Civics- topic is government

We branched out into GOVERNMENT which is the design of an electoral system and ongoing electoral reform. This involves explicitly comparing voting systems, wealth distribution, and the decentralization of political and legal power, control of legal systems and adoption of legal codes, and even political policy—all seen as important to avoid a dystrophy Canaveral state or a lapse into some undesirable state of totalitarianism or theocracy. Each of these concerns tends to make the process of governance different, as variations in these norms tend to produce a quite different kind of state. Civics was often simply concerned with the balance of power between say an aristocracy and monarchy—a concern echoed to this day in the struggles for power between different levels of rulers—say of the weaker nation states to establish a binding international law that will have an effect even on the stronger ones. Thus world government is itself properly a civic problem. Also, it is the study of duties and rights of citizenship.

On smaller scales, modern human development theory attempts to unify ethics and small-scale politics with the urban and rural economics of sustainable development.

( info taken from Wikipedia)