TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shively,W.Phillips
TI  - Power & choice: an introduction to political science 
SN  - 0072322527
AV  - JA66 .S47 2001
U1  - 320 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Boston
PB  - McGraw-Hill
KW  - Political science
N1  - 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)
N2  - This text is an introduction to the major concepts and themes of political science
ER  -