Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| ableism | discrimination against the disabled. |
| ableist | pertaining to ableism, discrimination against the disabled; (noun) one who discriminates against the aged. |
| abolitionism | principles or measures fostering abolition esp of slavery. |
| abolitionist | a supporter of abolitionism. |
| aboriginalism | due recognition of native peoples. |
| abstentionism | the policy of not using one's vote, esp in a political election. |
| abstentionist | a believer in abstentionism. |
| actualite | (Fr.) the real state of affairs. |
| affranchise | to free from slavery or similar obligation. |
| affranchisement | the act of affranchising. |
| ageism | discrimination on grounds of age. |
| agism | discrimination on grounds of age. |
| agitprop | (Russian) pro-communist agitation and propaganda. |
| agrarian | related to land; (noun) one who favours equitable distribution of land. |
| agrement | (Fr.) the approval by a state of a diplomatic representative sent to it. |
| aliya | (Hebrew) the immigration of Jews to Israel. |
| aliyah | (Hebrew) the immigration of Jews to Israel. |
| alternat | (Fr.) the diplomatic practice of determining precedence between powers of equal rank by lot. |
| amandla | (Nguni) a political slogan calling for power to the Black population. |
| ambassage | an embassy. |
| ambassy | an embassy. |
| amnesty | a period during which offenders may admit to certain crimes or infringements without penalty; (verb) to give an amnesty to. |
| anarchal | relating to anarchy, the complete absence of law or government. |
| anarchial | relating to anarchy, the complete absence of law or government. |
| anarchical | relating to anarchy, the complete absence of law or government. |
| anarchism | the doctrine or practice of anarchists. |
| annexationism | the policy of annexation. |
| antiapartheid | opposed to apartheid. |
| antiblackism | prejudice against black people. |
| antibourgeois | opposed to the bourgeois. |
| antibuser | a person who opposes the busing of children to faraway schools to achieve racial balance. |
| anticapitalist | one opposed to capitalism. |
| antichoice | opposed to abortion. |
| anticivic | opposed to citizenship. |
| anticommunism | opposition to communism. |
| antielite | opposed to an elite; (noun) a group opposed to an elite. |
| antifa | an antifascist organization; a member of an antifascist organization. |
| antifascism | opposition to fascism. |
| antifederalist | one who is opposed to federalism. |
| antifeminism | opposition to feminism. |
| antifeminist | a supporter of antifeminism. |
| antijacobin | opposed to the Jacobins and to the French Revolution or to democratic principles; (noun) one opposed to the Jacobins. |
| antilabor | opposed to labour organisations. |
| antileft | opposed to the left. |
| antiliberal | one who is opposed to liberalism. |
| antiliberalism | opposition to liberalism. |
| antilifer | a person in favour of abortion. |
| antimarket | opposed to the market. |
| antinuker | a person opposed to the use of nuclear weapons or nuclear energy. |
| antiparty | opposed to a political party; (noun) a party opposed to a political party. |
| antiracism | opposition to racism. |
| antiracist | one opposed to racism. |
| antiradical | opposed to radicalism. |
| antiradicalism | opposition to radicalism. |
| antired | opposed to communism. |
| antireform | opposed to reform. |
| antiseparatist | one opposed to separatism. |
| antistate | opposed to the state. |
| antistrike | opposed to a strike. |
| antitax | opposed to taxation. |
| antiunion | opposed to trade unions. |
| antiwar | against war. |
| apartheid | (Afrikaans) segregation and separate development (of races). |
| apoliticism | being uninterested in politics. |
| apparat | (Russian) the structure, mechanism, etc. of an organization, esp a political one. |
| apparatchik | (Russian) a member of the (Soviet) bureaucracy; now extended to apply to any inflexible organisation man, particularly in a political party. |
| appui | (Fr.) support; (verb) to support militarily. |
| appuy | (Fr.) support; (verb) to support militarily. |
| aspheterise | to deny the right of private property. |
| aspheterism | the belief that there should be no private property. |
| aspheterize | to deny the right of private property. |
| assiento | (Spanish) a treaty (esp that between Spain and Britain, 1713) for the supply of African slaves for Spanish American dominions. |
| assimilationism | a policy of assimilation, esp of racial groups. |
| autocritique | (Fr.) self-criticism, esp political. |
| baaskaap | (Afrikaans) the condition in which one section of the population is treated as the master race, esp the policy of domination of white people in S. Africa. |
| baaskap | (Afrikaans) the condition in which one section of the population is treated as the master race, esp the policy of domination of white people in S. Africa. |
| baasskap | (Afrikaans) the condition in which one section of the population is treated as the master race, esp the policy of domination of white people in S. Africa. |
| backbench | a rear bench (in Parliament). |
| balkanise | to divide (a region or territory) into small, often hostile units. |
| balkanize | to divide (a region or territory) into small, often hostile units. |
| ballot | to vote by ballot. |
| ballotee | one who is balloted. |
| balloter | one who votes by ballot. |
| bander | a member of a league, a confederate. |
| bandobast | (Urdu) an organisation. |
| bandobust | (Urdu) an organisation. |
| bicameral | consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches. |
| biparty | of two parties. |
| bizonal | relating to a bizone, a country formed of two zones. |
| bizone | a country formed of two zones. |
| bloc | (Fr.) a combination of parties, nations or other units to achieve a common purpose. |
| bloquiste | a supporter of autonomy for Quebec. |
| bluebook | a parliamentary report. |
| bolshevik | (Russian) a violent revolutionary. |
| bolshevise | to make a bolshevik. |
| bolshevism | being a bolshevik. |
| bolshevize | to make a bolshevik. |
| boomlet | a minor economic boom. |
| bork | to attack a candidate or public figure systematically, esp in the media. |
| bosberaad | (Afrikaans) a meeting in an isolated venue to break a political deadlock. |
