POLITICS IN A CHANGING WORLD, Second Edition, provides students with a foundation for understanding the diverse field of political science by combining in-depth chapters on important concepts in political science with a series of brief country studies.

Politics in a Changing World

Business & Money

Handelman, Howard

Ethridge, Marcus E.

Economics

Wadsworth Publishing

POLITICS IN A CHANGING WORLD introduces you to the diverse discipline of political science by providing a foundation for understanding political life in a systematic and comparative way. The text covers the fundamental political science subject areas (legislative, executive, judicial, and bureaucratic institutions, political parties, voting, interest groups, political culture and ideology), and then illustrates them in a series of brief country studies. Not only will POLITICS IN A CHANGING WORLD help you acquire a better understanding of the actors and institutions that play a part in diverse political systems, you will gain a sense of the political choices people make, the causes and consequences of war, and the stakes of politics.

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Cengage Learning'

Intended for those introductory political science courses where instructors are interested in using a comparative approach.

POLITICS IN A CHANGING WORLD introduces students to the diverse discipline of political science by providing a foundation for understanding political life in a systematic and comparative way. The text includes a combination of in-depth chapters on important concepts in political science and a series of brief country studies. POLITICS IN A CHANGING WORLD helps students to acquire not only a better understanding of the actors and institutions that play a part in diverse political systems, but to gain a sense of how and why they act in relation to one another, and what their actions mean for the political culture.

Politics in a Changing World: A Comparative Introduction to Political Science (with InfoTrac)

The Case for Gridlock: Democracy, Organized Power, and the Legal Foundations of American Government

The Case for Gridlock explains how Progressive ideas about government have led to severe representational problems in the American political system. Having rejected the Framers' institutional arrangement as sluggish and frustrating, Progressives have, for over a century, worked to circumvent the Madisonian system by establishing policy-making power in executive agencies and commissions. Ironically, the most consequential legacy of Progressivism is an institutional system that became more perfectly and efficiently responsive to the inherently unbalanced organized political power that they lament. Drawing on an analysis of administrative law and decades of research on interest groups, The Case for Gridlock explores the faulty logic and naïve thinking of the Progressive perspective, revealing the uncertainties and anomalies in legal doctrine that have emerged as a result of their effort to graft "efficient" designs onto the gridlock-prone system that James Madison and the other Framers left us. The problems of "interest group liberalism" and the accumulation of powerful interests that undermine economic growth and political stability have long been recognized by political scientists and economists. The Case for Gridlock argues that these problems are not inevitable and that a solution exists in reasserting the Constitutional Principle as the foundation for the design and operation of U.S. governmental institutions. The public's interests can prevail over those of organized special interests by returning power to the gridlock-prone institutional arrangement established in the Constitution.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Lexington Books

The Case for Gridlock explains how, in an effort to make the system more egalitarian and forward thinking, American Progressivism led to the creation of government institutions that increased the political advantages of superior organization, thereby enabling "special interests" to dominate the policy process. The book makes the case for the Constitutional Principle, showing how gridlock-prone institutions lead to better representation of broader interests.

The Political Research Experience: Readings and Analysis

Organized to complement an introductory course in political science research methods, this work aims to help students understand research as it is actually practiced. Each chapter opens with an explanation of basic concepts and methods of political research.

History

Africa

Routledge

Designed to help students understand the basic principles of political research, this text presents the basic steps of the research process, including design, sampling, data collection and analysis. The text supplies discussion questions and examples with each chapter.

The Political Research Experience: Readings and Analysis: Readings and Analysis

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

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Politics in a Changing World

Politics in a Changing World

Politics in a Changing World

Politics in a Changing World: A Comparative Introduction to Political Science (with InfoTrac)

The Case for Gridlock: Democracy, Organized Power, and the Legal Foundations of American Government

The Case for Gridlock: Democracy, Organized Power, and the Legal Foundations of American Government

The Political Research Experience: Readings and Analysis

The Political Research Experience: Readings and Analysis

The Political Research Experience: Readings and Analysis: Readings and Analysis

The Political Research Experience: Readings and Analysis: Readings and Analysis