notes-politics-governanceSystems-govsChListsOfDepartments

Common departments/topics/ministries

survey:

For-profit companies

Governments

We'll focus on these countries: China, US, India, Japan, Germany, Russia, Brazil, France, Indonesia, UK. We'll also throw in some supranational organization (EU, UN), and some historical governmental organizations, to try and get a broader perspective:

( How did we choose which governments to focus on? One approach is to look at some objective ranked lists of size and find a cutoff point on one such list such that it includes all entries up to some cutoff point on another such list. As of this writing (2015), the set of the top 3 countries by either population or by PPP-adjusted GDP are China, India, United States. The 4 countries by population are: China, India, United States, Indonesia; by nominal GDP: US, China, Japan, Germany; by PPP-adjusted GDP: China, US, India, Japan. In order to get all of the top 4 PPP-adjusted GDP countries in the population list, you'd have to go down to #10 (Japan is #10 by population); in order to get all of the top 4 population countries in the PPP-adjusted GDP list, you'd have to go down to #8 to #10 (Indonesia is #8 by PPP-adjusted GDP on one list, #9 on another, #10 on another). The top 5 countries by population are China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil; by nominal GDP: US, China, Japan, Germany, France or UK; by PPP-adjusted GDP, China, US, India, Japan, Germany or Russia. Brazil is #7 on PPP-adjusted GDP, Russia is #9 by population, and Germany is #17 by population. The EU would be #3 by population if it were a country. The sixth country by population is Pakistan, which is #26 by PPP.

The set of top 10 countries by PPP-adjusted GDP are [1]: China, US, India, Japan, Germany, Russia, Brazil, France, Indonesia, UK; in this list are included all of the top 5 countries by population [2]; and all of the top 7 countries by nominal GDP [3]. )

todo: go to these links and copy the list of committee names to here; then list the most common ones

countries, executive ministries:

historical countries, executive ministries:

countries, legislative:

EU:

Historical:

Other lists:

Non-profits

Topics within legal codes

Tang Code of imperial China, CE 624:

other lists

company case studies