| bourbonism | the principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism. |
| bourgeois | (Fr.) middle-class; conventionally respectable and unimaginative. |
| bourgeoisie | (Fr.) the middle classes. |
| brinkmanship | the art or practice of pushing a dangerous situation or confrontation to the limit of safety esp to force a desired outcome. |
| broo | (Scots) unemployment benefit; the office at which people receive it. |
| bundobust | (Urdu) an organisation. |
| cacotopia | a state in which everything is as bad as it can be. |
| cacotopian | of or like a cacotopia, a state in which everything is as bad as it can be. |
| caesarism | imperialism. |
| canvaser | one who goes from door to door raising votes. |
| canvass | to solicit esp political support. |
| canvasser | one who goes from door to door raising votes. |
| capitalism | the economic system which is driven by the profit motive and depends on the investment of private capital to provide the means of production, distribution and exchange. |
| capitulation | a set of terms or articles constituting an agreement between governments. |
| casteism | the caste system esp in India. |
| casteless | without caste. |
| censual | relating to, or containing, a census. |
| census | (Lat.) an investigation or count of a population; (verb) to carry out a census. |
| chartism | the use of charts in the study of future trends. |
| chiliarchy | a body consisting of a thousand men. |
| citizenise | to make a citizen of. |
| civism | the state of citizenship. |
| classism | prejudice or discrimination on grounds of social class. |
| classist | one who discriminates on grounds of social class. |
| cleruch | (Hist.) a citizen of Athens granted an allotment of land in a foreign territory. |
| cleruchia | an allotment of land in a foreign territory made to a citizen of Athens. |
| cleruchial | of or like a cleruchy. |
| cleruchy | (Greek) an allotment of land in a foreign territory made to a citizen of Athens. |
| cloture | (Fr.) closure; (verb) to apply closure to a parliamentary debate. |
| coalition | the act of merging into one mass or body. |
| coalitional | relating to coalition. |
| coalitioner | a supporter of coalition. |
| coalitionism | the forming of a coalition. |
| coalitionist | a supporter of coalitionism. |
| coercionist | one who believe in government by force. |
| collectivism | the doctrine of communal control of means of production. |
| collectivist | a supporter of collectivism. |
| collectivistic | relating to collectivism. |
| collectivize | to give a collectivist organization to. |
| colonialism | the system by which one country controls and dominates a subordinate territory politically and economically. |
| colonialist | an adherent of colonialism. |
| colonialistic | relating to colonialism. |
| commo | (Aust. coll.) a communist. |
| commonweal | (Arch.) the general welfare. |
| communalism | social organization on a communal basis. |
| communalist | an adherent of communalism. |
| communalistic | relating to communalism, social organization on a communal basis. |
| communard | (Fr.) a member of a commune; a communist. |
| communautaire | a spirit or attitude in keeping with or appropriate to the aims and principles of the European Union. |
| communise | to make common property; to make communist. |
| communism | a social theory according to which society should be classless, private property should be abolished, and land, factories, etc collectively owned and controlled. |
| communistic | inclined to communism. |
| communistically | (Adv.) COMMUNISTIC, inclined to communism. |
| communitaire | one with a spirit or attitude in keeping with or appropriate to the aims and principles of the European Union. |
| communize | to make common property; to make communist. |
| comsymp | (Coll.) a communist sympathiser. |
| confederacy | a league or compact for mutual support or common action. |
| confederal | belonging to or relating to a confederation. |
| confederation | an act of confederating. |
| confederative | of or like a confederation. |
| conferee | one who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference. |
| conferree | one who takes part in a conference. |
| conscientise | to make (someone) aware of political and social rights. |
| conscientize | to make (someone) aware of political and social rights. |
| conservatism | the principles and policies of a Conservative party. |
| conservative | tending to conserve (noun) an adherent or advocate of political conservatism |
| conservatively | (Adv.) CONSERVATIVE, tending to conserve. |
| constituency | a body of citizens entitled to elect a representative (as to a legislative or executive position). |
| constituent | forming part of (noun) an inhabitant of the constituency of a member of parliament |
| constituently | (Adv.) CONSTITUENT, forming part of. |
| constitutionist | a believer in the Constitution. |
| consulate | the post or establishment of a (modern) consul. |
| coolist | a person, esp a scientist, who does not believe in global warming and the greenhouse effect. |
| corporatism | the policy of control of a country's economy through the combined power of the trade unions, large businesses, etc. |
| corporatist | a believer in corporatism. |
| corporativism | the policy of control of a country's economy through the combined power of the trade unions, large businesses, etc. |
| cosmopolitic | relating to cosmopolitics, world politics. |
| cosmopolitical | relating to cosmopolitics, world politics. |
| cosmopolitics | world politics. |
| countercoup | a coup in return. |
| cragger | a member of a carbon reduction action group. |
| cronyism | partiality to cronies esp as evidenced in the appointment of political hangers-on to office without regard to their qualifications. |
| croppy | an Irish rebel of 1798. |
| crypto | a person who is secretly a member of a sect, party etc. |
| dealign | to withdraw allegiance to a political party. |
| decentralist | one who believes in decentralisation of government. |
| decitizenise | to deprive of citizenship. |
| decitizenize | to deprive of citizenship. |
| declasse | (Fr.) having lost caste or social standing; (noun) one has has lost social standing. |
| demarche | (Fr.) a course of action, esp a diplomatic petition or protest. |
