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A bicameral legislature is a political system with two separate 'houses' or 'chambers' where legislation is debated and voted on. There can often be an upper house and a lower house such as in the UK or U...

Macro-level - the global or national level interactions between structures (structuralism) which include but are not limited to relations between large social groups (e.g poor vs. elite) such as Skocpol’s...

Feminism originated within the suffragette movement of the 19th century as an ideology that sought to recognise and eliminate inequality between the sexes recognising gender as the most important social d...

Pluralism is a system of government that dictates that power is shared and distributed between a diverse range of groups rather than concentrated in the hands of an elite. It can therefore be considered t...

The distinction between positive and negative notions of freedom can be traced to Isaiah Berlin and his 1936 essay: "Two Concepts of Liberty". Negative freedom is defined as freedom from obstacl...