Politics

ISBN-13: 9781352005455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 502 str.

Andrew Heywood

Opis

The fifth edition of this seminal textbook by best-selling author Andrew Heywood continues to lead the way in providing a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to politics. Renowned for its engaging and accessible style, this book helps students to understand the discipline's foundational concepts and theories and use these to make sense of its key subfields, from elections and voting to security and global governance. Systematically revised and updated throughout, it also uses a range of tried-and-tested pedagogical features to draw links between different standpoints and help make contemporary institutions, events and developments come to life. Drawing on a wide range of international examples, this text is the ideal choice for lecturers around the world. Carefully designed and written to map onto the way the subject is introduced at degree level, it remains the go-to text for undergraduate introductory and comparative politics courses. Furthermore, it can also be used as pre-course reading or as a point of reference throughout politics degrees, majors or minors.

Spis treści

1. What is Politics? 2. Political Ideas and Ideologies 3. Politics and the State 4. Democracy and Legitimacy 5. Regimes of the Modern World 6. Nations and Nationalism 7. Political Economy and Globalization 8. Politics, Society and Identity 9. Political Culture and the Media 10. Representation, Elections and Voting 11. Parties and Party Systems 12. Groups, Interests and Movements 13. Constitutions, Law and Judges 14. Political Executives and Leadership 15. Assemblies 16. Bureaucracies 17. Multilevel Politics 18. Security: Domestic and International 19. World Order and Global Governance 20. Is Politics Broken?

O autorze

Andrew Heywood is the author of such bestselling texts as Global Politics, Political Ideologies and Political Theory, used by hundreds of thousands of students around the world.