| dementi | (Fr.) a contradiction, a denial; now esp an official denial of a published statement. |
| demo | (Short for) demonstration; (verb) to demonstrate. |
| democrat | one who believes in political and social equality. |
| democratizer | one who democratizes. |
| demographer | a student of demography. |
| demography | the study of population statistics and trends, such as births, deaths, and disease. |
| denazify | to purge of Nazi elements. |
| denization | the act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization. |
| depoliticise | to remove the political nature or awareness from. |
| depoliticize | to remove the political nature or awareness from. |
| deportee | one who is deported. |
| derecognise | to withdraw recognition from (esp a trade union). |
| devolution | transference (as of rights, powers, property, or responsibility) to another. |
| devolutionist | a believer in a policy of devolution. |
| diktat | (Ger.) a harsh settlement forced on the defeated or powerless. |
| diplomacy | the art of negotiation. |
| diplomatic | relating to diplomacy. |
| diplomatical | relating to diplomacy. |
| diplomatically | (Adv.) DIPLOMATICAL, relating to diplomacy. |
| diplomatise | to practise, or bring about by, diplomacy. |
| diplomatize | to practise, or bring about by, diplomacy. |
| dirigism | state control in economic and social spheres. |
| dirigisme | (Fr.) state control of economic and social affairs. |
| dirigiste | (Fr.) relating to State control of economic and social affairs. No -S. |
| disfranchise | to deprive of franchise. |
| dissident | dissenting (noun) a dissenter, esp one who disagrees with the aims and procedures of the government |
| dissidently | (Adv.) DISSIDENT. |
| dissolutionism | belief in political dissolution. |
| dissolutionist | a proponent of dissolutionism. |
| disunionist | someone who favours dissolution of a union. |
| doorstep | to go from door to door canvassing eg in an election. |
| doublethink | thought marked by the acceptance of gross contradictions and falsehoods, esp when used as a technique of self-indoctrination. |
| doughfaced | over-persuadable, esp of N. American politicians inclined to favour the South in the Civil War. |
| dynamitard | (Arch.) a user of dynamite esp for political purposes. |
| dystopia | a place thought of as the opposite to Utopia, i.e. where everything is as bad as possible. |
| dystopian | relating to dystopia, a place thought of as the opposite to Utopia, i.e. where everything is as bad as possible; (noun) a believer in dystopia. |
| ecofeminism | a movement or theory that applies feminist principles and ideas to ecological issues. |
| ecofeminist | an adherent of ecofeminism. |
| economism | a belief that economic causes are of primary importance. |
| ecotopia | an ecologically ideal region or type of society. |
| egalitarian | a believer in egalitarianism. |
| egalite | (Fr.) equality. |
| egality | equality. |
| eirenicon | (Greek) a peacemaking message, a proposition for peace. |
| electable | capable of being elected. |
| electee | one who is elected. |
| election | the act of electing. |
| elector | one that elects. |
| electoral | relating to elections or electors. |
| electorally | (Adv.) ELECTORAL, relating to elections. |
| electorate | the territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of a German elector. |
| electorial | relating to elections or electors. |
| electorially | (Adv.) ELECTORIAL, relating to elections. |
| electorship | the electorate. |
| embargo | a trade restriction; (verb) to restrain trade by a government order. |
| embassade | (Shakesp.) the mission of an ambassador. |
| embassage | an embassy. |
| embassy | the headquarters of an ambassador. |
| endenizen | to admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. |
| enfranchise | to admit to the privileges of a citizen and esp to the right of suffrage. |
| enfranchisement | the state of being enfranchised. |
| enfranchiser | one who enfranchises. |
| engagee | of a female writer or artist, morally or politically committed to an ideology. |
| enosis | (Mod. Gr.) political union, esp that proposed between Greece and Cyprus. |
| entrism | the doctrine of joining a group to change its policies. |
| entrist | one who indulges in entrism. |
| entryism | the doctrine of joining a group to change its policies. |
| entryist | one who indulges in entryism. |
| epuration | purification, esp removal of officials or politicians believed to be disloyal. |
| etatism | extreme state control over the individual. |
| etatisme | (Fr.) extreme state control over the individual. |
| etatist | relating to etatism, extreme state control over the individual. |
| etatiste | (Fr.) an advocate of etatisme. |
| extensification | an agricultural policy within the European Union by which land is farmed less intensively and savings made in expenditure on feed, fertilizers and pesticides to balance lower production. |
| falangism | membership of the Spanish Fascist party. |
| falangist | a member of the Spanish Fascist party. |
| fascio | (Ital.) an organized political group or club. |
| fascista | (Ital.) fascist; (noun) the Fascist party. |
| fattism | discrimination against the obese. |
| fattist | one guilty of fattism. |
| federacy | confederacy. |
| federalise | to unite in a federation. |
| federalism | the principles of Federalists or of federal union. |
| federalist | a supporter of a federal constitution or union. |
| federalistic | related to federalism, the principles of Federalists or of federal union. |
| federalize | to unite in a federation. |
| federate | to join in a federation. |
| federative | uniting in a confederacy; federal. |
| federatively | (Adv.) FEDERATIVE, uniting in a confederacy. |
| federator | one who federates. |
| felquiste | (Canadian) a member of the FLQ, a separatist paramilitary group wanting independence for Quebec. |
| finance | money affairs or revenue; (verb) to supply the money for. |
| fisc | (Obs.) the state treasury; the public revenue. |
| fisk | (Obs.) the state treasury; the public revenue; (verb) to frisk, to gad about. |
| fractionalist | a breaker-up of political unity. |
| frondeur | (Fr.) a member of the Fronde, a rebellious movement established in France during the reign of Louis XIV. |
