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Parent Topics
- Human relations: An individual or group association, interaction or contact between two or more homo sapiens, whether direct, face-to-face or mediated through some medium of communication. [e]
- Human behavior: Actions, responses or exertions exhibited by homo sapiens that are mediated by and through language and may be influenced by culture, attitudes, beliefs, emotions, values, ethics, authority, rapport, persuasion, coercion, force, self-interest, genetics or a variety of other factors. [e]
Review articles
Law: Body of rules of conduct of binding legal force and effect, prescribed, recognized, and enforced by a controlling authority. [e]
Political philosophy: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. [e]
- Political sociology: Subfield of sociology that deals with fundamental questions of social behavior, social relations and social institutions in politics. [e]
Political science: Social science that studies politics, political systems and political behavior. [e]
- Public Administration: Add brief definition or description
History of political thought: The development of political ideas over time since the discovery of politics in Plato, Confucius and Mencius. [e]
Public: Shared by, open or available to everyone, well or generally known, universally available or without limit, done or made on behalf of the community as a whole, open to general or unlimited viewing or disclosure, frequented by large numbers of people or for general use, or places generally open or visible to all pertaining to official matters or maintained at taxpayer expense. [e]
- Public policy: Higher order or general principles, inclinations or preferences which guide the making of public laws, rules or decisions. [e]
Concepts
Authority: Derived from the Latin word auctoritas: the power or right to make rules or laws. [e]
Bureaucracy: Collective organizational structure, procedures, protocols and set of regulations in place to manage activity, usually in large organizations and government. [e]
Citizenship: A formal relationship between a citizen and a particular social, political, national or international community [e]
Civil law: A system of law which starts with abstract rules, which judges must then apply to the various cases before them. [e]
Civil rights: Add brief definition or description
Common law: Ancient law of England, and in countries colonized by Britain, based upon societal customs and recognized and enforced by the judgments and decrees of the courts. [e]
Community: Generally, a group of organisms sharing an environment. In human communities the shared environment may be defined by mutual interests, pooled resources, common beliefs, shared pursuits, perceived needs, or other common traits or characteristics, and may be associated with a shared identity which in the case of physical communities may include a sense of place. [e]
- Conflict: Contestation between rival interests or forces, particularly those involving disagreements over resources. Conflict may characterize types of contest from games, contests and competition to law suits, fights, battles and wars. In the social sciences, conflict is often contrasted with competition or cooperation. [e]
Conflict of interest: Situation in which an individual might benefit personally from official or professional actions. It includes a conflict between a person's private interests and official responsibilities in a position of trust. [e]
Country: Nation, state, region, or territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture. [e]
Debt: The outcome of an agreement between a person or organisation wishing to make immediate use of resources, and one wishing to defer their use. [e]
Government: The system by which a community or nation is controlled and regulated. A government is a person or group of persons who govern a political community or nation. [e]
Human rights: Natural civil and political rights considered universal and applicable to all human beings worldwide. [e]
- Influence: Add brief definition or description
- Interest (politics): Excitement, prompting or stimulation of curiosity or attention. See also advantage, altruism, benefit, general interest, profit, public interest, self-interest, or self-interest, properly understood. [e]
Interest group: In the United States, an organization (usually non-profit) that represents its members' interests by lobbying, publishing, or other activities, and may publish information presented as expert analysis. [e]
- Judiciary: The whole body of judges or justices in a legal or political system, also including the courts and other judicial institutions, and rules and procedures unique to those officials. In the U.S., one of the three basic branches of government. [e]
Lobbying: The legal process by which interest groups or individuals attempt to influence the policy or votes of government officials [e]
Nation: A large group of people with a singular, shared, and commonly-accepted historical identity, identified by a universally recognised name. [e]
Peace: The absence of armed conflict, or causes of violence, between groups of people. [e]
Power (politics): The capacity to control the administration of resources within a society [e]
- Public Interest: Add brief definition or description
Prisoner's dilemma: Add brief definition or description
- Social capital: Add brief definition or description
- State: Add brief definition or description
War: Add brief definition or description
Events, enactments and other developments
American Civil War: Add brief definition or description
Arab Spring: Add brief definition or description
Bill of Rights: Add brief definition or description
Bill of Rights (England): Add brief definition or description
Cold War: Add brief definition or description
English Civil War: Add brief definition or description
The Enlightenment: Add brief definition or description
French Revolution: Add brief definition or description
- Glorious Revolution: Add brief definition or description
Great Depression: Add brief definition or description
Great Recession: Add brief definition or description
- The Holocaust: Add brief definition or description
Iran-Iraq War: Add brief definition or description
Israel-Palestine Conflict: Add brief definition or description
Magna Carta: Add brief definition or description
Renaissance: Add brief definition or description
Ideology
Global ideologies
Anarchism: Add brief definition or description
- Autocracy: Add brief definition or description
Conservatism: Add brief definition or description
- Communitarianism: Add brief definition or description
- Isolationism: Add brief definition or description
Liberalism: Add brief definition or description
- Libertarianism: Add brief definition or description
Nativism (politics): Add brief definition or description
Socialism: Add brief definition or description
Social Darwinism: Add brief definition or description
Social democracy: Add brief definition or description
