Politics

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Brief Contents
Contents
List of Illustrative Material
Preface to the Sixth Edition
Using This Book
Guide to Key Features
Guide to the Companion Website
1. What is Politics?
	Preview
	Key issues
	Defining politics
		Politics as the art of government
		Politics as public affairs
		Politics as compromise and consensus
		Politics as power
	Studying politics
		Approaches to the study of politics
		The philosophical tradition
		The empirical tradition
		Behaviouralism
		Rational-choice theory
		New institutionalism
		Critical approaches
		Concepts, models and theories
	Politics in a global age
		Beyond the domestic/international divide?
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
2. Political Ideas and Ideologies
	Preview
	Key issues
	What is political ideology?
	Classical ideological traditions
		Liberalism
		Conservatism
		Socialism
	Other ideological traditions
		Anarchism
		Fascism
		Feminism
		Green ideology
		Religious fundamentalism
		Populism
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
3. Politics and the State
	Preview
	Key issues
	Defining the state
		Origins and development of the state
		Approaches to the state
	Debating the state
		Rival theories of the state
		The role of the state
	Eclipse of the state?
		Return of the state?
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
4. Democracy and Legitimacy
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	Key issues
	Legitimacy and political stability
		Legitimizing power
		Legitimation crises and revolutions
	Democratic legitimacy
		Is democracy failing to deliver?
		Non-democratic legitimacy
	Democracy
		Understanding democracy
		Models of democracy
		Democracy in practice: rival views
		Towards cosmopolitan democracy?
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
5. Regimes and Political Systems
	Preview
	Key issues
	Classifying political systems
		Why classify political regimes?
		Classical typologies
		The ‘three worlds’ typology
	Contemporary political systems
		Full democracies
		Flawed democracies
		Non Western democracies
		Hybrid regimes
		Authoritarian regimes
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
6. Nations and Nationalism
	Preview
	Key issues
	What is a nation?
		Nations as cultural communities
		Nations as political communities
	Nationalist politcs
		Liberal nationalism
		Conservative nationalism
		Expansionist nationalism
		Anti-colonial and postcolonial nationalism
	The future of nationalism
		A world of nation-states
		Beyond nationalism?
		Questions for discussion
		Further reading
7. Political Economy and Globalization
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	Key issues
	Political economy
		Approaches to political economy
	Varieties of capitalism
		Enterprise capitalism
		Social capitalism
		State capitalism
		Managed or unmanaged capitalism?
	Globalization
		Understanding globalization
		Neoliberalism in crisis?
		Backlash against globalization
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
8. Politics, Society and Identity
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	Key issues
	Politics and society
		From industrialism to postindustrialism
		Decline of class politics
		New technology and the ‘information society’
		No such thing as society?
	Identity politics
		Rise of identity politics
		Race and ethnicity
		Culture and diversity
		Gender and identity
		Religion and politics
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
9. Political Culture and the Media
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	Key issues
	Political culture
		Approaches to political culture
		Political culture in crisis
	The media and politics
		Theories of the media
		Impact of the traditional media
		Social media and politics
	Post-truth politics?
		Politics and truth
		The drift towards anti-intellectualism
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
10. Representation, Elections and Voting
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	Key issues
	Representation
		Theories of representation
	Elections
		Functions of elections
		Electoral systems: debates and controversies
		What do elections mean?
	Voting behaviour
		Theories of voting
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
11. Parties and Party Systems
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	Key issues
	Party politics
		Classifying parties
		Functions of parties
		Party organization: where does power lie?
	Party systems
		One-party systems
		Dominant-party systems
		Two-party systems
		Multi-party systems
	A crisis of party politics?
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
12. Groups, Interests and Movements
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	Key issues
	Group politics
		Types of group
		Models of group politics
		Patterns of group politics
	‘New’ social movements
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
13. Constitutions, Law and Judges
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	Key issues
	Constitutions
		Nature and origins
		The purpose of a constitution
		Do constitutions matter?
	The law
		Law, morality and politics
		The question of international law
	The judiciary
		Are judges political?
		Do judges make policy?
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
14. Political Executives and Leadership
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	Key issues
	Role of the executive
		What is the executive?
		Functions of political executives
	Power in the executive: who leads?
		Presidential systems
		Parliamentary systems
		Semi-presidential systems
		Cabinets
	Leaders and leadership
		Leadership: its fall and rise?
		Theories of leadership
		Populism and leadership
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
15. Legislatures
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	Key issues
	Role of legislatures
		Parliamentary, presidential and semi-presidential systems
		Functions of legislatures
	Structure of legislatures
		Unicameralism or bicameralism?
		Committee systems
	Performance of legislatures
		Do legislatures make policy?
		Legislatures in decline?
		The rise of legislatures?
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
16. Public Policy and the Bureaucracy
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	Key issues
	The policy process
		Theories of decision-making
		Stages in the policy process
	Role of the bureaucracy
		Functions of the bureaucracy
		Organization of the bureaucracy
	Bureaucratic power: out of control?
		Sources of bureaucratic power
		How can bureaucrats be controlled?
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
17. Multilevel Politics
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	Key issues
	Politics, territory and multilevel governance
	Subnational politics
		Federal systems
		Unitary systems
	Transnational regionalism
		Regionalism: its nature and growth
		European regionalism
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
18. International and Domestic Security
	Preview
	Key issues
	Security beyond boundaries?
	Domestic security
		The police and politics
		The military and domestic politics
	International security
		Approaches to international politics
		New security challenges
		Human security
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
19. World Order and Global Governance
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	Key issues
	Twenty-first-century world order
		The ‘new world order’ and its fate
		The ‘war on terror’ and beyond
		From unipolarity to multipolarity?
	Global governance
		Rise of global governance
		Global economic governance
		The united nations
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
20. Is Politics Broken?
	Preview
	Key issues
	A crisis of ‘anti-politics’?
		Declining political engagement?
		The politics of ‘anti-politics’
	Why we hate politics
		Uninspiring party politics
		Declining capacity to deliver
		The ‘wrong’ politicians
		Media negativity
		Growth of consumerist politics
	Mending politics?
		More democracy
		Scaling down politics
		Reviving citizenship
		Rebuilding equality
	Questions for discussion
	Further reading
Bibliography
Index