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• 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
• Alternative society – Anarchism – Anarcho-capitalism – Anarcho-primitivism – Anarcho-syndicalism – Anarchist communism – Anti-communism – Antidisestablishmentarianism – Asian values – Authoritarianism – Bioregional democracy – Black populism – Black supremacy – Bolivarian Revolution – Christian Democracy – Capitalism – Classical liberalism – Classical republicanism – Collectivism – Communism – Communitarianism – Conservatism – Corporatocracy – Demarchy – Democracy (varieties) – Democratic egalitarianism – Democratic peace theory – Democratic socialism – Democratic transhumanism – Eco-socialism – Egalitarianism – Fascism – Federalism – Fenno’s Paradox – Green anarchism – Green politics – Green syndicalism – Hindu nationalism – Individualist anarchism – Integral humanism – Islamism – Isocracy – Kemalist ideology – Leftism – Liberalism – Libertarianism – Libertarian socialism – Localism – Majoritarianism – Marxism – Marxism-Leninism – Marxist philosophy – Meritocracy – Minarchism – Minoritarianism – Miscegenation – Moderate Libertarianism – Monarchism – Nationalism – National Socialism – Neoliberalism – Pacifism – Paleolibertarianism – Patriotism – Political symbolism – Pacifism – Panislamism – Peronism – Populism – Post-Communism – Progressivism – Putinism – Racial purity – Racial segregation – Racialism – Radical centrism – Radical liberalism – Rationalism – Republicanism – Screen theory – Slavophile – Small-l libertarianism – Social Credit – Social democracy – Socialism – Social liberalism – Social philosophy – Sphere of influence – Stalinism – Thatcherism – Third Position – Totalitarianism – Tribalism – Trotskyism – Utilitarianism

Political theorists

• Classical political theorists
  • Plato – Aristotle – Thucydides – Cicero – Saint Augustine – Thomas Aquinas
• Modern political theorists
  • Niccolò Machiavelli – John Calvin – Martin Luther – 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 – Carol Moore – 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
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Democracy

• Democracy – Democracy (varieties) – Democratization – Civil society – Checks and balances – History of 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

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