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Political satire
Political satire: genre using humor, irony, and exaggeration to critique political power. Also called parodic political humor; forms range from Roman verse satire to The Daily Show, Charlie Hebdo cartoons, and censored Chinese social-media satire.
Political science
Political science is the systematic study of governments, public policies, political behavior, and international relations, organized into subfields such as comparative politics, American politics, political theory, and methodology, using experiments, causal inference, and computational methods.
Political slogan
A political slogan is a short, memorably worded phrase used by parties, candidates, and governments to suggest action, evoke emotion, and persuade, from the Gaelic sluagh-gairm, a war cry.
Political socialization
Political socialization: the lifelong process by which people acquire political attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors via family, school, peers, and media; term coined by Hyman in 1959.
Political spectrum
Political spectrum: a model arranging political positions along dimensions such as left-right (French Revolution, 1789 seating), authority, or economics; single-dimension use contrasts with multidimensional evidence and multi-group typologies like Pew's nine-group 2026 classification.
Political status of Crimea
Political status of Crimea: disputed between Russia, which annexed it in March 2014 after a referendum, and Ukraine, whose Autonomous Republic of Crimea the UN affirms remains Ukrainian under Resolution 68/262.
Political status of Puerto Rico
Political status of Puerto Rico: unincorporated U.S. territory (Estado Libre Asociado, Commonwealth since 1952), U.S. citizens without voting representation; seven nonbinding plebiscites favoring statehood, with Congress holding sole authority to change status.
Political status of Taiwan
Political status of Taiwan: the Republic of China (ROC, 中華民國) governs Taiwan, a de facto state the PRC claims. UN Resolution 2758 (1971) gave the China seat to the PRC; only 12 states recognize the ROC.
Political status of Western Sahara
Western Sahara: UN-listed non-self-governing territory since 1963, occupied by Morocco since 1975, with the Polisario Front's SADR recognized by about 40 states; UNSCR 2797 (2025) endorses Morocco's autonomy plan as the negotiating basis.
Political system
Political system: the set of formal legal institutions constituting a government or state; studied via Easton's systems analysis, regime typologies (closed/electoral autocracies, electoral/liberal democracies), and democracy indices such as V-Dem and Freedom House.
Political union
Political union: states combining governing power under common institutions, from confederations of sovereign states to federations; the EU (27 members, ~450 million people) is the leading example, with Article 50 exit rights.
Political views and activism of Rage Against the Machine
Political views and activism of Rage Against the Machine: the American rap-metal band's left-wing, anti-establishment politics, Zapatista solidarity, PMRC and SNL protests, prisoner advocacy, and Tom Morello's continued activism.
Political views of Adolf Hitler
Political views of Adolf Hitler: German ethnic nationalism, racial antisemitism, anti-Marxism, anti-democracy, and Lebensraum in the east, set out in Mein Kampf (1925–26) and the 1920 DAP program; classified as far-right fascism, not socialism.
Political views of Albert Einstein
Political views of Albert Einstein: democratic socialist, pacifist, and supporter of a binational Jewish-Arab homeland; author of "Why Socialism?" (1949), signer of the 1939 Roosevelt letter, and decliner of Israel's presidency.
Political views of Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov (Гарри Каспаров), 13th world chess champion and Russian opposition figure, holds pro-democracy, anti-Putin, anti-Trump views: United Civil Front, Other Russia, Human Rights Foundation chairman, Renew Democracy Initiative founder, Winter Is Coming author.
Political views of J. K. Rowling
Political views of J.K. Rowling: the British author's Labour donation of £1m in 2008, opposition to Scottish independence via £1m to Better Together, Remain campaigning in 2016, and her post-2019 stance on sex and gender, including the J.K. Rowling Women's Fund and For Women Scotland funding.
Political views on the Macedonian language
Political views on the Macedonian language are competing positions held by Bulgaria and North Macedonia. Bulgaria classifies it as a Bulgarian dialect, while North Macedonia asserts its independent status.
Political violence in the United States
Political violence in the United States: use or threat of force to provoke or prevent political change, from Reconstruction-era Klan terrorism to modern threats against election workers, with right-wing attacks causing most lethal incidents since 1975.
Politically exposed person
A politically exposed person (PEP) is an individual entrusted with a prominent public function, such as a head of state or senior official, subject to anti-money-laundering measures.
Politically Incorrect
Politically Incorrect was Bill Maher's late-night political panel talk show on Comedy Central (1993–1996) and ABC (1997–2002), featuring four nonexpert guests; it ended after Maher's controversial post-9/11 "cowards" remark and advertiser withdrawals.
Politician
Politician: a person active in party politics or holding elected or appointed public office, also called a representative or officeholder. Distinguished by roles of lawmaking, representation, and oversight, and by electoral accountability, delegate versus trustee models, and corruption-trust dynamics.
Politico
Politico (POLITICO), founded 2007 in Washington by Robert Allbritton, Jim VandeHei, and John F. Harris, covers US politics and policy; owned by Axel Springer since 2021, known for Playbook and Politico Pro.
Politics
Politics: the making of collective decisions and allocation of power, defined by Lasswell as "who gets what, when and how"; covers power and government, the 1789 origins of left and right, citizen participation, and democracy indices.
Politics (Πολιτικά) (Aristotle)
Politics (Πολιτικά) is Aristotle's eight-book treatise on the polis, written 335–323 BCE. It defines the constitution (politeia), classifies six constitutional forms, critiques Plato's Republic, and defends the middle-class mixed constitution.
Politics and the English Language
Orwell's 1946 Horizon essay "Politics and the English Language" argues that vague political prose corrupts thought, diagnoses staleness and imprecision, and offers six rules for clear writing, later widely anthologized.
Politics as a Vocation
Politics as a Vocation (Politik als Beruf) is Max Weber's 1919 Munich lecture defining the state by its monopoly of legitimate violence, distinguishing occasional from professional politicians, and contrasting the ethic of conviction with the ethic of responsibility.
Politics of Afghanistan
Politics of Afghanistan: since August 15, 2021, ruled by the Taliban as the Islamic Emirate, a decree-based theocracy without a constitution, after the collapse of the centralized 2004 Islamic Republic; unrecognized by most states, Russia first to recognize.
Politics of Algeria
Politics of Algeria: semi-presidential People's Democratic Republic dominated since 1962 by the military and the FLN; President Tebboune re-elected 2024; Hirak 2019 suppressed; Freedom House Not Free, 31/100.
Politics of Australia
Politics of Australia: federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy formed at the 1901 Federation of six colonies. Bicameral Parliament, compulsory preferential voting for the House and Senate STV since 1949, distinct from Westminster unitary systems.
Politics of Bangladesh
Politics of Bangladesh: parliamentary republic since 1991 with a 300-seat FPTP Jatiya Sangsad. AL-BNP rivalry, caretaker-government controversy, 2024 uprising ending Hasina's rule, Yunus interim government, and BNP's February 2026 election win.