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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

vacío político

Pronunciation / Transliteration: baˈsio poˈlitiko

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Political vacuum/pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl ˈvæk.ju.əm/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La crisis institucional generó un gran vacío político."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A condition that occurs when a government or leadership is suddenly removed or collapses, leaving a space devoid of authority and open for occupation by competing forces.

    "The sudden collapse of the regime created a political vacuum that extremist groups quickly tried to fill."
  2. 2

    An absence of effective leadership, policy direction, or ideological control in a specific domain or region.

    "The withdrawal of the superpower left a dangerous political vacuum in the region."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'political', derived from the Ancient Greek 'politikos' (of, for, or relating to citizens), with 'vacuum', from the Latin 'vacuus' meaning empty. Emerging in modern political science literature during the 20th century, the phrase metaphorically applies the physical concept of an empty space to a situation where normal governmental authority or power has been abruptly removed or lost.

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