[in Minutes 01] • Politics in Minutes by Weeks, Marcus -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents Introduction The basics

The evolution of politics Government and leadership Hierarchies The Greeks and the city-state Plato: Republic Aristotle: Politics Civil society Human nature Representation Authority and legitimacy; power and accountability Sovereignty The role of religion Political ideologies: left and right Political ideologies: the political spectrum

Concepts

Political concepts Ancient Greek ideas of justice and liberty Feudalism Humanism and the rise of the nation state Machiavelli and political realism Enlightenment Concept of liberty Positive and negative freedom Concept of justice Equality: of outcome or opportunity? The social contract Political authority Rights: civil and natural Influencing politics Freedom of speech The right to protest Peaceful protest and civil disobedience Violent direct action Revolution

Structures and institutions

Government by the few Government by the people Bureaucracy Non-governmental organizations Economic policy and taxation Welfare and social policy Constitutions and bills of rights Laws and legislation Law and order Defence and foreign policy Armed forces and intelligence services Local and regional government Decentralization and devolution Federalism Supranational institutions

Democracy and democratic institutions

Of, by and for the people Suffrage Elections and representation Political parties Electoral systems Republic Presidential government Parliamentary government Bicameral systems Cabinet Separation of powers

Conservatism

Tradition A ruling class, the right to rule Entitlement and property Authoritarian conservatism Paternalistic conservatism One-nation conservatism Christian democracy Liberal and libertarian conservatism The New Right

Liberalism

The individual Natural rights Utilitarianism British liberalism The harm principle Toleration US liberalism Small government Constitutionalism Liberal democracy Social Darwinism Social liberalism The ‘invisible hand’ Economic liberalism Neoliberalism Privatization

Socialism and communism

Equality Rousseau: the general will 18th- and 19th-century revolutions Utopian socialism Community, cooperation and common ownership Marx: philosophy, history Marx: economics, analysis of capitalism Class struggle Marx: politics and the inevitability of socialism Neo-Marxism The New Left State ownership and nationalization Central economic planning Revolutionary socialism Revisionism Reformism, or evolutionary socialism Communism Libertarian socialism Trades unions and the labour movement Social democracy The ‘Third Way’ Communitarianism

Anarchism

Anti-statism Utopianism Individualist anarchism Anarcho-syndicalism Collectivist anarchism Anarcho-communism Libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism Anarchist revolution

Authoritarianism and totalitarianism

Totalitarianism Tyranny and police states Dictatorship One-party state Fascism Nazism Communist totalitarianism Religious totalitarianism Coup d’état Military juntas

Nation, race and religion

Nationalism Patriotism Ethnic nationalism Civic nationalism Expansionist nationalism Imperialism and colonialism Slavery Anti-colonial and post-colonial nationalism Independence and self-determination Race and politics Civil rights movement Ethnic discrimination Positive discrimination Multiculturalism Migration Zionism The role of religion The laws of God and the laws of Man The divine right to rule State religion Secular states Theocracy Islam and sharia law Religious fundamentalism Anti-modernism The Christian right Islamic fundamentalism Jihadism and terrorism

Gender politics

Patriarchy Feminism The rights of women The fight for the vote Equality and difference An unequal world Women in power Second- and third-wave feminism Sex and gender Sexuality and politics

Ecologism

Ecology The Green movement Pollution, climate change and global warming Sustainability and resources Ecology vs development Other eco-movements Deep ecology

International politics

Diplomacy Foreign policy Defence and national security Expansionism Alliances and neutrality Just war theory Pacifism and anti-war movements Globalization Transnational corporations Anti-globalization International law International institutions World government

The future

The future of the right The power elite The future of the left Power to the people A shrinking world Religion in 21st-century politics Brave New World The ultimate challenge?

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