Power and choice : an introduction to political science
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Power and choice : an introduction to political science
McGraw-Hill, c1993
3rd ed
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Power & choice
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Cover title: Power & choice
Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-371) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A general, comparative introduction to the major concepts and themes of political science. The basics are made affordable to students through concise presentation - offering a comparative approach to the subject, highlighted through case studies that offer real-world examples of political behaviour. This new edition includes a new chapter on democracy and the process of democratization (chapter 7), a new chapter on comparative legal systems (chapter 15), a thoroughly revised chapter on international relations (chapter 17), which discusses current theoretic concerns; and new materials on "The Pleasures of Politics" (chapter 1). Also available is an instructor's manual with test bank (0-07-056995-9).
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Introduction: politics - setting the stage. Part 2 The state and public policy: the modern state
- modern ideologies and political philosophy
- policies of the state
- political choices - the problems of fairness and efficiency. Part 3 The citizen and the regime: the authority and legitimacy - the state and the citizen
- democracy and its recent surge in the world
- nondemocratic government. Part 4 The apparatus of governance: constitutions and the design of government
- elections
- parties - a linking and leading mechanism in politics
- structured confluct - interest groups and politics
- national decision-making institutions - parliamentary government, presidential government
- bureaucracy and the public sector
- law and the courts
- politics among states. Appendix: principles of political analysis.
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