investment theory of politics

treats elections as contests among blocs of investors competing to control the state.

Recast in definition form from: “… to interactions among groups of investors who compete for control …”

lobbying

democracy

money in politics

campaign finance

corporation

oligarchy

elite

10,000 hour theory

action theory

actor-network theory

affect control theory

alliance theory

anxiety of influence

Archimedes' principle

athwart theory

atomic theory

auteur theory

behavioralism

biological determinism

biology-is-destiny formulation

birth order

black swan theory

boomerang thesis

broken window theory

broken windows theory

bundle theory

categories of understanding

causal theory of reference

Chaos Theory

circulation of elites

clash of civilizations

cloacal theory

coercion theory of society

coloniality of power

colonization of the lifeworld

commodity fetishism

commodity theories of money

communicative action

constructivist structuralism

continental drift

control theory

conversion theory of violence

Copenhagen interpretation

correspondence theory of truth

critical pragmatics

critical race theory

critical social theory

critical theory

critical theory of technology

crude casual theory

cultural determinism

cultural theory

anthropological theory

behaviorism

conspiracy theory

acronyms

anagram

antonym

Back in My Day

binomial

blonde joke

bumper sticker

Chuck Norris

cockney rhyming slang

collective noun

comeback

confucius say

cool comparisons

curse

death mask

Deep Thoughts

etymology

false attribution

famous last word

glossary

greeting

haiku

home remedy

I like my [x] like I like my [y]

idiom

let's make like a  . . .

life hack

light bulb joke

limerick

mixed metaphor

mnemonic device

murphy's law

my wife left me

nonsense question

ology (the study of)

optical illusion

oxymoron

palindrome

phobia

pickup line

psychological phenomena and effects

reimagining the x

riddle

seen here

slang

someone should invent

stupid law

superlative

superstition

symbolism

there's a word for that

things that look like other things

Thomasson hyperart

toast (speech)

Tom Swifty

tongue twister

trolley problem

untranslatable word

wacky wares

weather lore

WTF origins

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investment theory of politics