Introduction to Political Science

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 What Is Politics and What Is Political Science?
	Introduction
	1.1 Defining Politics: Who Gets What, When, Where, How, and Why?
	1.2 Public Policy, Public Interest, and Power
	1.3 Political Science: The Systematic Study of Politics
	1.4 Normative Political Science
	1.5 Empirical Political Science
	1.6 Individuals, Groups, Institutions, and International Relations
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
Chapter 2 Political Behavior Is Human Behavior
	Introduction
	2.1 What Goals Should We Seek in Politics?
	2.2 Why Do Humans Make the Political Choices That They Do?
	2.3 Human Behavior Is Partially Predictable
	2.4 The Importance of Context for Political Decisions
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
Chapter 3 Political Ideology
	Introduction
	3.1 The Classical Origins of Western Political Ideologies
	3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract
	3.3 The Development of Varieties of Liberalism
	3.4 Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
	3.5 Contemporary Democratic Liberalism
	3.6 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Left
	3.7 Contemporary Ideologies Further to the Political Right
	3.8 Political Ideologies That Reject Political Ideology: Scientific Socialism, Burkeanism, and Religious Extremism
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
Chapter 4 Civil Liberties
	Introduction
	4.1 The Freedom of the Individual
	4.2 Constitutions and Individual Liberties
	4.3 The Right to Privacy, Self-Determination, and the Freedom of Ideas
	4.4 Freedom of Movement
	4.5 The Rights of the Accused
	4.6 The Right to a Healthy Environment
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
Chapter 5 Political Participation and Public Opinion
	Introduction
	5.1 What Is Political Participation?
	5.2 What Limits Voter Participation in the United States?
	5.3 How Do Individuals Participate Other Than Voting?
	5.4 What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From?
	5.5 How Do We Measure Public Opinion?
	5.6 Why Is Public Opinion Important?
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
Chapter 6 The Fundamentals of Group Political Activity
	Introduction
	6.1 Political Socialization: The Ways People Become Political
	6.2 Political Culture: How People Express Their Political Identity
	6.3 Collective Dilemmas: Making Group Decisions
	6.4 Collective Action Problems: The Problem of Incentives
	6.5 Resolving Collective Action Problems
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
Chapter 7 Civil Rights
	Introduction
	7.1 Civil Rights and Constitutionalism
	7.2 Political Culture and Majority-Minority Relations
	7.3 Civil Rights Abuses
	7.4 Civil Rights Movements
	7.5 How Do Governments Bring About Civil Rights Change?
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
Chapter 8 Interest Groups, Political Parties, and Elections
	Introduction
	8.1 What Is an Interest Group?
	8.2 What Are the Pros and Cons of Interest Groups?
	8.3 Political Parties
	8.4 What Are the Limits of Parties?
	8.5 What Are Elections and Who Participates?
	8.6 How Do People Participate in Elections?
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
Chapter 9 Legislatures
	Introduction
	9.1 What Do Legislatures Do?
	9.2 What Is the Difference between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems?
	9.3 What Is the Difference between Unicameral and Bicameral Systems?
	9.4 The Decline of Legislative Influence
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
Chapter 10 Executives, Cabinets, and Bureaucracies
	Introduction
	10.1 Democracies: Parliamentary, Presidential, and Semi-Presidential Regimes
	10.2 The Executive in Presidential Regimes
	10.3 The Executive in Parliamentary Regimes
	10.4 Advantages, Disadvantages, and Challenges of Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes
	10.5 Semi-Presidential Regimes
	10.6 How Do Cabinets Function in Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes?
	10.7 What Are the Purpose and Function of Bureaucracies?
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
Chapter 11 Courts and Law
	Introduction
	11.1 What Is the Judiciary?
	11.2 How Does the Judiciary Take Action?
	11.3 Types of Legal Systems around the World
	11.4 Criminal versus Civil Laws
	11.5 Due Process and Judicial Fairness
	11.6 Judicial Review versus Executive Sovereignty
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
Chapter 12 The Media
	Introduction
	12.1 The Media as a Political Institution: Why Does It Matter?
	12.2 Types of Media and the Changing Media Landscape
	12.3 How Do Media and Elections Interact?
	12.4 The Internet and Social Media
	12.5 Declining Global Trust in the Media
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
Chapter 13 Governing Regimes
	Introduction
	13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
	13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes
	13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal Representative Regimes
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
Chapter 14 International Relations
	Introduction
	14.1 What Is Power, and How Do We Measure It?
	14.2 Understanding the Different Types of Actors in the International System
	14.3 Sovereignty and Anarchy
	14.4 Using Levels of Analysis to Understand Conflict
	14.5 The Realist Worldview
	14.6 The Liberal and Social Worldview
	14.7 Critical Worldviews
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
Chapter 15 International Law and International Organizations
	Introduction
	15.1 The Problem of Global Governance
	15.2 International Law
	15.3 The United Nations and Global Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
	15.4 How Do Regional IGOs Contribute to Global Governance?
	15.5 Non-state Actors: Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
	15.6 Non-state Actors beyond NGOs
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
Chapter 16 International Political Economy
	Introduction
	16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy
	16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy
	16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions
	16.4 The Post–Cold War Period and Modernization Theory
	16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE
	16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis
	Summary
	Key Terms
	Review Questions
	Suggested Readings
References
	1 What Is Politics and What Is Political Science?
	2 Political Behavior Is Human Behavior
	3 Political Ideology
	4 Civil Liberties
	5 Political Participation and Public Opinion
	6 The Fundamentals of Group Political Activity
	7 Civil Rights
	8 Interest Groups, Political Parties, and Elections
	9 Legislatures
	10 Executives, Cabinets, and Bureaucracies
	11 Courts and Law
	12 The Media
	13 Governing Regimes
	14 International Relations
	15 International Law and International Organizations
	16 International Political Economy
Index
Copyright
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you?
Chapter 2: Renegade perception
Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting
Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe
Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’
Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit
Chapter 7: War on your mind
Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity
Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it?
Chapter 10: Human 2.0
Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult?
Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko
Postscript
Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you?
Chapter 2: Renegade perception
Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting
Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe
Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’
Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit
Chapter 7: War on your mind
Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity
Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it?
Chapter 10: Human 2.0
Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult?
Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko
Postscript
Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation
Bibliography
Index