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Outline of political science

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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.

  • Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Political philosophy
  • Social science
  • Sociology
  • Political sociology

    • Elections

  • Voting systems
  • Game theory
  • Political Campaigning
  • Political communications
  • Political qualifications

    • Political strategies and tactics

  • Bandwagoning
  • Brinkmanship
  • Buck passing
  • Cloward–Piven strategy
  • Filibuster
  • Gerrymandering
  • Propaganda
  • Starve the beast

    • Political corruption

  • Bribery
  • Cronyism
  • Economics of corruption
  • Nepotism
  • Slush fund

    • Government

  • Government

    • Political philosophies

  • Absolutism
  • Anarchism
  • Authoritarianism
  • Conservativism
  • Corporatism
  • Egalitarianism
  • 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
  • Liberalism
  • Minarchism
  • Nationalism
  • Nazism
  • Socialism
  • Totalitarianism

    • History of politics

  • History of political science
  • History of political thinking
  • Political history
  • List of years in politics

    • Political scholars

  • List of political scientists
  • List of political philosophers
  • List of social and political philosophers
  • List of political theorists

    • Influential literature

  • The Art of War – by Sun Tsu (c. 544–496 BC)
  • History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (c. 460 – c. 400 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 (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)

    • References

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