Politics is activity, making-up and applying/enforcing local and national governmental policies, usually carried out by full-time officials and/or elected representatives of political parties. Attempts to change such policies is also considered politics, as is attempting to gain power over others in ...
Max Weber identified three sources of legitimacy for authority, known as the tripartite classification of authority. He proposed three reasons why people follow the orders of those who give them:
Traditional
Traditional authorities receive loyalty because they continue and support the preservation ...
Agitator is a term for a person that actively supports some ideology or movement with speeches and especially actions.
Over the centuries, the term agitator has had various meanings. In ancient world it referred to a charioteer.
English Agitators
In the English-speaking world, the term first referred ...
In society and politics, radicalization or radicalisation (UK) refers to a change in the social and political attitudes, views, and associations of individual dissidents and protest groups, in a direction that is claimed or perceived to be "radicalism" and "extremism" (violent protest).
The ...
Infighting is a term normally used in political parties and sometimes in religious organizations to describe dissenters from a hegemony.
Case study
Malaysia is a parliamentary democracy based on the United Kingdom's Westminster System, and has been ruled since its independence in 1957 by the Barisan ...
Dissent is a sentiment or philosophy of non-agreement or opposition to an idea (eg. a government's policies) or an entity (eg. an individual or political party which supports such policies). Antonyms include agreement, consensus and consent.
Dissent may be expressed in many ways. In some political ...
Pieing is the act of throwing a pie at someone. Originally a staple of slapstick comedy, the term has also acquired a political dimension and has come to mean throwing a pie at an authority figure, politician, or celebrity as a means of protesting against the target's political beliefs, or against ...
Legislative violence broadly refers to any violent clashes between members of a nation's legislature, often triggered by divisive issues and tight votes. Although these types of clashes happen in many countries of all time periods, Asian countries such as Taiwan seem to be notorious for these acts ...
In politics and advertising, the term astroturfing describes formal public relations (PR) campaigns that seek to create the impression of being a spontaneous, grassroots behavior. Hence the reference to the "AstroTurf" (artificial grass) is a metaphor to indicate "fake grassroots" ...
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