| fusionism | a policy that favours unionism or coalition. |
| fusionist | an advocate of fusionism, a policy that favours unionism or coalition. |
| gerrymander | to rearrange (voting districts) in the interests of a particular party or candidate. |
| gerrymanderer | one who gerrymanders. |
| gestapo | (Ger.) any secret police organization. |
| gherao | (Hindi) in India, the surrounding or trapping of a person, eg an employer in a room or building, till demands are met; (verb) to carry out such an action. |
| glasnost | (Russian) the policy of openness and forthrightness under the premiership of Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| glasnostian | in the spirit of glasnost, the policy of openness and forthrightness under the premiership of Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| glasnostic | relating to glasnost, the policy of openness and forthrightness under the premiership of Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| globalise | to make global. |
| globalist | relating to a global approach to economic etc. issues; (noun) a person advocating a global approach. |
| globalize | to make global. |
| governmentalism | a theory advocating extension of the sphere and degree of government activity. |
| governmentalist | an exponent of governmentalism. |
| grantsmanship | the art of obtaining grants for research. |
| grassroot | relating to the ordinary people, the rank and file. |
| greenbacker | a member of a post-Civil War American political party opposing reduction in the amount of paper money in circulation. |
| greenwash | to cover with a specious overlay of concern for the environment. |
| growthist | a person who is committed to growth, esp economic. |
| guildry | (Scots) the corporation of a royal burgh. |
| hardline | of an attitude or policy, definite and unyielding; having such an attitude or policy. |
| hardliner | one who takes a hardline. |
| hartal | (Hindi) in India, a general strike. |
| helotage | the state of helots or being enslaved. |
| helotism | the condition of the Helots or slaves in Sparta; slavery. |
| heresthetic | the art of political manipulation, esp by the use of language. |
| heresthetical | relating to heresthetics, a political theory that involves structuring the world so you can win. |
| heresthetician | one who practises heresthetics. |
| hermandad | (Spanish) a confederation of the entire burgher class of Spain for police and judicial purposes. |
| herstory | feminist history. |
| hibakusha | (Japanese) a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
| hikoi | (Maori) to take part in a protest march. |
| hispanidad | a movement asserting the cultural unity of Spain and Latin America. |
| hispanism | a movement asserting the cultural unity of Spain and Latin America. |
| identic | identical; spec. relating to a diplomatic action in which two or more governments agree to follow the same course in relations with another government. |
| imbizo | (Zulu) a gathering of people at the request of a chieftain. |
| immediatism | the policy of action at once, esp in the abolition of slavery in the US. |
| imperialism | the policy, practice or advocacy of extension of a nation's power or influence over other territories. |
| imperialist | a supporter of imperialism. |
| imperialistic | relating to imperialism. |
| incivism | neglect of duty as a citizen. |
| incrementalism | a policy or advocacy of a policy of political or social change by degrees. |
| incrementalist | an exponent of incrementalism. |
| indexation | a system by which wages, rates of interest etc. are directly linked to changes in the cost of living index. |
| indyref | a referendum on the subject of a nation's independence. |
| inqilab | (Urdu) in India, Pakistan etc., a revolution. |
| intelligentsia | (Russian) the intellectual or cultured classes, orig in Russia. |
| intelligentzia | (Russian) the intellectual or cultured classes, orig in Russia. |
| intercaste | between castes eg an intercaste marriage. |
| interterm | between terms eg of office; (noun) the period between the end of one academic session and the beginning of the next session. |
| intifada | (Arabic) the uprising in 1987 and continued resistance by Palestinians to Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of Jordan. |
| intifadah | (Arabic) the uprising in 1987 and continued resistance by Palestinians to Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of Jordan. |
| intifadeh | (Arabic) the uprising in 1987 and continued resistance by Palestinians to Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of Jordan. |
| irenic | conducive to or working toward peace. |
| irenicon | (Greek) a peace-making message, a proposition for peace. |
| irredentism | advocating return of what is now foreign land to the former occupants. |
| irredentist | one who attempts to recover a region to a country that has lost it. |
| isocracy | equal political power. |
| isocratic | relating to isocracy, equal political power. |
| isolationism | a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations. |
| isolationist | a believer in isolationism. |
| isopolity | reciprocity of rights of citizenship in two communities. |
| jacquerie | (Fr.) a peasant's revolt, esp in 1358, the French peasant uprising against nobility. |
| jamahiriya | (Arabic) in Arab socialist states, the people or proletariat state. |
| jerrymander | to rearrange (voting districts) in the interests of a particular party or candidate. |
| jingoism | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked esp by a belligerent foreign policy. |
| jobbery | the conduct of public business for private gain. |
| jumhouriya | (Arabic) in Arab socialist states, the people or proletariat state. |
| justicialism | the political ideology of Juan Domingo Perón, President of Argentina, which combined Fascism and Socialism. |
| kingcraft | (Obs.) the craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign. |
| kingmaker | one who decides who shall be king. |
| klavern | a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan. |
| kotahitanga | (Maori) unity or solidarity. |
| kremlinologist | one who studies kremlinology. |
| kremlinology | the study of the policies and practices of the former Soviet government. |
| laborism | support for workers' rights. |
