iron triangle (English, noun)
expansion: iron triangle (plural iron triangles)
Senses:
topics: government
political-science
politics
social-sciences
glosses: The policy-making relationship among the congressional committees, the bureaucracy (executive, sometimes called “government agencies”), and interest groups or lobbyists.
tags: US
glosses: Any self-reinforcing power structure, whether intentional or accidental, formal or informal.
tags: broadly
Forms:
form: iron triangles
tags: plural