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Review articles
- Political philosophy [r]: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. [e]
- History of political thought [r]: The development of political ideas over time since the discovery of politics in Plato, Confucius and Mencius. [e]
Concepts
- Authority [r]: Derived from the Latin word auctoritas: the power or right to make rules or laws. [e]
Events, enactments and other developments
- American Civil War [r]: {1861-65) war by the U.S. to prevent 11 of its states (the Confederate States of America) from seceding; won by the U.S. after the death of 600,000 people and the abolishment of slavery. [e]
- Arab Spring [r]: Protest movements in the Arab world that seek the removal of oppressive governments. [e]
- Bill of Rights [r]: List of rights enjoyed by an individual in a specific context. [e]
- Bill of Rights (England) [r]: An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown [e]
- English Civil War [r]: 1641-1651 conflict between Parliamentarians and Royalists loyal to the monarchy. [e]
- French Revolution [r]: The revolutionary episode in France that deposed the king and the aristocracy, created a republic, and included a period of terror, in which thousands were killed or driven into exile. [e]
- Glorious Revolution [r]: (1688 - 89) Largely bloodless events which deposed King James VII and II (of Scotland and England), brought William and Mary to the thrones and established the monarchy on a contract basis. [e]
- Great Depression [r]: the severe downturn in economic activity that started in 1929 in Germany and the United States and affected many other countries. [e]
- Great Recession [r]: The disruption of economic activity that began with a downturn in 2007 and generated international repercussions that continued through 2012 and into 2013. [e]
- Magna Carta [r]: A 13th century charter that forms part of the British constitution and which has been classified as a document of global significance. [e]
- Renaissance [r]: Cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Florence in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. [e]
Global ideologies
- 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]: Any socio-economic system in which property and distribution of wealth are controlled by a community, by cooperation law. [e]
- Social democracy [r]: A political movement which seeks to attain community control of the distribution of wealth through democratic means. [e]
- Totalitarianism [r]: Any political system, or ideologies that support such a system, in which a centralized political authority controls every aspects of life. [e]
- Marxist-Leninism [r]: The political system which Lenin derived from the works of Karl Marx. [e]
Regional ideologies
- American conservatism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American progressivism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dominionism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fascism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jacksonian American nationalism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nazism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neoconservatism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paleoconservatism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wilsonianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wiederbewaffnung [r]: Add brief definition or description
Theories
- Keynesianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Monetarism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Theorists
Political systems
- Anarchy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Aristocracy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Democracy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Monarchy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oligarchy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Republic [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Totalitarianism [r]: Any political system, or ideologies that support such a system, in which a centralized political authority controls every aspects of life. [e]
Organisations
Global organisations
- International Court of Justice [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Monetary Fund [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United Nations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- World Bank [r]: Add brief definition or description
Regional organisations
- African Union [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Council of Europe [r]: Add brief definition or description
- European Union [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Eurozone [r]: Add brief definition or description
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization [r]: Add brief definition or description
National organisations
- Congresses of the United States [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Conservative Party (UK) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- House of Commons (United Kingdom) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- House of Lords [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Labour Party (UK) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. House of Representatives [r]: Add brief definition or description
Politicians
19th century and before
- John Quincy Adams [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Herbert Henry Asquith [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ban Ki-moon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Jennings Bryan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edmund Burke [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oliver Cromwell [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Benjamin Franklin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Jefferson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Madison [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Monroe [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Napoleon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pericles [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Washington [r]: Add brief definition or description
===20th & 21st centuries
- Clement Atlee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joe Biden [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tony Blair [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gordon Brown [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Zbigniew Brzezinski [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
- Anthony Eden [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dwight D. Eisenhower [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Muammar Gaddafi [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Lloyd George [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mikhail Gorbachev [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Adolf Hitler [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lyndon B. Johnson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hamid Karzai [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edward Kennedy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John F. Kennedy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Kissinger [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Osama bin Laden [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Andrew Bonar Law [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Harold Macmillan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George C. Marshall [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Angela Merkel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Mugabe [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Nixon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Barack Obama [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vladimir Putin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ronald Reagan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dean Rusk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nicolas Sarkozy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Margaret Thatcher [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Harry S. Truman [r]: Add brief definition or description
Policies
- Competition policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Diplomacy (foreign policy) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fiscal policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Financial regulation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Grand strategy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Monetary policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Public expenditure [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Realism (foreign policy) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Taxation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Terrorism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. foreign policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Conspiracy theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Financial system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fiscal conservatism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National debt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philosophy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Political philosophy [r]: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. [e]
- Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Renaissance [r]: Cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Florence in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. [e]
- Rent-seeking [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Slavery [r]: Add brief definition or description