TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shively,W.Phillips
TI  - Power and choice: an introduction to political science 
SN  - 0070571872 (acidfree paper)
AV  - JA66 .S47 1997
U1  - 320 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - McGraw-Hill
KW  - Political science
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-369); 	Politics: setting the stage --
The modern state --
Modern ideologies and political philosophy --
Policies of the state --
Political choices: the problems of fairness and efficiency --
Authority and legitimacy: the state and the citizen --
Democracy and its recent surge in the world --
Autocratic government --
Constitutions and the design of government --
Elections --
Parties: a linking and leading mechanism in politics --
Structured 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 --
Politics among states
N2  - This introductory text examines the contrasting purpose of political institutions as a means to acquire power versus their use as a means to exercise public choice
ER  -