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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Politics.
See also changes related to Politics, or pages that link to Politics or to this page or whose text contains "Politics".

Glossary

  • Community [r]: 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]
  • Corporation [r]: 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 Corporation (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
  • Country [r]: Nation, state, region, or territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture. [e]
  • Government [r]: 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]
  • Nation [r]: A large group of people with a singular, shared, and commonly-accepted historical identity, identified by a universally recognised name. [e]
  • State [r]: 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.

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]: 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]
  • 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]: Add brief definition or description
      • 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]: 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]
  • 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]
  • Socialism [r]: Any socio-economic system in which property and distribution of wealth are controlled by a community, by cooperation law. [e]

Subtopics

General ideologies

National ideologies and groups

Political theories

Political systems

Political thinkers

Political Writing

Political institutions

Political policies

Politicians

Politically important events

Tools of politics

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