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

Politics – the exercise of power; 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 political science

Main articles: Political science and Politics

• Government
  
  
  
  • Debate
    
    
    
    • Public speaking
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Political geography
    
    
    
    • Geopolitics
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Economics
    
    
    
    • Political economics
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• International relations
  
  
  
  • Diplomacy
  
  
  
  

• Ethics
  
  
  
  • Jurisprudence
  
  
  • Human rights
  
  
  
  


• Election
  
  
  
  • Political parties
  
  
  • Political campaign
  
  
  • Public opinion
    
    
    
    • Advocacy
      
      
      
      • Advocacy group
        
        
        
        • Lobbying
        
        
        
        
      
      
      
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

Unsorted:

• Political philosophy


• Globalization


• Public Policy


• Comparative politics

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
  
  
  
  

Forms of government

Main article: Government

• Democracy


• Republic


• Monarchy


• Communism

Basics

• Power structure
  
  
  
  • Unitary state
  
  
  • Federalism
  
  
  • Confederacy
  
  
  • Anarchy
  
  
  
  


• Type of control
  
  
  
  • Communism
  
  
  • Socialism
  
  
  • Capitalism
  
  
  
  


• Power source
  
  
  
  • Aristocratic
    
    
    
    • Popular
      
      
      
      • Monarchy
      
      
      • Oligarchy
      
      
      
      
    
    
    • Constitutional
      
      
      
      • Constitutional monarchy
      
      
      • Technocracy
      
      
      
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Democratic
    
    
    
    • Direct
    
    
    • Indirect
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Theocratic
    
    
    
    • Fundamentalism
    
    
    • Canonical
    
    
    • Ecclesiastical
    
    
    • Divine right
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

• Legal system
  
  
  
  • Authoritarian regime
  
  
  • Republic
    
    
    
    • Parliamentary
    
    
    • Presidential
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

• Political alignment
  
  
  
  • Radical
  
  
  • Left-wing
  
  
  • Centrist
  
  
  • Right-wing
  
  
  
  

Advanced

Democracy

Main article: Democracy

• Direct democracy –


• Indirect democracy –
  
  
  
  • Parliamentary system –
    
    
    
    • Consensus government –
    
    
    • Westminster system –
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Polyarchy –
  
  
  • Presidential system –
  
  
  • Semi-presidential system –
  
  
  
  


• Ethnic democracy –


• Consensus democracy –


• Consociationalism –


• Deliberative democracy –


• Democratic socialism –


• Totalitarian democracy –
  
  
  
  • Dictatorship of the proletariat –
  
  
  • Guided democracy –
  
  
  • Managed democracy –
  
  
  
  


• Egalitarianism –


• Futarchy –


• Industrial democracy –


• Open source governance –


• Participatory democracy –


• People's democracy –


• Pure democracy –


• Democratic republic –

Other

• Androcracy –


• Anarchy –


• Aristocracy – a form of government in which a few elite citizens rule.


• Bureaucracy – an organization of elected officials of a government or organization who implement the rules, laws, and functions of their institution, and are occasionally characterized by officialism and red tape.


• Communist state –
  
  
  
  • Collective leadership –
  
  
  
  


• Confederation – an association of sovereign states or communities.


• Corporatocracy –
  
  
  
  • Corporatism –
  
  
  
  


• Consociationalism –


• Demarchy –


• Autocracy – a system of government in which supreme political power to direct all the activities of the state is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of coup d'état or mass insurrection).
  
  
  
  • Dictatorship – an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an inpidual, the dictator.
  
  
  • Despotism – a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power. That entity may be an inpidual, as in an autocracy, or it may be a group, as in an oligarchy.
  
  
  • Enlightened absolutism –
  
  
  • Military dictatorship –
    
    
    
    • Military junta –
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Nazism –
  
  
  • Right-wing –
  
  
  • Stratocracy –
  
  
  • Authoritarianism –
    
    
    
    • Totalitarianism –
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Empire –


• Ethnocracy –


• Fascism –
  
  
  
  • Corporative state –
  
  
  
  


