Politics: A Unified Introduction to How Democracy Works

The second edition of this comprehensive introduction to politics remains an essential framework for assessing the health and workings of present-day democracy. The book explores how democratic processes bring public policy into line with popular, basically centrist, preferences. In helping explain its workings, it equips us to better defend democracy.

Applying newly integrated theories of democratic processes to contemporary developments such as the use of right-wing populism across the wor...