Balance of power
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Balance of power may refer to:
Politics and international relations
[edit]- Balance of power (international relations), parity or stability between competing forces
- Balance of power (federalism), distribution of power between a central government and its subnational governments
- Balance of power (parliament), power exercised by a minor political party whose support enables a minority government to obtain office
- European balance of power, European international relations before the First World War
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- Balance of Power (album), by Electric Light Orchestra, 1986
- Balance of Power (band), a British melodic progressive metal group formed in 1995
- Balance of Power (novel), by Brian Stableford, 1979
- "Balance of Power" (Red Dwarf), a 1988 TV episode
- "The Balance of Power" (Minder), a 1984 TV episode
- Balance of Power (play-by-mail game)
- Balance of Power (Star Trek), a 1994 novel by Dafydd Ab Hugh
- Balance of Power (video game), 1985
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles containing Balance of power
- Power Balance, a brand of hologram bracelets
- Checks and balances, a model of governance characterized by some interdependence between governing bodies (branches of government): See separation of powers
- Mixed government, a constitution compromising between several forms of state, balancing social forces by sharing sovereignty between them
- Consociationalism, a form of government involving guaranteed group representation
- Balance of terror
- Balance of threat