Power & choice : an introduction to political science / W. Phillips Shively.

By: Shively, W. Phillips, 1942- [author]
Language: English Publisher: Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2001Edition: Seventh editionDescription: x, 422 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0072322527Other title: Power and choiceSubject(s): Political scienceDDC classification: 320 LOC classification: JA66 | .S47 2001
Contents:
Part 1 Introduction -- Politics: setting the stage -- Modern ideologies and political philosophy -- Part II The state and public policy -- The modern state -- Policies of the state -- Political economy of the state -- Political choices: the problems of fairness and efficiency -- Part III The citizen and the regime -- Authority and legitimacy: the state and the citizen -- Democracy and its recent surge in the world -- Autocratic government -- Part IV The apparatus of governance -- Election 213 -- Parties: a linking and leading mechanism in politics 234 -- Structure conflict: interest groups and politics -- National decision-making institutions: parliamentary government -- National decision-making institutions: presidential government -- Bureaucracy and the public sector -- Law and the courts -- Part V International politics -- Global politics: politics among states (and others).
Summary: This text is an introduction to the major concepts and themes of political science.
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Includes index

Includes bibliographical references (p. 402-417)

Part 1 Introduction --
Politics: setting the stage --
Modern ideologies and political philosophy --
Part II The state and public policy --
The modern state --
Policies of the state --
Political economy of the state --
Political choices: the problems of fairness and efficiency --
Part III The citizen and the regime --
Authority and legitimacy: the state and the citizen --
Democracy and its recent surge in the world --
Autocratic government --
Part IV The apparatus of governance --
Election 213 --
Parties: a linking and leading mechanism in politics 234 --
Structure conflict: interest groups and politics --
National decision-making institutions: parliamentary government --
National decision-making institutions: presidential government --
Bureaucracy and the public sector --
Law and the courts --
Part V International politics --
Global politics: politics among states (and others).

This text is an introduction to the major concepts and themes of political science.

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