Politics for beginners
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Politics for beginners
Usborne Publishing Ltd., 2018
- hbk.
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An informative guide to political systems, elections, voting and government, and issues including feminism, human rights, freedom of speech and fake news, all explained with clear text and bright, infographic style illustrations. Includes tips on how to argue and debate, a glossary, and links to specially selected websites with more information.
Table of Contents
What is politics?
Who's in charge?
What is a government?
Chapter 1: All kinds of governments
How societies have run themselves from Ancient Athens and Rome, to China, Europe and the Birth of the United States pf America
Chapter 2: Political systems
How does democracy actually work? How do countries get things done? And what about the alternatives - dictatorship, communism and even total anarchy?
Chapter 3: Elections and voting
Who can vote? Who can't? And is there a way to count all the votes up that's fair to everyone?
Chapter 4: Political change
How can people influence their governments in between elections - or in countries where elections don't happen at all?
Chapter 5: Political ideologies
What are the big ideas that politicians use to decide how to run a country? What's the difference between 'left' and 'right' in politics, and why does it matter? How can work out where YO are on the political spectrum?
Chapter 6: Big questions
Sometimes what matters most isn't who is in charge, or what they stand for, but what they're actually going to do to fix the world's problems...
Is there such a thing as 'human rights'?
Can war ever be justified?
Why are some countries poor?
What is terrorism?
What is prison for?
What is freedom of speech?
How does the media affect politics?
What is immigration?
Am I a feminist?
Who's responsible for the planet?
Is corruption inevitable?
How to argue
Learn to debate
What next?
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements
by "Nielsen BookData"