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Core articles initiative

I think that although the articles listed in the box are reasonable, we actually need short essays which will integrate many of these ideas thematically. So, in the absence of [apparently] any other living Politics editors, I suggest a short list below --Martin Baldwin-Edwards 16:22, 27 September 2007 (CDT)

Essential concepts

•  politics: The process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for their members. ^[e]
•  government: The system by which a community or nation is controlled and regulated. A government is a person or group of persons who govern a political community or nation. ^[e]
•  power: The capacity to control the administration of resources within a society ^[e]
• State: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See state (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
•  nation: A large group of people with a singular, shared, and commonly-accepted historical identity, identified by a universally recognised name. ^[e]

The study of politics

•  political science: Social science that studies politics, political systems and political behavior. ^[e]
• Political economy: Add brief definition or description
• Political history: Add brief definition or description
• Political sociology: Subfield of sociology that deals with fundamental questions of social behavior, social relations and social institutions in politics. ^[e]
•  political philosophy: Branch of philosophy that deals with fundamental questions about politics. ^[e]
• Political theory: Add brief definition or description
•  international relations: Add brief definition or description
• Comparative politics: Add brief definition or description
•  history of political thought: The development of political ideas over time since the discovery of politics in Plato, Confucius and Mencius. ^[e]

Political structures

•  political system: Recursive structures for transforming existing values into political demands and supports which provoke authoritative decisions allocating values and lead to consequences which, in turn, provoke new patterns of demands and supports. ^[e]
• Electoral system: Add brief definition or description
•  political party: An organization that seeks to advance the interests of its members by obtaining political power ^[e]
•  nongovernmental organization: A term used in much of the world to describe third sector organizations in terms of their location outside of formal government. ^[e]
• International organization: Add brief definition or description
•  United Nations: An international organization that was founded in 1945 with the mission of preventing international war, protecting human rights, supporting social progress and justice, and helping with economic progress. ^[e]
•  European Union: Political and economic association of 27 European states. ^[e]

Political Ideologies	World Leaders	Political Theorists	Forms of Government
Anarchism Christian Democracy  Communism  Conservatism  Democracy Deliberative Democracy  Fascism Green politics Islamism  Liberalism Libertarianism  Nationalism  Nazism  Socialism  Social democracy  Republicanism  Technocracy  Utilitarianism	G20  Shinzo Abe Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Jan Peter Balkenende Silvio Berlusconi  Gordon Brown Felipe Calderón Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Hu Jintao Stephen Harper Trevor Manuel Guido Mantega  Dmitry Medvedev  Angela Merkel Kgalema Motlanthe Lee Myung-bak  Barack Obama Romano Prodi  Vladimir Putin Kevin Rudd Nicolas Sarkozy Manmohan Singh Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Other José Manuel Barroso John Howard Kim Jong-il  Osama bin Laden Former Leaders Kofi Annan  Tony Blair  George W. Bush  Bill Clinton	Thomas Aquinas  Aristotle Augustine  Jeremy Bentham Isaiah Berlin Jean Bodin  Edmund Burke  John Calvin  Cicero Frederich Engels Mohandas Gandhi Antonio Gramsci  Jürgen Habermas Frederich Hayek George W.F. Hegel  David Hume John of Salisbury  Thomas Hobbes  Immanuel Kant  John Maynard Keynes Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  John Locke  Martin Luther Niccolo Machiavelli Marsilio of Padua  Karl Marx  John Stuart Mill Charles de Secondat Montesquieu  Benito Mussolini  Friedrich Nietzsche  Thomas Paine  Pericles  Plato Polybius  Karl Popper John Rawls Jean Jacques Rousseau  Adam Smith Herbert Spencer  Baruch Spinoza  Alexis de Tocqueville Max Weber	Absolute monarchy  Anarchy  Aristocracy Autocracy  Constitutional monarchy  Democracy Despotism Dictatorship Federalism  Monarchy Ochlocracy  Oligarchy Panarchy Plutocracy  Republic  Technocracy Theocracy Tyranny

The box is unfinished, so I suggest the following additions to the list:

• under ideologies: utilitarianism
• under theorists: Rousseau, Mill, Pericles (for the Athenian ideal of democracy) Thomas Aquinas, John Rawls.
• under political systems: representative government (the system we now live under!)

Nick Gardner 04:49, 15 November 2007 (CSTKleineidam)

Can I also suggest we add Technocray under ideologies as well? Andrew Alexander Wallace 05:36, 5 May 2008 (CDT)

Can I add Michael Oakeshott to theorists? Yi Zhe Wu 14:30, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Some tentative attempts at drafting

In drafting an article on Politics and a linked article on Political Party, I have been conscious of the danger of stepping on the toes of people better qualified for that purpose. I was encouraged, however, by the belief that what was available appeared to be incomplete or obscure. But in drafting all-inclusive articles of that sort, the difficulty is how to hold the reader’s interest in the main issues without misleading him by over-simplification – and I am far from confident that I have got the balance right. I will readily withdraw if my drafts are beyond redemption in that respect, but my hope is that my fellow CZ writers will help by correcting what is misleading, and expanding the text where necessary, without insisting upon the inclusion of excessive detail that would better be in linked articles. Nick Gardner 16:48, 1 December 2007 (CST)

Some Updates

In the spirit of Collaboration Week (and so that Martin doesn't have to continue to feel alone here) I added the suggestions made above, which I thought were all good ones. (I assumed Alexander left a C out of Technocracy above. If that isn't so, he can add Technocray to the listing also - and explain what it may be.)

The large number of additions to the list of political theorists came straight from the TOC of Eberstein & Eberstein, Great Political Thinkers. (5th edition, 1991, I'm sorry to say!) I was delighted to see the number of listings for which there were already CZ entries, and look forward to development of the rest.

There are still a host of contemporary additions that might be made to that list, including Robert Nozick (Anarchy, State and Utopia), Benjamin Barber (Strong Democracy), Amatai Etzioni, (Communitarianism), Michael Sandel, and a host of new political economy, citizenship, civil society and social capital writers. Roger Lohmann 08:24, 27 June 2008 (CDT)