Power & Choice: An Introduction to Poltical Science - Brossura

Shively, W. Phillips

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ISBN 10: 0071283536 ISBN 13: 9780071283533

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2008

Riassunto

The extensively revised eleventh edition of W. Phillips Shively’s Power & Choice: An Introduction to Political Science maintains the author’s goal since the text’s inception: to provide a general, comparative introduction to the major concepts and themes of political science by engaging students with concrete examples of analysis without overwhelming them with excessive detail.

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L'autore:

W. PHILLIPS SHIVELY is Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, where he moved in 1971 after teaching at the University of Oregon and Yale University. He has also served as Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo in Norway. His research, which has appeared in numerous articles, deals with the comparative study of elections, and he has written The Craft of Political Research, an introduction to research techniques. He has also had practical political experience as a lobbyist in Minnesota. His true love is bird-watching.

Contenuti:

PART ONE: THE IDEA OF POLITICS
1. Politics: Setting the Stage
2. Modern Ideologies and Political Philosophy
PART TWO: THE STATE AND PUBLIC POLICY
3. The Modern State
4. Policies of the State
5. Economic Policy and the Political Economy of the State
6. What Lies Behind Policy: Questions of Justice and PART
THREE: THE CITIZEN AND THE REGIME
7. Democracy and Autocracy
8. How Individuals Relate to the State
PART FOUR: THE APPARATUS OF GOVERNANCE
9. Constitutions and the Design of Government
10. Elections
11. Parties: A Linking and Leading Mechanism in Politics
12. Structured Conflict: Interest Groups and Politics
13. Social Movements and Contentious Politics
14. National Decision-Making Institutions: Parliamentary
15. National Decision-Making Institutions: Presidential 16. Bureaucracy and the Public Sector
17. Law and the Courts
PART FIVE: INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
18. Global Politics: Politics Among States (And Others)

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071283536
• ISBN 13: 9780071283533
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile