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The study of politics

Political economy: Add brief definition or description
Political history: Add brief definition or description
Political sociology: Subfield of sociology that deals with fundamental questions of social behavior, social relations and social institutions in politics. ^[e]
Political theory: Add brief definition or description
Comparative politics: Add brief definition or description

Political structures

International organization: Add brief definition or description

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Politics [r]: Activity that relates to the way in which society is governed, and the process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for its members. ^[e]

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Law: Body of rules of conduct of binding legal force and effect, prescribed, recognized, and enforced by a controlling authority. ^[e]
Political philosophy: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. ^[e]
Political sociology: Subfield of sociology that deals with fundamental questions of social behavior, social relations and social institutions in politics. ^[e]
Political science: Social science that studies politics, political systems and political behavior. ^[e]
Public Administration: Add brief definition or description
History of political thought: The development of political ideas over time since the discovery of politics in Plato, Confucius and Mencius. ^[e]
Public: Shared by, open or available to everyone, well or generally known, universally available or without limit, done or made on behalf of the community as a whole, open to general or unlimited viewing or disclosure, frequented by large numbers of people or for general use, or places generally open or visible to all pertaining to official matters or maintained at taxpayer expense. ^[e]
Public policy: Higher order or general principles, inclinations or preferences which guide the making of public laws, rules or decisions. ^[e]

Concepts

Authority: Derived from the Latin word auctoritas: the power or right to make rules or laws. ^[e]
Anarchy: (from Greek word anarkhos)The absence of government or other political authority. ^[e]
Autocracy: Government by a single, supreme leader. A modern version of Aristotle's "rule by one", generally seen as different from monarchy, but closely related to dictatorship and, even some forms of oligarchy. Thus, Syria was, until recently, seen as a monarchy while Egypt under Mubarek was an autocracy. ^[e]
Bureaucracy: Collective organizational structure, procedures, protocols and set of regulations in place to manage activity, usually in large organizations and government. ^[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: Rights considered inherent to members of a society, the arbitrary deprivation of which is subject to enforcement action ^[e]
Civil society: The space for social activity outside the market, state and household; the arena of uncoerced collective action around shared interests, purposes and values. ^[e]
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]
Conflict: Contestation between rival interests or forces, particularly those involving disagreements over resources. Conflict may characterize types of contest from games, contests and competition to law suits, fights, battles and wars. In the social sciences, conflict is often contrasted with competition or cooperation. ^[e]
Conflict of interest: Situation in which an individual might benefit personally from official or professional actions. It includes a conflict between a person's private interests and official responsibilities in a position of trust. ^[e]
Country: Nation, state, region, or territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture. ^[e]
Debt: Add brief definition or description
Democracy: Add brief definition or description
Government: Add brief definition or description
Human rights: Add brief definition or description
Influence (politics): Add brief definition or description
Interest (politics): Add brief definition or description
Interest group: Add brief definition or description
Judiciary: Add brief definition or description
Lobbying: Add brief definition or description
Monarchy: Add brief definition or description
Nation: Add brief definition or description
Peace: Add brief definition or description
Political capital: Add brief definition or description
Political organization: Add brief definition or description
Power (politics): Add brief definition or description
Public Interest: Add brief definition or description
Prisoner's dilemma: Add brief definition or description
Republic: Add brief definition or description
Revolution: Add brief definition or description
Social capital: Add brief definition or description
State: Add brief definition or description
War: Add brief definition or description

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Ideology

Global ideologies

Anarchism: Add brief definition or description
Autocracy: Government by a single, supreme leader. A modern version of Aristotle's "rule by one", generally seen as different from monarchy, but closely related to dictatorship and, even some forms of oligarchy. Thus, Syria was, until recently, seen as a monarchy while Egypt under Mubarek was an autocracy. ^[e]
Conservatism: Add brief definition or description
Communitarianism: Add brief definition or description
Isolationism: Add brief definition or description
Liberalism: Add brief definition or description
Libertarianism: Add brief definition or description
Nativism (politics): Add brief definition or description
Pacifism: 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

Economic Theories of Politics

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Political systems

Anarchy: (from Greek word anarkhos)The absence of government or other political authority. ^[e]
Aristocracy: Add brief definition or description
Democracy: Add brief definition or description
Monarchy: Add brief definition or description
Oligarchy: Add brief definition or description
Republic: Add brief definition or description

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Congresses of the United States of America: Add brief definition or description
House of Commons (United Kingdom): Add brief definition or description
House of Lords: Add brief definition or description
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Taliban: Add brief definition or description
U.S. House of Representatives: Add brief definition or description

Politicians

19th century and before

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