| laborist | a supporter of laborism. |
| labourism | support for workers' rights. |
| leftie | someone who is politically left-wing. |
| leftish | somewhat to the left. |
| leftism | adherence to leftwing political doctrines. |
| leftist | one tending to the left in politics. |
| leftwing | favoring leftism. |
| lefty | someone who is politically leftwing. |
| legation | the sending of an official envoy. |
| legationary | relating to a legation. |
| liberationism | the cause of social freedom and equality for sections of society believed to be underprivileged or discriminated against. |
| libertarian | one who believes in the maximum amount of freedom. |
| libertarianism | belief in the maximum amount of freedom. |
| liblab | a person supporting a coalition of liberal and labour groups. |
| lobbyer | one who lobbies. |
| lobbyism | engagement in lobbying. |
| lobbyist | a person who lobbies. |
| logroll | to engage in logrolling, the exchanging of political favors. |
| logroller | one who engages in logrolling. |
| loyalism | being a loyalist. |
| lumpen | (Ger.) relating to people cut off from the social and economic class to which they would normally belong (noun) someone belonging to the underclass |
| lumpenly | (Adv.) LUMPEN, relating to a dispossessed and/or degraded section of a social class. |
| machtpolitik | (Ger.) power politics. |
| mainstreeting | electioneering in the main streets of a town. |
| majoritaire | (Fr.) a member of a majority section of a political party, esp a socialist one. |
| manifesto | a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer (verb) to issue a manifesto |
| maquis | (Fr.) a guerrilla resistance force. |
| maquisard | a member of the maquis, a guerrilla resistance force. |
| marxisant | (Fr.) of Marxist sympathies. |
| masculinist | an advocate of men's rights. |
| masculist | an advocate of the rights of men. |
| maximalist | a revolutionary, a Bolshevik. |
| mayoral | like a mayor. |
| mediatise | to cause to act through an agent or to hold a subordinate position. |
| mediatize | to cause to act through an agent or to hold a subordinate position. |
| medicaid | in the US, a scheme for providing those with low income with assistance with medical expenses. |
| medicare | in the US, a scheme providing medical care for those aged over 65. |
| metapolitics | the politics of politics, a method of analysing political ideologies from the viewpoint of other political ideologies. |
| minoritaire | (Fr.) a member of a minority section of a political party, esp a socialist one. |
| morcha | (Hindi) a hostile demonstration against the government. |
| mossbacked | conservative of opinion. |
| municipalism | concern for the interests of one's municipality; belief in municipal control. |
| municipalist | a believer in municipalism. |
| muscadin | (Fr.) a Parisian fop or dandy; a middle-class moderate in the French Revolution. |
| mutualism | a belief in the mutual dependence of society and the individual. |
| mutualist | an advocate of mutualism, a belief in the mutual dependence of society and the individual. |
| mutualistic | relating to mutualism. |
| nation | a politically organized people who share a territory, customs, and history. |
| national | belonging to a nation (noun) a citizen of a nation |
| nationalist | an advocate of or believer in nationalism. |
| nationality | membership of, or the fact or state of belonging to, a particular nation. |
| nationalize | to put an industry under state control. |
| nationally | (Adv.) NATIONAL. |
| navalism | the cult of naval supremacy or seapower. |
| navarchy | rulership over the seas. |
| nazification | the act of making Nazi. |
| nazify | to make Nazi. |
| neocon | a supporter of conservative politics. |
| neoconservatism | the state of being a neoconservative, a former liberal espousing political conservatism. |
| neoconservative | a former liberal espousing political conservatism. |
| neoliberal | a liberal who de-emphasizes traditional liberal values in order to make progress by more pragmatic means. |
| neoliberalism | the state of being a neoliberal, a liberal who de-emphasizes traditional liberal values in order to make progress by more pragmatic means. |
| nihilism | the belief that the destruction of existing political and/or social institutions is necessary for future improvement. |
| nihilist | an adherent of nihilism. |
| nihilistic | relating to nihilism. |
| nimbyism | adherence to the doctrine of 'not in my back-yard'. |
| nomenklatura | (Russian) officeholders and managers in a communist regime. |
| nonelection | something that is not an election. |
| nonfederated | not federated. |
| nonjuring | not swearing allegiance; applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors. |
| nonjuror | one of those adherents of James II who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite. |
| nonpolitical | not political. |
| nonpolitically | (Adv.) NONPOLITICAL, not political. |
| nonruling | not ruling. |
| nonsocialist | one who is not a socialist. |
| nonunionism | opposition to trade unionism. |
| nonunionist | a supporter of nonunionism. |
| nonvoter | one who is not a voter. |
| omov | one man one vote. |
| ostracise | to exclude from a group by common consent. |
| ostracize | to exclude from a group by common consent. |
| outpoll | to poll more votes than. |
| outvoter | a voter not resident in the constituency. |
| overvote | to outvote; to outnumber in votes given. |
| pacificism | opposition to war or violence. |
| pacificist | one who adheres to the beliefs and principles of pacifists. |
| panhandle | a strip of territory stretching out from the main body like a handle on a pan; (verb) to beg from someone esp on the street. |
| papaprelatist | (Scott) a supporter of popish prelates. |
| parliamenting | acting as a member of parliament; debating. |
| particularist | an upholder of particularism. |
| partitionist | an advocate of political partition. |
| partyism | devotion to party. |
| paternalism | a system or tendency in which well-meaning supervision and/or regulation, etc is apt to become unwelcome interference. |
| paternalist | a believer in paternalism. |
| paternalistic | relating to paternalism. |
| peerage | the rank of a nobleman. |
| pensioneer | as in pensioneer trustee. No -S. |
| peoplehood | the state of constituting a people. |
