Outline of political science
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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
Unsorted:
Political systems
State
Main articles: State (polity) and Sovereign state
- Political institutions
- Public administration
- Comparative government
- Three powers of the State
- Political rights
- Political participation
- Public administration
Forms of government
Main article: Government
Basics
- Power structure
- Type of control
- Power source
- Aristocratic
- Popular
- Monarchy
- Oligarchy
- Constitutional
- Constitutional monarchy
- Technocracy
- Popular
- Democratic
- Direct
- Indirect
- Theocratic
- Fundamentalism
- Canonical
- Ecclesiastical
- Divine right
- Aristocratic
- Legal system
- Authoritarian regime
- Republic
- Parliamentary
- Presidential
- Political alignment
- Radical
- Left-wing
- Centrist
- Right-wing
Advanced
Democracy
Main article: Democracy
- Direct democracy –
- Indirect democracy –
- Ethnic democracy –
- Consensus democracy –
- Consociationalism –
- Deliberative democracy –
- Democratic socialism –
- Totalitarian 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 –
- Confederation – an association of sovereign states or communities.
- Corporatocracy –
- 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 individual, the dictator.
- Despotism – a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power. That entity may be an individual, as in an autocracy, or it may be a group, as in an oligarchy.
- Enlightened absolutism –
- Military dictatorship –
- Nazism –
- Right-wing –
- Stratocracy –
- Authoritarianism –
- Empire –
- Ethnocracy –
- Fascism –
- 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 divided 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 –
- Kakistocracy –
- Kratocracy –
- Kleptocracy –
- Kritarchy –
- Kritocracy –
- Kyriarchy –
- Logocracy –
- Matriarchy –
- Gynaecocracy –
- Gynarchy –
- Gynocracy –
- Mediocracy –
- Meritocracy –
- Minarchism –
- Monarchy –
- Nanny state –
- Nation-state –
- Monocracy –
- Nomocracy –
- Noocracy –
- Ochlocracy –
- Oligarchy –
- Panarchism –
- Pantisocracy –
- Paparchy –
- Parliamentary –
- Patriarchy –
- Plutocracy –
- Police state –
- Polyarchy –
- Presidential –
- Puppet state –
- Republic –
- Crowned –
- Capitalist –
- Constitutional –
- Single Party –
- Federal –
- Parliamentary –
- Federal –
- Slave state –
- Socialist state –
- Sociocracy –
- Squirearchy –
- Stratocracy –
- Sultanism –
- Superpower –
- Supranational union –
- Synarchy –
- Technocracy –
- Thalassocracy –
- Theocracy –
- Timocracy –
- Tribal –
- Chiefdom –
- Tyranny –
- Unitary state –
- Welfare state –
Governments of the world
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Elections
Main article: Election
Political parties
Main article: Political party
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Law
Main article: Law
Political strategies and tactics
Main articles: Political strategy and Political tactic
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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
Political theory
Main article: Political theory
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)
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.[2][3]
References
- ^ 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."
- ^ Oxford Handbook Of Political Theory
- ^ Contemporary Political Theory
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