TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shively,W.Phillips
TI  - Power & choice : an introduction to political science.
SN  - 9780073106786
AV  - JA66.S47 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Boston
PB  - McGraw-Hill Higher Education
KW  - Political science
KW  - Textbooks
N1  - 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
ER  -