 |
Societal security | Societal security is a concept developed by the Copenhagen School of security studies that focuses on the ability of a society to persist in its essential character. It was developed in 1990s in the context of the end of the Cold War and moves towards further integration in the European Union. This paradigm de-emphasiz... | 0.776949 | 0.965974 | 0.750513 |
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Model | The Exit, Voice, Loyalty (EVL) model or Exit, Voice, Loyalty, Neglect (EVLN) is used in the fields of comparative politics and organizational behavior. It is an extensive form game used to model interactions typically involving negative changes to one player's environment by another player. These concepts first appear... | 0.779389 | 0.962937 | 0.750502 |
Closed list | Closed list describes the variant of party-list systems where voters can effectively vote for only political parties as a whole; thus they have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected. If voters had some influence, that would be called an open list. Closed list systems are still c... | 0.761126 | 0.986021 | 0.750486 |
Pluriculturalism | Pluriculturalism is an approach to the self and others as complex rich beings which act and react from the perspective of multiple identifications and experiences which combine to make up their pluricultural repertoire. Identity or identities are the by-products of experiences in different cultures and with people with... | 0.762866 | 0.98374 | 0.750462 |
Soft despotism | Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people.
Soft despotism gives people t... | 0.768809 | 0.976134 | 0.75046 |
Agnotology | Within the sociology of knowledge, agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of deliberate, culturally induced ignorance or doubt, typically to sell a product, influence opinion, or win favour, particularly through the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data (disinformation). More generally, the ter... | 0.760266 | 0.987083 | 0.750445 |
Precarity | Precarity (also precariousness) is a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare. The social class defined by this condition has been termed the precariat.
Catholic Origins
Léonce Crenier, a Catholic monk who had previously been active as an anarcho-communist, may h... | 0.761986 | 0.984819 | 0.750418 |
Cultural system | A cultural system is the interaction of different elements in culture. While a cultural system is very different from a social system, sometimes both systems together are referred to as the sociocultural system.
Social theory
A major concern in the social sciences is the problem of order. One way that social order has... | 0.76376 | 0.982515 | 0.750406 |
Glocalization | Glocalization or glocalisation (a portmanteau of globalization and localism) is the "simultaneous occurrence of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies in contemporary social, political, and economic systems". The concept comes from the Japanese word dochakuka and "represents a challenge to simplistic concep... | 0.760361 | 0.986873 | 0.75038 |
Chapter nine institutions | Chapter Nine Institutions refer to a group of organisations established in terms of Chapter 9 of the South African Constitution to guard democracy. The institutions are:
the Public Protector
the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC)
the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, ... | 0.764912 | 0.980997 | 0.750376 |
Evgeny Morozov | Evgeny Morozov (born 1984) is a writer, researcher, and intellectual from Belarus who studies political and social implications of technology. He was named one of the 28 most influential Europeans by Politico in 2018.
Life and career
Morozov was born in 1984 in Soligorsk, Belarus. He attended the American University i... | 0.761149 | 0.985832 | 0.750365 |
Policy entrepreneur | Policy entrepreneurs are individuals who exploit opportunities to influence policy outcomes so as to promote their own goals, without having the resources necessary to achieve this alone. They are not satisfied with merely promoting their self-interests within institutions that others have established; rather, they try... | 0.76192 | 0.984812 | 0.750348 |
False statement | A false statement, also known as a falsehood, falsity, misstatement or untruth, is a statement that is false or does not align with reality. This concept spans various fields, including communication, law, linguistics, and philosophy. It is considered a fundamental issue in human discourse. The intentional disseminatio... | 0.760804 | 0.986157 | 0.750272 |
Socialist democracy | Socialist democracy is a political system that aligns with principles of both socialism and democracy. It includes ideologies such as council communism, democratic socialism, social democracy, and soviet democracy, as well as Marxist democracy like the dictatorship of the proletariat. It was embodied in the Soviet syst... | 0.761146 | 0.985654 | 0.750227 |
Social reality | Social reality is distinct from biological reality or individual cognitive reality, representing as it does a phenomenological level created through social interaction and thereby transcending individual motives and actions. As a product of human dialogue, social reality may be considered as consisting of the accepted ... | 0.762891 | 0.983392 | 0.750221 |
Network society | Network society is an expression coined in 1991 related to the social, political, economic and cultural changes caused by the spread of networked, digital information and communications technologies. The intellectual origins of the idea can be traced back to the work of early social theorists such as Georg Simmel who a... | 0.761875 | 0.984669 | 0.750195 |
Political decay | Political decay is a political theory, originally described in 1965 by Samuel P. Huntington, which describes how chaos and disorder can arise from social modernization increasing more rapidly than political and institutional modernization. Huntington provides different definitions for political development and describe... | 0.76979 | 0.974513 | 0.75017 |
Polity data series | The Polity data series is a data series in political science research. Along with the V-Dem Democracy indices project and Democracy Index (The Economist), Polity is among prominent datasets that measure democracy and autocracy.
