In simple terms, "polity" refers to a system of government or the organization of a society. It generally describes the way a group of people is governed and the rules they follow.
Kindness and compassion are how the church is to live, and in that concrete form of life the other polities of the world will be instructed and redeemed. (religion-online.org)
Within the common tradition there is, despite differences in polity between the churches, a long - recognized obligation enjoined upon all to seek in every way possible to ensure that de facto and de jure authority are combined whenever appointment to office is made. (firstthings.com)
Therefore it is quite unrealistic to build our hope on the expectation that market economy is moving to any inevitable doom or that we can count on the permanence of the democratic polity in India continuing to permit agitation of peoples» movements against the present pattern of development. (religion-online.org)