Power & Choice: An Introduction to Political Science / Edition 14

by W. Phillips Shively

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900078024770
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	10/18/2013
Edition description:	List
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Part I The Idea of Politics
CHAPTER 1 Politics: Setting the Stage
CHAPTER 2 Modern Ideologies and Political Philosophy
Part II The State and Public Policy
CHAPTER 3 The Modern State
CHAPTER 4 Policies of the State
CHAPTER 5 Economic Policy of the State
CHAPTER 6 What Lies Behind Policy: Questions of Justice and
Effectiveness
Part III The Citi zen and the Regime
CHAPTER 7 Democracies and Authoritarian Systems
CHAPTER 8 Political Culture and Political Socialization
Part IV The Apparatus of Governance
CHAPTER 9 Constitutions and the Design of Government
CHAPTER 10 Elections
CHAPTER 11 Parties: A Linking and Leading Mechanism in Politics
CHAPTER 12 Structured Conflict: Interest Groups and Politics
CHAPTER 13 Social Movements and Contentious Politics
CHAPTER 14 National Decision-Making Institutions: Parliamentary Government
CHAPTER 15 National Decision-Making Institutions: Presidential Government
CHAPTER 16 Bureaucracy and the Public Sector
CHAPTER 17 Law and the Courts
Part V International Politics
CHAPTER 18 Global Politics: Politics among States (and Others)
APPENDIX Principles of Political Analysis




Glossary

Index