• Federalism – a political concept in which a group of members are bound together by covenant (Latin: foedus, covenant) with a governing representative head. The term "federalism" is also used to describe a system of the government in which sovereignty is constitutionally pided between a central governing authority and constituent political units (like states or provinces). Federalism is a system based upon democratic rules and institutions in which the power to govern is shared between national and provincial/state governments, creating what is often called a 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

v t e Government of Africa Sovereign states Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe States with limited recognition Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland Dependencies and other territories Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) Western Sahara

v t e Government of North America Sovereign states Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States Dependencies and other territories Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands

v t e Government of South America Sovereign states Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela Dependencies and other territories Aruba Bonaire Curaçao Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

v t e Government of Asia Sovereign states Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Malpes Mongolia Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen States with limited recognition Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan Dependencies and other territories British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

v t e Government in Europe Sovereign states Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Vatican City States with limited recognition Abkhazia Kosovo Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria Dependencies and other territories Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Jersey Isle of Man Svalbard Other entities European Union

v t e Government of Oceania Sovereign states Australia East Timor (Timor-Leste) Fiji Indonesia Kiribati Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Dependencies and other territories American Samoa Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cook Islands Easter Island French Polynesia Guam Hawaii New Caledonia Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Pitcairn Islands Tokelau Wallis and Futuna

Elections

Main article: Election

• Voting systems


• Game theory


• Political Campaigning


• Political communications


• Political qualifications

Political parties

Main article: Political party

Political parties by region

v t e List of political parties in Africa Sovereign states Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe States with limited recognition Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland Dependencies and other territories Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) Western Sahara

v t e List of political parties in North America Sovereign states Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States Dependencies and other territories Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands

v t e List of political parties in South America Sovereign states Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela Dependencies and other territories Aruba Bonaire Curaçao Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

v t e List of political parties in Asia Sovereign states Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Malpes Mongolia Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen States with limited recognition Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan Dependencies and other territories British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

v t e List of political parties in Europe Sovereign states Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Vatican City States with limited recognition Abkhazia Kosovo Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria Dependencies and other territories Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Jersey Isle of Man Svalbard Other entities European Union

v t e List of political parties in Oceania Sovereign states Australia East Timor (Timor-Leste) Fiji Indonesia Kiribati Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Dependencies and other territories American Samoa Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cook Islands Easter Island French Polynesia Guam Hawaii New Caledonia Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Pitcairn Islands Tokelau Wallis and Futuna

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 Lobbying 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

v t e Politics of Africa Sovereign states Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe States with limited recognition Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland Dependencies and other territories Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) Western Sahara

v t e Politics of North America Sovereign states Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States Dependencies and other territories Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands

v t e Politics of South America Sovereign states Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela Dependencies and other territories Aruba Bonaire Curaçao Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

v t e Politics of Asia Sovereign states Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Malpes Mongolia Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen States with limited recognition Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan Dependencies and other territories British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

v t e Politics of Europe Sovereign states Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Vatican City States with limited recognition Abkhazia Kosovo Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria Dependencies and other territories Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Jersey Isle of Man Svalbard Other entities European Union

v t e Politics of Oceania Sovereign states Australia East Timor (Timor-Leste) Fiji Indonesia Kiribati Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Dependencies and other territories American Samoa Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cook Islands Easter Island French Polynesia Guam Hawaii New Caledonia Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Pitcairn Islands Tokelau Wallis and Futuna

Foreign relations by region

v t e Foreign relations of Africa Sovereign states Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe States with limited recognition Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland Dependencies and other territories Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) Western Sahara

v t e Foreign relations of North America Sovereign states Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States Dependencies and other territories Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands

v t e Foreign relations of South America Sovereign states Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela Dependencies and other territories Aruba Bonaire Curaçao Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

v t e Foreign relations of Asia Sovereign states Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Malpes Mongolia Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen States with limited recognition Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan Dependencies and other territories British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

v t e Foreign relations of European countries Sovereign states Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Vatican City States with limited recognition Abkhazia Kosovo Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria Dependencies and other territories Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Jersey Isle of Man Svalbard Other entities European Union Sovereign Military Order of Malta

v t e Foreign relations of Oceania Sovereign states Australia East Timor (Timor-Leste) Fiji Indonesia Kiribati Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Dependencies and other territories American Samoa Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cook Islands Easter Island French Polynesia Guam Hawaii New Caledonia Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Pitcairn Islands Tokelau Wallis and Futuna

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
  
  
  
  

Political scholars

• List of political scientists


• List of political philosophers
  
  
  
  • List of social and political philosophers
  
  
  
  


• List of political theorists

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

(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)

See also

• 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 power


• Political psychology


• Political spectrum

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.