Analyzing Politics

by Grigsby, Ellen

• ISBN13: 9780534586737
• ISBN10: 0534586732
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Political Science and Scientific Methods in Studying Politics	p. 7
The Range of Political Science: Historical Developments	p. 8
Thinking Scientifically: Some Foundations of Scientific Inquiry	p. 12
Thinking Scientifically about Politics	p. 16
Case Studies	p. 16
Survey Research	p. 18
Experiments and Quasi-Experiments	p. 23
Indirect Quantitative Analysis	p. 23
Science: Limitations	p. 24
How Can We Have a Science of Human Behavior When Human Behavior Is Often Unique?	p. 25
How Do We Know Our Findings Are Correct?	p. 26
Does the Pursuit of Science Lead Us to Ignore Important Questions?	p. 26
Does Science Contradict Its Own Logic?	p. 27
Can Science Avoid Coming into Conflict with Ethics?	p. 28
Summing Up	p. 32
Study Questions	p. 33
Following Up through Internet Sources	p. 33
Key Concepts in Political Science	p. 35
Power	p. 36
Types of Power	p. 37
Debates in the Study of Power	p. 49
States	p. 50
States: State Formation, Development, and Change	p. 51
Debates in the Study of States	p. 52
Nations	p. 58
States and Nations: Relations and Interactions	p. 59
Debates in the Study of Nations	p. 62
Summing Up	p. 63
Study Questions	p. 64
Following Up through Internet Sources	p. 65
Political Theory: Examining the Ethical Foundations of Politics	p. 66
Analyzing Political Theory: Plato's Allegory of the Cave	p. 67
Some Fundamental Ethical Questions in Politics	p. 69
What Purpose Should the State Serve?	p. 69
Should State Promote Equality?	p. 73
Should States Be Organized to Maximize Their Own Power or Organized to Restrain This Power?	p. 79
Should States Try to Help Us Be Ethical?	p. 81
Summing Up	p. 85
Study Questions	p. 86
Following Up through Internet Sources	p. 86
Political Ideologies I: Liberalism, Conservatism, and Socialism	p. 87
Liberalism	p. 87
Classical Liberalism	p. 88
Modern Liberalism	p. 92
Classical and Modern Liberalism Today	p. 95
Conservatism	p. 96
Traditional Conservatism	p. 96
Traditional Conservatism Today	p. 99
Traditional Conservatism and Classical Liberal Conservation in Conflict	p. 101
Socialism	p. 104
Marxism	p. 105
Marxism-Leninism	p. 110
Social Democracy	p. 111
Summing Up	p. 113
Study Questions	p. 113
Following Up through Internet Sources	p. 114
Political Ideologies II: Fascism	p. 115
The Fascism of Mussolini and Hitler	p. 115
Neofascism	p. 126
Summing Up	p. 128
Study Questions	p. 128
Following Up through Internet Sources	p. 129
Political Ideologies III: Feminism, Environmentalism, and Postmodernism	p. 130
Feminism	p. 131
Liberal Feminism	p. 134
Radical Challenges to Liberal Feminism	p. 136
Environmentalism	p. 139
Basic Principles	p. 139
Diversity within Environmentalist Ideology	p. 143
A Note on Postmodernism	p. 145
Summing Up	p. 146
Study Questions	p. 147
Following Up through Internet Sources	p. 147
Comparative Politics I: Governmental Systems; Democracy and Nondemocracy	p. 148
Democracy as a Fluid and Varied Governing Process	p. 149
Democracies Compared	p. 154
Participation: The United States and Switzerland	p. 154
Pluralism: The United States and Germany	p. 156
Developmentalism: The United States and Argentina	p. 159
Protection: The United States and Great Britain	p. 161
Performance: The United States and India	p. 164
Nondemocracy: A Fluid and Varied Governing Process	p. 166
Questions About China	p. 171
Summing Up	p. 173
Study Questions	p. 175
Following Up through Internet Sources	p. 175
Comparative Politics II: Interest Groups, Political Parties, Elections, and Media	p. 177
Interest Groups	p. 178
Interest Groups in the United States	p. 178
Interest Groups Compared: Democracies	p. 185
Interest Groups Compared: Nondemocracies	p. 188
Political Parties	p. 190
Political Parties in the United States	p. 190
Political Parties Compared: Democracies	p. 194
Political Parties Compared: Nondemocracies	p. 197
Elections	p. 198
Elections in the United States	p. 198
Elections Compared: Democracies	p. 206
Elections Compared: Nondemocracies	p. 207
Media	p. 208
Media in the United States	p. 208
Media Compared: Democracies and Nondemocracies	p. 210
Summing Up	p. 211
Study Questions	p. 213
Following Up through Internet Sources	p. 214
Comparative Politics III: Governing Democracies; Executives, Legislatures, and Judiciaries	p. 215
Executive-Legislative Relations: Presidential and Parliamentary Systems	p. 215
The U.S. Presidential System: The Executive	p. 216
The British Parliamentary System: The Executive	p. 219
Other Examples of Executive-Legislative Relations	p. 221
The U.S. Presidential System: The Legislature	p. 222
The British Parliamentary System: The Legislature	p. 226
Judicial Review versus Parliamentary Sovereignty	p. 228
Summing Up	p. 230
Study Questions	p. 231
Following Up through Internet Sources	p. 232
International Relations: Analyzing Recent and Contemporary Events in International Politics	p. 233
Models of Analysis	p. 235
Idealism	p. 235
Realism	p. 236
International Relations: Out of Bipolarism and into the Twenty-First Century	p. 239
Bipolar Politics	p. 239
After Bipolarism	p. 242
Questions of Security after Bipolarism	p. 244
Questions about International Economics and Politics	p. 251
Summing Up	p. 259
Study Questions	p. 259
Following Up through Internet Sources	p. 260
Notes	p. 261
Glossary	p. 303
Index	p. 311
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