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income tax in
Chiyangwa, Phillip
Cholera
Churchill, Winston
Cities, general vs. charter
Citizenship
Civil liberties.
See also
Freedoms
Civil wars
Clausewitz, Carl von
Clay, Edward
Clemençeau, Georges
Climate
Clinton, Bill
CMB.
See
Cocoa Marketing Board
Coalitions
coalition governments
See also
Winning coalitions
Cocoa Marketing Board (CMB)
Cold war
Collectivization
College of Cardinals
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Common good.
See also
Public welfare
Communist Party
of India
Compaq company.
See
Hewlett-Packard company: merger with Compaq
Comparative advantage
Congo
Conservatives
Constantinople
Constantius II (emperor)
Constitutions
Contracts
Copper
Corporations
boards of directors
corporate coalitions
corporate fraud
senior management
shareholders
See also
CEOs; Stock value/dividends
Corruption
anticorruption drives
in Iran and Turkey
as political tool
in Russia
See also
Bribery
Cost of living
Côte d'Ivoire.
See also
Ivory Coast
Coups
self-coup
Credit.
See also
Debt
Crime.
See also
Mafias
Cronies.
See also
Winning coalitions: small
Crusades
Cuba
Cuban missile crisis
elections in
Culture
Cyclones
Czechoslovakia
Daley, Richard
Damasus I (pope)
Debt
debt crises
debt forgiveness
See also
Borrowing
DeCicco, Frank
De Klerk, F. W.
Dellacroce, Aniello “Neil,”
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Democracy/democracies
bloc voting in fledgling democracies
and borrowing
democratizing other nations
democrats
European democracies
fixing democracies
and foreign aid
good ideas in democracies
leader transitions in democracies
Mexico's tax take and democratization
multiparty democracy
patronage systems in emerging democracies
peace between democracies
private goods in democracies
promise of democratization
protest in
and resource allocation
stability of mature democracies
undermining democracy
and wars
See also
Elections
Demographics
Deng Xiaoping
Denmark
Deresa, Yelma
Diamonds
Diaz, Porfirio
Dictatorships
benevolent
shifts to democracy
See also
Autocrats/autocracies
Dien Bien Phu
Discourses, The
(Machiavelli)
Diseases
Dissent
Districting issues.
See also
Gerrymandered districts
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Doe, Samuel
Dominican Republic
Douglas, Stephen
Dow Jones index
Dredd Scott decision
Drinking water
Drone attacks
Drought
Dunn, Patricia
Duvalier, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc,”
Dymovsky, Alexei
Earmarks.
See also
Pork-barrel projects
Earthquakes
Easterly, William
Eastern Europe
Economic crises.
See also
Bankruptcy; Financial crises
Economic growth
Economist, The
Eden, Anthony
Education.
See also
Universities
Edward IV and Edward V (English kings)
Egypt
Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty (1979)
gross domestic product
uprisings in
Elderly people
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Elections
bloc voting in
in Britain
in Cuba
and designated seats for minorities
dividing opposition vote
in Egypt
fraudulent/rigged
in Ghana
in India
in Myanmar
papal
in Tanzania
in Turkey
in tyrannical states
in Ukraine
in United States
See also
Voters
Electoral college
Electricity
Embezzlement
Eminent domain
Emirates
Emperors
Enfranchisement rules
Enlightenment
Enron
Environmental issues
Equality
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eshkol, Levi
Essentials
in corporations
keeping off-balance
purging(
see also
Winning coalitions: purges of members)
welfare of essentials and ordinary citizens
See also
Winning coalitions
Ethiopia
Ethnic groups
Eunuchs
European Union
Exchange rates
Executions.
See also
Assassinations
Exile
Exports
Extraction
Eyes of the Storm
(PBS documentary)
Facebook
Falashas
Falklands war
Farmers.
See also
Agriculture
Federalist 10
(Madison)
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
Felix II (antipope)
FIFA.
See
Fédération Internationale de Football Association
Fiji
Financial crises.
See also
Bankruptcy; Economic crises
Finland
Fiorina, Carly
Fire departments
First Gulf War
Floods
Flowers
Food shortages.
See also
Starvation
Ford Motor Company
Foreign aid
aid shakedowns
assessing
fixing aid policy
given for security reasons
impact of
misappropriated and misdirected
political logic of aid
and poverty
questions about
tied aid(
see also
Buying countries' policies)
US assistance to Egypt
US assistance to Pakistan
Foreign policy
Foucault, Michel
France
Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)
French Revolution
Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry
Franz Ferdinand (Archduke)
Fratricide law
Fraud.
