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This glossary of American politics defines terms and phrases used in politics in the United States.The list includes terms specific to U.S. political systems (at both national and sub-national levels), as well as concepts and ideologies that occur in other political systems but which nonetheless are frequently encountered in American politics.
Pages in category "Political terminology of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 209 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Left–right political spectrum; Left-wing politics; Left-wing populism; Legal constitution; Legislative session; LGBTQ wing; Linguistic prescription; List of political metaphors; List of politically motivated renamings; Lobbying; Locust (ethnic slur) Logrolling; Lookism; Loss of supply; Low information voter; Lulism; Lustration; Lysenkoism
Stacker traced the origins of 20 words and terms used in political discourse using historical archives, research reports, and news articles.
Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).
Political ideologies have two dimensions: (1) goals: how society should be organized; and (2) methods: the most appropriate way to achieve this goal. An ideology is a collection of ideas. Typically, each ideology contains certain ideas on what it considers to be the best form of government (e.g. autocracy or democracy ) and the best economic ...
Or consider any of a long list of examples. The riots of Jan. 6 failed to achieve their objective of overturning the 2020 election. The attacks of 9/11 failed to drive the U.S. out of the Middle East.
In political science, a revolution is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due to perceived oppression (political, social, economic) or political incompetence. [33] In a revolution political violence is usually common.