Outline of politics

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to politics:

Politics – process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the corporate, academic, and religious segments of society.

Essence of politics

Main articles: Political science and Politics

• Government
• Politician
• Political history
• Political philosophy
• Political power
• Political scientist

Political systems

State

Main articles: State (polity) and Sovereign state

• Political institutions
• Public administration
• Comparative government
• Three powers of the State
  • Executive
    • Executive branch
    • Executive power
    • Head of state
  • Legislative
    • Legislative branch
    • Legislative process
    • Legislative power
    • Law making
  • Judicial
    • Judicial branch
    • Judicial power
• Political rights
• Political participation
• Public administration
  • Civil service
  • Political parties

Government

Main article: Government

Forms of government

• Androcracy –
• Anarchy –
• Aristocracy –
• Bureaucracy –
• Communist state –
  • Collective leadership –
• Confederation –
• Corporatocracy –
  • Corporatism –
• Consociationalism –
• Demarchy –
• Democracy –
  • Consensus –
  • Consociationalism –
  • Deliberative democracy –
  • Democratic socialism –
  • Totalitarian democracy –
    • Dictatorship of the proletariat –
    • Guided democracy –
    • Managed democracy –
  • Direct democracy –
  • Egalitarianism –
  • Futarchy –
  • Industrial –
  • Open source governance –
  • Participatory democracy –
  • People's –
  • Pure –
  • Representative democracy –
    • Parliamentary system –
      • Consensus government –
      • Westminster system –
    • Polyarchy –
    • Presidential system –
    • Semi-presidential system –
• Despotism –
• Dictatorship – an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, the dictator.
  • Autarchy –
  • Autocracy –
  • Despotism –
  • Enlightened absolutism –
  • Military dictatorship –
    • Military junta –
  • Nazism –
  • Right-wing –
  • Stratocracy –
  • Authoritarianism –
    • Totalitarianism –
• Empire –
• Ethnic democracy –
• Ethnocracy –
• Fascism –
  • Corporative state –
• Federation –
• Feudalism –
• Garrison state –
• Gerontocracy –
• Green state –
• Hierocracy –
• Isocracy –
• Interregnum –
  • Caretaker government –
  • Interrex –
  • Provisional government –
  • Regent –
  • Transitional government –
• Kakistocracy –
• Kratocracy –
• Kleptocracy –
• Kritarchy –
• Kritocracy –
• Kyriarchy –
• Logocracy –
• Matriarchy –
  • Gynaecocracy –
  • Gynarchy –
  • Gynocracy –
• Mediocracy –
• Meritocracy –
• Minarchism –
  • Night watchman state –
• Monarchy –
  • Absolute monarchy –
  • Constitutional monarchy –
  • Duchy –
  • Grand Duchy –
  • Diarchy –
  • Enlightened absolutism –
  • Elective monarchy –
  • Hereditary monarchy –
  • Non-Sovereign Monarchy –
  • Popular monarchy –
  • Principality –
  • New Monarchs –
  • Self-proclaimed monarchy –
• Nanny state –
• Nation-state –
• Monocracy –
• Nomocracy –
• Noocracy –
• Ochlocracy –
  • Mobocracy –
• Oligarchy –
• Panarchism –
• Pantisocracy –
• Paparchy –
  • Pornocracy –
  • Saeculum obscurum –
• Parliamentary –
• Patriarchy –
• Plutocracy –
  • Plutarchy –
• Police state –
• Polyarchy –
  • Triarchy –
  • Tetrarchy –
  • Pentarchy –
  • Heptarchy –
• Presidential –
• Puppet state –
• Republic –
  • Crowned –
  • Capitalist –
  • Constitutional –
  • Single Party –
  • Federal –
  • Parliamentary –
    • Federal –
• Slave state –
  • Slavocracy –
• Socialist state –
• Sociocracy –
• Squirearchy –
• Stratocracy –
• Sultanism –
• Superpower –
  • Hyperpower –
  • Inverted totalitarianism –
• Supranational union –
• Synarchy –
• Technocracy –
• Thalassocracy –
• Theocracy –
  • Islamic state –
  • Theodemocracy –
• Timocracy –
• Tribal –
  • Chiefdom –
• Tyranny –
• Unitary state –
• Welfare state –

Governments of the world

Elections

Main article: Election

• Voting systems
• Game theory
• Political Campaigning
• Political communications
• Political qualifications

Political parties

Main article: Political party

Political parties by region

Law

Main article: Law

• Trials
• Legal research
• International law
  • Diplomacy

Political strategies and tactics

Main articles: Political strategy and Political tactic

• Bandwagon fallacy
  • Bandwagon effect
• Cloward–Piven strategy
• Starve the beast
• War

