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Human relations: An individual or group association, interaction or contact between two or more homo sapiens, whether direct, face-to-face or mediated through some medium of communication. ^[e]
Human behavior: Actions, responses or exertions exhibited by homo sapiens that are mediated by and through language and may be influenced by culture, attitudes, beliefs, emotions, values, ethics, authority, rapport, persuasion, coercion, force, self-interest, genetics or a variety of other factors. ^[e]

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Political philosophy: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. ^[e]
Political sociology: Subfield of sociology that deals with fundamental questions of social behavior, social relations and social institutions in politics. ^[e]
Political science: Social science that studies politics, political systems and political behavior. ^[e]
History of political thought: The development of political ideas over time since the discovery of politics in Plato, Confucius and Mencius. ^[e]
Public: Shared by, open or available to everyone, well or generally known, universally available or without limit, done or made on behalf of the community as a whole, open to general or unlimited viewing or disclosure, frequented by large numbers of people or for general use, or places generally open or visible to all pertaining to official matters or maintained at taxpayer expense. ^[e]
Public policy: Higher order or general principles, inclinations or preferences which guide the making of public laws, rules or decisions. ^[e]

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Authority: Derived from the Latin word auctoritas: the power or right to make rules or laws. ^[e]
Citizenship: A formal relationship between a citizen and a particular social, political, national or international community ^[e]
Civil law: A system of law which starts with abstract rules, which judges must then apply to the various cases before them. ^[e]
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Common law: Ancient law of England, and in countries colonized by Britain, based upon societal customs and recognized and enforced by the judgments and decrees of the courts. ^[e]
Community: Generally, a group of organisms sharing an environment. In human communities the shared environment may be defined by mutual interests, pooled resources, common beliefs, shared pursuits, perceived needs, or other common traits or characteristics, and may be associated with a shared identity which in the case of physical communities may include a sense of place. ^[e]
Conflict: Contestation between rival interests or forces, particularly those involving disagreements over resources. Conflict may characterize types of contest from games, contests and competition to law suits, fights, battles and wars. In the social sciences, conflict is often contrasted with competition or cooperation. ^[e]
Conflict of interest: Situation in which an individual might benefit personally from official or professional actions. It includes a conflict between a person's private interests and official responsibilities in a position of trust. ^[e]
Country: Nation, state, region, or territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture. ^[e]
Debt: The outcome of an agreement between a person or organisation wishing to make immediate use of resources, and one wishing to defer their use. ^[e]
Government: The system by which a community or nation is controlled and regulated. A government is a person or group of persons who govern a political community or nation. ^[e]
Human rights: Natural civil and political rights considered universal and applicable to all human beings worldwide. ^[e]
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Interest (politics): Excitement, prompting or stimulation of curiosity or attention. See also advantage, altruism, benefit, general interest, profit, public interest, self-interest, or self-interest, properly understood. ^[e]
Interest group: In the United States, an organization (usually non-profit) that represents its members' interests by lobbying, publishing, or other activities, and may publish information presented as expert analysis. ^[e]
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Nation: A large group of people with a singular, shared, and commonly-accepted historical identity, identified by a universally recognised name. ^[e]
Power (politics): The capacity to control the administration of resources within a society ^[e]
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Prisoner's dilemma: In game theory, a non-zero sum game in which mutual cooperation is better for all participants than uncoordinated attempts to maximize individual personal gains. ^[e]
Social capital: Productive assets arising out of social relations, such as trust, cooperation, solidarity, social networks of relations and those beliefs, ideologies and institutions that contribute to production of goods. ^[e]
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