Analyzing Politics
, by Grigsby, EllenNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780534586737 | 0534586732
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 8/1/2001
Preface | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Political Science and Scientific Methods in Studying Politics | p. 7 |
The Range of Political Science: Historical Developments | p. 8 |
Thinking Scientifically: Some Foundations of Scientific Inquiry | p. 12 |
Thinking Scientifically about Politics | p. 16 |
Case Studies | p. 16 |
Survey Research | p. 18 |
Experiments and Quasi-Experiments | p. 23 |
Indirect Quantitative Analysis | p. 23 |
Science: Limitations | p. 24 |
How Can We Have a Science of Human Behavior When Human Behavior Is Often Unique? | p. 25 |
How Do We Know Our Findings Are Correct? | p. 26 |
Does the Pursuit of Science Lead Us to Ignore Important Questions? | p. 26 |
Does Science Contradict Its Own Logic? | p. 27 |
Can Science Avoid Coming into Conflict with Ethics? | p. 28 |
Summing Up | p. 32 |
Study Questions | p. 33 |
Following Up through Internet Sources | p. 33 |
Key Concepts in Political Science | p. 35 |
Power | p. 36 |
Types of Power | p. 37 |
Debates in the Study of Power | p. 49 |
States | p. 50 |
States: State Formation, Development, and Change | p. 51 |
Debates in the Study of States | p. 52 |
Nations | p. 58 |
States and Nations: Relations and Interactions | p. 59 |
Debates in the Study of Nations | p. 62 |
Summing Up | p. 63 |
Study Questions | p. 64 |
Following Up through Internet Sources | p. 65 |
Political Theory: Examining the Ethical Foundations of Politics | p. 66 |
Analyzing Political Theory: Plato's Allegory of the Cave | p. 67 |
Some Fundamental Ethical Questions in Politics | p. 69 |
What Purpose Should the State Serve? | p. 69 |
Should State Promote Equality? | p. 73 |
Should States Be Organized to Maximize Their Own Power or Organized to Restrain This Power? | p. 79 |
Should States Try to Help Us Be Ethical? | p. 81 |
Summing Up | p. 85 |
Study Questions | p. 86 |
Following Up through Internet Sources | p. 86 |
Political Ideologies I: Liberalism, Conservatism, and Socialism | p. 87 |
Liberalism | p. 87 |
Classical Liberalism | p. 88 |
Modern Liberalism | p. 92 |
Classical and Modern Liberalism Today | p. 95 |
Conservatism | p. 96 |
Traditional Conservatism | p. 96 |
Traditional Conservatism Today | p. 99 |
Traditional Conservatism and Classical Liberal Conservation in Conflict | p. 101 |
Socialism | p. 104 |
Marxism | p. 105 |
Marxism-Leninism | p. 110 |
Social Democracy | p. 111 |
Summing Up | p. 113 |
Study Questions | p. 113 |
Following Up through Internet Sources | p. 114 |
Political Ideologies II: Fascism | p. 115 |
The Fascism of Mussolini and Hitler | p. 115 |
Neofascism | p. 126 |
Summing Up | p. 128 |
Study Questions | p. 128 |
Following Up through Internet Sources | p. 129 |
Political Ideologies III: Feminism, Environmentalism, and Postmodernism | p. 130 |
Feminism | p. 131 |
Liberal Feminism | p. 134 |
Radical Challenges to Liberal Feminism | p. 136 |
Environmentalism | p. 139 |
Basic Principles | p. 139 |
Diversity within Environmentalist Ideology | p. 143 |
A Note on Postmodernism | p. 145 |
Summing Up | p. 146 |
Study Questions | p. 147 |
Following Up through Internet Sources | p. 147 |
Comparative Politics I: Governmental Systems; Democracy and Nondemocracy | p. 148 |
Democracy as a Fluid and Varied Governing Process | p. 149 |
Democracies Compared | p. 154 |
Participation: The United States and Switzerland | p. 154 |
Pluralism: The United States and Germany | p. 156 |
Developmentalism: The United States and Argentina | p. 159 |
Protection: The United States and Great Britain | p. 161 |
Performance: The United States and India | p. 164 |
Nondemocracy: A Fluid and Varied Governing Process | p. 166 |
Questions About China | p. 171 |
Summing Up | p. 173 |
Study Questions | p. 175 |
Following Up through Internet Sources | p. 175 |
Comparative Politics II: Interest Groups, Political Parties, Elections, and Media | p. 177 |
Interest Groups | p. 178 |
Interest Groups in the United States | p. 178 |
Interest Groups Compared: Democracies | p. 185 |
Interest Groups Compared: Nondemocracies | p. 188 |
Political Parties | p. 190 |
Political Parties in the United States | p. 190 |
Political Parties Compared: Democracies | p. 194 |
Political Parties Compared: Nondemocracies | p. 197 |
Elections | p. 198 |
Elections in the United States | p. 198 |
Elections Compared: Democracies | p. 206 |
Elections Compared: Nondemocracies | p. 207 |
Media | p. 208 |
Media in the United States | p. 208 |
Media Compared: Democracies and Nondemocracies | p. 210 |
Summing Up | p. 211 |
Study Questions | p. 213 |
Following Up through Internet Sources | p. 214 |
Comparative Politics III: Governing Democracies; Executives, Legislatures, and Judiciaries | p. 215 |
Executive-Legislative Relations: Presidential and Parliamentary Systems | p. 215 |
The U.S. Presidential System: The Executive | p. 216 |
The British Parliamentary System: The Executive | p. 219 |
Other Examples of Executive-Legislative Relations | p. 221 |
The U.S. Presidential System: The Legislature | p. 222 |
The British Parliamentary System: The Legislature | p. 226 |
Judicial Review versus Parliamentary Sovereignty | p. 228 |
Summing Up | p. 230 |
Study Questions | p. 231 |
Following Up through Internet Sources | p. 232 |
International Relations: Analyzing Recent and Contemporary Events in International Politics | p. 233 |
Models of Analysis | p. 235 |
Idealism | p. 235 |
Realism | p. 236 |
International Relations: Out of Bipolarism and into the Twenty-First Century | p. 239 |
Bipolar Politics | p. 239 |
After Bipolarism | p. 242 |
Questions of Security after Bipolarism | p. 244 |
Questions about International Economics and Politics | p. 251 |
Summing Up | p. 259 |
Study Questions | p. 259 |
Following Up through Internet Sources | p. 260 |
Notes | p. 261 |
Glossary | p. 303 |
Index | p. 311 |
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