Term
|
Definition
| the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| an economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a group or clique within a larger group, party, government, organization, or the like: a faction in favor of big business. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public |
|
|
