Politics
- Swing (politics), an indication of the scale of voter change
- Swing (Australian politics), the swing between the last two remaining parties in a preferential voting election
- Swing (United Kingdom), in a British political context is a single figure used as an indication of the scale of voter change between two political parties
- Captain Swing, an imaginary leader of the Swing Riots
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices.... Politics has once again become religious.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“All is politics in this capital.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.”
—Peter B. Medawar (1915–1987)