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Politics

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Politics at University of Oxford

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: social
University website: www.ox.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil)
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Politics
Politics (from Greek: πολιτικά, translit. Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.
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Money and generous benefits can easily alter a person’s political outlook. Ideology follows the money.
L.K. Samuels, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, Cobden Press (2013) p. 301.
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... for our English grumbling is equally distributed between the weather and politics, and the case would be desperate when confined to the last.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality (1831), Vol. I, Chapter 18.
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Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?
William Makepeace Thackeray, Adventures of Philip.
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