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Politics (from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká) 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources . The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to ...
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. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Scholars distinguish between ideological polarization (differences between the policy positions) and affective ...
In U.S. politics, the term banana republic is a pejorative political descriptor coined by the American writer O. Henry in Cabbages and Kings (1904), a book of thematically related short stories derived from his 1896–1897 residence in Honduras, where he was hiding from U.S. law for bank embezzlement. [34] Bankocracy
Politicians are people who are politically active, especially in party politics. Political positions range from local governments to state governments to federal governments to international governments. [ 1][ 2] All government leaders are considered politicians. [ 3][ 4]
v. t. e. Political ontology is an approach within anthropology to understand the process of how practices, entities (human and non-human), and concepts come into being or are enacted. [ 1] The field takes as its focus 'conflicts involving different assumptions about 'what exists,'" [ 1] over metaphysical entities, how to understand ecosystems ...
v. t. e. In political science, power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors. [ 1] 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 ). [ 2] Power may ...
Political freedom (also known as political autonomy or political agency) is a central concept in history and political thought and one of the most important features of democratic societies. [ 1] Political freedom has been described as freedom from oppression [ 2] or coercion, [ 3] the absence of disabling conditions for an individual and the ...
Institutions are a principal object of study in social sciences such as political science, anthropology, economics, and sociology (the latter described by Émile Durkheim as the "science of institutions, their genesis and their functioning"). [ 9] Primary or meta-institutions are institutions such as the family or money that are broad enough to ...