- Marxist-Leninism: Add brief definition or description
Regional ideologies
American conservatism: Add brief definition or description
- American progressivism: Add brief definition or description
Fascism: Add brief definition or description
- Jacksonian American nationalism: Add brief definition or description
- Maoism: Add brief definition or description
Nazism: Add brief definition or description
- Neoconservatism: Add brief definition or description
Westminster system: Add brief definition or description
Wilsonianism: Add brief definition or description
Wiederbewaffnung: Add brief definition or description
Zionism: Add brief definition or description
Economic Theories of Politics
Keynesianism: Add brief definition or description
Monetarism: Add brief definition or description
Utilitarianism: Add brief definition or description
Theorists
Adam Smith: Add brief definition or description
Aristotle: Add brief definition or description
Confucius: Add brief definition or description
Thomas Hobbes: Add brief definition or description
John Locke: Add brief definition or description
Niccolò Machiavelli: Add brief definition or description
Friedrich Nietzsche: Add brief definition or description
Thomas Paine: Add brief definition or description
Plato: Add brief definition or description
James Madison: Add brief definition or description
Karl Marx: Add brief definition or description
- John Rawls: Add brief definition or description
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Add brief definition or description
Alexis de Tocqueville: Add brief definition or description
Political systems
Anarchy: Add brief definition or description
Aristocracy: Add brief definition or description
Democracy: Add brief definition or description
Monarchy: Add brief definition or description
Oligarchy: Add brief definition or description
Republic: Add brief definition or description
Organisations
Global organisations
International Court of Justice: Add brief definition or description
International Criminal Court: Add brief definition or description
International Monetary Fund: Add brief definition or description
League of Nations: Add brief definition or description
OECD: Add brief definition or description
Roman Catholic Church: Add brief definition or description
United Nations: Add brief definition or description
World Bank: Add brief definition or description
Regional organisations
- African Union: Add brief definition or description
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations: Add brief definition or description
- Council of Europe: Add brief definition or description
European Union: Add brief definition or description
Eurozone: Add brief definition or description
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Add brief definition or description
National organisations
Congresses of the United States: Add brief definition or description
House of Commons (United Kingdom): Add brief definition or description
House of Lords: Add brief definition or description
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Taliban: Add brief definition or description
U.S. House of Representatives: Add brief definition or description
Politicians
19th century and before
John Quincy Adams: Add brief definition or description
Herbert Henry Asquith: Add brief definition or description
Ban Ki-moon: Add brief definition or description
William Jennings Bryan: Add brief definition or description
Edmund Burke: Add brief definition or description
Oliver Cromwell: Add brief definition or description
- Benjamin Franklin: Add brief definition or description
Thomas Jefferson: Add brief definition or description
James Madison: Add brief definition or description
James Monroe: Add brief definition or description
Napoleon: Add brief definition or description
Thomas Paine: Add brief definition or description
Pericles: Add brief definition or description
George Washington: Add brief definition or description
20th & 21st centuries
- Clement Atlee: Add brief definition or description
Joe Biden: Add brief definition or description
Tony Blair: Add brief definition or description
Gordon Brown: Add brief definition or description
- Zbigniew Brzezinski: Add brief definition or description
George H. W. Bush: Add brief definition or description
George W. Bush: Add brief definition or description
James Callaghan: Add brief definition or description
David Cameron: Add brief definition or description
Jimmy Carter: Add brief definition or description
Neville Chamberlain: Add brief definition or description
Winston Churchill: Add brief definition or description
- Bill Clinton: Add brief definition or description
Calvin Coolidge: Add brief definition or description
Deng Xiaoping: Add brief definition or description
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Add brief definition or description
David Lloyd George: Add brief definition or description
Mikhail Gorbachev: Add brief definition or description
Jürgen Habermas: Add brief definition or description
Adolf Hitler: Add brief definition or description
Lyndon B. Johnson: Add brief definition or description
- Hamid Karzai: Add brief definition or description
Edward Kennedy: Add brief definition or description
John F. Kennedy: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Kennedy: Add brief definition or description
Henry Kissinger: Add brief definition or description
Osama bin Laden: Add brief definition or description
Andrew Bonar Law: Add brief definition or description
Harold Macmillan: Add brief definition or description
George C. Marshall: Add brief definition or description
Angela Merkel: Add brief definition or description
Robert Mugabe: Add brief definition or description
Richard Nixon: Add brief definition or description
Barack Obama: Add brief definition or description
Vladimir Putin: Add brief definition or description
Ronald Reagan: Add brief definition or description
Dean Rusk: Add brief definition or description
- Nicolas Sarkozy: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Taylor: Add brief definition or description
Margaret Thatcher: Add brief definition or description
Harry S. Truman: Add brief definition or description
Policies
Capital punishment: Add brief definition or description
- Diplomacy (foreign policy): Add brief definition or description
- Environment (politics): Add brief definition or description
Fiscal conservatism: Add brief definition or description
Fiscal policy: Add brief definition or description
Financial regulation: Add brief definition or description
- Grand strategy: Add brief definition or description
Monetary policy: Add brief definition or description
- National debt: Add brief definition or description
Poverty: Add brief definition or description
Public expenditure: Add brief definition or description
- Realism (foreign policy): Add brief definition or description
Taxation: Add brief definition or description
U.S. foreign policy: Add brief definition or description
War: Add brief definition or description
Washington Consensus: Add brief definition or description