See
Corporations: corporate fraud; Elections: fraudulent/rigged
Freedoms
free speech and assembly
Fronde
Fujimori, Alberto
Gambino, Carlo
GATT.
See
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Gays
GDP.
See
Gross domestic product
Geldof, Bob
Gems.
See also
Diamonds
Gender equality
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
General welfare
Genghis Khan
Genocide
Georgia (country)
Germany
Weimar Germany
Gerrymandered districts
Ghana
Githongo, John
Giuliani, Rudy
Global warming
Golan Heights
Gold
Gome retailer in China
Gonzalez, Hank
Good ideas.
See also under
Democracy/democracies
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Goring, Hermann
Gotti, John “the Dapper Don,”
Government spending.
See also
Budgets; Military: military spending; Public works
Graft.
See also
Corruption
Grau San Martín, Ramón
Gravano, Sammy “The Bull,”
Greece
Greed
Green Bay Packers
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Guardian, The
Guatemala
Guevara, Che
Guinea worm disease
Gukurahundi
Gulf War.
See
First Gulf War; Iraq: Iraq War
Guttmacher Institute
Habermas, Jürgen
Haiti
Hallmark Cards
Hamas
Hanoverian dynasty
Hardwood
Harvard University
Hassan al-Bakr, Ahmed
Hassan al-Majid, Ali.
See
Chemical Ali
Hawaii
Hayward, Tony
Health care
Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative
Hegemony
Henry II (English king)
Henry V
(Shakespeare)
Hernandez, Oscar
Hevia, Carlos
Hewlett, Walter
Hewlett, William
Hewlett-Packard company
merger with Compaq
Himmler, Heinrich
HIPC.
See
Heavily Indebted Poor Country initiative
Hitler, Adolf
Hobbes, Thomas
Holbrooke, Richard
Honduras
Honecker, Erich
Hong Kong
Hospitals
Housing
Housing and Urban Development grants
Huang Guangyu
Human development
Human rights
Hurd, Mark
Hurricane Katrina
Hussein, Saddam
Iceland
Ideology
IMF.
See
International Monetary Fund
Immigration
amnesty for illegal immigrants
Imprisonment
Income
national income
per capita income
See also
Military: army salaries; Salaries, government
Incumbents
incumbency advantage
removing
at risk of electoral defeat
See also
Leaders
Independent, The
India
Indonesia
Infant/child mortality
Inflation
Influentials
shareholders as
See also
Selectorates, nominal/real
Infrastructure.
See also
Roads
Inheritance
Inner circles.
See also
Cronies
Institutional issues
Interchangeables
shareholders as
See also
Selectorates, nominal/real
Interest rates
International community
International Criminal Court
International law
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
International relations
International Whaling Commission (IWC)
Internet
IOC.
See
International Olympic Committee
Iran
population
Iraq
Iraq War
Republican Guards in
See also
First Gulf War; Hussein, Saddam
Ireland
IRS.
See
United States: Internal Revenue Service
Israel
Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty (1979)
gross domestic product
See also
Six Day War
Italy
It's Our Turn to Eat
(Wrong)
Ivory Coast.
See also
Côte d'Ivoire
IWC.
See
International Whaling Commission
Jacobo, Teresa
Japan
Jensen, Jeffrey
Jerome (Saint)
Jews (Ethiopian)
Jihad
John (English king)
Johnson, Dave
Johnson, Lyndon
Johnson, Prince
Jordan
Judiciary
Julius Caesar
Justice
Kabila, Laurent
Kapuscinski, Ryszard
Kaufman, Daniel
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy family
Kenya
Kenyatta, Jomo
Kerensky, Alexander
Kerry-Lugar bill (2009)
Keynesian policies
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail
Khomeini, Ruhollah (Ayatollah)
Khrushchev, Nikita
Kibaki, Mwai
Kim Il Sung
Kim Jong Il
Kim Jong Un
Kleptocracy
Kuchma, Leonid
Kufuor, John
Kurds
Kuwait
Kwei, J. Amartey
Kyrgyzstan
Labor force
Laniel, Joseph
Lay, Kenneth
Leaders
as backsliding
benevolent
and consequences of war
dying(
see also
Leaders: sick/decrepit)
encouraged to step aside
and liberalization(
see also
Liberalization, economic/political)
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