Portal:Politics/Topics

Numerous articles in Wikipedia are related to politics, especially to political science, democracy and the various aspects of a democratic system, most notably elections. In general, all the following articles have at least some connection with politics or the democratic decision-making process.

General

 * Politics - Political science - Political history - Political game - Political scientists - Comparative politics - International politics - Political economy - Political psychology
 * Political theory - Forms of state - Sovereignty - Consent of the governed - Theories of Political Behavior

Political systems/forms of government

 * Absolute monarchy - Anarchism - Aristocracy - Autocracy - Democracy - Despotism - Dictatorship - Monarchy - Ochlocracy - Oligarchy - Panarchy - Plutocracy - Technocracy - Theocracy -Tyranny - See further: Forms of government

Political theories and ideologies

 * Ideology - Legitimating ideology - Political philosophy
 * Anarchism - Anarcho-capitalism - Anarcho-primitivism - Anarcho-syndicalism - Anarcho-communism - Anti-communism - Antidisestablishmentarianism - Asian values - Authoritarianism - Bioregionalism - Black populism - Bourguibism -  Black supremacy - Bolivarian Revolution - Capitalism - Christian democracy - Christian socialism - Classical liberalism - Classical republicanism - Collectivism - Communism - Communitarianism - Conservatism -  Corporatocracy - Demarchy - Democracy (varieties) - Equality before the law - Democratic peace theory - Democratic socialism - Democratic transhumanism - Eco-socialism - Egalitarianism - Fascism - Federalism - Fenno's Paradox - Green anarchism - Green politics - Hindu nationalism - Individualist anarchism - Integral humanism -Internationalism - Islamism - Isocracy - Kemalism - Leftism - Left-libertarianism - Liberalism - Libertarianism - Libertarian socialism - Localism - Majoritarianism - Maoism - Marxism - Marxism-Leninism - Marxist philosophy - Meritocracy - Minarchism - Minoritarianism - Miscegenation - Monarchism - Nationalism - National Socialism - Neoliberalism - Pacifism - Paleoconservatism - Paleolibertarianism - Political symbolism - Panislamism - Peronism - Populism - Political bias - Post-Communism - Progressivism - Putinism - Racial purity - Racial segregation - Racialism - Radical centrism - Radical liberalism - Rationalism - Republicanism - Screen theory - Slavophile - Social Credit - Social democracy - Socialism - Social issue - Social liberalism - Social philosophy - Sphere of influence - Stalinism - Syndicalism - Thatcherism - Third Position - Third Way - Totalitarianism - Tribalism - Trotskyism - Trumpism - Ultranationalism - Utilitarianism - White supremacy

Political theorists

 * Classical political theorists
 * Plato - Aristotle - Thucydides - Cicero - Saint Augustine - Thomas Aquinas
 * Modern political theorists
 * Niccolò Machiavelli - John Calvin - Martin Luther - Habib Bourguiba - Zine el Abidine Ben Ali -Baruch Spinoza - Jean Bodin - Thomas Hobbes - John Locke - David Hume - Adam Smith - Jeremy Bentham -Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Immanuel Kant - Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès - G.W.F. Hegel - Johann Gottfried von Herder - Alexis de Tocqueville - John Stuart Mill - Karl Marx - Friedrich Engels - Max Weber - Vladimir Lenin
 * Contemporary political theorists
 * Noam Chomsky - Ayn Rand - John Rawls - Amartya Sen - Jürgen Habermas - James M. Buchanan - Bernard Crick - Michel Foucault - Jane Jacobs - Antonio Negri - Robert Nozick - Hannah Arendt - Karl Popper - Isaiah Berlin - Mohandas Gandhi - Murray Bookchin - John Zerzan

State and government

 * State (polity)
 * Sovereign state - Government - Separation of powers
 * Public administration - Comparative government - Devolved government
 * Three powers of the State - Separation of powers
 * Executive (government) - Head of state
 * Legislature - Parliament - Congress
 * Judiciary - Law - Rule of law
 * Citizenship
 * Political components
 * Village-City - City-state - Confederation - Country - Empire - Federation - Nation-state - Prefecture - Principality - Province - Republic - Sovereign state - Unitary state - World government

