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Main article: Politics

Contents 1 Politics (general) 1.1 General 1.2 Political systems/forms of government 1.3 Political theories and ideologies 1.4 Political theorists 1.4.1 Classical political theorists 1.4.2 Modern political theorists 1.4.3 Contemporary political theorists 2 State and government 2.1 General 2.2 Political components 3 Democracy 3.1 Direct democracy 3.2 Indirect democracy 3.2.1 Presidential system 3.2.2 Parliamentary system 3.3 Alternative forms of democracy 4 Election 4.1 Election and Electoral systems 4.2 Election results 4.3 Voting and counting systems 4.4 Miscellaneous on elections 4.5 Campaigning 5 Political parties 6 Politicians 7 Politics by country 8 E-democracy

[edit] Politics (general)

[edit] General

• Politics - Political science - Political history - Political scientist - Political scientists - Comparative politics - International politics - Political economy - Political psychology
• Political theory - Forms of state - Sovereignty - Consent of the governed - Theories of Political Behavior

[edit] Political systems/forms of government

• Absolute monarchy - Anarchism - Aristocracy - Autocracy - Democracy - Despotism - Dictatorship - Monarchy - Ochlocracy - Oligarchy - Panarchy - Plutocracy - Technocracy - Theocracy -Tyranny - See further: Forms of government

[edit] Political theories and ideologies

• Ideology - Legitimating ideology - Political philosophy
• Alternative society - Anarchism - Anarcho-capitalism - Anarcho-Communism - Anti-communism - Antidisestablishmentarianism - Asian values - Authoritarianism - Bioregional democracy - Black populism - Black supremacy - Christian democracy - Capitalism - Capitalism and related political ideologies - Classical liberalism - Classical republicanism - Collectivism - Communism - Communitarianism - Conservatism - Corporatocracy - Demarchy - Democracy (varieties) - Democratic egalitarianism - Democratic peace theory - Democratic socialism - Democratic transhumanism - Egalitarianism - Fascism - Federalism - Green anarchism - Green politics - Green syndicalism - Individualist anarchism - Infosocialism - Islamism - Leftism - Liberal fascism - Liberalism - Libertarian theory - Libertarianism - Libertarian socialism - Majoritarianism - Marxism - Marxism-Leninism - Marxist philosophy - Meritocracy - Minoritarianism - Miscegenation - Nationalism - Neoliberalism - Pacifism - Paleolibertarianism - Patriotism - Symbolism - Pacifism - Peronism - Populism - Post-Communism - Racial purity - Racial segregation - Racialism - Radical centrism - Republicanism - Screen theory - Slavophile - Small-l libertarianism - Social Credit - Social democracy - Socialism - Social liberalism - Social philosophy - Sphere of influence - Stalinism - Totalitarianism - Tribalism - Utilitarianism

[edit] Political theorists

[edit] Classical political theorists

• Plato - Aristotle - Thucydides - Cicero - Saint Augustine - Thomas Aquinas

[edit] Modern political theorists

• Niccolò Machiavelli - John Calvin - Martin Luther - Baruch Spinoza - Jean Bodin - Thomas Hobbes - John Locke - David Hume - Adam Smith - Jeremy Bentham - the Federalist Papers - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Immanuel Kant - Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès - G.W.F. Hegel - Johann Gottfried von Herder - Alexis de Tocqueville - John Stuart Mill - Karl Marx - Friedrich Engels - Max Weber - Lenin

[edit] Contemporary political theorists

• David Friedman - Noam Chomsky - John Rawls - Jan Narveson - David Gauthier - Amartya Sen - Jürgen Habermas - James M. Buchanan - Bernard Crick - Michel Foucault - Jane Jacobs - Carol Moore - Antonio Negri - Robert Nozick - Hannah Arendt - Mohandas Gandhi - Ayn Rand - Dennis Kucinich

[edit] State and government

[edit] General

• State - Government - Separation of powers
• Public administration - Comparative government - Devolved government
• Three powers of the State - Separation of powers
  • Executive (government) - Head of state
  • Legislature - Parliament - Congress
  • Judiciary - Law - Rule of law
• Citizenship

