• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Unit 7 supporters adherents proponents to adhere to to adopt to embrace to subscribe to to abandon to reject to eschew to overlap to share concerns to be entirely consistent with to marry to reconcile to reassert to revitalize to lay the groundwork for to be rooted in political renewal to retreat principles to depart principles to move away from principles to underpin principles Unit 6 a political creed doctrine coherent set of ideas to emerge to come into existence to decline to demise resurgence conventional viable vague diffuse to advocate to endorse to espouse to extol to stand in defense to uphold to condemn cornerstone • • • • • • bedrock centerpiece central pillars central tenets paternalistic strand strain of Unit 5 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • to delegate to devolve to transfer to handover of power puppet government outgoing government incoming government interim government to retain power to take office to resign sworn in government sworn in government subverted government ousted government toppled government law-enforcement Unit 4 to endure upheaval secular regime heinous regime atrocious regime to prop up to defeat; to overthrow Unit 3 to uphold order to safeguard to ameliorate to arbitrate between to supervise to proscribe nightwatchman state welfare state statehood quasi-state secessionary movement to seek statehood inalienable infallible joint sovereignty • • • • • • • • • • • • • to reinforce to proclaim to relinquish to surrender to jeopardize to infringe to cede to withdraw incapacity resilient state fragile state vulnerable state rogue state Unit 2 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • bellicose policy belligerent policy myopic policy brinkmanship policy kid-glove policy big stick policy appeasement policy to elaborate policy to pursue policy carrot-and-stick policy flip-flop policy see-saw policy policy of arm-twisting give-and-take policy Unit 1 to dabble in politics to meddle in politics partisan politics party politics parish-pump politics conviction politics mainstream politics pork barrel politics lunar politics ward politics identity politics