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Overview of and topical guide to political science
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
Related disciplines
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 .
Political institutions
Institutions are often the framework within which politics happens. Pictured is the
Supreme Court of the United States .
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 behavior
Political dysfunction
Types of polities and forms of government
By level of social organisation
By formal power structure
By source of power
Political ideologies and philosophies
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 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
Politics by continent
Sovereign states States with limited recognition
Dependencies and other territories
Sovereign states States with limited recognition Dependencies and other entities Other entities
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories
Sovereign states Associated states of New Zealand 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 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
Political parties by continent
Sovereign states States with limited recognition
Dependencies and other territories
Sovereign states States with limited recognition Dependencies and other entities Other entities
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories
Sovereign states Associated states of New Zealand Dependencies and other territories
History of politics
Political scholars
Influential literature
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 .
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References
^ 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 .
^
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.
^ 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.
^ 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" . Oxford University Press . 27 Aug 2006.
ISBN
9780199270033 . Archived from
the original on Mar 5, 2016.
^ 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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