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"Political Theory" redirects here. For the academic journal, see Political Theory (journal).
Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), from a detail of The School of Athens, a fresco by Raphael. Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics secured the two Greek philosophers as two of the most influential political philosophers.
Political philosophy, or political theory, is the study of topics such as politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a laws by authority: what they are, why (or even if) they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it should take and why, what the law is, and what duties citizens owe to a legitimate government, if any, and when it may be legitimately overthrown, if ever.
In a vernacular sense, the term "political philosophy" often refers to a general view, or specific ethic, political belief or attitude, about politics, synonymous to the term "political ideology".
Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy.[1] Political philosophy is also considered by some to be a sub-discipline of political science;[citation needed] however, the name generally attributed to this form of political enquiry is political theory, a discipline which has a closer methodology to the theoretical fields in the social sciences (like economic theory) than to philosophical argumentation (like that of moral philosophy or aesthetics).[citation needed]
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See also: the categories Forms of government, Political culture, Political ideologies, Political philosophy, Political science theories, and Political systems.
Subcategories
A
`Agrarianism (7 C, 17 P)
American exceptionalism (9 P)
Anti-Americanism (4 C, 75 P)
Anti-Federalism (5 C, 16 P)
` Anti-militarism (6 P)
`B
` Basic income (2 C, 27 P)
`C
`Centrism (3 C, 6 P)
Communalism (9 C, 35 P)
Communist theory (13 P)
Communitarianism (4 P)
` Cosmopolitanism (2 C, 16 P)
`D
`Dark Enlightenment (4 P)
Decentralization (8 C, 89 P)
` Deep politics (12 P)
`E
`Egalitarianism (9 C, 57 P)
` Eurasianism (3 C, 31 P)
`F
` Federalism (7 C, 62 P)
`I
`Political ideologies (64 C, 147 P)
Independence (7 C, 9 P)
Individualism (14 C, 27 P)
` Internationalism (2 C, 18 P)
`L
`Legalism (Chinese philosophy) (17 P)
Libertarian socialism (8 C, 33 P)
` Libertarian theory (6 C, 72 P)
`M
`Makhnovism (13 P)
Marxism (22 C, 124 P)
Marxist schools of thought (8 C, 24 P)
Marxist theory (10 C, 106 P)
` Militarism (3 C, 21 P)
`N
`National syndicalism (1 C, 13 P)
Nationalism (48 C, 120 P)
Neo-Nazism (10 C, 23 P, 1 F)
` New Right (United States) (2 C, 73 P)
`O
` Objectivism (Ayn Rand) (6 C, 11 P)
`P
`Pacifism (11 C, 44 P)
Phoenicianism (2 C, 8 P)
Political science theories (9 C, 63 P)
Political theorists (6 C, 7 P)
Populism (10 C, 52 P)
Prohibitionism (1 C, 3 P)
` Public choice theory (3 C, 65 P)
`R
`Radicalism (historical) (2 C, 15 P)
` Regionalism (politics) (10 C, 28 P)
`S
`Social choice theory (1 C, 22 P)
Social credit (3 C, 3 P)
Socialism (38 C, 235 P)
Stoicism (1 C, 37 P)
` Supremacism (1 C, 1 P)
`T
`Third Position (7 C, 32 P)
Totalitarianism (10 C, 21 P)
` Transnationalism (5 C, 27 P)
`U
` Utilitarianism (2 C, 36 P)
`Z
`Zionism (12 C, 100 P)
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` Political philosophy
`A
` Absolute monarchy
Agonism
Agrarian socialism
American exceptionalism
American Free Press
American Redoubt
Anti-Americanism
Anti-authoritarianism
Anti-Federalism
Anti-nationalism
Anti-patriotism
Anti-Western sentiment
Anti-Zionism
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Antiestablishmentarianism
Antimilitarism
Asian values
Associationalism
Atlanticism
Authoritarianism
`B
` Basic income
Behavioralism
Berkeley school of political theory
Black populism
Burmese Way to Socialism
Byzantinism
`C
` Caesaropapism
Canaanism
Capitalist peace
Carneiro's circumscription theory
Willis Carto
Celine's laws
Centrism
Christian existentialism
Citizens' Initiative Review
Clash of Civilizations
Coattail effect
Collaborative e-democracy
Collective responsibility
Collectivism
Commanding heights of the economy
Communitarianism
Communization
Compact theory
Compassionate conservatism
Concurrent majority
Conscription
Consociationalism
Corporate nationalism
Corporatism
Corporatocracy
Cosmopolitanism
Counterintelligence state
Countervailing power
`D
` Dark Enlightenment
Decadence
