Power & Choice: An Introduction to Political Science (Int'l Ed)
14th Edition
Will be published approx. on 16. February 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-1-259-07125-6 (ISBN)
Description
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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Person
W. Phillips Shively is Morse-Alumni Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, where he moved in 1971 after teaching at the University of Oregon and Yale University. He has also served as Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo in Norway. His research, which has appeared in numerous articles, deals with the comparative study of elections, and he has written The Craft of Political Research, an introduction to research techniques. He has also had practical political experience as a lobbyist in Minnesota. His true love is bird-watching.
Content
Part I The Idea of PoliticsCHAPTER 1 Politics: Setting the StageCHAPTER 2 Modern Ideologies and Political PhilosophyPart II The State and Public PolicyCHAPTER 3 The Modern State CHAPTER 4 Policies of the StateCHAPTER 5 Economic Policy of the StateCHAPTER 6 What Lies Behind Policy: Questions of Justice andEffectivenessPart III The Citi zen and the RegimeCHAPTER 7 Democracies and Authoritarian SystemsCHAPTER 8 Political Culture and Political SocializationPart IV The Apparatus of GovernanceCHAPTER 9 Constitutions and the Design of GovernmentCHAPTER 10 Elections CHAPTER 11 Parties: A Linking and Leading Mechanism in PoliticsCHAPTER 12 Structured Conflict: Interest Groups and PoliticsCHAPTER 13 Social Movements and Contentious PoliticsCHAPTER 14 National Decision-Making Institutions: Parliamentary GovernmentCHAPTER 15 National Decision-Making Institutions: Presidential GovernmentCHAPTER 16 Bureaucracy and the Public SectorCHAPTER 17 Law and the CourtsPart V International PoliticsCHAPTER 18 Global Politics: Politics among States (and Others)APPENDIX Principles of Political Analysis
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Index
Glossary
Index