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010 _a 2005938467
020 _a9780073106786
020 _a007310678X
040 _aDLC
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050 0 0 _aJA66.S47
100 1 _aShively, W. Phillips,
_d1942-
245 1 0 _aPower & choice : an introduction to political science. /
_cW. Phillips Shively.
246 3 _aPower and choice
250 _a10th ed.
260 _aBoston :
_bMcGraw-Hill Higher Education,
_cc2007.
300 _axvii, 421 p.:
_bill., maps ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aContents: 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.
650 0 _aPolitical science
_vTextbooks.
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