"Reward your friends and punish your enemies," says labor union leader Samuel Gompers, and with this maxim, Gompers demonstrates two of the five political concepts of power which social psychologists recognize. Contemporary politicians and political analysts separate politics into two distinct halves: left wing and right wing politics. At times, they also accept the idea of a center politics as the median path followed by policies that are neither left nor right. While the meaning of right-wing and left-wing politics vary between countries and applications, right wing politics is often linked to social and moral conservatism, religion, and law and order. In contrast, left wing politics devotes itself to the redistribution of wealth. Learn more about politics as you read the articles in this section.