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Mission civilisatrice (“civilizing mission”) was the French colonization policy that emphasized efforts to transfer French political, social, and linguistic norms to subjected peoples. The approach was officially designed to “uplift” the lesser developed peoples of the world and convert them into French citizens. The Portuguese empire also utilized …
Mixed method research involves the combination of qualitative and quantitative empirical methodologies within a single research design. (Although some consider the combination of quantitative theoretical methods with qualitative empirical methods to be mixed methods, the emerging consensus is that the term mixed methods refers to empirical analysis.) Political …
Political mobilization is the process whereby political actors encourage people to participate in some form of political action. In its concrete manifestations, this process can take on many different shapes. Political mobilizers may typically persuade people to vote, petition, protest, or rally, or to join a political party, …
Modernization theory is a term applied to several related social science theories that explain the process by which societies change from more traditional to more modern entities. Originating from classical social theory, including the writings of Max Weber and Karl Marx, U.S. social scientists built on the insights …
For much of human history, monarchy in one for m or another was the primary system of government. A monarchy is a type of tyrannical regime in which all or most political power is concentrated in the hands of a single ruler, the sovereign. The monarch is generally …
Monetary policy is a set of actions taken by a government authority to influence the supply of money and credit in circulation. Research indicates that changes in the rate of growth of the money supply affect unemployment, output, inflation, and interest rates. There is also a substantial political …
A monetary union is an economic arrangement among states in which a single currency is adopted to replace various national currencies, and there is widespread cooperation on monetary policy. Monetary unions seek to stabilize fluctuations in the value of money in order to facilitate trade and economic cooperation. …
Money laundering is the process by which criminal organizations manage substantial and recurring illicit revenues to bring these monies back to the legitimate economy. It is traditionally understood as a three-step cycle: (1) the placement, in which the illicit funds are distanced from the crime that produced them …
President James Monroe’s annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823, asserted a policy of opposition to colonization by foreign powers in the Western Hemisphere. This policy, known as the Monroe Doctrine, became the guiding principle for U.S. foreign policy in the Americas for generations. Specifically, Monroe stated, …
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) was among the greatest thinkers of the French Renaissance. His most important intellectual achievements, which arose in reaction to the fanaticism and cruelty of France’s religious wars, included ground-breaking views of skepticism, self-exploration, and toleration. Moreover, although he did not argue for democracy, separation …
Born in 1689 to a noble family, French political philosopher Charles-Louis Secondat (1689–1755), Baron de la Brede and de Montesquieu, was educated mainly in the law. He occupied a hereditary seat on the parliament of Bordeaux while also pursuing scientific research. He achieved enormous literary success with Persian …
Barrington Moore, Jr. (1913–2005) was an American political sociologist who spent most of his career as senior research fellow at the Russian Research Center, Harvard University. Moore’s interests and intellectual ambitions covered many areas beyond the Russian case, although that was where his studies began. His Soviet Politics …
Thomas More (1478–1535) was an English statesman and humanist. He was educated at St. Anthony’s School in London, after which he entered into the service of the household of Cardinal John Morton, the archbishop of Canterbury. The archbishop had him pursue studies at the University of Oxford, presumably …
Hans Joachim Morgenthau (1904–1980) was a German political scientist best known for his work on international relations theory. Born in Coburg, Germany, he entered the University of Frankfurt in 1923 and later attended the University of Munich, obtaining a doctorate in law. He pursued postgraduate work at the …
William Morris (1834–1896) was one of the leading poets and prose writers of late Victorian England, an artist and craftsman, a translator of Norse sagas, a businessman, and one of the most important printers of his time. He was also a revolutionary communist who left behind him a …
Gaetano Mosca (1858–1941), was an Italian legal scholar and political theorist. He is known for having helped develop the theory of political elitism and described, in its context, the existence of a dominant political class. Mosca was also a politician and a journalist. Mosca was born in Palermo, …
From its inception, cinema, as an art form, has been political. The works of George Méliès, who voyages to the moon in Le voyage dans la Lune (1902), and the Lumière brothers, who, in their short films (circa 1895–1900) send their cameramen throughout the world, reveal two varied …
States and empires containing different cultural groups have existed for millennia; the word multiculturalism, however, is of recent origin. Possibly the first time it was used was in a speech by Charles W. Hobart, an American sociologist, to the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews in Winnipeg, Manitoba, …
Multilateralism is “an institutional form which coordinates relations among three or more states on the basis of ‘generalized’ principles of conduct,” relying on the indivisibility of agreed behavior among the participating states (Ruggie 1992, 571) and is characterized by “diffuse reciprocity” (cf. Keohane 1986). Multilateral solutions are suitable …
Multilevel models are extensions to regression methods designed to explicitly take into account the grouped (or clustered) structure frequently seen in observed and experimental data. Examples of such data in political science abound. In voting research, for instance, voters are nested within districts, which themselves may be nested …
