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• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Contents
• Preface
• Part I The Bases of Politics
• Chapter 1 Politics and Political Science
• What Is Politics?
• Classic Works: Concepts and Percepts
• What Is Political Science?
• Classic Thought: “Never Get Angry at a Fact”
• Methods: Learning a Chapter
• Theory in Political Science
• Theories: Models: Simplifying Reality
• “Political Theory” versus Theory in Political Science
• Classic Works: Not Just Europeans
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Chapter 2 Political Ideologies
• What Is Ideology?
• Theories: The Origins of Ideologies
• Liberalism
• Conservatism
• Socialism
• Nationalism
• Methods: Theses
• Ideology in Our Day
• Case Studies: Islamism: A Political Ideology Emanating from Islam
• Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism
• Is Ideology Finished?
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Chapter 3 States
• Institutionalized Power
• Classic Works: Aristotle’s Six Types of Government
• Effective, Weak, and Failed States
• Theories: Political Development in Three Stages
• Unitary or Federal Systems
• Methods: Sources
• Case Studies: The Shaky Lives of Confederations
• Electoral Systems
• Case Studies: French and German Variations
• States and the Economy
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Chapter 4 Constitutions and Rights
• Constitutions
• The Highest Law of the Land
• Case Studies: The Dangers of Changing Constitutions
• Case Studies: Canada’s New Constitution
• Can Constitutions Ensure Rights?
• The Adaptability of the U.S. Constitution
• Theories: What Is a Right?
• Freedom of Expression in the United States
• Methods: References
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Chapter 5 Regimes
• Representative Democracy
• Democracy in Practice: Elitism or Pluralism?
• Totalitarianism
• Democracy: Dahl’s “Influence Terms”
• Methods: Tight Writing
• Democracy: Why Democracies Fail
• Authoritarianism
• Case Studies: Democracy in Iraq?
• The Democratization of Authoritarian Regimes
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Part II Political Attitudes
• Chapter 6 Political Culture
• What Is Political Culture?
• Classic Works: The Civic Culture
• Democracy: Civil Society
• Methods: Quotations
• The Decay of Political Culture
• Case Studies: Soviet Political Culture and the New Russia
• Elite and Mass Subcultures
• Theories: Culture and Development
• Minority Subcultures
• Case Studies: “Yes Scotland!” versus “Better Together”
• Democracy: The Three Israels
• Political Socialization
• Classic Works: The Authoritarian Personality
• Case Studies: China Builds Unity
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Chapter 7 Public Opinion
• What Public Opinion Is and Isn’t
• Democracy: A Short History of Polling
• The Shape of Public Opinion
• Classic Works: Almond’s Three Publics
• Democracy: Opinion Curves
• Public-Opinion Polls
• Methods: Variables
• American Opinion
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Part III Political Interactions
• Chapter 8 Political Communication
• The Mass Media and Politics
• Classic Works: The Two-Step Flow of Mass Communications
• Democracy: The Tendency to Media Oligopoly
• Social Media
• Case Studies: The Media and War
• The Giant: Television
• Methods: Defining Variables
• Theories: The Framing of News
• Are We Poorly Served?
• Case Studies: The Media and Watergate
• The Adversaries: Media and Government
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Chapter 9 Interest Groups
• The Ubiquity of Interest Groups
• Theories: Countervailing Power
• Interest Groups and Government
• Case Studies: French Antipluralism
• Effective Interest Groups
• Case Studies: Trade Unions and the Right to Strike in the U.K.
• Methods: Tables
• Interest Group Strategies
• Classic Works: Olson’s Theory of Interest Groups
• Interest Groups: An Evaluation
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Chapter 10 Parties
• Methods: Cross-Tabulations
• Functions of Parties
• Democracy: Parties That Ignore Voters
• Parties in Democracies
• Theories: What Is a “Relevant” Party?
• Classic Works: Duverger’s Three Types of Parties
• Classifying Political Parties
• Classic Works: Kirchheimer’s “Catchall” Party
• Party Systems
• Democracy: Multiparty Systems Are More Fun
• Theories: Sartori’s Party Competition
• The Future of Parties
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Chapter 11 Elections
• Why Do People Vote?
• Who Votes?
• Theories: Downs’s Theory of Voting
• Methods: Tendency Statements
• Who Votes How?
• Case Studies: Is the U.S. Electoral System Defective?
• Electoral Realignment
• Democracy: Partisan Polarization
• What Wins Elections?
• Democracy: Changing Positions
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Part IV Political Institutions
• Chapter 12 Legislatures
• The Origins of Parliaments
• Presidential and Parliamentary Systems
• Classic Works: Where Did the U.S. System Originate?
• Bicameral or Unicameral?
• What Legislatures Do
• Methods: Longitudinal Studies
• The Decline of Legislatures
• Democracy: Pork-Barrel Politics
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Chapter 13 Executives and Bureaucracies
• Presidents and Prime Ministers
• Democracy: Israel’s Directly Elected Prime Ministers
• Democracy: Putin’s Authoritarianism
• Classic Works: Lasswell’s Psychology of Power
• Executive Leadership
• Democracy: An Imperial Presidency?
• Methods: Graphs
• Cabinets
• Classic Works: American Paranoia
• Bureaucracies
• Classic Works: Weber’s Definition of Bureaucracies
• The Trouble with Bureaucracy
• Theories: Bureaucratic Politics
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Chapter 14 Judiciaries
• Types of Law
• Classic Works: The Roots of Law
• The Courts, the Bench, and the Bar
• Case Studies: Common Law versus Code Law
• Comparing Courts
• Classic Works: Marbury v. Madison
• The Role of the Courts
• Methods: Scattergrams
• The Supreme Court’s Political Role
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Part V What Political Systems Do
• Chapter 15 Political Economy
• What Is Political Economy?
• Case Studies: How High Are U.S. Taxes?
• Government and the Economy
• Methods: Maps
• What Is Poverty?
• Democracy: Poverty and Ideology
• Case Studies: Welfare Spending versus Tax Expenditures
• The Costs of Welfare
• How Big Should Government Be?
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Chapter 16 Violence and Revolution
• System Breakdown
• Types of Violence
• Methods: Thinkpieces
• Theories: Rising Expectations
• Terrorism
• Case Studies: Revolutionary Political Warfare in Vietnam
• Revolutions
• Case Studies: The Iranian Revolutionary Cycle
• After the Revolution
• Case Studies: Violent versus Velvet Revolutions
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Chapter 17 International Relations
• What Is International Relations?
• Power and National Interest
• Methods: Avoid “They”
• Theories: Types of National Interest
• The Importance of Economics
• Why War?
• Classic Works: Kennan’s Dinosaur Analogy
• Keeping Peace
• Beyond Sovereignty?
• Democracy: The Democratic Peace
• U.S. Foreign Policy: Involved or Isolated?
• Theories: Klingberg’s Alternation Theory
• Classic Works: Thucydides on War
• Review Questions
• Key Terms
• Further Reference
• Glossary
• Index