The Polity study was initiated in the late 1960s by Ted Robert Gurr and is now continued by... | 0.762106 | 0.984332 | 0.750166 |
Public policy doctrine | In private international law, the public policy doctrine or (French: "public order") concerns the body of principles that underpin the operation of legal systems in each state. This addresses the social, moral and economic values that tie a society together: values that vary in different cultures and change over time... | 0.768267 | 0.976428 | 0.750158 |
Digital content | Digital content is any content that exists in the form of digital data. Digital content is stored on digital media or analog storage in specific formats. Forms of digital content include information that is digitally broadcast, streamed, or contained in computer files. Viewed narrowly, digital content includes popular ... | 0.76249 | 0.983798 | 0.750136 |
Substantive rights | Substantive rights are basic human rights possessed by people in an ordered society and include rights granted by natural law as well as substantive laws. Substantive rights involve a right to the substance of being human (life, liberty, happiness), rather than a right to a procedure to enforce that right, which is def... | 0.773741 | 0.96949 | 0.750134 |
Civil resistance | Civil resistance is a form of political action that relies on the use of nonviolent resistance by ordinary people to challenge a particular power, force, policy or regime. Civil resistance operates through appeals to the adversary, pressure and coercion: it can involve systematic attempts to undermine or expose the adv... | 0.762947 | 0.983202 | 0.750131 |
Government (linguistics) | In grammar and theoretical linguistics, government or rection refers to the relationship between a word and its dependents. One can discern between at least three concepts of government: the traditional notion of case government, the highly specialized definition of government in some generative models of syntax, and a... | 0.780915 | 0.960522 | 0.750086 |
Morphological analysis (problem-solving) | Morphological analysis or general morphological analysis is a method for exploring possible solutions to a multi-dimensional, non-quantified complex problem. It was developed by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky. General morphology has found use in fields including engineering design, technological forecasting, organizatio... | 0.765828 | 0.979438 | 0.750081 |
Immigration law | Immigration law includes the national statutes, regulations, and legal precedents governing immigration into and deportation from a country. Strictly speaking, it is distinct from other matters such as naturalization and citizenship, although they are sometimes conflated. Countries frequently maintain laws that regula... | 0.76066 | 0.986048 | 0.750048 |
Beveridge model | The Beveridge model is a health care system in which the government provides health care for all its citizens through income tax payments. This model was first established by William Beveridge in United Kingdom in 1948. Under this system, most hospitals and clinics are owned by the government; some doctors and health c... | 0.763179 | 0.982747 | 0.750011 |
Socio-ecological system | A social-ecological system consists of 'a bio-geo-physical' unit and its associated social actors and institutions. Social-ecological systems are complex and adaptive and delimited by spatial or functional boundaries surrounding particular ecosystems and their context problems.
Definitions
A social-ecological system ... | 0.765396 | 0.979893 | 0.750005 |
Triangulation (social science) | In the social sciences, triangulation refers to the application and combination of several research methods in the study of the same phenomenon. By combining multiple observers, theories, methods, and empirical materials, researchers hope to overcome the weakness or intrinsic biases and the problems that come from sing... | 0.770477 | 0.973425 | 0.750001 |
Solutions journalism | Solutions journalism is an approach to news reporting that focuses on the responses to social issues as well as the problems themselves. Solutions stories, anchored in credible evidence, explain how and why responses are working, or not working. The goal of this journalistic approach is to present people with a truer, ... | 0.778133 | 0.963806 | 0.749968 |
Military journalism in the United States | This article pertains to the subject of journalists who write for the U.S. military, as distinct from those who write about the military.
