Ebook: Power & Choice: An Introduction to Political Science

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0077172000 · 9780077172008
This program provides a general, comparative introduction to the major concepts and themes of political science. The title of the book, Power & Choice, indicates a subsidiary theme that recurs at intervals. We may view politics as (1) the use of … Read More
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Part I The Idea of Politics

CHAPTER 1 Politics: Setting the Stage

CHAPTER 2 Modern Ideologies and Political Philosophy


Part II The State and Public Policy

CHAPTER 3 The Modern State

CHAPTER 4 Policies of the State

CHAPTER 5 Economic Policy of the State

CHAPTER 6 What Lies Behind Policy: Questions of Justice and Effectiveness


Part III The Citizen and the Regime

CHAPTER 7 Democracies and Authoritarian Systems

CHAPTER 8 Political Culture and Political Socialization


Part IV The Apparatus of Governance

CHAPTER 9 Constitutions and the Design of Government

CHAPTER 10 Elections

CHAPTER 11 Parties: A Linking and Leading Mechanism in Politics

CHAPTER 12 Structured Conflict: Interest Groups and Politics

CHAPTER 13 Social Movements and Contentious Politics

CHAPTER 14 National Decision-Making Institutions: Parliamentary Government

CHAPTER 15 National Decision-Making Institutions: Presidential Government

CHAPTER 16 Bureaucracy and the Public Sector

CHAPTER 17 Law and the Courts


Part V International Politics

CHAPTER 18 Global Politics: Politics among States (and Others)

APPENDIX Principles of Political Analysis

Glossary

Index


This program provides a general, comparative introduction to the major concepts and themes of political science. The title of the book, Power & Choice, indicates a subsidiary theme that recurs at intervals. We may view politics as (1) the use of power or (2) the production of a public choice. Often one or the other is heavily emphasized in approaching the subject. Marxism emphasizes politics as the use of power, while pluralism and much formal modeling work emphasize the emergence of public choices
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