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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to politics and political science:

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Politics – the exercise of power; process by which groups of people make collective decisions. Politics is the art or science of running governmental or state affairs (including behavior within civil governments), institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the corporate, academic, and religious segments of society.

Political science – 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

Related disciplines

Political theory

Main article: Political theory

Decision-making

Voting is a key form of decision-making in politics. A female journalist displays her inked finger after casting her vote in Afghanistan's western Herat province.

Election

Order of succession

Sortition

Political institutions

Institutions are often the framework within which politics happens. Pictured is the Supreme Court of the United States.

Government

Branches of government

The separation of powers is typically set in the constitution or basic law in order to achieve checks and balances within government. The typical model has three branches, and is referred to as the trias politica.

Political parties, and their number, are important aspects of representative systems. The number of political parties in the Hellenic Parliament of Greece has varied across time.

Political parties

Political behavior

Theories of political behaviour

Political strategy

See also: Political warfare

Voting behavior

Political dysfunction

Types of polities and forms of government

Main article: List of forms of government See also: Polity

By level of social organisation

By formal power structure

By source of power

Political ideologies and philosophies

Main article: List of political ideologies

Governments of the world

Government of Africa
Sovereign states
States with limited
recognition
Dependencies and
other territories
Government of North America
Sovereign states
Dependencies and
other territories
Government of South America
Sovereign states
Dependencies and
other territories
Government of Asia
Sovereign states
States with
limited recognition
Dependencies and
other territories
Government in Europe
Sovereign states
States with limited
recognition
Dependencies and
other entities
Other entities
Government of Oceania
Sovereign states
Associated states
of New Zealand
Dependencies
and other territories

Political issues and policies

Rights

Economic policy

Foreign and security policy

Social policy

Politics by continent

Politics of Africa
Sovereign states
States with limited
recognition
Dependencies and
other territories
Politics of Asia
Sovereign states
States with
limited recognition
Dependencies and
other territories
Politics of Europe
Sovereign states
States with limited
recognition
Dependencies and
other entities
Other entities
Politics of North America
Sovereign states
Dependencies and
other territories
Politics of Oceania
Sovereign states
Associated states
of New Zealand
Dependencies
and other territories
Politics of South America
Sovereign states
Dependencies and
other territories

Foreign relations by continents

Foreign relations of Africa
Sovereign states
States with limited
recognition
Dependencies and
other territories
Foreign relations of Asia
Sovereign states
States with
limited recognition
Dependencies and
other territories
Foreign relations of Europe
Sovereign states
States with limited
recognition
Dependencies and
other entities
Other entities
Foreign relations of North America
Sovereign states
Dependencies and
other territories
Foreign relations of Oceania
Sovereign states
Associated states
of New Zealand
Dependencies
and other territories
Foreign relations of South America
Sovereign states
Dependencies and
other territories

Political parties by continent

List of political parties in Africa
Sovereign states
States with limited
recognition
Dependencies and
other territories
List of political parties in Asia
Sovereign states
States with
limited recognition
Dependencies and
other territories
List of political parties in Europe
Sovereign states
States with limited
recognition
Dependencies and
other entities
Other entities
List of political parties in North America
Sovereign states
Dependencies and
other territories
List of political parties in Oceania
Sovereign states
Associated states
of New Zealand
Dependencies
and other territories
List of political parties in South America
Sovereign states
Dependencies and
other territories

History of politics

Political scholars

Influential literature

See also

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Further reading

References

  1. Suissa, Judith (2001). "Anarchism, Utopias and Philosophy of Education". Journal of Philosophy of Education 35 (4). pp. 627–646. doi:10.1111/1467-9752.00249.
  2. Mill, John Stuart (1861). "Chapter VII, Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority only". Considerations on Representative Government. London: Parker, Son, & Bourn.
  3. Carlisle, Rodney P., ed., The Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and the Right, Volume 2: The Right (Thousand Oaks, California, United States; London, England; New Delhi, India: Sage Publications, 2005) p. 693.
  4. 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."
  5. "Oxford Handbook of Political Theory". Oxford University Press. 27 Aug 2006. ISBN 9780199270033. Archived from the original on Mar 5, 2016.
  6. Walsh, Mary (1 May 2008). "The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory". Contemporary Political Theory. 7 (2): 232–234. doi:10.1057/cpt.2008.2.

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