Politics: Glossary
Meanings for some terms used on this subsite are:
- dark triad
- Personality that has strong traits of psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism.
- democracy
- Political system where decisions are made on the basic of each person having one vote, even if it is as a vote for whom to represent them.
- Machiavellianism
- Temperamentally predisposed to be calculating, conniving, and deceptive. Essentially amoral, they use other people as stepping stones to reach their goals. From Meet the Machiavellians from Psychology Today, as at .
- narcissism
- Encompasses a hunger for appreciation or admiration, a desire to be the centre of attention, and an expectation of special treatment reflecting perceived higher status. From Narcissism from Psychology Today, as at .
- neoliberalism
- Politico-economic system where government is meant to focus on supporting business activity, while doing as little else as possible.
- psychopathy
- Condition characterized by the absence of empathy and the blunting of other affective states. Callousness, detachment. From Psychopathy from Psychology Today, as at .