Index: N-P

This page forms part of the alphabetical index to the patterns of power commentaries.  Links coloured sepia are to Edition 2 material in an older format.

National debt, (3.3.8.1)

National identity, (6.7.3.3), (6.7.4.7)

National Insurance, (4.2.4.3)

Nationalism – aggressive, (6.3.2.6), (6.3.6), (6.6.4.2), (6.6.4.3), (6.6.7.2)

Nationalism – ethnic, (6.6.3), (6.6.3.3)

NATO, (6.2.4.4), (6.7.7.4), (7.2.7.1), (7.4.4), 8.3.3), (8.7.1), (9.5.2)

Nazism, (6.2.4.6), (6.3.1.6), (6.7.4.2)

Negotiability, (2.4)Also see separate Index

Neoconservatism, (6.2.4.4), (6.2.5.2), (6.3.8), (6.7.7.4), (7.4.4)

Neoliberalism, (3.5.3), (3.5.9), (3.5.9.1)(6.2.2.3), (6.2.5.2), (6.7.2.2)

Nepotism, (6.8.2)

Netanyahu, Benjamin, (6.6.7.5and see Israel

‘New Labour’, (6.2.6.1)

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), (3.4.6), (4.3.5.1), (6.6.6.3), (6.7.2.3)

North Korea, (6.7.7.4), (7.4.2), (7.4.4)

Northern Ireland, (5.2.5), (6.7.4.2), (7.2.6), (7.2.8)

Nostalgia, (6.2.4.5), (6.6.5.8)

Nozick, Robert, (3.5.1.1), (6.2.2.1)

Nuclear fusion, (3.5.7.6)

Nuclear weapons, (7.4.1.1), (7.4.2), (7.4.4), 8.2.1), (9.5.3)

Obama, Barack, (3.3.8.2), (7.3.2.3)

Oil.  See separate Index

Ombudsman, (2.8.5), (6.8.2)

Omniculturalism, (4.4.7.1)

Opportunity to flourish, (2.1), (2.2), (3.5.9), (4.2.4.3), (6.7.1.3), (9.2), (9.2.3), (9.7)

Organisation of African Unity (OAU), (7.2.7.1), (9.5.2)

Outsourcing, (3.4.2), (3.5.3), (3.5.4.4), (3.5.8.4)

Pacifism, (4.3.5.5)

Pakistan, (5.3.6.2), (5.4.6.1), (6.3.1.3), (6.3.9), (6.6.3.3), (6.7.5.1), (6.7.7.4), (7.3.2.3), (7.4.2.1)

Palestine, (6.2.4.4); also see Index-Israel

Panama Papers, (7.2.5.1)

Paris Accord on climate change, (3.5.7.2), (6.7.5), (6.7.5.4)

Participative democracy, (6.5.2)

Partition, (3.4.5.5), (4.4.5.1), (6.6.3.3), (6.7.4.2), (7.2.6)

Party platforms, see Manifestos in Index-Political

Patriotism, (6.3.6), (6.6.4.3), (6.7.3.3)

Penal system, (5.1.3), (5.2.7), (5.2.8), (5.3.2)

Pensions, (3.2.3.3), (3.2.4.2), (6.7.1.3)

People-power, (2.4), (4.3.5.2), (6.4.2.1), (6.8.3.2), (7.2.6), 8.5.2), (9.2.4)

Perjury, (5.4.5.4)

Personality politics, (6.3.4.2), 8.5.5), (8.7.6)

Philosophical basis for moral values, (4.2.3.1)

Philosophical principles of justice, (2.3.1)

Piketty, Thomas, (6.7.2), (6.7.2.2)

Pluralism, (4.4), (6.7.4) and see separate Index

Plutocracy, (6.4.5.2), (9.2.1)

Polarisation in politics, (6.2.6.1), (6.2.6.3), (6.3.2.8), (6.4.2.6)

Police, (2.8.5), (5.1.3), (5.2.5), (5.2.8), (7.1.1)

Political parties, (6.2.6), (6.3.2), (6.3.2.3), (6.4.4), (6.6.5.6), (6.6.7.4), (6.7.4.6)

Political power, (2.7), and see Chapter 6, Index-Political governance and Index-Politicians

Political pressures, (3.3.9), (6.4.1), (6.4.6), (6.8.4.3)

Political representation, (6.5.1), (6.8.2)

Political unity when facing a threat, (6.3.6)

‘Poll tax’, (3.3.9.1)

Pollution, (3.5.7), (5.3.4), (6.7.5.2), (6.7.6.2)

Pope, (4.2.2.1), (4.2.4.3), (4.3.3.3), (4.3.4.3)

Populism, (3.5.4.5), (6.3.2.5). Also see ‘Authoritarian populism’, (6.2.4.5), (6.3.2.6), (6.6.7.2), (6.7.8.4)

‘Pork-barrel politics’, (3.3.7.1)

Poverty, (3.5.8), (3.5.9.1), (4.3.4.1), (6.7.2.2), (6.7.6.2)

Pressure groups, (4.3.4.2), (6.4.4), (6.5.3.2), (6.6.1.1),  8.4.5)

Price bubbles, (3.3.4.3)

Prices and incomes policy, (3.3.6.1)

Princess Diana, (4.3.1.4)

Privatisation, (3.5.2.1), (3.5.3.3), (3.5.3.4)

Productivity, (3.2.5), (3.3.3.1), (3.4.4), (3.5.4.4), (6.7.1.1)

Profit, (3.1.3), (3.2.1), (3.2.7), (3.3.2), (3.5.6.1)

Profit – conflict of interest, (3.3.4.2), (3.5.3), (3.5.3.6), (8.7.1)

Profit – tax on profits, (3.2.4.4), (3.3.7.3), (6.4.5.2)

Progressivism, (6.2.1), (6.2.5), (6.2.6.3)

Propaganda, (6.4.2.4), (6.4.3.4), (6.4.4), (6.7.7.3), (6.8.1), (7.3.3), (7.4.3), (7.4.7), (8.7.1), (9.5.4)

Property rights, (3.2.1), (3.3.1.1), (3.5.8.2), (6.2.2)

Proportional representation, (6.3.2.4), (6.8.5.2)

Protecting people. See Index-Protecting people

Protectionism, (3.3.7.1), (3.5.4.2), (3.5.8.3), (6.7.8.1), (6.7.8.2)

Protestant Reformation, (4.2.2.1), (7.2.5.1)

Protestants, (4.2.2.2), (4.3.3.3), (6.7.4.2)

Protests.  See People-power: (2.4), (4.3.5.2), (6.4.2.1), (6.8.3.2), (7.2.6), 8.5.2), (9.2.4)

Protocols of the Elders of Zion, (5.4.6.2), (6.4.2.7)

Prudence, (Introduction), (2.6), (3.3.8.1), (3.5.7.1), (6.3.2.5), (6.3.4.1), (6.4.2.2), (9.1), (9.4)

Public services, (3.2.3), and see separate index

Putin, Vladimir, (3.2.4.4), (6.3.1.1), (6.3.2.6), (6.3.4.2), (6.4.2.4), (6.7.7.4), (7.2.7.1); also see Index-Russia