Glossary: pilitics terms.

A

Anti-establishment: something that goes against a business organization or other large institution.

B

Backing: a body of supporters.

Bicameralism: (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers.

Bureaucracy: a system of administration based upon organization into bureaus, division of labour, a hierarchy of authority: designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner.

C

Cabinet: (often capital) the executive and policy-making body of a country, consisting of all government ministers or just the senior ministers.

Chamber of deputies: a meeting hall, one used for a legislative or judicial assembly; a legislative, deliberative, judicial, or administrative assembly.

Chancellor: the head of the government in several European countries.

Coalition: an alliance or union between groups, factions, or parties, especially for some temporary and specific reason.

Coalition government: an alliance or union between groups, factions, or parties for some temporary and specific reason made within government.

Confidence vote: an indication of choice, opinion, or will on a question, such as the choosing of a candidate expressed according to a feeling of trust in a person or thing.

D

Defence minister: a person or thing that provides such resistance against danger, attack, or harm; protection, person who controls the defence at the state level.

Demagogy: rule by a demagogue, a political agitator who appeals with crude oratory to the prejudice and passions of the mob.

To depose: to remove from an office or position, one of power or rank.

E

Economy minister: a person appointed to head a government department responsible for careful management of resources to avoid unnecessary expenditure or waste.

F

To force out: expel someone from a certain job or a certain political / administrative / economic organ.

Formal presentation: the first occasion on which a person, a member of politics is presented in front of the senate or to another organ of the State.

 

 

G

Government: the exercise of political authority over the actions, affairs, etc, of a political unit, people, etc, as well as the performance of certain functions for this unit or body; the action of governing; political rule and administration.

J

Justice system: the administration of law according to prescribed and accepted principles.

L

Leadership: the leaders as a group of a party, union.

Legislation: the act or process of making laws; enactment.

Loan fund: fund created in case of need in order to have property lent, especially money lent at interest for a period of time, available in times of need.

Local politics: politic system characteristic of or associated with a particular locality or area.

Lawmaker: person who has the task of writing laws, a rule or set of rules, enforceable by the courts, regulating the government of a state, the relationship between the organs of government and the subjects of the state, and the relationship or conduct of subjects towards each other.

Lower house: one of the two houses of a bicameral legislature: usually the larger and more representative house.

M

Mayor: the chairman and civic head of a municipal corporation in many countries.

Majority: the greater number or part of something; (in an election) the number of votes or seats by which the strongest party or candidate beats the combined opposition or the runner-up.

Member: a person who belongs to a club, political party, etc.

N

Norm: an average level of achievement or performance, as of a group or person; a standard of achievement or behaviour that is required, desired, or designated as normal.

P

Parliament: an assembly of the representatives of a political nation or people, often the supreme legislative authority.

Party: a group of people organized together to further a common political aim, such as the election of its candidates to public office.

Populism: a political strategy based on a calculated appeal to the interests or prejudices of ordinary people.

Premier: another name for prime minister, the head of a parliamentary government.

Prime minister: the head of a parliamentary government; the chief minister of a sovereign or a state.

Public administration: management of the affairs of an organization, such as a business or institution open or accessible to all.

Public debts: something that is owed, such as money, goods, or services and is referred the all country.

R

Reform: an improvement or change for the better, as a result of correction of legal or political abuses or malpractices.

Rule: an authoritative regulation or direction concerning method or procedure, as for a court of law, legislative body, game, or other human institution or activity.

S

Senate: the upper chamber of the legislatures of the US, Canada, Australia, and many other countries.

Senator: a member of a Senate or senate; any legislator or statesman.

To sit: to occupy or be entitled to a seat in some official capacity, as a judge, elected representative.

State investment: the act of investing money as regards politics and the state economy.

T

Tax: a compulsory financial contribution imposed by a government to raise revenue, levied on the income or property of persons or organizations, on the production costs or sales prices of goods and services.

U

Upper house: one of the two houses of a bicameral legislature.

V

Voting system: organization of time and phases in which the voting takes place.