polity English

Meaning polity meaning

What does polity mean?

polity

— noun shrewd or crafty management of public affairs we was innocent of stratagems and polity

— noun a politically organized unit

— noun (= civil order) the form of government of a social organization

Synonyms polity synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as polity?

polity English » English

civil order

state

regime

system of government

subornation

rule

roguery

region

government

dirty tricks

constitution

commonwealth

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At stake were not only the lives of hundreds of those victimised by all the lies and hysteria, but the fate of the polity itself.

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Indeed, under the LDP-led one-party-dominant system, this extra-constitutional mechanism became an integral part of Japan's government polity.

It is a tragedy that a great democracy should have so ugly and vast a prison system corroding both its reputation and its polity.

This mechanism for the deliberately progressive construction of a unified polity out of nominally sovereign states is unprecedented in human history.

From the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union, what brought Europeans closer together was not the dream of a Europe-wide, democratic polity, but, above all, their desire to be safe and secure.

But if the goal is merely for the communists to retain their monopoly on power, in both Hong Kong and China, then the rot that has settled into Hong Kong's polity and its economy may begin to infect the mainland.

With the Shias building their polity in the south, the Sunni areas too should be allowed to go their own way.

Two initiatives - the Polity Project, founded by political scientist Ted Gurr, and Freedom House's annual Freedom in the World surveys - gauge political rights in almost every country.

In the non-Arab Muslim-majority subset, both Polity IV and Freedom House rate nine countries as having experienced at least three consecutive years of substantial political rights.

Currency borders generally coincide with political borders, so the creation of a monetary union was expected to give rise to some sort of common polity.

In a techno-polity, two inextricably linked factors are crucial: talent and innovation.

A techno-polity also recognizes the critical role of cooperation, strategic thinking, and adaptation.

The role of the techno-polity is to steer the world toward positive outcomes.

The rules of political life in Kuwait have been worked out over 300 years - since this small area emerged as a self-contained polity.

But, beyond the direct gains from trade, such a pact holds the promise of opening up and accelerating the transformation of Ukraine's economy and polity.

Moreover, Kazakhstan, though a Muslim majority country, has established the type of secular, multi-ethnic, and multi religious polity that the West is seeking to encourage throughout the Muslim world.

Disengagement from the California polity also is true of the state's economic engines.

The building blocks and institutions necessary for a functioning polity, let alone a democracy, do not exist.

Such constraints are particularly strong when the government must operate within a wider polity, as is true of Greece by virtue of its EU membership.

For the EU to continue its march toward a stronger and closer polity and economy -one that nevertheless falls far short of a federal state - it must offer the credible prospect of a better life for all of its citizens.

Can the British exit threat shake Europe to its senses and make the United Kingdom's effort to reform institutions more likely to succeed, or to make Europe a more stable polity?

Obama's election - the success of a member of a non-white minority in the world's oldest democratic polity - has seized the imagination of many Indians.

But, like a socialist utopia or pure libertarianism, the idea of world government can illuminate a sensible path for capturing the benefits of a more effective global polity.