Power and Choice : An Introduction to Political Science

by Shively, W. Phillips

• ISBN13: 9780072868968
• ISBN10: 0072868961
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Table of Contents

Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
Permissions Acknowledgments
Introduction
Politics: Setting the Stage	p. 3
The State and Public Policy
The Modern State	p. 21
Modern Ideologies and Political Philosophy	p. 46
Policies of the State	p. 66
Political Choices: The Problems of Fairness and Efficiency	p. 88
The Citizen and the Regime
Authority and Legitimacy: The State and the Citizen	p. 111
Democracy, and Its Recent Surge in the World	p. 131
Nondemocratic Government	p. 144
The Apparatus of Governance
Constitutions and the Design of Government	p. 163
Elections	p. 183
Parties: A Linking and Leading Mechanism in Politics	p. 204
Structured Conflict: Interest Groups and Politics	p. 229
National Decision-Making Institutions: Parliamentary Government	p. 251
National Decision-Making Institutions: Presidential Government	p. 271
Bureaucracy and the Public Sector	p. 292
Law and the Courts	p. 310
International Politics
Politics among States	p. 327
Appendix: Principles of Political Analysis	p. 345
Glossary	p. 353
Bibliography	p. 361
Index	p. 372
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