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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Leadership	10,855
2	Non-governmental organization	7,285
3	Separation of powers	5,315
4	Totalitarianism	4,897
5	Nation state	2,717
6	Nation	2,594
7	Institution	2,506
8	Political spectrum	2,293
9	Popular sovereignty	2,229
10	Implementation	1,124
11	Alliance	1,013
12	State (polity)	940
13	Social conservatism	813
14	Imagined communities	768
15	Bellwether	747
16	Legitimacy (political)	746
17	Institutional racism	718
18	Cooperative federalism	681
19	Parliamentary sovereignty	596
20	Liberal conservatism	539
21	Good governance	533
22	Power elite	464
23	Equality before the law	428
24	Social engineering (political science)	423
25	Nation-building	380
26	Stateless communism	361
27	Parochialism	323
28	Seat of government	320
29	Political compass	318
30	Natalism	301
31	Proletarian internationalism	262
32	Conservative liberalism	259
33	National conservatism	250
34	Social progressivism	245
35	Unsinkable aircraft carrier	231
36	Divided government	228
37	Take point	225
38	Rentier state	215
39	Liberal nationalism	215
40	Scientific Socialism	206
41	Deterritorialization	182
42	Revisionism (Marxism)	177
43	Free-market anarchism	175
44	Big tent	167
45	Interventionism (politics)	163
46	Revolving door (politics)	162
47	Boosterism	158
48	Confessionalism (politics)	156
49	Stateless nation	153
50	Inverted totalitarianism	142
51	National sovereignty	141
52	Craftivism	141
53	Party identification	137
54	Europeanisation	136
55	Anarchy in international relations	135
56	Grand coalition	126
57	Cultural liberalism	120
58	Layer cake federalism	117
59	Systems theory in political science	117
60	Multitude	112
61	Smart power	112
62	Dealignment	109
63	Regionalism (international relations)	106
64	Institutionalism in international relations	103
65	Religious socialism	100
66	Historical institutionalism	100
67	GONGO	92
68	Patrimonialism	89
69	Kyklos	84
70	Fusion of powers	77
71	Social-imperialism	74
72	Bossism	74
73	Horseshoe theory	74
74	Empire-building	73
75	Security of tenure	69
76	Corporate statism	69
77	Marginal seat	68
78	Embedded liberalism	68
79	Suppression of dissent	67
80	Religious liberalism	67
81	High politics	63
82	Impossibilism	62
83	Synoecism	61
84	Right to exist	59
85	Political lesbianism	58
86	Integral humanism (India)	57
87	Political coalition	57
88	Counterintelligence state	57
89	Prohibitionism	56
90	Bourgeois nationalism	55
91	Yellow socialism	55
92	Associationalism	55
93	Elective dictatorship	54
94	Political theology	54
95	Political engineering	50
96	Preselection	50
97	Blanquism	47
98	Social apartheid	47
99	Kabuki dance	47
100	The Superclass List	46
101	Khaki election	45
102	Outgoing president	44
103	Melanesian socialism	44
104	Negarchy	44
105	Perestroika Movement (political science)	42
106	Bait and bleed	41
107	Idiot (Athenian democracy)	41
108	Economism	40
109	Austromarxism	38
110	Superstate	37
111	Nanosocialism	37
112	Fifth power	37
113	Corporative federalism	35
114	New Wars	35
115	Revisionist State	34
116	Deviationism	33
117	Political class	32
118	Neuropa	31
119	Sinistrisme	31
120	Polarized pluralism	30
121	Freedom deficit	29
122	Fenno's paradox	29
123	Constitutional patriotism	28
124	Barracks communism	26
125	State Socialism	26
126	Block Party (politics)	26
127	Statolatry	25
128	Eco-imperialism	24
129	Macropartisanship	24
130	Social Patriotism	23
131	Sophomore surge	21
132	Infrastructural power	20
133	National personal autonomy	20
134	Political party governance	19
135	Transnational progressivism	18
136	Interest group liberalism	18
137	Means of persuasion	16
138	Sacralism	16
139	Civil resistance	15
140	Latency (political science)	15
141	Constitutional autochthony	12
142	Holocaust trivialization debate	12
143	Civic courage	11
144	Nuclearism	10
145	Democracy building	10
146	The politics of the belly	10
147	Targeting (politics)	9
148	Player (political)	9
149	Equality of sacrifice	9
150	Sleeper candidate	8
151	Totalitarian twins	8
152	Eco-nationalism	7
153	Cognitive Madisonianism	6
154	Green state	6
155	Parallel state	6
156	First-order elections	less than 5 views
157	Second-order elections	less than 5 views
158	Fundacion Manantiales	less than 5 views
159	Proportionality for Solid Coalitions	less than 5 views

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