Political Theories and Concepts

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

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