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  2. Overton window - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of the Overton window, along with Treviño's degrees of acceptance. The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. [1]

  3. Agreeableness - Wikipedia

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    A study done by Caspi, Elder, and Bem (1987) found that explosive and ill-tempered children had higher rates of divorce as adults when compared with their even-tempered peers. Further, ill-tempered men had lower educational attainment, occupational status, and work stability, and ill-tempered women married men with similar low achievement ...

  4. State (polity) - Wikipedia

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    The definition of a state is also dependent on how and why they form. The contractarian view of the state suggests that states form because people can all benefit from cooperation with others [25] and that without a state there would be chaos. [26]

  5. Popular sovereignty - Wikipedia

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    Sovereignty lies with the people, and the people should elect, correct, and, if necessary, depose its political leaders. [ 2 ] Popular sovereignty in its modern sense is an idea that dates to the social contract school represented by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), John Locke (1632–1704), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778).

  6. Political philosophy - Wikipedia

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    It was decided that "state" would refer to a set of enduring institutions through which power would be distributed and its use justified. The term "government" would refer to a specific group of people who occupied the institutions of the state, and create the laws and ordinances by which the people, themselves included, would be bound.

  7. Social democracy - Wikipedia

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    Under this type of definition, social democracy's goal is that of advancing those values within a capitalist market economy, as its support for a mixed economy no longer denotes the coexistence between private and public ownership or that between planning and market mechanisms but rather, it represents free markets combined with government ...

  8. Go Small or Go Home With These 15 Teacup Dog Breeds - AOL

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    Currently the most popular dog breed in the U.S., the adorbs Frenchie can cost as much as $3,000 for a well-bred pup, and teacups will probably set you back even more. Intelligent, even-tempered ...

  9. State-building - Wikipedia

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    State-building as a specific term in social sciences and humanities, refers to political and historical processes of creation, institutional consolidation, stabilization and sustainable development of states, from the earliest emergence of statehood up to the modern times.