Back السلطة الرابعة Arabic Quart poder Catalan Тăваттăмĕш влаç CV Vierte Gewalt German Τέταρτη εξουσία Greek Cuarto poder Spanish رکن چهارم مشروطیت Persian Neljäs valtiomahti Finnish Quatrième pouvoir French Četvrta sila Croatian
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The term Fourth Estate or fourth power refers to the press and news media both in explicit capacity of advocacy and implicit ability to frame political issues.[1] The derivation of the term arises from the traditional European concept of the three estates of the realm: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners. The equivalent term "fourth power" is somewhat uncommon in English, but it is used in many European languages, including German (Vierte Gewalt), Italian (quarto potere), Spanish (Cuarto poder), French (Quatrième pouvoir), Swedish (tredje statsmakten [Third Estate]), Polish (Czwarta Władza), and Russian (четвёртая власть) to refer to a government's separation of powers into legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
The expression has also been applied to lawyers, to the British Queen Consort (acting as a free agent independent of her husband), and to the proletariat.
- ^ "fourth estate". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House. Retrieved 28 June 2017.