Outline of American politics

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to American politics:

American politics – The politics of the United States.

Features of American politics

Branches of government

• Legislative Branch
• List of United States Congresses
• Executive Branch
• Judicial Branch

Levels of government

• National government
• State governments
• Local governments

Elections

• Contested elections in American history
• Electoral College
• First-past-the-post voting
• Gerrymandering
• Nonpartisan blanket primary
• Ranked-choice voting
• Runoff voting
• Suffrage

History of American politics

• History of the United States Congress

Party systems

• First Party System
• Second Party System
• Third Party System
• Fourth Party System
• Fifth Party System
• Sixth Party System

Notable events

• Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• Direct election of Senators
• Watergate scandal
• Republican Revolution of '94
• Impeachment of Bill Clinton

American politics organizations

Political parties

List of political parties in the United States

The two major national parties are:

• Democratic Party
• History of the Democratic Party
• Democrat in name only
• Republican Party
• History of the Republican Party
• Republican in name only

Documents central to American politics

• United States Declaration of Independence
• United States Constitution
• The Federalist Papers
• United States Bill of Rights

Presidency

• Acting President of the United States
• Executive Office of the President of the United States
• History
• List of presidents of the United States
• Natural-born-citizen clause (United States)
• Powers of the president of the United States
• Presidential immunity in the United States
• United States presidential election
• United States presidential line of succession
• United States presidential pets
• Nanny and Nanko

Joe Biden

• American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
• CHIPS and Science Act
• Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
• Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election

Donald Trump

• Presidential campaigns
• 1988 campaign
• 2000 campaign
• 2012 campaign
• 2016 campaign
• 2020 campaign
• 2024 campaign
• Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
• Donald Trump Supreme Court candidates
• First Step Act
• Great American Outdoors Act
• Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election
• Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
• Trump administration family separation policy
• January 6 United States Capitol attack
• Pardon of January 6 United States Capitol attack defendants
• 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
• Liberation Day tariffs
• Rhetoric of Donald Trump
• E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump
• Executive Order 13769
• CARES Act
• New York business fraud lawsuit against the Trump Organization
• The Trump Organization
• Impeachment of Donald Trump
• Efforts to impeach Donald Trump
• List of impeachment resolutions introduced against Donald Trump
• Proposed expungements of the impeachments of Donald Trump
• First impeachment of Donald Trump
• First impeachment trial of Donald Trump
• Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump
• Second impeachment of Donald Trump
• Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump
• Donald Trump Supreme Court candidates
• Trump v. Anderson
• Trumpism
• List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump
• Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations
• List of awards and honors received by Donald Trump
• Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal
• Pseudonyms used by Donald Trump
• Operation Southern Spear
• Operation Absolute Resolve
• Nicolás Maduro
• Relationship of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
• Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump

By time

• Timeline of the Donald Trump presidencies
• First presidency of Donald Trump
• First cabinet of Donald Trump
• Mike Pence
• Rex Tillerson
• Mike Pompeo
• Immigration policy of the first Donald Trump administration
• First inauguration of Donald Trump
• Legal affairs of the first Donald Trump presidency
• Tariffs in the first Trump administration
• Second presidency of Donald Trump
• Second cabinet of Donald Trump
• JD Vance
• Marco Rubio
• Immigration policy of the second Donald Trump administration
• Second inauguration of Donald Trump
• Legal affairs of the second Donald Trump presidency
• Tariffs in the second Trump administration

Persons influential in American politics

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
• Barack Obama
• Presidency of Barack Obama
• Conspiracy theories
• Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories
• Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories
• Zohran Mamdani
• Founding Fathers of the United States

See also

• 2021 United States Capitol car attack
• Deep state conspiracy theory in the United States
• Democratic backsliding in the United States
• First hundred days (United States)
• First 100 days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency
• First 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency
• First 100 days of Donald Trump's first presidency
• First 100 days of Joe Biden's presidency
• First 100 days of Donald Trump's second presidency
• Left–right political spectrum
• Party switching in the United States
• List of party switchers in the United States
• Slavery in the United States
• War on terror

Political positions

• Vice President of the United States
• List of vice presidents of the United States
• Natural-born-citizen clause (United States)
• Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• List of speakers of the United States House of Representatives
• Chief Justice of the United States
• List of chief justices

References

Further reading

• Greenstein, Fred I. et al. Evolution of the modern presidency : a bibliographical survey (1977) bibliography and annotation of 2500 scholarly books and articles. online 4

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