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Review articles
- Political philosophy [r]: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. [e]
- Political science [r]: Social science that studies politics, political systems and political behavior. [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: Derived from the Latin word auctoritas: the power or right to make rules or laws. [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]
- 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
- Lobbying: Add brief definition or description
- Nation: A large group of people with a singular, shared, and commonly-accepted historical identity, identified by a universally recognised name. [e]
- Power (politics): The capacity to control the administration of resources within a society [e]
- Prisoner's dilemma: In game theory, a non-zero sum game in which mutual cooperation is better for all participants than uncoordinated attempts to maximize individual personal gains. [e]
- Social capital: 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]
- State: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See State (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
Events, enactments and other developments
- American Civil War: {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: Protest movements in the Arab world that seek the removal of oppressive governments. [e]
- Bill of Rights: List of rights enjoyed by an individual in a specific context. [e]
- Bill of Rights (England): An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown [e]
- Cold War: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
- English Civil War: 1641-1651 conflict between Parliamentarians and Royalists loyal to the monarchy. [e]
- The Enlightenment: An 18th-century movement in Western philosophy and intellectual life generally, that emphasized the power or reason and science to understand and reform the world. [e]
- French Revolution: 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: (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: the severe downturn in economic activity that started in 1929 in Germany and the United States and affected many other countries. [e]
- Great Recession: The disruption of economic activity that began with a downturn in 2007 and generated international repercussions that continued through 2012 and into 2013. [e]
- 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
- Liberalism: Add brief definition or description
- Libertarianism: 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 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American progressivism [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
- Westminster system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wilsonianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wiederbewaffnung [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Zionism: Add brief definition or description
Theories
- Keynesianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Monetarism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Utilitarianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Theorists
- Aristotle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Confucius [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Hobbes [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Locke [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Niccolò Machiavelli [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Friedrich Nietzsche [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Paine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Plato [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Madison [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Karl Marx [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Rawls [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alexis de Tocqueville [r]: Add brief definition or description
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
Organisations
Global organisations
- International Court of Justice [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Criminal Court [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Monetary Fund [r]: Add brief definition or description
- League of Nations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- OECD [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Roman Catholic Church [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
- House of Commons (United Kingdom) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- House of Lords [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Likud] [r]: [{{fullurl:Likud]/Definition|action=edit&preload=Template%3ADef_preload}} Add brief definition or description]
- Taliban [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
- Thomas Paine [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
- Deng Xiaoping [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dwight D. Eisenhower [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
- Capital punishment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Diplomacy (foreign policy) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fiscal conservatism [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
- National debt [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
- U.S. foreign policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Washington Consensus [r]: Add brief definition or description