A polity is a group of people with a collective identity, who are organized by some form of political institutionalized social relations, and have a capacity...
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Ecclesiastical polity is the government of a church. There are local (congregational) forms of organization as well as denominational. A church's polity may describe...
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latter type, the term "state" is sometimes used to refer to the federated polities that make up the federation, and they may have some of the attributes of...
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Look up polity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A polity is, broadly, any kind of political grouping. Polity may also refer to: Polity (publisher)...
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Presbyterian (or presbyteral) polity is a method of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") typified by the rule of assemblies of presbyters, or elders...
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An episcopal polity is a hierarchical form of church governance in which the chief local authorities are called bishops. The word "bishop" here is derived...
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Polity is an academic publisher in the social sciences and humanities. It was established in 1984 in Cambridge by David Held and Anthony Giddens at the...
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Congregational polity, or congregationalist polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of ecclesiastical polity in which every local church...
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part of the Pasig River delta on Luzon island. Together with Maynila, the polity (bayan) that was also situated on the southern part of the Pasig River delta...
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World polity theory (also referred to as world society theory, global neo-institutionalism, and the Stanford school of global analysis) is an analytical...
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The Polity data series is a data series in political science research. Along with the V-Dem Democracy indices project and Democracy Index (The Economist)...
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Peer-polity interaction is a concept in archaeological theory, developed by Colin Renfrew and John Cherry, to explain changes in society and material culture...
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Neal Asher (redirect from Polity Universe)
first in a series of novels made up of Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent, and Line War. Asher is published by Tor, an imprint of...
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Polity Agent is a 2006 science fiction novel by English writer Neal Asher. It is the fourth novel in the Gridlinked sequence. From 800 years in the future...
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Richard Hooker (redirect from Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity)
time, Hooker began to write his major work Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, a critique of the Puritans and their attacks on the Church of England and...
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Polity is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal. It was established in 1968 at the University of Massachusetts, has been housed at the University...
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Confederation (redirect from Confederal polities)
Italian, Czech, Dutch, and French states before 1512; it was de jure a German polity from 1512 until its fall. Muisca Confederation c. 800–1540 Consisted of...
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Protestant Orientation Adventist Theology Seventh-day Adventist theology Polity Presbyterian/Episcopal President Ted N. C. Wilson Region Worldwide Founder...
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Free state is a term occasionally used in the official titles of some states throughout the world with varying meanings depending on the context. In principle...
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or Cebu also called as Sugbu, was an Indianized Raja monarchy Mandala (polity) on the island of Cebu in the Philippines prior to the arrival of the Spanish...
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Federated state (redirect from Federated polity)
A federated state (also state, province, region, canton, land, governorate, oblast, emirate, or country) is a territorial and constitutional community...
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Manila currently stands, and across the river from the separately-led Tondo polity. Maynila was led by paramount rulers who were referred to using the Malay...
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Constitution of the Lacedaemonians (redirect from Polity of the Lacedaemonians)
Lacedaemonion Politeia (Greek: Λακεδαιμονίων Πολιτεία), known in English as the Polity, Constitution, or Republic of the Lacedaemonians, or the Spartan Constitution...
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A Galactic Alliance is a galactic polity spanning part or all of a galaxy. It may refer to: Galactic Federation of Free Alliances (aka Galactic Alliance)...
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Jubaland (redirect from Azania (polity))
Jubaland (Somali: Jubbaland, Arabic: جوبالاند, Italian: Oltregiuba), the Juba Valley (Somali: Dooxada Jubba), is a Federal Member State in southern Somalia...
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The Line of Polity is a 2003 science fiction novel by Neal Asher. It is the second novel in the Gridlinked sequence. In this novel, Earth Central Security...
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the free dictionary. A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head...
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and its study. Polity. ISBN 0-7456-3055-3. OCLC 1044115261. Leftwich, Adrian (2015). What is politics? : the activity and its study. Polity Press. ISBN 978-0-7456-9852-6...
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Canton (administrative division) (redirect from Canton (polity))
A canton is a type of administrative division of a country. In general, cantons are relatively small in terms of area and population when compared with...
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Tagalog bayan (Kapampangan: balen; "country" or "polity") of Cainta was a fortified upriver polity that occupied both shores of an arm of the Pasig River...
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