Introduction to Politics Second Canadian Edition

Contents Overview
Detailed Contents
List of Boxes
List of Tables
Publisher’s Preface
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Introduction | What Is Politics and How Should We Analyze It?
	Chapter Overview
	Why Is Politics So Hard to Define?
	Is Politics Unavoidable?
	Political Questions
	Boundaries of the Political: State, Society, and the International Community
	The Study of Politics
	The Rise and Fall of Normative Analysis
	Empirical and Semantic Analysis
	Deductive and Inductive Theories of Politics
	Can Politics Be a Science?
	Conclusion
	Key Questions
	Further Reading
	Web Links
Part One | Political Concepts and Ideas
	1 | Politics and the State
		Chapter Overview
		The Political Importance of the State
		A Typology of the State
		Theories of the State
		The Role of the State: What Should the State Do?
		The Future of the State
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	2 | Political Power, Authority, and the State
		Chapter Overview
		Power and Authority
		Conceptual Questions about Power
		Power and Theories of the State
		Pluralism and Lukes’s Three Dimensions of Power
		Interests and Power
		Socialism and Power
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Link
	3 | Democracy and Our Relationship to the State
		Chapter Overview
		What Is Democracy?
		Historical Background
		Competing Theories of Democracy
		Deliberative Democracy
		Why Is Democracy Thought to Be Special?
		Is Democracy Special? The Problem of Majority Rule
		Cosmopolitan Democracy
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	4 | Freedom and Justice
		Chapter Overview
		Constraints on Freedom
		Negative and Positive Freedom
		Is Freedom Special?
		The Meaning of Justice
		Rawls’s Theory of Justice
		Critiques of Rawls
		Alternative Theories of Justice
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	5 | Traditional Western Ideologies
		Chapter Overview
		What Is an Ideology?
		Liberalism
		Socialism
		Conservatism
		Nationalism
		Fascism
		Anarchism
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	6 | Alternatives to the Mainstream Western Ideologies
		Chapter Overview
		Postmodernism
		Feminism
		Environmentalism
		Multiculturalism
		Religious Fundamentalism
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
Part Two | Comparative Politics
	7 | Institutions and States
		Chapter Overview
		Understanding Institutions: Informal and Formal
		States
		The Rise of the European State
		The Spread of the European State Model
		The Modern State
		The Democratic State
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	8 | Key Elements of the State: Laws, Constitutions, and Federalism
		Chapter Overview
		Law and Politics
		Constitutions
		Fundamental Rights
		Constitutional Courts and Judicial Review
		Legal Adjudication of Political Problems
		Federalism, Consociational Democracy, and Asymmetrical Decentralization
		Conclusion: The Legalization of Political Life
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	9 | Legislatures and Legislators
		Chapter Overview
		The Functions of Legislatures
		Types of Legislatures
		The Structure of Legislatures
		Legislators
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	10 | Bureaucracies, Policymaking, and Governance
		Chapter Overview
		The Civil Service
		“Embedded Autonomy”
		Theories of Bureaucratic Policymaking
		“Agencification”
		Governance
		Policy Communities, “Iron Triangles,” and Issue Networks
		Conclusion: Toward a Network State?
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	11 | Voting, Elections, and Political Parties
		Chapter Overview
		The Voting Paradox
		Elections
		Political Parties
		Emergence of Parties
		Functions of Parties
		Party Systems
		Problems Facing Parties
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	12 | Civil Society, Interest Groups, and the Media
		Chapter Overview
		Civil Society
		Interest Groups
		Modern Corporatism
		Infrapolitics and Subaltern Studies: The State Viewed from Below
		The Impact of the Media
		The Challenge of New Technologies
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	13 | Political Culture
		Chapter Overview
		Civic Culture and Political Culture
		Challenges to the Concept of Political Culture
		The Persisting Significance of Political Culture
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
Part Three | International Relations
	14 | Sovereignty, the State, and International Order
		Chapter Overview
		Discipline, Definitions, and Subject Matter
		States and International Systems in World History
		The Rise of Modernity and the State System in Europe
		The Emergence of Sovereignty
		The Globalization of the Sovereign State System
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	15 | Traditional Theories of International Relations
		Chapter Overview
		Liberalism and the Rise of International Relations
		The Realist Turn
		Behaviouralism versus Normative Analysis
		The English School and the Idea of International Society
		Neoliberalism and Neorealism
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	16 | Alternative Approaches to International Relations
		Chapter Overview
		Socialism
		Critical Theory
		Constructivism
		Feminism and Gender Theory
		Postmodernism/Poststructuralism
		Postcolonial Theory
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	17 | Security and Insecurity
		Chapter Overview
		Security, Insecurity, and Power Politics
		The United Nations and Collective Security
		The UN Security Council
		The Role of NATO
		Alternative Approaches to Security
		Post–Cold War Conflicts
		From State Security to Human Security
		Security and Insecurity after 9/11
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	18 | Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
		Chapter Overview
		Diplomacy and Statecraft in International History
		Diplomacy in the Contemporary World
		Cold War Diplomacy
		Summit Diplomacy
		Public Diplomacy
		Foreign Policy
		The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	19 | International Organizations
		Chapter Overview
		What Is an International Organization?
		The Emergence of International Organizations
		Colonialism and the Spread of European Power
		Intergovernmental Organizations
		Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
		Social Movements and International Civil Society
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
	20 | International Political Economy
		Chapter Overview
		International Relations and the Study of IPE
		The Age of Mercantilism
		The Rise of Liberal Political Economy
		Critical IPE
		The Postwar International Economic Order
		The North–South Gap
		Globalization and Regionalization in the Post–Cold War World
		Conclusion
		Key Questions
		Further Reading
		Web Links
Conclusion
	Chapter Overview
	Politics in Context
	Globalization
	The New Medievalism
	The Rise of the Global South
	The Study of Politics in a Globalizing World
Glossary
References
Index