According to JP 1-02, United States Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, a military journalist is "A U.S. Service member or Department of Defense civi... | 0.76331 | 0.982455 | 0.749918 |
Soft State | The Soft State is a term introduced by Gunnar Myrdal in his Asian Drama to describe a general societal “indiscipline” prevalent in Asia and by extension much of the developing world - in comparison to kind of modern state that had emerged in Europe. Myrdal used the term to describe:
... all the various types of social ... | 0.78882 | 0.950645 | 0.749887 |
Attack surface | The attack surface of a software environment is the sum of the different points (for "attack vectors") where an unauthorized user (the "attacker") can try to enter data to, extract data, control a device or critical software in an environment. Keeping the attack surface as small as possible is a basic security measure.... | 0.761527 | 0.984707 | 0.749881 |
Media development | Media development involves capacity building for institutions or individuals related to freedom of expression, pluralism and diversity of media, as well as transparency of media ownership. Media development plays a role in democracy and effective democratic discourse through supporting free and independent media.
Supp... | 0.785551 | 0.954574 | 0.749867 |
Consumer education | Consumer education is the preparation of an individual to be capable of making informed decisions when it comes to purchasing products in a consumer culture. It generally covers various consumer goods and services, prices, what the consumer can expect, standard trade practices, etc. While consumer education can help co... | 0.760388 | 0.986157 | 0.749862 |
European economic interest grouping | A European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) is a type of legal entity of the European corporate law created on 1985-07-25 under European Community (EC) Council Regulation 2137/85. It is designed to make it easier for companies in different countries to do business together, or to form consortia to take part in EU prog... | 0.775879 | 0.966444 | 0.749844 |
Digital learning | Digital learning is learning that is supported by technology. It encompasses any type of learning that is accompanied by technology or by instructional practice that makes effective use of technology. It includes a wide array of practices, including blended and virtual learning.
A variety of names began to be used to... | 0.764252 | 0.981106 | 0.749812 |
Ultimogeniture | Ultimogeniture, also known as postremogeniture or junior right, is the tradition of inheritance by the last-born of a privileged position in a parent's wealth or office. The tradition has been far rarer historically than primogeniture (sole inheritance by the first-born) or partible inheritance (division of the estate... | 0.762266 | 0.983646 | 0.749799 |
Universalization | Universalization is an incipient concept describing the next phase of human development, marking the transition from trans-national to interplanetary relations and much more aggressive exploitation of opportunities that lie beyond the confines of Earth. As both a process and an end state, universalization implies an in... | 0.779785 | 0.96153 | 0.749787 |
Margot Wallström | Margot Elisabeth Wallström (; born 28 September 1954) is a Swedish politician of the Swedish Social Democratic Party who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2019 and Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 2016 to 2019.
Wallström previously served as the first United Na... | 0.76505 | 0.980017 | 0.749762 |
Critical literacy | Critical literacy is the ability to find embedded discrimination in media. This is done by analyzing the messages promoting prejudiced power relationships found naturally in media and written material that go unnoticed otherwise by reading beyond the author's words and examining the manner in which the author has conv... | 0.770603 | 0.972933 | 0.749746 |
Cosmopolitan democracy | Cosmopolitan democracy is a political theory which explores the application of norms and values of democracy at the transnational and global sphere. It argues that global governance of the people, by the people, for the people is possible and needed. Writers advocating cosmopolitan democracy include Immanuel Kant, Davi... | 0.783925 | 0.956376 | 0.749727 |
Rogerian argument | Rogerian argument (or Rogerian rhetoric) is a rhetorical and conflict resolution strategy based on empathizing with others, seeking common ground and mutual understanding and learning, while avoiding the negative effects of extreme attitude polarization. The term refers to the psychologist Carl Rogers, whose client-ce... | 0.762114 | 0.98371 | 0.749699 |
Democratic – Neutral – Authentic | Democratic – Neutral – Authentic (, DNA) is an Austrian right-wing populist political party founded by anti-vaccination activist Maria Hubmer-Mogg. The party was able to collect the necessary petition signatures for ballot access and competed in the 2024 European Parliament election in Austria but did not get enough vo... | 0.762448 | 0.983271 | 0.749693 |
Mining and metallurgy in medieval Europe | During the Middle Ages, between the 5th and 16th century AD, Western Europe saw a period of growth in the mining industry. The first important mines were those at Goslar in the Harz mountains, taken into commission in the 10th century. Another notable mining town is Falun in Sweden where copper has been mined since at ... | 0.76017 | 0.986201 | 0.74968 |
