Outline of 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.

Branches of political science

Fields of study of political science

• Area studies
• Coalition studies
• Comparative politics
• Development studies
• 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 behavior
• Political economy
• Political party analysis
• Political psychology
• Political research methodology
• Political sociology
• 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

• International relations theory
  • Power in international relations
  • Realism in international relations
  • Idealism in international relations
  • Neoliberalism in international relations
  • Marxist international relations theory
  • Functionalism in international relations
  • Critical international relations theory
• Metapolitics
• Peace and conflict studies
  • Democratic peace theory
  • Power transition theory
  • Hegemonic stability theory
• Political geography
• Political symbolism
• Theories of state
  • Consent of the governed
  • Form of government
  • Islamic state
  • Nationalism
  • Patriotism
  • Sovereignty

Elections

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

Political parties

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

Governments of the World

Political issues

Abortion Affirmative action Agricultural policy and land reform Animal rights and animal testing Capital punishment Censorship Internet censorship Freedom of speech Freedom of the press Internet taxation Climate change policy Direct democracy Disarmament and nonproliferation Drug policy and reform

Education policy and reform Electoral reform Foreign policy Gay rights and gay marriage Gun rights and gun control Health care policy and reform Immigration policy and reform Israeli-Palestinian conflict Language policy Lobbying Medical marijuana NATO expansion Nuclear testing

Political corruption Race relations Science and technology policy Separation of church and state Space policy Stem cells and the stem cell controversy Tax reform Terrorism, counter-terrorism, and the War on Terrorism Trade War Welfare reform

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 – Chāṇakya^[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)

See also

• Anthropology
• Constitutional economics
• Debate
• Food politics
• Government simulation game
• Music and politics
• Policy
• Rule According to Higher Law
• Office politics
• Official statistics
• Organizational politics
• Political activism
• Political corruption
• Political criticism
• Political economy
• Political fiction (list)
• Political movement
• Political party (list by country)
• Political power
• Political psychology
• Political spectrum
• Theories of Political Behavior

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

1. 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."
2. Oxford Handbook Of Political Theory
3. Contemporary Political Theory

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