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Parent topics
- Civil society [r]: The space for social activity outside the market, state and household; the arena of uncoerced collective action around shared interests, purposes and values. [e]
- State [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See State (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Lobbying [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Media monitoring [r]: Add brief definition or description
Motivations
- Conservatism [r]: A concept of political theory used as a shortcut to refer to a wide swath of people who allegedly hold similar values. The conservative ideal does not really exist, as no two people would likely define it exactly the same. Generalizations often made about conservatives may include that they wish to limit social change, preserve traditional family values, abhor homosexuality, revere the military and exhibit staunch patriotism for their country, believe in fiscal restraint, decry foreign immigration, and do not wish to fund support for people in need on grounds that they must be lazy. [e]
- Christian Right [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Education [r]: Learning, teaching, research and scholarship activities for the purpose of organizing, presenting and acquiring knowledge, skills or social norms. [e]
- Feminism [r]: Movement seeking the emancipation of women from discriminatory gender roles and laws. [e]
- Liberalism [r]: Economic and political doctrine advocating free enterprise, free competition and free will. A shortcut word grouping a swath of people who allegedly hold similar values. The liberal ideal does not really exist, as no two people would likely define it exactly the same. Some of the generalizations that people make about liberals include that they are open to social change, not tied to traditional family values, not militaristic, lacking in fiscal restraint, and socially tolerant. [e]
- Progressivism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Zionism [r]: The ideology that Jews should form a Jewish state in what is traced as the Biblical area of Palestine; there are many interpretations, including the boundaries of such a state and its criteria for citizenship [e]
Specific interest groups
- Aish HaTorah [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Cancer Society [r]: American Cancer Society mission statement says “The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.” [e]
- American Civil Liberties Union [r]: American political action group founded in 1920 for protection of civil liberties. [e]
- American Civil Rights Union [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Conservative Defense Alliance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Conservative Union [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Americans for Democratic Action [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Education Trust [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Enterprise Institute [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Federation of Teachers [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Friends of Likud [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Foreign Policy Council [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Israel Public Affairs Committee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Jewish Committee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Jewish Congress [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Red Cross [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Values [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Americans for Democratic Action [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Americans for Tax Reform [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Amnesty International [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Congress for Truth [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arab American Institute [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ariel Center for Policy Research [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bread for the World [r]: Add brief definition or description
- B'Tselem [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cato Institute [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Center for American Progress [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Center for Global Development [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Center for National Policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Center for National Security Studies [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Christians United For Israel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Coalition to Defend Free Speech [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Code Pink [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Committee on the Present Danger [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Council for Citizens against Government Waste [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Council on American Islamic Relations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Horowitz Freedom Center [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Defense Forum Foundation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change [r]: Add brief definition or description
- DiscoverTheNetworks [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Eagle Forum [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Faithful America [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Family Security Matters [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Feminist Majority Foundation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Focus on the Family [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Free Exchange on Campus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Freedom House [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hasbara Speakers Bureau [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Heritage Foundation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hoover Institution [r]: Add brief definition or description
- HonestReporting [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Human Rights Watch [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Institute for America's Future [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Crisis Group [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Committee of the Red Cross [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Islamophobia Watch [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Israel Policy Forum [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Israel21c [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Issues of Concern for Justice and Society [r]: Add brief definition or description
- J Street [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jewish Council For Public Affairs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jewish Voice for Peace [r]: Add brief definition or description
- League of Women Voters [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Magen David Adom [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Marijuana Policy Project [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Media Research Center [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Media Watch International [r]: Add brief definition or description
- MediaMatters [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Middle East Media Research Institute [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Committee for an Effective Congress [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Congress of American Indians [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Council of La Raza [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Immigration Forum [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Organization for Women [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Rifle Association [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Right to Life Committee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Security Archive, George Washington University [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Security Network [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Tax Limitation Committee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Taxpayers Union [r]: Add brief definition or description
- New Black Panther Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Partnership for a Secure America [r]: Add brief definition or description
- People for the American Way [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Progressive Policy Institute [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Project for the New American Century [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ruckus Society [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Small Business Majority [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tea Party Movement [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Third Way (U.S.) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- UN Watch [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Veterans of Foreign Wars [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Washington Institute for Near East Policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Washington Report on Middle East Affairs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Zionist Organization of America [r]: Add brief definition or description
Historic
- Anti-Saloon League [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liberty Lobby [r]: Add brief definition or description
Intergovernmental
- African Union [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arab League [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Group of Seven [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Group of Eight [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Group of Twenty [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Organization of the Islamic Conference [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Quartet (Israel-Palestine Conflict) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Political party [r]: Add brief definition or description
- QUANGO [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Think tank [r]: Add brief definition or description