Historical institutionalism | Historical institutionalism (HI) is a new institutionalist social science approach that emphasizes how timing, sequences and path dependence affect institutions, and shape social, political, economic behavior and change. Unlike functionalist theories and some rational choice approaches, historical institutionalism tend... | 0.763874 | 0.981401 | 0.749666 |
Interpellation (politics) | Interpellation is a formal request of a parliament to the respective government. It is distinguished from question time in that it often involves a separate procedure. In many parliaments, each individual member of parliament has the right to submit questions (possibly a limited amount during a certain period) to a me... | 0.76937 | 0.974375 | 0.749655 |
Party-list system | A party-list system is a type of electoral system that formally involves political parties in the electoral process, usually to facilitate multi-winner elections. In party-list systems, parties put forward a list of candidates, the party-list who stand for election on one ticket. Voters can usually vote directly for th... | 0.768741 | 0.975139 | 0.749629 |
New liberalism (ideology) | The new liberalism is a variant of social liberalism that emerged in Europe at the end of the 19th century. It began in England driven mainly by the politician and sociologist Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse and theorized in his book Liberalism (1920). It had reception within the Liberal Party of the United Kingdom, giving a... | 0.772863 | 0.969889 | 0.749591 |
Comity | In law, comity is "a principle or practice among political entities such as countries, states, or courts of different jurisdictions, whereby legislative, executive, and judicial acts are mutually recognized." It is an informal and non-mandatory courtesy to which a court of one jurisdiction affords to the court of anoth... | 0.763699 | 0.981391 | 0.749487 |
Public interest law | Public interest law refers to legal practices undertaken to help poor, marginalized, or under-represented people, or to effect change in social policies in the public interest, on 'not for profit' terms (pro bono publico), often in the fields of civil rights, civil liberties, religious liberty, human rights, women's ri... | 0.762234 | 0.983271 | 0.749482 |
Lex specialis | The lex specialis doctrine, also referred to as generalia specialibus non derogant ("the general does not derogate from the specific"), states that if two laws govern the same factual situation, a law governing a specific subject matter (lex specialis) overrides a law governing only general matters (lex generalis). The... | 0.763806 | 0.981195 | 0.749442 |
Democratization of technology | Democratization of technology refers to the process by which access to technology rapidly continues to become more accessible to more people, especially from a select group of people to the average public. New technologies and improved user experiences have empowered those outside of the technical industry to access an... | 0.778473 | 0.96262 | 0.749373 |
Epistemic community | An epistemic community is a network of professionals with recognized knowledge and skill in a particular issue-area. They share a set of beliefs, which provide a value-based foundation for the actions of members. Members of an epistemic community also share causal beliefs, which result from their analysis of practices ... | 0.778873 | 0.962059 | 0.749322 |
Open economy | An open economy refers to an economy in which both domestic and international entities participate in the trade of goods and services. This type of economy allows for the exchange of products, including technology transfers and managerial expertise. However, certain services, such as a country's railway operations, may... | 0.761462 | 0.984016 | 0.749291 |
Off topic | In the context of mailing lists, discussion groups, discussion forums, bulletin boards, newsgroups, and
wikis a contribution is off-topic if it is not within the bounds of the current discussion, and on-topic if it is.
Even on very specialized forums and lists, off-topic posting is not necessarily frowned upon, but a... | 0.765868 | 0.978344 | 0.749282 |
Heteronomy | Heteronomy refers to action that is influenced by a force outside the individual, in other words the state or condition of being ruled, governed, or under the sway of another, as in a military occupation.
Immanuel Kant, drawing on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, considered such an action nonmoral.
It is the counter/opposite o... | 0.767847 | 0.975784 | 0.749253 |
Rule according to higher law | The rule according to a higher law is a statement which expresses that no law may be enforced by the government unless it conforms with certain universal principles (written or unwritten) of fairness, morality, and justice. Thus, the rule according to a higher law may serve as a practical legal criterion to qualify the... | 0.76436 | 0.980232 | 0.74925 |
Liberal parties by country | This article gives information on liberalism worldwide. It is an overview of parties that adhere to some form of liberalism and is therefore a list of liberal parties around the world.
Introduction
The definition of liberal party is highly debatable. In the list below, it is defined as a political party that adheres t... | 0.764014 | 0.980672 | 0.749247 |
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