Politics

Articles about political systems, parties, elections and public life.

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Campaign finance reform in the United States

Candidate

Candidate (nominee): meaning, roles, history and common contexts

Capitalist Party

Capitalist Party (Liberalistene) — Norway’s classical‑liberal political party

Carly Fiorina 2016 presidential campaign

Carpetbagger

Carpetbagger

Carpetbagger (U.S. historical and political term)

Carpetbagger: originally a post–Civil War label for Northerners who moved to the Reconstruction-era South; now a pejorative for outside political opportunists or “parachute” candid

Catalan independence movement

Caucus

Caucus: political meeting, nomination process, and legislative group

Center-right

Center-right politics: principles, history, and contemporary forms

Central Committee

Central Committee (party governing body)

Centre (politics)

Centre (politics): Understanding Centrism and the Political Middle

Centre Alliance

Centre-left

Chairperson of the African Union

Chairperson of the African Union: role, election, and significance

Chamber of Deputies (Romania)

Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic

Chris Christie 2016 presidential campaign

Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams

Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (CD&V)

Christian Democratic Appeal

Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA)

Christian Democratic Union of Germany

Christian Democratic Union of Germany

Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU)

Major centre-right German political party founded after WWII, promoting Christian democracy, a social market economy and European integration; closely allied with Bavaria's CSU.

Christian Democrats (Sweden)

Christian right

Christian right

Christian right (religious right in the United States)

A conservative political tendency that seeks to apply Christian beliefs to public policy. Prominent in the United States, it emphasizes social conservatism, religious liberty claim

Christian Social Union of Bavaria

Christian Social Union of Bavaria

Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (Romania)

ChristianUnion

Civic Platform

Civic Solidarity Party

Civil Rights Movement

Classical liberalism

Classical liberalism: principles, history, and influence

Client state

Co-operative Party

Co-operative Party (United Kingdom)

Coalition (Australia)

Cold War

Cold War

Prolonged geopolitical, ideological and military rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union from the end of World War II to the early 1990s.

Common Sense (pamphlet)

Commonwealth Chair-in-Office

Commonwealth Liberal Party

Communism

Communism: theory, history, and political practice

Communist Party of China

Communist Party of Cuba

Communist Party of Greece

Communist Party of Greece (KKE): History, ideology and political role

Communist Party of India

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF)

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Russia, founded in 1993 as the principal successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party a

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Communist Party of Vietnam

Communist Party USA

Communist Party USA: origins, ideology, history and influence

Composition of the Russian Regional Parliaments

Compromise of 1877

Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction

Compulsory voting