| pequiste | (Fr.) in Canada, a supporter of the Parti Quebecois. |
| perestroika | (Russian) the period of reconstruction in Russia under Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| phalansterist | a support of the Fourier system of land control. |
| phallocrat | one who assumes the naturality of male dominance. |
| phallocratic | of or like a phallocrat, one who assumes the naturality of male dominance. |
| pinko | a person who is something of a socialist but hardly a red. |
| plebiscitary | relating to a plebiscite. |
| plebiscite | a direct vote of the whole nation or of the people of a district on a special point. |
| plutologist | a student of plutology, political economy. |
| plutology | political economy; the study of wealth. |
| plutonomist | a student of plutonomy, political economy. |
| plutonomy | economics. |
| pogey | in Canada, any form of government relief. |
| pogrom | (Russian) a violent, anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish village or area; (verb) to massacre. |
| pogromist | one who engages in pogroms. |
| pol | a politician. |
| politburo | (Russian) the policy-making committee in communist states. |
| political | related to politics. |
| politicalise | to make political. |
| politicalize | to make political. |
| politically | (Adv.) POLITICAL, related to politics. |
| politicise | to give a political tone or character to. |
| politicize | to give a political tone or character to. |
| politick | to engage in politics. |
| politicker | one who engages in politics. |
| politics | the art or science of government. |
| polity | political organisation. |
| pollee | one who is polled. |
| polycentrism | the existence of many centers of Communist ideological thought. |
| pontine | of or pertaining to an extensive marshy district between Rome and Naples. |
| populism | the political principles and practices of populists. |
| populist | someone who believes in the right and ability of the common people to play a major part in governing themselves. |
| possibilism | the policy of confining efforts to what is immediately possible or practicable. |
| possibilist | an adherent of possibilism. |
| postfeminism | a movement that regards the main principles of feminism as either achieved or misguided and seeks a new programme. |
| postfeminist | a supporter of postfeminism. |
| potwaller | a man entitled to the franchise before 1832 by virtue of possessing his own fireplace. |
| pourparler | (Fr.) a discussion prior to negotiation. |
| preatomic | before the harnessing of atomic energy. |
| precoup | preceding a coup. |
| preelection | taking place before an election. |
| preferentialism | favouring a preferential tariff. |
| preferentialist | a supporter of preferentialism. |
| preprimary | an election occurring before the primary elections. |
| prerevisionist | preceding revisionism. |
| presummit | preceding a (political) summit; (noun) a meeting held prior to a summit. |
| privatise | to transfer from ownership by the state into private ownership; to denationalize. |
| privatize | to transfer from ownership by the state into private ownership; to denationalize. |
| procapitalist | supporting capitalism. |
| prochoice | in favour of women's right to abortion. |
| profascist | supporting fascism. |
| progressionism | sympathy with or advocacy of progress; belief that social or other evolution is towards higher or better things. |
| progressism | sympathy with or advocacy of progress. |
| progressist | one who believes in progressism. |
| progressive | showing progress (noun) one who favours progress or reform |
| progressively | (Adv.) PROGRESSIVE, showing progress. |
| progressivism | the principles, beliefs, or practices of progressives. |
| progressivist | an upholder of progressivism. |
| progun | in favour of the public owning firearms. |
| projectisation | the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs. |
| projectization | the direction of aid to developing countries towards a specific project, without regard to wider issues or needs. |
| prolabor | favouring organized labor. |
| proletarianism | belief in the proletariat. |
| proletariat | the laboring class. |
| proletariate | the poorest labouring class; the wage-earning class, esp those without capital. |
| proreform | in favour of reform. |
| prorogate | to end a session (of Parliament); to postpone (a meeting). |
| prorogation | the act of prorogating, postponing a meeting. |
| prorogue | to end a session (of Parliament); to postpone (a meeting). |
| protocol | the original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument; (verb) to draw up a protocol. |
| protocolic | of or like protocol. |
| protocolise | to make a protocol of. |
| protocolize | to make a protocol of. |
| prounion | supporting the Union. |
| psephism | (Hist.) a decree of the Athenian assembly (from their voting with pebbles). |
| psephoanalysis | the sociological and statistical study of election results and trends. |
| psephology | the study of political elections. |
| putsch | (Ger.) a secretly plotted and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow a government. |
| putschist | one who engages in a putsch. |
| racialism | a doctrine of racial superiority. |
| racialistic | relating to racialism. |
| racism | a doctrine of racial superiority. |
| radicalise | to make or become radical. |
| radicalism | the state of being radical. |
| radicalistic | related to radicalism, the state of being radical. |
| radicalize | to make or become radical. |
| raj | in India, sovereignty. |
| ranterism | the practice or tenets of the Ranters. |
| rapprochement | (Fr.) a resumption of or improvement in relations between countries or persons. |
| ratepayer | one who pays rates or taxes. |
| ratten | to compel obedience to a trade union by damaging or depriving of machinery, tools, etc. |
| rattener | one who rattens, compels obedience to a trade union by damaging or depriving of machinery, tools, etc. |
| reactionarism | the state of being reactionary. |
| reactionary | resisitng change; (noun) a person who tends to oppose political change or who attempts to revert to past political conditions. |
| reactionism | the state of being a reactionist. |
| realpolitik | (Ger.) politics guided by practical considerations, instead of principles or ethics. |
