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Select a Research Topic: Political Science

Suggested research topics for each academic discipline.

Political Science

  • 2016 Presidential Election
  • Absentee ballots 
  • ACLU - Good for America?
  • Alt-right
  • Anarchist schools of thought
  • Authoritarianism
  • Autonomism
  • Balance of power
  • Band wagoning
  • Bicameralism
  • Blackmail
  • Campaign finance laws
  • Campaign finance reform
  • Clinton, Bill
  • Clinton, Hilary
  • Coercion
  • Compulsory voting
  • Concealed Weapons
  • Cuba - U.S. relations
  • DACA and Dreamers
  • Dakota Pipeline
  • Death Penalty
  • Debates
  • Democratization
  • Direct democracy
  • Disfranchisement
  • Drinking Age - Lower It?
  • Effect of mass media
  • Elections
  • Electronic voting
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Executive actions
  • Executive power, limits of
  • Facebook campaigning
  • Family Separation at Border
  • Forms of government
  • Game theory
  • Gerrymandering
  • Grand coalition
  • Gun Control
  • Head of government
  • Illegal Immigration
  • International relations
  • Islamic state
  • Judicial oversight
  • Judiciary systems
  • Legislatures
  • Maoism
  • Marxists schools of thought
  • Mixed electoral systems
  • Nationalism
  • One party system
  • Open government
  • Parallel voting
  • Parliamentary system
  • Patriotism
  • Peace and conflict
  • Political Fiction
  • Political geography
  • Political Sociology
  • Populism
  • Pork barrel legislation
  • Postcolonialism
  • Postmaterialism
  • Power Politics
  • Presidential Administrations
  • Presidential campaigns
  • Primogeniture
  • Propaganda
  • Psephology
  • Radical democracy
  • Representative democracy
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Secret ballot
  • Social democracy
  • Sortition
  • Sovereignty
  • Suffrage
  • Super PACs
  • Supreme Court 
  • System Justification Theory
  • Transparency
  • Tricameralism
  • Trump Cabinet
  • Trump, Donald
  • Two party system
  • Under God in the Pledge
  • Unicameralism
  • Venezuela economy
  • Voter registration laws
  • Voting Age: Lower It?
  • Voting Machines

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