Balance of power

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Balance of power may refer to:

Politics and international relations

• 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

• 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 (Stableford 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 (board game), a board game published by Hasbro in 1979
• Balance of Power (play-by-mail game)
• Balance of Power (Ab Hugh novel), a 1994 novel from the Star Trek universe by Dafydd Ab Hugh
• Balance of Power (video game), 1985
  • Balance of Power: The 1990 Edition

See also

• All pages with titles containing Balance of power
• Power Balance, a brand of hologram bracelets
• Checks and balances, a model of governance characterized by a separation of powers among branches of government
• 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

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