Political terminology

thumb|500x500px|The "three worlds" of the Cold War era, as of the period between 30 April and 24 June 1975. Neutral and non-aligned countries shown in grey.

person who is systematically discriminated against within a state

aversion to the success of one's peers

A quango (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization) is an organization to which a government has devolved power, but which is still partly controlled or financed by government bodies. The acronym was originally derived from quasi-NGO, where NGO is the abbreviation for a non-government organization.

person who sympathizes and co-operates with a political organization without being a formal member

Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another. In the history of art, art patronage refers to the support that princes, popes, and other wealthy and influential people have provided to artists such as musicians, painters, and sculptors. It can also refer to the right of bestowing offices or church benefices, the business given to a store by a regular customer, and the guardianship of saints. The word patron derives from the Latin ('patron'), one who gives benefits to his clients (see patronage in ancient Rome).

The Monarchomachs () were originally French Huguenot theorists who opposed monarchy at the end of the 16th century, known in particular for having theoretically justified tyrannicide. The term was originally a pejorative word coined in 1600 by the Scottish royalist and Catholic William Barclay (1548–1608) from the Greek μόναρχος (monarchos "monarch, sole ruler") and μάχομαι ("makhomai" the verb meaning "to fight"), meaning "those who fight against monarchs" or "anti-monarchists".

scientific theories about the historical phenomenon of fascism

member of parliament who leads a group within it

the view that morality is, or ought to be, determined by those in power

agreement between political parties that allows a minority party to play a part in government but is less formal than a coalition

concept of language having or being influenced by ideology

political actors acting on behalf of citizens in public-policy-making processes

sociological concept

Type of democracy typically favoring subsidiarity and individual activism

non-ruling but legal political parties in an authoritarian or totalitarian regime as auxiliary parties and members of a ruling coalition

strong belief in the ability of unregulated laissez-faire or free market policies to solve most economic and social problems

person who takes part in a resistance movement against an oppressive political or social establishment

opposite of small business

divide and conquer process of threats and alliances used to overcome opposition

ethnic slur directed at people of Chinese descent, originated as the Japanese transliteration for word "China"

Xenocentrism is the preference for the cultural practices of other cultures and societies, such as how they live and what they eat, rather than of one's own social way of life. One example is the romanticization of the noble savage in the 18th-century primitivism movement in European art, philosophy and ethnography. Xenocentrism can be a type of ethnocentrism. Because ethnocentrism is often negative and characterized by perceived superiority of one's own society to others, it often contrasts with xenocentrism.

theory of power in international relations

Ultraconservatism refers to extreme conservative views in politics or religious practice. In modern politics, ultraconservative usually refers to conservatives of the far-right on the political spectrum, comprising groups or individuals who are located to the right of those who hold mainstream conservative views, and continuing further right to include fringe parties.

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authoritarian political leader

country exporting lots of energy

type of socialism that uses local government to further socialist aims

political cliche used to refer to leftists who support imperialist wars

lead candidate in an election

ability of a parliamentary group of a political party to get its members to support the policies of their party leadership

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thumb|300px|Claude Monet's [[Impression, soleil levant was ridiculed as "Impression-ist" in 1872, but the term then became the name of the art movement, "impressionism", and painters began to self-identify as "impressionist".]] In linguistics, reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group. It is a specific form of a semantic change (i.e., change in a word's meaning). Linguistic reclamation can have wider implications in the fields of discourse and has been descri

pejorative term, used frequently as a political insult

a writing approach avoids prejudiced or biased terms

brutal peace imposed after war

terrorism caused by deliberately inflammatory rhetoric in mass media, which can provoke people with certain sets of personality traits and opinions into violence

politically motivated renaming of French fries in the United States

policies, values, and actions which are supported by a person or organization

Nomination is part of the process of selecting a candidate for either election to a public office, or the bestowing of an honor or award. A collection of nominees narrowed from the full list of candidates is a short list.

ballot cast by someone unable or unwilling to attend their assigned polling station

defense against a business takeover by threatening to dilute shares

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concept of a shared homeland or community encompassing all of Spanish America

additional or amending agreement to a convention concluded between nations

historically accepted ownership right to property or territory acquired by force of arms

person or company profiteering from war or conflict

Lulism () is a political ideology describing the 2006 consolidation of segments of Brazilian society previously hostile to social movements and the Workers' Party behind political forces led by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, appealed by a controlled reformism and limited structural change focused on the poorest sections of society. The lower classes, who had distanced themselves from Lula, accepted his candidacy after his first term as President as the middle class turned from him. The rhetoric and praxis which united the maintenance of stability and state distributism are the origins of

reliable access to healthy natural environment

Regenerationism () was an intellectual and political movement in late 19th century and early 20th century Spain. It sought to make objective and scientific study of the causes of Spain's decline as a nation and to propose remedies. It is largely seen as distinct from another movement of the same time and place, the Generation of '98. While both movements shared a similar negative judgment of the course of Spain as a nation in recent times, the regenerationists sought to be objective, documentary, and scientific, while the Generation of '98 inclined more to the literary, subjective and artistic

political concept

women's organization related to an organization

Officialese, bureaucratese, or governmentese is language that sounds official. It is the "language of officialdom". Officialese is characterized by a preference for wordy, long sentences; complex words, code words, or buzzwords over simple, traditional ones; vagueness over directness; and passive over active voice (some of those elements may, however, vary between different times and languages). The history of officialese can be traced to the history of officialdom, as far back as the eldest human civilizations and their surviving official writings.

Whistleblowing (also whistle-blowing or whistle blowing) is the activity of a person, often an employee, revealing information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed wrongful – whether it be illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe, unethical, or fraudulent. Whistleblowers can communicate in a variety of ways internally, and/or publicly. Over 83% of whistleblowers report internally to a supervisor, human resources, compliance, or a neutral third party within the company, hoping that the company will address and correct the issues. A whistleblower can also bring all

forceful activities against competing ideologies and philosophies

period in which a legislature is convened

constitutional convention in governments using the Westminster System that members of the cabinet must publicly support all governmental decisions made in Cabinet, even if they do not privately agree with them

hiring civil service employees based on ability

Nonpartisanship, also known as nonpartisanism, is a lack of affiliation with a political party and a lack of political bias. The absence of political bias can measured in comparison to the median voter.