Democracy

 * Democracy - Democracy (varieties) - Democratization - Civil society - Checks and balances - History of democracy - Deliberative democracy - Epistemic democracy
 * Direct democracy
 * Direct democracy - Representative direct democracy - Athenian democracy - Referendum - Initiative
 * List of direct democracy parties
 * Indirect democracy
 * Liberal democracy - Representative democracy -  Delegated legislation
 * Presidential system
 * Presidential system - Congress - Semi-presidential system - President
 * Parliamentary system
 * Parliamentary system - History of parliamentarism - Parliament - Inter-Parliamentary Union - Westminster system - Parliamentary supremacy - Semi-presidential system - Coalition government - Prime minister
 * Alternative forms of democracy
 * Anticipatory democracy - Bioregional democracy - Consensus democracy - Deliberative democracy - Demarchy - E-democracy - Geniocracy - Gerontocracy - Grassroots democracy - Meritocracy - Non-partisan democracy - Participatory democracy - Semi-direct democracy - Sortition - Totalitarian democracy

Elections and parties

 * Election and Electoral systems
 * Election - Psephology - Electoral system - Condorcet method - Criticisms of electoralism - General election - By-election - Additional Member System - Fixed-term election - First Past the Post electoral system - Indirect election - Matrix vote - Mixed member proportional voting - Party-list proportional representation - Pluralism - Proportional representation - Single non-transferable vote - Quota Borda system - Single Transferable Vote
 * Election results
 * Elections by country - Electoral calendar
 * Voting and counting systems
 * Voting - Vote counting systems - Voting system - Alternative vote top-up - Approval voting - Borda count - Bucklin voting - Closed list - Condorcet method - Coombs' method - Copeland's method - D'Hondt method - Droop quota - Election threshold - Hamilton method - Highest averages method - Instant-runoff voting - Largest remainder method - Ranked voting systems - Range voting - Sainte-Laguë method - Schulze method - Schulze STV
 * Polling
 * Approval rating - Deliberative opinion poll - Exit poll - Open access poll - Opinion poll - Political handicapping - Push poll - Straw poll - Televoting
 * Miscellaneous on elections
 * Absolute majority - Anti-incumbency - Ballot - Ballot access - Bloc voting - Canvassing - Compulsory voting - Constituent - Constituency - Cumulative voting - Double majority - Duverger's law - Elector - Electoral fraud - Elective rights - Electoral college - Electoral fusion - Electoral reform - Electoral stasis - Electronic voting - Gallagher Index - Gerrymander - Incumbent - Independence of irrelevant alternatives - Majority rule - Marginal seat - Narrow elections - Nomination rules - Open list - Overhang seat - Parallel voting - Plurality - Polling station - Postal voting - Primary election - Protest vote - Qualified Majority Voting - Recall election - Right of foreigners to vote - Secret ballot - Simple majority - Sortition - Split vote - Spoiler effect - Strategic nomination - Suffrage - Suffragette - Supermajority - Tactical voting - Two-thirds majority - Underhang seat - Universal suffrage - Vote - Vote pairing - Voter turnout - Voting machine - Voting rights - Women's suffrage
 * Campaigning
 * Campaign advertising - Campaign finance - Campaign finance reform - Campaign management tools - Canvassing - Election promise - Get out the vote - Negative campaigning - Political campaign - Political platform
 * Political parties
 * Party system - Political spectrum - Political party - Multi-party system - Two-party system - Single-party state - Dominant-party system - Preselection - Political parties by country - Political parties by ideology - Political parties by name
 * Politicians
 * Politician - Head of State - Head of Government - List of national leaders
 * President - Prime Minister - Premier - Minister - Governor - Mayor
 * Member of Parliament - Senator - Congressman - Councillor
 * Information by country
 * Elections: Elections by country - Table of voting systems by nation - List of national legislatures
 * Political parties: Political parties by country