| realpolitiker | (Ger.) one who practises realpolitik, politics based on practical, rather than moral or ideological, considerations. |
| redbait | to denounce as Communist. |
| redbaiter | one who redbaits. |
| redistrict | to divide into new districts. |
| reelect | to elect again. |
| referendum | (Lat.) the process or principle of referring an important political question to the nation as a whole. |
| reformism | any doctrine or movement advocating gradual social and political change within a democratic framework rather than revolutionary change. |
| refugeeism | the state of being a refugee. |
| regionalism | consciousness of and loyalty to a distinct region with a homogeneous population. |
| regionalist | a supporter of regionalism. |
| regionalistic | relating to regionalism. |
| regionalize | to divide into regions or administrative districts. |
| remanet | (Lat.) a postponed case or parliamentary bill. |
| renvoy | sending back by a government of an alien to his or her own country. |
| repudiationist | a person who favours repudiation of public debt. |
| restrictionism | a policy or philosophy favoring restriction, as of trade or immigration. |
| restrictionist | a supporter of restrictionism. |
| retentionist | a person who advocates the retaining of a policy, etc, esp that of capital punishment. |
| retrocede | to cede back (a territory). |
| retrocession | a ceding back, as of territory. |
| returnik | someone going home after their country's political change. |
| reunionism | a policy of reunification. |
| reunionistic | relating to reunionism, a policy of reunification. |
| revanche | (Fr.) revenge, esp a usually political policy designed to recover lost territory or status. |
| revanchism | policy of aggressively seeking recovery of lost territory. |
| revisionism | a movement in revolutionary Marxian socialism favoring an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary spirit. |
| revisionist | a supporter of revisionism. |
| revolutioner | (Hist.) a supporter of a revolution, esp that of 1688. |
| revolutionism | belief in revolution. |
| revote | to vote again. |
| rightism | adherence to the political right, conservatism. |
| rightist | one who adheres to the political right. |
| risorgimento | (Ital.) a time of renewal or renaissance; specifically, the 19th century movement for Italian political unity. |
| royalism | the principles or conduct of royalists. |
| royalist | a supporter of the king. |
| sanctioneer | a person who advocates (esp political) sanctions. |
| sansculotte | (Fr.) an extreme radical republican in France at the time of the Revolution; a radical or violent extremist in politics. |
| sansculotterie | (Fr.) the sansculottes as a social group. |
| sansculottic | of or like a sansculotte. |
| sansculottish | like a sansculotte, an extreme radical republican in France. |
| sansculottism | the politics of the sansculotte. |
| satyagraha | (Sanskrit) the policy of passive resistance inaugurated by Mohandas Gandhi in 1919 as a method of gaining political and social reforms |
| satyagrahi | an exponent of satyagraha, passive resistance, esp as a form of political protest. |
| schism | a division into opposing parties. |
| secessionism | support for secession. |
| secessionist | one who joins in a secession or maintains that secession is a right. |
| sectarianism | being a sectarian. |
| sectionalism | an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region. |
| sectionalist | an adherent of sectionalism. |
| selectorate | as in selectorate theory, a political term. |
| sena | (Hindi) in India, an army, esp used of paramilitary organisations representing various castes. |
| separationism | a belief in, movement for, or state of separation. |
| separationist | a believer in separationism. |
| separatism | a belief in, movement for, or state of separation. |
| separatist | one that favors separatism. |
| separatistic | relating to separatism, a belief in, movement for, or state of separation. |
| servilism | system of slavery or serfdom. |
| signatory | having signed a treaty, etc; (noun) a person who has signed a treaty etc.. |
| sinarchism | the fascist movement in Mexico, prominent around the time of the Second World War. |
| sinarchist | a member of the fascist movement in Mexico, prominent around the time of the Second World War. |
| sinarquism | the fascist movement in Mexico, prominent around the time of the Second World War. |
| sinarquist | a member of the fascist movement in Mexico, prominent around the time of the Second World War. |
| slaveholding | the keeping of slaves. |
| socialism | the theory, principle, or scheme of social organization which places the means of production of wealth and the distribution of that wealth in the hands of the community. |
| socialist | an adherent of socialism. |
| socialistic | related to socialism. |
| socialistically | (Adv.) SOCIALISTIC, related to socialism. |
| sociometric | relating to sociometry. |
| sociometry | the study of sociological relationships and attitudes, esp as expressed by preferences. |
| softshell | moderate in policy or principle; (noun) a moderate. |
| sovereigntist | in Canada, a supporter of sovereignty association. |
| sovietise | to transform to the soviet model. |
| sovietize | to transform to the soviet model. |
| sovietological | relating to Sovietology, the study of Soviet affairs. |
| sovietologist | an expert on Soviet affairs. |
| speciesism | prejudice in favour of one's own species. |
| spinmeister | a spin doctor. |
| splittism | advocating the withdrawal of a group from a large centralized body. |
| splittist | one advocating the withdrawal of a group from a large centralized body. |
| squadrone | (Ital.) as in squadrone volante, an early 18c Scottish political party opposed to the Argathelians. |
| stagflation | persistent inflation combined with stagnant consumer demand and relatively high unemployment. |
| stagflationary | relating to stagflation. |
| standpatter | (US) one who refuses to accept or consider political change. |
| standpattism | the practice of refusing to consider change in one's beliefs and opinions, esp in politics. |
| statecraft | the art of conducting state affairs. |
| stateless | without a state. |
