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Someone who tries to accommodate and compromise with an opposition.
n
A doctrine or worldview which is in favor of violence
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(politics) The political practice of being militaristic and violently intrusive.
adj
(US, finance, law) Preventing stuffing (the tax loophole).
adj
Advocating or enacting an authoritarian policy of austerity.
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(politics) polarization into two opposing factions
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(politics) An attempt to disrupt the advance operations of political opponents during an election campaign.
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A tendency to treat all policy debates as if the opposing sides present equally strong arguments, or are equally valid or equally dangerous.
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(government) The inevitable tendency of bureaucratic organizations to perpetuate their established procedures, even if they are counterproductive or diametrically opposed to their set goals.
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(informal, derogatory) pointless or illogical bureaucracy
n
Harmful traits of a bureaucratic organization, such as inflexibility and impersonality.
n
An advocate of capitulation
n
The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.
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Synonym of class warfare
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Conflict over how to divide up the benefits produced by cooperation, as for example in labor-management relations.
n
(politics) Synonym of puppet state
n
A policy of, or belief in, making concessions.
n
A person who advocates concession
adj
Synonym of antiartillery
adj
(military) Targeting a city.
adj
Alternative spelling of counter-inflation [Synonym of anti-inflationary]
n
A form of democracy in which decisions are not made by a simple majority of some organized group.
n
(often in the plural) Conflict between different ideological groups, especially political conflict for cultural dominance between liberals and conservatives in the United States.
n
One who advocates or encourages defection.
n
Synonym of democraticness
n
(Marxism) Progress of conflict, especially class conflict.
n
A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.
n
A person who deviates politically.
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(economics) A market situation in which two companies exclusively provide a particular product or service.
n
A proclamation, announced by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, and going into effect on January 1, 1863; that all slaves in areas in rebellion (i.e. under Confederate control) would be free.
adj
That promotes or exhibits expansion; expansionist.
n
Conflict between factions.
n
(US) The practice of forcefully and unauthorisedly acquiring control of foreign land.
n
The creation of political reforms that are only apparent rather than substantial.
adj
(archaic) Ungenerous, stingy.
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A policy that favours immigration.
adj
(UK politics) Interested in the possibility of independence (for Wales), without necessarily being in favour of it.
n
A system in which democracy is corrupted and subverted by corporations and politics is trumped by economics.
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A national (or group) policy of non-interaction with other nations (or groups).
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The political aim of levelling all distinctions of rank in society; egalitarianism.
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A person who works or advocates for liberation.
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(by extension) Any system in which a single dissenting member can unilaterally block an action.
adj
Supporting the dominance of the majority over the minority.
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(politics, public policy) A policy of deliberate inactivity, carried out with diplomatic skill, so as to preserve a predominant influence without risking anything.
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Alternative form of me-tooism [(politics) The act of following or taking on a policy of another (especially competing) person or political party.]
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Alternative form of me-tooism [(politics) The act of following or taking on a policy of another (especially competing) person or political party.]
n
(historical, economics) The theory that a nation must always have a positive balance of trade, in the manner that a merchant would operate a shop. Typically this model presupposes protectionism.
adj
(politics) Having only one political party, especially where opposition parties are outlawed; one-party, uniparty.
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One who has, or attempts to acquire, a monopoly on something.
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(metonymically) The market thus controlled.
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A single buyer who dominates a market.
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(economics) A buyer with disproportionate power.
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One who revises history in order to omit something that actually happened.
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One who engages in nepotism.
n
(uncountable) Any political system that is not democratic.
n
The nullification crisis in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former's attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
adj
Relating to, or supporting, obstructionism.
n
A proponent or supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement
n
Any doctrine supporting an oligopoly.
n
A member of an oligopoly; one of a small number of sellers with undue influence over a market.
n
An economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity.
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(economics) Any of a relatively small number of buyers of a product or service
n
An economic condition in which a small number of buyers exert control over the market price of a commodity.
adj
Taking part in or promoting oppression.
n
One who loves, supports, or favours peace.
n
An inclination to be partisan or biased; partiality.
n
Alternative spelling of partisanship [An inclination to be partisan or biased; partiality.]
adj
(derogatory) Synonym of conservatively correct
n
Alternative form of planism [Support for the idea of a planned economy.]
n
(politics) The belief that there should be diverse and competing centers of power in society.
n
(politics) A provision in a bill that leads to people who would have supported it opposing it instead.
n
The refutation of errors in theological doctrine.
n
Actions by one political group against another political group, either by using governmental power or by popular actions such as protests; generally, disagreement in politics.
adj
(politics, slang) Alienated from the current political atmosphere or from one's previous political affiliations, and struggling to identify with any political party or ideology.
n
(economics) A market situation in which multiple buyers compete for the same goods or services
n
A member of the Populares
n
One who explains social phenomena in terms of popular responses and habits.
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A politician who advocates specific policies just because they are popular.
adj
(US politics) Moving past and beyond conventional partisan divides
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The principle that any bureaucracy eventually comes to serve its own interests rather than those it was created to help with.
n
(law) In antitrust law, collusion between competitors in order to raise prices, at the expense of the consumer.
adj
Alternative form of progovernment (“in favor of the government”) [In favour of the government.]
n
One who takes a proactive approach.
adj
In favour of conservation.
n
(informal, politics) A progressive.
n
(activism) A list of speakers arranged so that people from marginalized groups get the chance to speak first.
adj
In favor of the free market, of capitalism.
adj
In favour of a monopoly.
n
(politics, economics) A system or policy of protecting the domestic producers of a product from foreign competition by imposing tariffs, quotas, duties or other barriers on importations.
n
One who attends a rally or demonstration.
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(Marxism) The sum total of social relationships that people must enter into in order to survive, produce, and reproduce their means of life.
n
The policy of confinement of Native Americans to Indian reservations.
adj
Of or pertaining to the political theory that a lie told often enough will be accepted as the truth, and that the truth is no longer relevant to democratic politics.
n
(politics) The political independence of a people
n
A situation that is almost a monopoly.
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The suppression of the freedom of the press in Egypt under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
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A theory according to which society is based on conflict and change arising from inequality.
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(rare) A person who holds a moderate position and may be willing to compromise, as opposed to a hard-liner.
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A group of members of a political party or of a similar organisation who have decided to create their own organisation.
n
(rare) A doctrine or philosophy based around struggle or conflict.
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A policy of suppressing something.
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One who follows a policy of surrenderism.
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A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals.
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an attitude towards differences of opinion, where oppositional stand-off or conflict is preferred over debate and compromise.
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(economics) The apparent paradox that a rent seeker wanting political favours can bribe politicians at a cost much lower than the value of the favour to the rent seeker.
n
Tenacious support for the underdog, or disadvantaged party
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A person employed to prevent the formation or expansion of trade unions.
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The common term for the military, political, legal and ideological conflict against Islamic terrorism, and specifically used in reference to operations by the United States, in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
v
(Marxism, Juche, transitive, North Korea) to cause to be working-class
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