Deliberative democracy
Democracy in Marxism
Democratic peace theory
Democratic structuring
Democratic transhumanism
Demoicracy
Deviationism
Digital labor
Distributism
Dual federalism
Dual power (Russian Revolution)
`E
` East–West dichotomy
Eastern Party
Eco-communalism
Eco-socialism
Eliminationism
Enlightened absolutism
Epistemic democracy
Equality before the law
Equality of sacrifice
Ethnopluralism
Euro-Slavism
Expansionism
Expansionist nationalism
Extremism
`F
` List of fascist movements
Federalism
Fiscal conservatism
Folk theory of democracy
Founderism
Four-Stage Theory of the Republic of China
Fusionism
`G
` Greater Middle East
Green anarchism
Green liberalism
Gyorin
`H
` Hellenoturkism
Historical determinism
Homonoia
`I
` Idealism in international relations
Immaterial labor
Imperialism
Inclusive management
Independence
Individualism
Individualist anarchism
Infrastructure for Peace
Integral nationalism
Inverted totalitarianism
Investment theory of party competition
Irenicism
Islam Hadhari
Islamo-Leftism
`J
` Jacksonian democracy
Jacobitism
Juche
Jurisdictionalism
`K
` Kahanism
Katarismo
John Keane (political theorist)
`L
` Laissez-faire
Land and liberty (slogan)
Legalism (Chinese philosophy)
Legitimating ideology
Lesser magistrate
Liberal conservatism
Liberal corporatism
Libertarian paternalism
Liquidationism
Localism (politics)
`M
` Madman theory
Majoritarianism
Mandala (political model)
Maoism (Third Worldism)
Marxist philosophy
Marxist schools of thought
Maternalism
Mediacracy
Militarism
Minarchism
Minoritarianism
Mobutism
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
Multi-level governance
`N
` National liberalism
National Socialist Program
Nationalism
Ethnic nationalism
Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali
Negative income tax
Neo-Bonapartism
Neo-fascism
Neo-feudalism
Neo-Luddism
Neo-medievalism
Neo-Nazism
Neo-prohibitionism
Neo-Sovietism
Neoliberalism
Neomercantilism
Neopatrimonialism
New Democracy
New Left in China
New nationalism (21st century)
Non-interventionism
Non-Zionism
`O
` Objectivism (Ayn Rand)
Objectivism and libertarianism
Objectivist movement
Omnilateralism
Orangism (Belgium)
Orangism (Dutch Republic)
`P
` Pacification theory
Pacificism
Pacifism
Paleoconservatism
Paleolibertarianism
Palingenetic ultranationalism
Pan-Slavism
Parity of esteem
Participatory politics
Paternalism
Peripheral nationalism
Peronism
Person Dignity Theory
Platformism
Pluralism (political philosophy)
Pochvennichestvo
Orangism (Luxembourg)
Political decay
Political ponerology
Political positivism
Political radicalism
Elite pact
Polycentrism
Populism
Post-behavioralism
Post-Islamism
Post-Zionism
Praetorianism
Prioritarianism
Productive forces
Prohibitionism
P
` Proletarian internationalism
Propaganda model
Propertarianism
Proto-Zionism
Public Force
`R
` Racial segregation
Radical centrism
Radical democracy
Radical flank effect
Rajamandala
Reactionary
Receptivity
Reformist Centre
Resistance theory in the Early Modern period
Retroversion of the sovereignty to the people
Revanchism
Reverse post-material thesis
Revolutionary socialism
Right of conquest
Right-wing politics
Rise of nationalism in Europe
Roemer model of political competition
Rogue state
`S
` Sabato triangle
Sadae
Sadaejuui
Sandinista ideology
Scandinavism
Scientific politics
Scientific socialism
Scientism
Sectionalism
Self-determination
Separatism
Separatist feminism
Slavophilia
Social Darwinism
Social model of disability
Songun
Southern Agrarians
Starve the beast
Statism
Substitutionism
Sultanism
Supremacism
Symphonia (theology)
Systematic ideology
`T
` Taistoism
Technoliberalism
Theoreticism
Theory of the Undetermined Status of Taiwan
Third International Theory
Three Principles of the People
The Three Revolutions
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Totalitarianism
Tradinista!
Transylvanianism
Triumphalism
`U
` UCLA School of Political Parties
Ultra-leftism
Union of European Federalists
United States Constitution and worldwide influence
United States non-interventionism
Upayas (diplomacy)
`V
` Vanguardism
`W
` Welfare chauvinism
What is a Nation?
White nationalism
White supremacy
Whiteness studies
Workers' self-management
World revolution
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Political philosophy
Philosophy of social science
Social philosophy
Philosophy of science by discipline
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