Power & choice : an introduction to political science. / W. Phillips Shively.
Material type: TextPublisher: Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2007Edition: 10th edDescription: xvii, 421 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780073106786; 007310678XOther title: Power and choiceSubject(s): Political science -- TextbooksLOC classification: JA66.S47Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY General Stacks | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | JA66.S471 (Browse shelf) | 2 | Available | 3853/12 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: The Idea of politics: Politics: setting the stage -- Modern ideologies and political philosophy -- The State and public policy: The Modern state -- Policies of the state -- Economic policy and the political economy of the state -- Political choices: the problems of justice and efficiency -- The Citizen and the regime: Authority and legitimacy: the state and the citizen -- Democracy and autocracy -- The Apparatus of governance: Constitutions and the design of government -- Elections -- Parties: a linking and leading mechanism in politics -- Structured conflict: interest groups and politics -- Social movements and contentious politics -- National decision-making institutions: parliamentary government -- National decision-making institutions: presidential government -- Bureaucracy and the public sector -- Law and the courts -- International politics: Global politics: politics among states and others -- Appendix.
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