Politics by country
Information on politics by country is available for every List of countries, that means each country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. The entries are listed below.
 * Abkhazia - Afghanistan - Åland - Albania - Algeria - American Samoa - Andorra - Angola - Anguilla - Antigua and Barbuda - Argentina - Armenia - Aruba - Australia - Austria - Azerbaijan
 * Bahamas - Bahrain - Bangladesh - Barbados - Belarus - Belgium - Belize - Benin - Bermuda - Bhutan - Bolivia - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Botswana -  Brazil - British Virgin Islands - Brunei - Bulgaria - Burkina Faso - Burma (now Myanmar) - Burundi
 * Cambodia - Cameroon - Canada - Cape Verde - Cayman Islands - Central African Republic - Chad - Chile - People's Republic of China - Republic of China (Taiwan) - Colombia - Comoros - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Republic of the Congo - Cook Islands - Costa Rica - Côte d'Ivoire - Croatia - Cuba - Cyprus - Czech Republic
 * Democratic Republic of the Congo - Denmark - Djibouti - Dominica - Dominican Republic
 * Ecuador - East Timor - Egypt - El Salvador - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Estonia - Ethiopia
 * Falkland Islands - Faroe Islands - Fiji - Finland - France - French Polynesia
 * Gabon - The Gambia - Georgia - Germany - Ghana - Gibraltar - Greece - Grenada - Guam - Guatemala - Guernsey - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Guyana
 * Haiti - Holy See (see Vatican City) - Honduras - Hong Kong - Hungary
 * Iceland - India - Indonesia - Iran - Iraq - Ireland - Israel - Italy - Ivory Coast (see Côte d'Ivoire)
 * Jamaica - Japan - Jersey - Jordan
 * Kazakhstan - Kenya - Kiribati - Korea, North - Korea, South - Kosovo - Kuwait - Kyrgyzstan
 * Laos - Latvia - Lebanon - Lesotho - Liberia - Libya - Liechtenstein - Lithuania - Luxembourg
 * Macau - Madagascar - Malawi - Malaysia - Maldives - Mali - Malta - Man - Marshall Islands - Mauritania - Mauritius - Mayotte - Mexico - Federated States of Micronesia - Moldova - Monaco - Mongolia - Montenegro - Montserrat - Morocco - Mozambique - Myanmar
 * Nagorno Karabakh - Namibia - Nauru - Nepal - Netherlands - Netherlands Antilles - New Zealand (Aotearoa) - Nicaragua - Niger - Nigeria - Niue - Norfolk Island - Northern Cyprus - North Korea - North Macedonia - Northern Mariana Islands - Norway
 * Oman
 * Pakistan - Palau - Palestine - Panama - Papua New Guinea - Paraguay - Peru - Philippines - Pitcairn Islands - Poland - Portugal - Puerto Rico
 * Qatar
 * Romania - Russia - Rwanda
 * Saint Helena - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Lucia - Saint Pierre and Miquelon - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Samoa - San Marino - São Tomé and Príncipe - Saudi Arabia - Senegal - Serbia - Seychelles - Sierra Leone - Singapore - Slovakia - Slovenia - Solomon Islands - Somalia - Somaliland - South Africa - South Korea - Spain - Sri Lanka - Sudan - Suriname - Swaziland - Sweden - Switzerland - Syria
 * Taiwan (see Republic of China) - Tajikistan - Tanzania - Thailand - Togo - Tokelau - Tonga - Transnistria - Trinidad and Tobago - Tunisia - Turkey - Turkmenistan - Turks and Caicos Islands - Tuvalu
 * Uganda - Ukraine - United Arab Emirates - United Kingdom - United States of America - Uruguay - Uzbekistan
 * Vanuatu - Vatican City (Holy See) - Venezuela - Vietnam - Virgin Islands
 * Western Sahara - Wallis and Futuna
 * Yemen
 * Zambia - Zimbabwe

E-democracy

 * E-democracy - Emergent democracy - Online consultation - Open source governance

Power

 * Power (international) - Superpower - Major power - Regional power - Soft power