Politics and government

Gordon McKee (politician)

Gordon McKee (born 1994, Rutherglen) is a Labour and Co-operative MP for Glasgow South since the July 2024 general election, a gain from the SNP with a 4,154 majority; former software developer and Scottish Labour campaign organiser.

Gordon Moyes

Gordon Moyes (1938-2015), Australian evangelist, broadcaster and NSW Legislative Council member; Superintendent of Wesley Mission Sydney for 27 years; elected 2002 for the Christian Democratic Party, expelled 2009, then Family First, serving until 2011.

Gordon Schnieder

Gordon Schnieder is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who serves as Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate after leading the CDU to victory in March 2026.

Gordon Sondland

Gordon Sondland, hotelier and 20th U.S. Ambassador to the European Union (2018–2020) under Trump, founder of Provenance Hotels, key impeachment witness who revised testimony to confirm a Ukraine quid pro quo, later recalled and author of The Envoy.

Gorka Elejabarrieta Díaz

Gorka Elejabarrieta Díaz is a Spanish politician of the Basque pro-independence party EH Bildu who serves as a senator and the party's spokesperson in the Senate of Spain.

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Gorodskoy okrug Simferopol

Gorodskoy okrug Simferopol (городской округ Симферополь), a municipal urban okrug in the Republic of Crimea centered on the capital city Simferopol; 107.4 km², 353,800 residents (2025), six settlements, major transport hub with international airport.

Goryeo–Jin relations

Goryeo–Jin relations were the dealings between the Korean kingdom of Goryeo and the Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234), beginning with frontier war and settling into amicable tributary relations.

Goryeo–Liao relations

Goryeo–Liao relations (고려-요 관계) were the tributary and military relations between the Korean state of Goryeo and the Khitan-led Liao dynasty, spanning Khitan invasions in 993, 1010, and 1018.

Goryeo–Song relations

Goryeo–Song relations (고려–송 관계) were the diplomatic, economic, and cultural ties between the Korean kingdom of Goryeo and China's Song dynasty from the tenth to the thirteenth century.

Goshi Hosono

Goshi Hosono is a Japanese politician who has served as Minister of Reconstruction since 2026 and was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2000.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa (ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ)

Gotabaya Rajapaksa (ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ), Sri Lankan defence secretary 2005–2015 and SLPP executive president 2019–2022; resigned July 2022 after Aragalaya protests amid economic collapse.

Gottipati Ravi Kumar

Gottipati Ravi Kumar is an Indian politician who has served as Minister for Energy in Andhra Pradesh. He has won five consecutive assembly elections from three different parties.

Gough Whitlam

Gough Whitlam (1916–2014), Australia's 21st prime minister (5 December 1972 – 11 November 1975), Labor leader whose reform program ended with the only dismissal of a government by a Governor-General.

Gouri Shankar Ghosh

Gouri Shankar Ghosh is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a West Bengal minister holding the Backward Classes Welfare, Mass Education Extension, and Library Services portfolios.

Gouverneur Morris

Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), American Founding Father and Pennsylvania delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention; wrote the Constitution's final draft and Preamble "We the People"; later Minister to France and U.S. Senator.

Govan Mbeki

Govan Mbeki was a South African anti-apartheid leader of the ANC, sentenced to life imprisonment at the Rivonia Trial, and father of President Thabo Mbeki.

Governance

Governance is the set of traditions and institutions by which authority is exercised in a country, also called public governance. Measured through the World Bank's six Worldwide Governance Indicators dimensions, from Voice and Accountability to Control of Corruption.

Government

Government: the organization that leads, protects, and governs a political unit. Also called regime or state form; classified as democracy, monarchy, oligarchy, dictatorship, or authoritarianism, and federal versus unitary.

Government Accountability Office

Government Accountability Office (GAO, formerly General Accounting Office until 2004) is the independent, nonpartisan legislative-branch audit agency of the U.S. Congress, headed by the Comptroller General with a 15-year nonrenewable term; it issues the Yellow Book audit standards, the High Risk List, and fraud and improper payment estimates.

Government agency

Government agency: an administrative organization of nonelected officials implementing policy. Also called administrative agency or bureaucracy. Distinguished by delegated execution, regulator governance data, and autonomy-accountability trade-offs.

Government bond

Government bond: a debt security issued by a national government, also called sovereign debt, promising principal repayment at maturity plus coupon interest. About $100 trillion global market; lowest credit risk in-country; Venice issued the first bonds in 1171.

Government Delegate for Poland

The Government Delegate for Poland (Delegat Rządu na Kraj) was the head of the Delegatura, the secret civil administration that Poland's government-in-exile maintained in occupied Poland from 1940 to 1945.

Government Delegation for Poland

The Government Delegation for Poland (Delegatura) was the clandestine representation of the Polish government-in-exile in occupied Poland from 1940 to 1945, leading the civil branch of the Polish Underground State.

Government Junta of Iquique

The Government Junta of Iquique, or Junta de Gobierno de Iquique, was the provisional government the Chilean congressionalists set up in Iquique on 12 April 1891 during the civil war against President Balmaceda.

Government of Andhra Pradesh (ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ ప్రభుత్వం)

Government of Andhra Pradesh (ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ ప్రభుత్వం), the state government of India's first Telugu linguistic state, formed 1956, bifurcated 2014; bicameral legislature, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, capital Amaravati.

Government of Bangladesh

Government of Bangladesh: unitary parliamentary republic under the Constitution, with an elected President, Prime Minister-led Cabinet, 350-member Jatiya Sangsad, caretaker election system (1996-2011, restored 2025), and Yunus-led interim government since 2024.

Government of Canada

Government of Canada: the federal government of Canada, a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary Westminster-style federal democracy under the Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1982, headed by King Charles III with a Governor General, a 105-member Senate, and a 343-seat elected House of Commons.