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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Politics.
See also pages that link to Politics or to this page.

Contents

Parent topics

  • Civic culture [r]: Related political and social attitudes crucial to the success of modern democracies. [e]
  • Economics [r]: The analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [e]
    • Financial system [r]: the interactive system of organisations that serve as intermediaries between lenders and borrowers. [e]
  • Government [r]: System by which a community or nation is controlled and regulated. [e]
  • Philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. [e]
    • Political philosophy [r]: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. [e]
      • Communism [r]: A political ideology, and also a system of government, according to which the means of production (including all large business concerns) should be controlled by the government. [e]
      • Democracy [r]: A form of government in which ultimate sovereignty rests with the people. [e]
      • Islamism [r]: A Muslim committed to the establishment of a theocracy under Sharia; opposed to secular government but not necessarily modernization (i.e., not necessarily Salafist) [e]
      • Utilitarianism [r]: Philosophical doctrine created by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill which states that an action can be considered good to the extent that it increases the general level of happiness in society. [e]
  • Pseudostate [r]: A term put forward by the author and journalist Adam Hochschild to refer to political states or regions where power rests with a government or organisation either outside the country or in some way unaccountable - for example, a local militia. [e]}
  • Public expenditure [r]: Spending by the public sector [e]
  • Public good [r]: Products and services that can only be collectively financed because it is not feasible to require individual users to pay for using them. [e]
  • Prerogative power [r]: A legal doctrine that empowers a head of state or government to act beyond the laws of a nation, when the supreme national interests of that nation are involved [e]
  • Social capital [r]: the community's productive assets other than its physical capital - comprising those social relationships, ideologies and institutions that contribute to production. [e]
  • Social contract [r]: Agreement among the members of an organized society or between the governed and the government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each. [e]

Subtopics

General ideologies

National ideologies and groups

Political theories

  • Keynesianism [r]: Economic theorists who have developed the theory originated by John Maynard Keynes which advocates the use of fiscal policy to maintain economic stability. [e]
  • Monetarism [r]: a theory that explains inflation as the inevitable consequence of an increase in the money supply. [e]

Political systems

Political thinkers

Political Writing

  • The Prince [r]: A book on politics by Niccolo Machiavelli. [e]
  • Common Sense (Thomas Paine) [r]: A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine during the American Revolution, originally published on January 10, 1776 in Philadelphia. [e]

Political institutions

Political policies

  • Fiscal policy [r]: The use of taxation and public expenditure to influence economic activity or the distribution of income and wealth. [e]
  • U.S. foreign policy [r]: The foreign relations and diplomacy of the United States since 1775. [e]

Politicians

Politically important events

  • 9-11 Attack [r]: The largest terrorist attack on the continental United States, occurring on September 11, 2001, using hijacked airliners as suicide weapons against major buildings [e]
  • American Civil War [r]: Major war 1861-65 fought over slavery in which the U.S. defeated the secessionist Confederate States of America. [e]
  • Afghanistan War (2001-) [r]: Beginning on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9-11 attacks, military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda by United States and NATO forces [e]
  • Berlin Blockade [r]: The period, from June 24, 1948 to May 11, 1949, when the Soviet Union cut all land routes to Berlin [e]
  • Berlin Wall [r]: Once (1961-1989) a barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the rest of East Germany. [e]
  • Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
  • Crash of 1929 [r]: the sharp fall in prices on the New York Stock Exchange that contributed to the severity of the Great Depression [e]
  • Crash of 2008 [r]: the international banking crisis that followed the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007. [e]
  • The Enlightenment [r]: 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]
  • 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]
  • Gulf War [r]: The conflict started by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and ended with the liberation of Kuwait and major damage to Iraqi forces, by a US-led UN coalition in 1991. [e]
  • The Holocaust [r]: Nazi Germany's systematic economic exploitation, followed by killing, of European Jews and others deemed racial and ideological enemies [e]
  • Iraq War [r]: Invasion of Iraq by a coalition of countries, led by the United States, in 2003, and subsequent occupation [e]
  • Oklahoma City bombing [r]: The 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168, by Timothy McVeigh, and a collaborator, Terry Nichols, with an anti-government agenda. [e]
  • Recession of 2009 [r]: the international recession that was triggered by the Crash of 2008. [e]
  • Subprime motgage crisis [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Vietnam, war, and the United States [r]: The interactions of the Vietnam War with United States domestic politics and public opinion, and, in turn, how domestic considerations affected the military situation [e]

Tools of politics

  • Diplomacy (foreign policy) [r]: The process of negotiations, among nations, usually by accredited representatives of a government. While the details of the negotiations may not be public information, the fact of the diplomatic negotiations is official and acknowledged [e]
  • Grand strategy [r]: The application of all national means of affecting the actions of other nations and non-national actors; specifically includes but is not restricted to military means [e]
  • Terrorism [r]: Any act, nearly always violent, unpredictable, and chaotic in nature, often targetting civilians, intended to create an atmosphere of fear in order to obtain a political objective. [e]
  • War [r]: A state of violent conflict which exists between two or more independent groups, each seeking to impose its will on the other. [e]


Related topics

  • Conspiracy theory [r]: Belief that a covert and deceptive organization or people is responsible for important world events, and that these people are hiding their own involvement, acting from behind the scenes and spreading misinformation. [e]
  • Financial system [r]: the interactive system of organisations that serve as intermediaries between lenders and borrowers. [e]
  • Fiscal conservatism [r]: A political position (primarily in the United States) that calls for lower levels of public spending, lower taxes and lower government debt. [e]
  • National debt [r]: the external obligations of the government and public sector agencies - with content and valuation method according to national or international definitions (otherwise known as public debt or government debt). [e]
  • Noam Chomsky [r]: American linguist, MIT professor and left-wing political activist. [e]
  • Philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. [e]
  • Political philosophy [r]: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. [e]
  • Province [r]: Territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state. [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]
  • Rent-seeking [r]: Behaviour that increases the welfare of a person or group at the expense of the welfare of others. [e]
  • Slavery [r]: A social system in which people have legal rights of property ownership over others. [e]
  • Socialism [r]: Any socio-economic system in which property and distribution of wealth are controlled by a community, by cooperation law. [e]
  • Taxation [r]: The transfer of resources from the community to the government. [e]
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