News Political Theories and Concepts Posted on 21/02/201707/12/2021 by HKT A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 & other A absolutism action theory activism administrative theory alienation anarchism anarcho-capitalism anarcho-feminism anarcho-syndicalism androcentrism anomie apartheid aristocracy Aristotelianism Austinianism authoritarianism authority autocracy B backlash theory Bakuninism balance of power balance of terror Balkanization bargaining theory behavioralism Bentham’s theory of utilitarianism billiard ball model biological determinism black box model Blanquism bolshevism budget-maximization theory bureaucracy C capital logic catallaxy catastrophe theory centralization chicken Christian socialism circulation of elites citizenship civil disobedience civil society class dealignment class struggle class voting clerisy cock-up theory collective security collectivism collegialism colonialism common good communalism communications theory communism communitarianism complex interdependence conflict theory consciousness raising consent conservatism conservative paradox conspiracy constitutionalism constructive apathy contingency theory convergence theory corporatism countervailing power crisis management crisis of capitalism crisis theory critical theory cybernetics cyclical theory D decision making theory decline of the West deference democracy democratic centralism democratic elitism dependency theory deterrence detonator theory development theory dialectical materialism dictatorship of the proletariat difference principle direct action direct democracy directed democracy distributism divine right dominant ideology domino theory doomsday theory double consciousness dual state theory E economic determinism egalitarianism electoral competition elitism embourgeoisement encroaching control end of ideology equal freedom equality equality of states doctrine equilibrium theory Erastianism escalation essential contestability essentialism evolutionism exclusion theory exit, voice, and loyalty exploitation F Fabianism false consciousness fascism federalism feminism feminist linguistics feminist methodology fetishism feudalism foco theory functionalism G game theory gatekeeping theory gaze gender theory general strike general will geopolitics grand theory great man theory greatest happiness principle Grotian theory grounded theory group theory guild socialism H heartland theory hegemonic stability theory hegemony high politics historical materialism human imperfection human nature hype I ideology immiseration impacted pluralism imperialism incrementalism individualism industrial democracy inevitability of gradualness interests internal colonialism international morality international system internationalism iron law of oligarchy isolationism J just war justice K king’s two bodies L law of the small number legal positivism legitimacy legitimacy crisis Leninism liberal democracy liberal feminism liberalism libertarianism logic of collective action M Machiavellianism managerial revolution managerialism Maoism market socialism Marxism Marxist feminism mass society master race materialist theory of history mercantilism meritocracy millenarianism modernization mood theory multilateralism mutual aid mutually assured destruction myth N nationalism natural justice natural law natural rights neo-conservatism neo-corporatism neo-functionalism neo-liberalism neo-Marxism new age new class new left new liberalism new right NIMBY noblesse oblige O oligarchy open society organic theory of the state overkill overload theory Owenism P pacifism para bellum paternalism patriarchy PCism peaceful co-existence permanent revolution personal is political piecemeal social engineering pluralism plutocracy police state polis political correctness political culture political obligation polyarchy populism positive law possibilism post-materialism post-modernism power power corrupts prisoner’s dilemma privatization progress proletarianism propaganda by the deed property property is theft public choice public interest public private divide Q R racism radical feminism radicalism raison d’etat rational choice real self realism relative autonomy relative deprivation representation republicanism revisionism revolution rights rule of law S satyagraha separation of powers separatism sexism situationism social choice social contract social credit social Darwinism social democracy socialism socialism in one country sovereignty spontaneous order Stalinism state state capitalism state of nature structural functionalism subsidiarity survival of the fittest syndicalism systems theory T Thatcherism three worlds theory toryism total war totalitarianism tradition tragedy of the commons trahison des clercs Trotskyism tyranny of the majority U unilateralism utopianism V vanguard party veil of ignorance virtual representation volonte generale W welfarism white man’s burden withering away of the state workers’ control world 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