Questions tagged [terminology]
Questions about political terminology, including established definitions and appropriate usage, and subjects directly related to it.
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Does the practice of voting for a small party, despite the "spoiler effect" in FPTP, to induce changes in a larger party have a name?
I am interesting in reading about this topic and I'm interested if this effect has a well known name that I can look up and read more on.
Consider UKIP and the Conservative Party in the UK. In the ...
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What is the specific term for countries without direct access to the high seas?
Is there a term for countries with access to the sea but not to open international waters?
I'm thinking of Cuba, Germany, Italy, North Korea, etc. that are surrounded by exclusive economic zones of ...
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Interpretation of "right" and "left"
I have heard many people throw away words like "this party is left" and "this party is right wing" but many people(including me) doesn't know exactly how do we interpret "...
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Confusion about recognition and where the concept comes from
A number of questions and answers on this site, and in the general commentary on the Internet, talk about "international recognition" or "recognition" by one country or another.
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Is there a specific term for the genocide of children?
Let us suppose, hypothetically, a state engaged in the crime of genocide deliberately and disproportionately targets children for slaughter. Does this act have a particular designation in ...
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Alternative names for "new liberalism" and "neoliberalism" to avoid confusion
In oral discussion, the ideological designations "new liberal" and "neoliberal" are easily confused. Do one or both of these two ideologies have alternative names that are more ...
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Is there a term for direct issue voting?
Is there a term for a form of democracy that allows with online technologies (such as blockchain) to vote on micro-issues directly, for instance on placing of a bus stop in a city, etc?
I am ...
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Definition of diversity if Old World countries deemed not diverse enough
One of the recent answers I have seen the claim that
the Western countries... see benefit in diversity.
What caught my eye is that it's really hard to argue that 1960s France (or Germany, or Spain) ...
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How do anti-zionists define zionism and zionists?
Social media is full of people decrying the evils of zionism and zionists. But I had always understood zionism to mean the Jewish wish for a homeland. This clearly isn't what the anti-zionists mean by ...
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What does the term "Woke" mean? [duplicate]
I am sorry, I am not from the US, but recently I started to encounter this term on the internet quite often, so I would like to learn what this means. I also would like to know, if there are any ...
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Are there any wars other than the 2023 Israel-Hamas War that are named after a country and a political party?
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The 2023 Israel–Hamas war is referred to in the Western media as "the Israel-Hamas war". All Western commentators I've seen, including military experts, journalists, and political ...
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Does the definition of Antisemitism used by the FBI differ in any way from the one used by the State Department?
The FBI apparently has to report how many hate crimes were based on Antisemitism.
On the other hand, the State Department has also adopted a definition of Antisemitism.
Is there any difference between ...
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What does Gaza territory "under Israeli control" or "under Palestinian control" imply in a guerilla warfare?
This is a map from Wikipedia depicting the status of Gaza during the ongoing war in the Gaza strip:
I can see that there are areas claimed to be under Israeli control or Palestinian control. However, ...
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Is there a consensus around the word "terrorism"? [closed]
Following the operation of Hamas in Israel, and Israel's response, there have been in France a lot of discussions about a large party not wanting to use the word "terrorism" to describe ...
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Why is are the terms government party and opposition party rarely used to describe the parties in the USA?
Much as Brazil, Ghana, Canada, Britain, most countries really, use these terms in these senses of that the party supplying the head of government is the governing or ruling party and the others are ...
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