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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