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Parent topics
- Civic culture [r]: Related political and social attitudes crucial to the success of modern democracies. [e]
- Economics [r]: The analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [e]
- Financial system [r]: The interactive system of organisations that serve as intermediaries between lenders and borrowers. [e]
- Government [r]: 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]
- Philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. [e]
- Political philosophy [r]: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. [e]
- Communism [r]: A political ideology, and also a system of government, according to which the means of production (including all large business concerns) should be controlled by the government. [e]
- Democracy [r]: A form of government in which ultimate sovereignty rests with the people. [e]
- Islamism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Utilitarianism [r]: Philosophical doctrine created by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill which states that an action can be considered good to the extent that it increases the general level of happiness in society. [e]
- Political philosophy [r]: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. [e]
- Pseudostate [r]: A term put forward by the author and journalist Adam Hochschild to refer to political states or regions where power rests with a government or organisation either outside the country or in some way unaccountable - for example, a local militia. [e]}
- Public expenditure [r]: Spending by the public sector [e]
- Public good [r]: Products and services that can only be collectively financed because it is not feasible to require individual users to pay for using them. [e]
- Prerogative power [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Social capital [r]: Productive assets arising out of social relations, such as trust, cooperation, solidarity, social networks of relations and those beliefs, ideologies and institutions that contribute to production of goods. [e]
- Social contract [r]: Agreement among the members of an organized society or between the governed and the government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each. [e]
Subtopics
General ideologies
- Checks and balances [r]: A system for limiting the potential for the abuse of administrative power. [e]
- Conservatism [r]: A concept of political theory used as a shortcut to refer to a wide swath of people who allegedly hold similar values. The conservative ideal does not really exist, as no two people would likely define it exactly the same. Generalizations often made about conservatives may include that they wish to limit social change, preserve traditional family values, abhor homosexuality, revere the military and exhibit staunch patriotism for their country, believe in fiscal restraint, decry foreign immigration, and do not wish to fund support for people in need on grounds that they must be lazy. [e]
- Identity politics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liberalism [r]: Economic and political doctrine advocating free enterprise, free competition and free will. A shortcut word grouping a swath of people who allegedly hold similar values. The liberal ideal does not really exist, as no two people would likely define it exactly the same. Some of the generalizations that people make about liberals include that they are open to social change, not tied to traditional family values, not militaristic, lacking in fiscal restraint, and socially tolerant. [e]
- Libertarianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Socialism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Totalitarianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Realism (foreign policy) [r]: Add brief definition or description
National ideologies and groups
- America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American conservatism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American progressivism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dominionism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Socialism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neoconservatism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Peronism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Personalism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Political theories
- Keynesianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Monetarism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Political systems
- Aristocracy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Constitutional Monarchy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Democracy [r]: A form of government in which ultimate sovereignty rests with the people. [e]
- Monarchy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Theocracy [r]: Add brief definition or description
Political thinkers
- Jeremy Bentham [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Buchanan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Milton Friedman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Nozick [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Immanuel Kant [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Maynard Keynes [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Locke [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Stuart Mill [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Plato [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Rawls [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Adam Smith [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Socrates [r]: Add brief definition or description
Political Writing
- The Prince [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Common Sense (Thomas Paine) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Political institutions
- Congresses of the United States [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Political party [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United Nations [r]: Add brief definition or description
Political policies
Politicians
- John Adams [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Quincy Adams [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Clement Atlee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tony Blair [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gordon Brown [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Jennings Bryan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edmund Burke [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George H. W. Bush [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George W. Bush [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Callaghan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Cameron [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jimmy Carter [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neville Chamberlain [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Winston Churchill [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bill Clinton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Calvin Coolidge [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oliver Cromwell [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mikhail Gorbachev [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Andrew Bonar Law [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pericles [r]: Add brief definition or description
Politically important events
- 9-11 Attack [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Civil War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Afghanistan War (2001-) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Berlin Blockade [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Berlin Wall [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cold War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Crash of 1929 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Crash of 2008 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Great Depression [r]: Add brief definition or description
Tools of politics
- Diplomacy (foreign policy) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Grand strategy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Terrorism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- War [r]: Add brief definition or description
Related topics
- Conspiracy theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Financial system [r]: The interactive system of organisations that serve as intermediaries between lenders and borrowers. [e]
- Fiscal conservatism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National debt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Noam Chomsky [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. [e]
- Political philosophy [r]: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. [e]
- Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Renaissance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rent-seeking [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Slavery [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Socialism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Taxation [r]: Add brief definition or description