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

By: Shively, W. PhillipsPublication details: Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2007. Edition: 10th edDescription: xvii, 442 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780073106786; 007310678DDC classification: 320 SHI
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Pt. 1. THE IDEA OF POLITICS
Ch. 1. Politics: Setting the Stage
Ch. 2. Modern Ideologies and Political Philosophy

Pt. 2. THE STATE AND PUBLIC POLICY
Ch. 3. The Modern State
Ch. 4. Policies of the State
Ch. 5. Economic Policy and the Political Economy of the State
Ch. 6. What Lies Behind Policy: Questions of Justice and Efficiency

Pt. 3. THE CITIZEN AND THE REGIME
Ch. 7. Democracy and Autocracy
Ch. 8. How Individuals Relate to the State, and the State to the Individual

Pt. 4. THE APPARATUS OF GOVERNANCE
Ch. 9. Constitutions and the Design of Government
Ch. 10. Elections
Ch. 11. Parties: A Linking and Leading Mechanism in Politics
Ch. 12. Structured Conflict: Interest Groups and Politics
Ch. 13. Social Movements and Contentious Politics
Ch. 14. National Decision-Making Institutions: Parliamentary Government
Ch. 15. National Decision-Making Institutions: Presidential Government
Ch. 16. Bureaucracy and the Public Sector
Ch. 17. Law and the Courts

Pt. 5. INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
Ch. 18. Global Politics: Politics Among States (And Others)

Includes index

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