• the Spiral Q Puppet Theater in Philadelphia uses puppetry, street theatre and pageantry to promote social and political change?
• the Jawami ul-Hikayat is an 800-year-old handwritten book of Persian political anecdotes, which—at 2500 pages long—has never been printed in full, but only in abridged editions?
• the Right Hegelians took the philosophy of Hegel in a politically and religiously conservative direction?
• the Regency era British women's magazine La Belle Assemblée featured original fiction and articles on politics and science in addition to fashion plates?
• developmental biologist PZ Myers, who writes about evolution, cephalopods, politics, and atheism, is the top-ranked science blogger according to the journal Nature?
• in Irish politics, no ordinary referendum has ever occurred?
• archaeologist Natalia Polosmak has been banned from her best known excavation, the Ice Maiden (pictured), because of ethnic politics?

Facts on topics related to Politics

Political philosophy

• the book Nudge, written by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, defends the political philosophy of libertarian paternalism?

Political party

• Shirley Chisholm was the first African American candidate for president of the United States for a major political party when she campaigned during the 1972 election?
• booth capturing is a kind of electoral fraud that is seen mainly in India, where armed gangs belonging to political parties try to "capture" a polling booth and indulge in bogus voting?
• Caroline Anthonypillai helped found the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the oldest political party in Sri Lanka, along with her brother Philip?
• preselection is the process by which a candidate is selected, usually by a political party, to contest an election for political office, an example being the United States presidential primary?
• Syed Hussein Alatas is a Malaysian academic who formed two political parties before going on to become Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya?
• after Kent Williams was elected speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, his party expelled him from its caucus?
• despite not registering as a political party, the pro-independence Sąjūdis movement won a clear majority in the Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1990?
• on July 20, 1964, the National Movement of the Revolution was declared the sole legal political party by law in the Republic of the Congo?
• the French colonial administration in Guinea opposed the founding of the political party Socialist Democracy in 1954, as they feared it would split the anti-Sékou Touré vote?
• the Indonesian political party Permai was also a mystical religious movement?

Bureaucracy

• Ciguli Miguli is a 1952 Yugoslav film that was banned for 25 years for its satire of socialist bureaucracy?

Liberalism

• José Ortega Spottorno established the now-bestselling Spanish newspaper El Pais to advance liberal values at a time when the country was undergoing a painful transition from fascism to democracy?
• in terms of political ideology, American economists tend to be liberal?
• prominent sociologist Nathan Glazer has, at different points in his career, been referred to as a Marxist, a neoconservative, and an espouser of "armchair intellectual liberalism"?
• the liberal Jewish Folksgrupe played an important role in the 1917 Russian Provisional Government, but only obtained around 1% of the Jewish votes the same year?
• the Mexican War of Independence (1820–1821) resulted in an unlikely alliance between liberales and conservadores?
  

International relations

• India's "Look East" policy aims to establish extensive relations with Asian countries to project its influence as a counterweight to that of the People's Republic of China?
• a diplomatic bag is a term of art in both international relations and cryptography?

Federalism

• the United States' National Governors Association serves as a key interface betweeen state governments and the federal government?
  

Democracy

• Pedro Vuskovic's plan to move Chile's economy to a socialist model by democratic means led to runaway inflation and economic recession?
• Dashiin Byambasüren was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Mongolia?
• Golden Liberty, the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, similar to federation and democracy, became ineffective when faced with the surrounding monarchies?
• José Ortega Spottorno established the now-bestselling Spanish newspaper El Pais to advance liberal values at a time when the country was undergoing a painful transition from fascism to democracy?
• William Phelps was foreman of the first grand jury in colonial America and played a key role in establishing the first written democratic town government at Windsor, Connecticut, in 1657?
• as the world's third largest democracy, Indonesia's 2004 legislative election was the most complicated in the world?
• the Social Democrats under leader Hjalmar Branting won the Swedish general election in 1921, the first fully democratic parliamentary election in Sweden?
• under the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau, Communist China would guarantee complete autonomy and democratic self-government in Macau up to 2049?

Public administration

• the Irish in Omaha, Nebraska were singled out by the American Protective Association for exclusion from public office in the 1890s?

Political science

• American political scientist Charles Merriam pushed for the use of quantitative analysis in the practice of political science even though he had almost no mathematical training?
• Brian McMenamin graduated with a degree in political science, but is co-owner of the McMenamins chain of brewpubs?
• Glenn D. Paige is the American political scientist known for developing the concept of nonkilling?
• Thomas Christian Wyller is regarded as one of the founders of political science as an academic discipline in Norway?
• in addition to her academic career, German-Norwegian political scientist Helga Hernes has been a State Secretary as well as an ambassador to several European countries?
• the Power Transition theory is used in political science to predict future wars between great powers and a superpower as it states that war is a cyclic event and is inevitable?