The Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms defines the term Alford plea as: " A plea under which a defendant may choose to plead guilty, not because of an admission to the crime, but because the prosecutor has sufficient evidence to place a charge and to obtain conviction in court.

Comparisons have been made between Doublespeak and Orwell's descriptions on political speech from his essays Politics and the English Language in which " unscrupulous politicians, advertisers, religionists, and other doublespeakers of whatever stripe continue to abuse language for manipulative purposes ".

Politics in India ( Hindi: भ ा रत ी य र ा जन ी त ि) takes place within the framework of a federal Westminster-style Parliamentary democratic constitutional republic, in which the President of India is head of state and the Prime Minister of India is the head of government.

Politics of Mauritius takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, in which the President is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government who is assisted by a council of Ministers.

In another major work, Politics as a Vocation, Weber defined the state as an entity which successfully claims a " monopoly on the legitimate use of violence ".

A Patriotic Politics for Canada, Montreal and Kingston: McGill Queen's University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-7735-2596-3, which applies that philosophy to the Canadian case.

Politics surrounding the 1866 war against Austria allowed Italy to annex Venetia, which had been a kingdom of the Austrian Empire since the 1815 Congress of Vienna.

" Movements which claim or formerly claimed to be above the left-right divide include Fascist Terza Posizione economic politics in Italy, Gaullism in France, Peronism in Argentina, and National Action Politics in Mexico.

One of the first, extremely important classical works of political philosophy is Plato's Republic, which was followed by Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics and Politics.

These authors, in such works as The Republic and Laws by Plato, and The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, analyzed political systems philosophically, going beyond earlier Greek poetic and historical reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides.

The Arabs lost sight of Aristotle's political science but continued to study Plato's Republic which became the basic text of Judeo-Islamic political philosophy as in the works of Alfarabi and Averroes ; this did not happen in the Christian world, where Aristotle's Politics was translated in the 13th century and became the basic text as in the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Politics in St. Lucia was once dominated by the United Workers ' Party ( UWP ), which, until 1997 had governed the country for all but three years since independence.

Politics in Saudi Arabia, outside of the royal family, can be examined in three contexts: the extent to which the royal family allows political participation by the wider Saudi society, opposition to the regime, and Islamist terrorism.

Politics in the Syrian Arab Republic takes place in the framework of what is officially a semi-presidential republic, but what the CIA consider " a republic under an authoritarian regime " where the power is in the hands of the President of Syria and his family, all members of the ruling Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party which is a cell of the Syrian-led Ba ' ath Party ( established in 1966 when the original Ba ' ath Party was dissolved and split into two ).

* Art, Truth & Politics — Harold Pinter delivers Nobel Prize in Literature lecture in which he explains the Sandinista conflict and condemns the U. S.

The Politics of Uruguay abide by a presidential representative democratic republic, under which the President of Uruguay is both the head of state and the head of government, as well as a multiform party system.

The Politics of Vatican City takes place in a framework of an absolute theocratic elective monarchy, in which the head of the Catholic Church, the Pope, exercises ex officio supreme legislative, executive, and judicial power over the State of the Vatican City ( an entity distinct from the Holy See ), a rare case of non-hereditary monarchy.

Aristotle's critique and indeed ridicule of Hippodamus, which appears in Politics 2.

Among his activities with the Institute, which concentrates in part on helping liberal candidates and politicians with re-framing political metaphors, Lakoff has given numerous public lectures and written accounts of his message from Moral Politics.

The popularity of the term dates from Andrew J. R. Mack's 1975 article " Why Big Nations Lose Small Wars " in World Politics, in which " asymmetric " referred simply to a significant disparity in power between opposing actors in a conflict.

This explanation is consistent with the bulk of Marxist theory in which Politics and Religion are seen as mere outgrowths ( superstructures ) of the basic underlying economic reality of a people.

Averroes's work on Aristotle spans almost three decades, and he wrote commentaries on almost all of Aristotle's work except for Aristotle's Politics, to which he did not have access.

In Politics and Poetics of Transgression ( 1985 ) Peter Stallybrass and Allon White charge that Pope drew upon the low culture which he despised in order to produce his own " high art ".

A good part of Hankey's 1950 book Politics, Trials, and Errors, in which Hankey argued for the innocence of all the German and Japanese war criminals convicted by Allied courts and strenuously attacked the legitimacy of war crimes trials was taken up with a defence of Raeder.

A talented musician, he won the college's organ scholarship in his first term ( he had previously tried for the organ scholarships at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Keble College, Oxford ) which enabled him to stay at the university for a fourth year ; he eventually graduated with a Second Class Honours BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1939.

Robinson was involved in the New Politics Initiative, an effort to build a new progressive political party in Canada closely linked with social movements and labour, and the NDP's renewal process, although he remained committed to the party after the NPI's defeat at the 2001 general convention in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

It was at Columbia that Neustadt wrote Presidential Power ( 1960 ; a revised edition titled Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership appeared in 1990 ), in which he examined the decision-making process at the highest levels of government.

Politics provides a means by which the governance process operates.

Politics is the process and conduct of decision-making for groups.

For other aspects of the political process in India see: Category: Politics of India.

For other aspects of the political process in Australia see: category: Politics of Australia.

A 2008 study by the non-profit, non-partisan Center for Competitive Politics concluded that the process of gathering small contributions needed to qualify for public funding still relied heavily on interest groups.

For a more complete discussion of this process in the Fulton County context, see the " Politics " section of the Fulton County article.

For other aspects of the political process in Latvia see: Category: Politics of Latvia.

She was co-anchor of both Inside Politics ‘ 92, a daily show which followed the 1992 political process, and The World Today, the premier evening newscast.

Deveaux has also been instrumental in the creation of social media portals which promote parliamentary development and the political empowerment of women-namely, Agora, a web portal developed by UNDP, NDI, the World Bank, the European Commission and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance ( International IDEA ); and the International Knowledge Network of Women in Politics ( iKNOW Politics ) website, which promotes the participation of women in the political process.

Politics is the process observed in all human ( and many non-human ) group interactions by which groups make decisions, including activism on behalf of specific issues or causes.

Bliss is the namesake of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics established in 1986 at the University of Akron to promote citizen knowledge and participation in the political process, values in which Bliss strongly believed.

Munroe went to high school at St. George's College and later studied political science at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where he obtained the D. Phil in political science for a landmark study of the process of decolonization in Jamaica between the 1930s and 1960s, published as The Politics of Constitutional Decolonization in 1972.

For other aspects of the political process in Argentina see: Category: Politics of Argentina.

For other aspects of the political process in Egypt see: category: Politics of Egypt.

For other aspects of the political process in Norway see: Category: Politics of Norway.

For other aspects of the political process in Sweden see: Category: Politics of Sweden.

For other aspects of the political process in Switzerland see the Politics of Switzerland category.