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Emperor Hirohito of Japan lived in an age of contradictions, caught between ancient traditions and modern realities. The 124th in the line of the longest dynasty the world has known, Hirohito saw the Japanese monarchy become purely ceremonial. Japan was modernized during his reign when he died after …
By the summer of 1945, World War II in the Pacific was virtually over. Since December 1941, the United States had pushed Japanese forces back until only the homeland itself remained in Japanese control. The United States prepared to launch an invasion of Japan. While preparing for the …
Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Germany, proponent of Nazism, and perpetrator of the Holocaust, was born on April 20, 1889, in the Austrian town of Braunau near the German border. His father, Alois, was a customs official, and his mother, Klara, was a gentlewoman. Hitler did not finish …
The term holocaust, derived from the Greek and literally meaning “a sacrifice totally consumed by fire,” refers to the Nazi incarceration and extermination of approximately 6 million European Jews and a million others, including half a million Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Freemasons, resistants from occupied countries, and Russian …
The American president in the crucial years between 1929 and 1933, Republican Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa, to Jesse and Hulda Hoover. He received his secondary education in Newberg, Oregon, and graduated with a degree in geology from Stanford University …
Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908–1957), a charismatic Republican from Wisconsin, became one of the most reviled and feared figures in the history of U.S. politics. His aggressive campaign to remove perceived communists from positions of influence during the anticommunist movement is known as McCarthyism. McCarthy’s campaign began with an …
Richard McKelvey (1944–2002) was an American political scientist whose ideas influenced statistical methodology, game theory, coalitions, political information, behavioral economics, and the study of voting. Generally, he is best known for work that clarifies essential properties of democratic institutions. He received his degrees from Oberlin College, Washington University …
Measurement—defined as the process of assigning numbers to objects in meaningful ways—is fundamental to the process of testing scientific theories. Measurement theory considers (1) the conditions under which such numerical assignments are possible, (2) procedures for making these assignments, and (3) appropriate interpretation of the resultant numbers, after …
Political commentary, prior to the mass media age, was predominantly the preserve of poets and philosophers. Once the industrial age created the market and the means for mass communication, the demands of poetry on the reader led to it becoming increasingly marginalized. For most of its existence, the …
This article first defines the media in the context of the rapidly changing contemporary environment and then reviews fundamental dynamics of media and politics within the framework of a three-way relationship among the media, politicians/government, and the public, paying attention to differences across political and media systems. It …
Media bias is a tendency, subtle or overt, to advantage or overexpose one perspective (or selected person or point of view) when reporting any event, issue or debate, and/or to neglect the other side. Media biases exist as well whenever journalists provide misguiding or incomplete coverage that can …
A media effect is a way in which the content presented by the mass media influences the interest, knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors of an individual regarding politics. Early theories suggested that media had what was called a “hypodermic needle” effect on individuals; that is, they immediately and …
A megacity is a large urban agglomeration with ten million or more inhabitants, according to the United Nations (UN) definition. The term was first coined by the UN in the 1970s to designate agglomerations with eight million or more inhabitants, a threshold raised to ten million in the …
Menshevism refers to the beliefs of the Mensheviks, a Marxist faction that emerged in the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in 1903. Menesheviks are often portrayed as more moderate than the rival Bolshevik faction, but they were unable to play an important role in the politics of …
Mercantilism is an economic theory of strict government control of trade that dominated the thought of the major trading nations from approximately 1500 CE to the end of the seventeenth century. European countries, in particular, enforced a strict mercantilist system of foreign trade. The basic tenet of mercantilism …
A meritocracy is a political, economic, or social system that rewards individuals because of talent and personal ability as opposed to factors such as class, nepotism, or race or ethnicity. Meritocracies typically require entrance exams or other measures to ensure that individuals meet minimum qualifications before they are …
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) was a French philosopher mostly known for his work in phenomenology and existential philosophy. He attempted to maintain a political position that was neither communist nor anticommunist, and he spoke for the necessity of a philosophy of history for political thought. Born on March 14, …
Charles E. Merriam (1874–1953) was an American political scientist, presidential advisor, and author. A long-time professor at the University of Chicago, Merriam began his academic career as a graduate student at Columbia University in New York under the tutelage of the creators of the graduate school of political …
Mexican immigration into the United States is increasing. In the 1960s Mexico lost some 27,500 people annually to its northern neighbor. With the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, migration increased in the second half of the 1990s to 360,000, and between 2001 and 2005, to …
Robert Michels (1876–1936) was a European political sociologist who started out as a Marxist member of the late-nineteenth-century German Social Democratic Party and ended up a professor in Italy and a proponent of fascism. He is best known for propounding the “iron law of oligarchy,” which held that …