| statolatry | the act or practice of idolizing the state. |
| subcaste | a subdivision of a caste. |
| subproletariat | the social class below the proletariat. |
| suffragette | (Hist.) a member of a movement demanding votes for women. |
| suffragettism | belief in the aims of the suffragette. |
| suffragism | voting rights. |
| summit | the highest point; (verb) to participate in a heads of government conference. |
| superpower | a great power. |
| superpowered | having a superpower. |
| superrace | a race that dominates, or thinks it has the right to dominate, other inferior races. |
| supremacism | belief in the supremacy of one particular group of people. |
| swarajism | the policy of Indian political independence. |
| swingism | the ideas of Captain Swing, a fictitious character in whose name rick-burners sent threatening letters. |
| syndicalism | the doctrine of direct worker control of capital. |
| syndicalist | a believer in syndicalism. |
| synoecise | to unite in one community or city-state. |
| synoecize | to unite in one community or city-state. |
| targetitis | a obsession with achieving targets. |
| territorialism | a social system in which the landowning class is dominant, organized on a territorial basis. |
| territorialist | a supporter of territorialism. |
| terrorism | an organized system of violence and intimidation, esp for political ends. |
| tokenism | eg employing one coloured person to give an impression that precepts of racial equality are being observed. |
| treague | (Spenser) a truce. |
| treaty | a formal agreement between two or more nations. |
| tribalism | the state of existing in tribes; loyalty to one's tribe. |
| tribalist | a believer in tribalism. |
| tribalistic | like a tribalist. |
| tribeless | without a tribe. |
| tricoteuse | (Fr.) in the French Revolution, a woman who attended executions and knitted. |
| truce | a suspension of hostilities by mutual agreement; (verb) to suspend hostilities by mutual agreement. |
| trucial | bound by a truce. |
| tuath | (Irish) a tribe, people. |
| tyrannis | (Greek) a regime illegally set up. |
| tyrant | a ruler who uses power arbitrarily and oppressively; (verb, obs.) to act the tyrant, tyrannize. |
| uhuru | (Swahili) freedom. |
| ultimatum | (Lat.) final terms; a last offer or demand. |
| ultra | (Lat.) a person who holds extreme opinions, esp in religion or politics. |
| ultraism | the principles of those who advocate extreme measures, as radical reform, and the like. |
| ultraist | one who pushes a principle or measure to extremes. |
| ultraistic | relating to ultraism, the principles of those who advocate extreme measures, as radical reform, and the like. |
| ultraleft | belonging to the very far left in politics. |
| ultramontane | beyond (i.e. south of) the Alps; supporting the supremacy of the Pope; (noun) one who supports the supremacy of the Pope. |
| ultraright | in politics, the far right. |
| ultrarightism | adherence to extreme rightwing policies. |
| ultrarightist | an extreme conservative. |
| ultraromantic | extremely romantic. |
| ultraroyalist | an extreme royalist. |
| ultrasensitive | extremely sensitive. |
| ultraserious | extremely serious. |
| ultraviolent | extremely violent. |
| underclass | the lowest social stratum usually made up of disadvantaged minority groups. |
| unelected | not elected. |
| unilateralism | the state of being unilateral. |
| unilateralist | a supporter of unilateralism. |
| unionism | the principle or policy of union; combination into one body as a system of social or political organization. |
| unionist | one who believes in political union. |
| unionistic | relating to unionism. |
| unpolitical | not political. |
| unreconstructed | not reconciled to some political, economic, or social change. |
| uraeus | (Lat.) an Egyptian symbol of kingship, a rearing cobra was worn on the king's forehead or crown. |
| usurper | one who usurps. |
| utopia | any real or imaginary state or place believed to be ideal. |
| utopian | of or pertaining to Utopia; (noun) one who believes in Utopia. |
| utopianise | to make Utopian. |
| utopianiser | one who utopianises. |
| utopianism | the ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian. |
| utopianize | to make Utopian. |
| utopianizer | one who utopianizes. |
| utopiast | one who believes in utopia. |
| utopism | belief in utopia. |
| utopist | one who believes in utopism, the establishment of a utopia. |
| utopistic | of or like a utopist, a believer in Utopia. |
| vanguardism | the condition of being or practice of positioning oneself as or within the vanguard of a movement, esp political. |
| vanguardist | a practitioner of vanguardism. |
| verkramp | (Afrikaans) in S. Africa, narrow-minded and illiberal esp towards black and coloured people. |
| verkrampte | (Afrikaans) in S. Africa, narrow-minded and illiberal esp towards black and coloured people; (noun) one who is verkrampte. |
| verlig | (Afrikaans) politically liberal. |
| verligte | (Afrikaans) in S. Africa, liberal, politically enlightened; (noun) a liberal. |
| voluntaryism | the principle or practice of reliance on voluntary action, not coercion. |
| voluntaryist | a believer in voluntaryism. |
| votable | that can be voted. |
| vote | a formal expression of will or opinion; (verb) to cast a vote. |
| voteable | that can be voted. |
| voteless | having no vote. |
| voter | one who votes. |
| wallposter | in China, a bulletin or political message painted in large characters on walls. |
| welfarism | the social policies characteristic of a welfare state. |
| welfarist | an adherent of the social policies characteristic of a welfare state. |
| welfaristic | relating to welfarism. |
| whiteboyism | the principles of the Whiteboys, an association of Irish peasants. |
| womanism | feminism among black women. |
| womanist | a supporter of womanism, feminism among black women. |
| woolsack | the seat of the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords, being a large square sack of wool covered with scarlet. |
| workerist | one who supports worker's rights. |
| workfare | an unemployment benefit scheme. |
| xenium | a gift made to a guest or ambassador; any compulsory gift. |
| yay | an exclamation of joy, approbation, encouragement etc; (noun) an affirmative vote. |
| yea | yes; (noun) an affirmative vote. |