Preface
Part One: Getting Started
1. Foundations of Politics
2. Contemporary Political Science: Methods and Approaches
Part Two: Ideas
3. Foundations of Political Philosophy
4. Ideology: Ideas for Political Action
5. Political Culture: The Collective Consciousness of a Polity
Part Three: The Evolution of Liberal Democracy
6. Liberal Democracy: Emergence and Dimensions
Part Four: The Institutions of Liberal Democratic States
7. Democratic Governance: Presidential and Parliamentary Variants
8. Governing Territory: Unitary and Federal Systems
Part Five: The Political Process in Liberal Democracies
9. Cleavage Structures and Electoral Systems
10. Parties, Organized Groups, and Direct Democracy
Part Six: Governing
11. Public Policy, Legislation, and the Bureaucracy
12. Justice, Law, and Politics
13. The Rise (and Fall?) of the Welfare State
14. Politics and the International System, Chris Holoman
Appendices
A. The Constitution of the United States
B. Amendments to the Constitution
Index
