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

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

• Area studies
• Coalition studies
• Comparative politics
• Development studies
• Domestic politics (e.g. American politics)
• 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 activism
• Political behavior
• Political corruption
• Political criticism
• Political economy
• Political fiction
• Political movement
• Political party analysis
• Political power
• Political psychology
• Political research methodology
• Political sociology
• Political spectrum
• Political systems
• Political theory and philosophy
• Positive political theory
• Psephology - statistical analysis of voting systems and electoral behavior
• Public administration
• Public administration and local government studies
• Public law
• Public policy studies
• Security studies
• Strategic studies

Related disciplines

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

Political theory

Political theory

Elections

Election

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

Political parties

Political party

Political strategies and tactics

Political strategy

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

Political corruption

Political corruption

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

Government

Government of India

• Government

Political philosophies

Political philosophy

• 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

Governments of the world

Political issues

Politics by region

Foreign relations by region

Political parties by region

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 – Chakya^[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)
• The Communist Manifesto – by Karl Marx (1818-1883)

See also

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

External links

• American Political Science Association
• European Consortium for Political Research
• International Political Science Association
• Political Studies Association of the UK
• PROL: Political Science Research Online (prepublished research)
• Truman State University Political Science Research Design Handbook
• A New Nation Votes: American Elections Returns 1787-1825
• Political links resource