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Core articles initiative

I think that although the articles listed in the box are reasonable, we actually need short essays which will integrate many of these ideas thematically. So, in the absence of [apparently] any other living Politics editors, I suggest a short list below --Martin Baldwin-Edwards 16:22, 27 September 2007 (CDT)

• Political systems
• Electoral systems
• Political parties
• International organizations
• History of political thought
• THe United Nations (UN)
• European Union [stub already there]

Main ideologies	Important world leaders (2007)	Theorists	Political systems/forms of government
Anarchism Christian Democracy Communism Conservatism Democratism Fascism Green politics Islamism Liberalism Libertarianism Nationalism Nazism Socialism Social democracy Republicanism Technocracy Utilitarianism	G8 Shinzo Abe Tony Blair George W. Bush Nicolas Sarkozy Stephen Harper Angela Merkel Romano Prodi Vladimir Putin Other Kofi Annan José Manuel Barroso John Howard Hu Jintao Kim Jong-il Osama bin Laden	Dante Alighieri Thomas Aquinas Aristotle Augustine Jeremy Bentham Isaiah Berlin Jean Bodin Edmund Burke John Calvin Cicero Frederich Engels Mohandas Gandhi Antonio Gramsci Jürgen Habermas Frederich Hayek George W.F. Hegel David Hume John of Salisbury Thomas Hobbes Immanuel Kant John Maynard Keynes Vladimir Ilyich Lenin John Locke Martin Luther Niccolo Machiavelli Marsilio of Padua Karl Marx John Stuart Mill Charles de Secondat Montesquieu Benito Mussolini Friedrich Nietzsche Thomas Paine Pericles Plato Polybius Karl Popper John Rawls Jean Jacques Rousseau Adam Smith Herbert Spencer Baruch Spinoza Alexis de Tocqueville Max Weber	Absolute monarchy Anarchy Aristocracy Autocracy Constitutional monarchy Democracy Despotism Dictatorship Federalism Monarchy Ochlocracy Oligarchy Panarchy Plutocracy Republic Technocracy Theocracy Tyranny

The box is unfinished, s

I suggest the following additions to the list:

• under ideologies: utilitarianism
• under theorists: Rousseau, Mill, Pericles (for the Athenian ideal of democracy) Thomas Aquinas, John Rawls.
• under political systems: representative government (the system we now live under!)

Nick Gardner 04:49, 15 November 2007 (CSTKleineidam)

Can I also suggest we add Technocray under ideologies as well? Andrew Alexander Wallace 05:36, 5 May 2008 (CDT)

Some tentative attempts at drafting

In drafting an article on Politics and a linked article on Political Party, I have been conscious of the danger of stepping on the toes of people better qualified for that purpose. I was encouraged, however, by the belief that what was available appeared to be incomplete or obscure. But in drafting all-inclusive articles of that sort, the difficulty is how to hold the reader’s interest in the main issues without misleading him by over-simplification – and I am far from confident that I have got the balance right. I will readily withdraw if my drafts are beyond redemption in that respect, but my hope is that my fellow CZ writers will help by correcting what is misleading, and expanding the text where necessary, without insisting upon the inclusion of excessive detail that would better be in linked articles. Nick Gardner 16:48, 1 December 2007 (CST)

Some Updates

In the spirit of Collaboration Week (and so that Martin doesn't have to continue to feel alone here) I added the suggestions made above, which I thought were all good ones. (I assumed Alexander left a C out of Technocracy above. If that isn't so, he can add Technocray to the listing also - and explain what it may be.)

The large number of additions to the list of political theorists came straight from the TOC of Eberstein & Eberstein, Great Political Thinkers. (5th edition, 1991, I'm sorry to say!) I was delighted to see the number of listings for which there were already CZ entries, and look forward to development of the rest.

There are still a host of contemporary additions that might be made to that list, including Robert Nozick (Anarchy, State and Utopia), Benjamin Barber (Strong Democracy), Amatai Etzioni, (Communitarianism), Michael Sandel, and a host of new political economy, citizenship, civil society and social capital writers. Roger Lohmann 08:24, 27 June 2008 (CDT)