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v. t. e. A coup d'état ( / ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː / ⓘ; French: [ku deta]; lit. 'stroke of state' ), [ 1] or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership. [ 2][ 3] A self-coup is when a leader, having come to power through legal means, tries to stay ...
Russian Language and Culture(discontinued 2010) v. t. e. Advanced Placement(AP) Human Geography(also known as AP Human Geo, AP Geography, APHG, AP HuGe, AP HuG, AP Human, or HGAP) is an Advanced Placementsocial studiescourse in human geographyfor high school, usually freshmen students in the US, culminating in an exam administered by the ...
Dystopia. Life in Kowloon Walled City has often inspired the dystopian identity in modern media works. [ 1] A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ (dus) 'bad' and τόπος (tópos) 'place'), also called a cacotopia[ 2] or anti-utopia, is a community or society that is extremely bad or frightening. [ 3][ 4] It is often treated as an antonym of ...
Anocracy, or semi-democracy, [ 1] is a form of government that is loosely defined as part democracy and part dictatorship, [ 2][ 3] or as a "regime that mixes democratic with autocratic features". [ 3] Another definition classifies anocracy as "a regime that permits some means of participation through opposition group behavior but that has ...
A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, whereby the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class. Such exploitation is enabled by collusion between the state and favoured economic monopolies, in which the profit, derived from the private exploitation of public ...
Definition. The term theocracy derives from the Koine Greek θεοκρατία, "rule of God", a term used by Josephus for the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, [ 6] reflecting the view that "God himself is recognized as the head" of the state. [ 7] The common, generic use of the term, as defined above in terms of rule by a church or analogous ...
Political geography is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures. Conventionally, for the purposes of analysis, political geography adopts a three-scale structure with the study of the state at the centre, the ...
Oligarchy (from Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía) 'rule by few'; from ὀλίγος (olígos) 'few' and ἄρχω (árkhō) 'to rule, command') [ 1][ 2][ 3] is a conceptual form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may or may not be distinguished by one or several characteristics ...