psephology
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psephology词义
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n. 选举学
中文词源
psephology 选举学
来自希腊语psephos,小石子,鹅卵石,可能来自psen,刮,磨,-logy,学说。源自古希腊时期用小石子等投票。比较ostracism.
psephology英文词源
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- psephology
- psephology: [20] The term psephology ‘study of voting patterns’ was coined in the early 1950s by R B McCallum from Greek pséphos ‘pebble’. Pebbles were used in ancient Greece for casting votes, and so pséphos came to mean metaphorically ‘vote’ – hence psephology.
- psephology (n.)
- "study of elections," 1952, from Greek psephizein "to vote" (properly "to vote with pebbles," from psephos "pebble") + -logy.