[edit] Political components

• City - City-state - Confederation - Country - Empire - Federation - Nation-state - Prefecture - Principality - Province - Republic - State - Unitary state - World government

[edit] Democracy

• Democracy - Democracy (varieties) - Democratization - Civil society - Checks and balances - History of democracy

[edit] Direct democracy

• Direct democracy - Athenian democracy - Referendum - Initiative

[edit] Indirect democracy

• Liberal democracy - Representative democracy - Delegated legislation

[edit] Presidential system

• Presidential system - Congress - Semi-presidential system - President

[edit] Parliamentary system

• Parliamentary system - History of Parliamentarism - Parliament - Inter-Parliamentary Union - Westminster System - Parliamentary supremacy - Semi-presidential system - Coalition government - Prime minister

[edit] Alternative forms of democracy

• Anticipatory democracy - Bioregional democracy - Consensus democracy - Deliberative democracy - Demarchy - E-democracy - Geniocracy - Gerontocracy - Grassroots democracy - Meritocracy - Non-partisan democracy - Participatory democracy - Semi-direct democracy - Sortition - Totalitarian democracy

[edit] Election

[edit] Election and Electoral systems

• Election - Psephology - Electoral system - Condorcet method - Criticisms of electoralism - General election - By-election - Additional Member System - Fixed-term election - First Past the Post electoral system - Indirect election - Mixed member proportional voting - Party-list proportional representation - Pluralism - Proportional representation - Single non-transferable vote - Single Transferable Vote

[edit] Election results

• Elections by country - Electoral calendar

[edit] Voting and counting systems

• Vote counting systems - Voting system - Alternative vote top-up - Approval voting - Borda count - Bucklin voting - Closed list - Condorcet method - Coombs' method - Copeland's method - D'Hondt method - Droop quota - Election threshold - Hamilton method - Highest averages method - Instant-runoff voting - Largest remainder method - Preferential voting - Proportional approval voting - Range voting - Sainte-Laguë method - Schulze method

[edit] Miscellaneous on elections

• Absolute majority - Anti-incumbency - Ballot - Ballot access - Bloc voting - Canvassing - Compulsory voting - Constituent - Constituency - Cumulative voting - Double majority - Duverger's law - Elector - Electoral fraud - Elective rights - Electoral college - Electoral fusion - Electorate - Electronic voting - Exit poll - Gallagher Index - Gerrymander - Incumbent - Independence of irrelevant alternatives - Majority rule - Marginal seat - Open list - Overhang seat - Parallel voting - Plurality - Polling station - Postal voting - Primary election - Protest vote - Push poll - Qualified Majority Voting - Recall election - Secret ballot - Simple majority - Sortition - Split vote - Spoiler effect - Strategic nomination - Suffrage - Suffragette - Supermajority - Tactical voting - Two-thirds majority - Underhang seat - Universal suffrage - Vote - Vote swapping - Voter turnout - Voting machine - Voting rights - Women's suffrage

[edit] Campaigning

• Campaign advertising - Campaign finance - Campaign finance reform - Campaign management tools - Canvassing - Election promise - Get out the vote - Negative campaigning - Political campaign - Political platform

[edit] Political parties

• Party system - Political spectrum - Political party - Multi-party system - Two-party system - Single-party state - Dominant-party system - Political parties by country - Political parties by name

[edit] Politicians

• Politician - Head of State - Head of Government - List of national leaders
• President - Prime Minister - Premier - Minister - Governor - Mayor
• Member of Parliament - Senator - Congressman - Councillor

[edit] Politics by country

• General information on countries: List of sovereign states - List of dependent territories
• History: History by country
• Politics: Politics by country - List of national leaders
• Elections: Elections by country - Table of voting systems by nation - List of national legislatures
• Political parties: Political parties by country

[edit] E-democracy

• Demosphere - E-democracy - Emergent democracy - Internet democracy - Online consultation - Open source government