political revolution
Governmental power shift
A political revolution is a fundamental change in a society's political system or power structure, typically achieved through popular uprising rather than gradual reform.
Unlike social revolutions, which transform economic and class relations, political revolutions primarily replace rulers or forms of government: The French Revolution began as a political revolution before becoming a social one.
The term also describes dramatic shifts in political alignment or ideology: The 1980 election marked a political revolution in American conservatism.
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- mutinyRevolt against authority
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
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- Revolutionuprising, insurrection, overthrow, revolutionaries, rebellion
- political philosophysocial contract, natural rights, natural law, sovereignty, legitimacy
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political revolutionstatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
political stability · continuity · stasis · conservatism · entrenchment
political revolutionincrementalism
Change through small steps
evolutionary change · gradualism · reformism · legislative reform · institutional reform
political revolutioncounterrevolution
Reversal of political upheaval
reaction · restoration · retrenchment · rollback · revanchism
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