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Subjects of inquiry involving university political movements (6)

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I believe the answer is:

causes

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'political movements' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'subjects of inquiry involving university' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'university' could be 'u' (abbreviation for university) and 'u' is located in the answer.
'subjects' could be 'cases' (case is a kind of subject) and 'cases' is found in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for causes that I've seen before include "They give rise to effects" , "Brings" , "'Reasons, grounds (6)'" , "Origins or crusaders" , "They produce effects" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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