Political issues

Abortion Affirmative action Agricultural policy and land reform Animal rights and animal testing Capital punishment Censorship Internet censorship Freedom of speech Freedom of the press Internet taxation Climate change policy Direct democracy Disarmament and nonproliferation Drug policy and reform

Education policy and reform Electoral reform Foreign policy Gay rights and gay marriage Gun rights and gun control Health care policy and reform Immigration policy and reform Israeli-Palestinian conflict Language policy Medical marijuana NATO expansion Nuclear testing

Political corruption Race relations Science and technology policy Separation of church and state Space policy Stem cells and the stem cell controversy Tax reform Terrorism, counter-terrorism, and the War on Terrorism Trade War Welfare reform

Politics by region

Foreign relations by region

History of politics

• History of political science
• History of political thinking
• Political history
  • List of years in politics

Political science

Main article: Political science

Political science is the field concerning the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior.

Fields of study of political science

• Area studies
• Coalition studies
• Comparative politics
• Development studies
• Electoral systems and voting theory
• Foreign policy analysis
• Game theory
• Geopolitics and political geography
• Globalization studies
• Ideology studies
• Institutional studies
• International relations
• Nationalism studies
• Policy analysis and Policy studies
• Political behaviour
• Political economy
• Political party analysis
• Political psychology
• Political theory and philosophy
• Political research methodology
• Political sociology
• Political systems
• Psephology – statistical analysis of voting systems and electoral behavior
• Public administration and local government studies
• Public policy studies
• Public administration
• Public law
• Security studies
• Strategic studies

Related disciplines

• Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Political philosophy
• Social science
  • Sociology
    • Political sociology

Political theory

Main article: Political theory

• International relations theory
  • Power in international relations
  • Realism in international relations
  • Idealism in international relations
  • Neoliberalism in international relations
  • Marxist international relations theory
  • Functionalism in international relations
  • Critical international relations theory
• Metapolitics
• Peace and conflict studies
  • Democratic peace theory
  • Power transition theory
  • Hegemonic stability theory
• Political geography
• Political symbolism
• Theories of state
  • Consent of the governed
  • Form of government
  • Islamic state
  • Nationalism
  • Patriotism
  • Sovereignty

Influential literature

• The Art of War – by Sun Tsu (c. 544–496 BC)
• The Republic – by Plato (427–347 BC)
• Laws – by Plato (427–347 BC)
• The Politics – Aristotle (384–322 BC)
• Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle (384–322 BC)
• Arthashastra – Chāṇakya^[1]

(c. 350–283 BC)

• Meditations – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161–180 CE
• The Prince – by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
• The Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584––1645)
• The Wealth of Nations – by Adam Smith (1723–1790)
• On War – by Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831)
• Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679))

Further reading

• Roskin, M.; Cord, R. L.; Medeiros, J. A.; Jones, W. S. (2007). Political Science: An Introduction. 10th ed. New York: Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-242575-9 (10). ISBN 978-0-13-242575-9 (13).
• Tausch, A.; Prager, F. (1993). Towards a Socio-Liberal Theory of World Development. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press.
• Oxford Handbooks of Political Science – ten-volume set covering the political science topics political methodology, public policy, political theory, political economy, comparative politics, contextual political analysis, international relations, Law and Politics, political behavior, and political institutions. The general editor of the series is Robert E. Goodin.^[2][3]

See also

• Index of politics articles
• Lists of politics topics
• List of political scientists
• Theories of Political Behavior
• Debate
• Government
• Jurisdiction
• Constitutional economics
• Legal system
• Nation
• Perestroika Movement
• Policy
• Rule of law
• Rule According to Higher Law
• Activism
• Anthropology
• Egalitarianism
• Food politics
• Government simulation game
• Music and politics
• Office politics
• Official statistics
• Organizational politics
• Political activism
• Political corruption
• Political criticism
• Political economy
• Political fiction (list)
• Political movement
• Political party (list by country)
• Political philosophy
• Political power
• Political psychology
• Political science (outline)
• Political sociology
• Political spectrum

References

1. ^ Mabbett 1964 "References to the work in other Sanskrit literature attribute it variously to Viṣṇugupta, Cāṇakya and Kauṭilya. The same individual is meant in each case. The Pańcatantra explicitly identifies Chanakya with Viṣṇugupta."
2. ^ Oxford Handbook Of Political Theory
3. ^ Contemporary Political Theory

External links

• American Political Science Association
• European Consortium for Political Research
• International Political Science Association
• Political Studies Association of the UK
• PROL: Political Science Research Online (prepublished research)
• Truman State University Political Science Research Design Handbook
• A New Nation Votes: American Elections Returns 1787-1825
• Political links resource