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Overview
This substantially revised seventh edition of a classic text includes a new chapter on globalization and regionalization and broader coverage of democratic politics, interests and movements; of the media; of social and cultural influences on political behavior and of public management. It has been systematically revised and updated throughout in the accessible down-to-earth style that has made it such a popular student choice for over thirty years.
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Alan R. Ball was formerly Principal Lecturer in Politics, University of Portsmouth.
B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of Government, University of Pittsburgh.
Table of Contents
PART I: THE NATURE OF POLITICS
• The Study of Politics
• Politics, Power and Authority
• Classification of Government Types
• The State, Globalization and the Changing Global Order
• Social and Cultural Bases of Politics
• PART II: PARTIES, INTEREST GROUPS AND REPRESENTATION
• Political Parties and Party Systems
• Representation, Elections and Voting Systems
• Interest Groups
• PART III: STRUCTURES OF GOVERNMENT
• Assemblies
• The Political Executive
• Public Bureaucracy
• The Courts and the Political Process
• Non-Democratic Politics
• PART IV: CHANGES IN POLITICAL SYSTEMS