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| A political ideology that stresses the elimination of the state and private property as a way to achieve both freedom and equality for all. |
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| An individual's relationship to the state, wherein citizens swear allegiance to that state and the state in return is obligated to provide rights to those citizens. |
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| A political-economic system in which all wealth and property are shared so as to eliminate exploitation, oppression, and ultimately, the need for political institutions such as the state. A political ideology that advocates such a system. |
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| Those with a political attitude that is skeptical of change and supports the current order. |
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| Basic institutions that define a society. |
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| A conflict in which different ethnic groups struggle to achieve certain political or economic goals at each other's expense. |
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| Ethnic Identity/Ethnicity |
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| Specific attributes and societal institutions that make one group of people culturally different from others. |
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| A political ideology that asserts the superiority and inferiority of different groups of people and stresses a low degree of both freedom and equality in order to achieve a powerful state. |
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| A view of religion as absolute and inerrant that should be legally enforced by making faith the sovereign authority. |
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| A political system that promotes participation, competition, and liberty and emphasizes individual freedom and civil rights. |
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| A political attitude that favors evolutionary transformation. An ideology and political system that favors a limited state role in society and the economy and places a high priority on individual political and economic freedom. |
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| Those with a political attitude that favors evolutionary change and believes that existing institutions can be instruments of positive change. |
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| A group that desires self-government through an independent state. |
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| A state encompassing one dominant nation that it claims to embody and represent. |
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| A sense of belonging to a nation and a belief in its political aspirations. |
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| Pride in one's people and the belief that they have a unique political destiny. |
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| A state encompassing one dominant nation that it claims to embody and represent. |
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| Description of one's views regarding the speed and methods with which political changes should take place in a given society. |
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| The basic norms for political activity in a society. |
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| The basic values held by an individual about the fundamental goals of politics or the ideal balance of freedom and equality. |
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| Those with a political attitude that favors dramatic, often revolutionary change. |
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| Someone who seeks to restore the institutions of a real or imagined earlier order. |
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| A political-economic system in which freedom and equality are balanced through the state's management of the economy and the provision of social expenditures. A political ideology that advocates such a system. |
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| Complex human organization; a collection of people bound by shared institutions that define how human relations should be conducted. |
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