Author(s)
Robert Garner; Peter Ferdinand; Stephanie Lawson; David B. MacDonald
Publisher
Oxford University Press Canada
Format
Reflowable
Print ISBN
9780199036370, 0199036373
Print ISBN 9780199036370, 0199036373
eText ISBN
9780190165444, 0190165448
Cover Page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of Contents
Boxes
Key Quote Boxes
Key Concept Boxes
Case Studies
Tables
Publisher’s Preface
Key Features of This Book
For Instructors
For Students
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 and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Part One Political Concepts and Ideas
Introduction
Chapter 1 Politics and the State
Chapter Overview
The Political Importance of the State
A Typology of the State
Theories of the State
Pluralism
A Continuum from Pluralism to Elitism
Elitism
Socialism and the State
The New Right Theory of the State
The Empirical Dimension of the State
The Role of the State: What Should the State Do?
Pluralism and Elitism: A Normative Critique
The Liberal Social Contract Tradition
The Night-Watchman State
Utilitarianism
Liberalism and Communitarianism
The Future of the State
Is the State Being “Hollowed Out”?
Conclusion
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 2 Political Power, Authority, and the State
Chapter Overview
Power and Authority
Conceptual Questions about Power
Is Power the Same as Force?
Must Power Be Exercised Deliberately?
Is Power a Good Thing?
Can We Eliminate Power?
Power and Theories of the State
Pluralism and Lukes’s Three Dimensions of Power
Interests and Power
Socialism and Power
Conclusion
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 3 Democracy and Our Relationship to the State
Chapter Overview
Democracy and the Common Good
Historical Background
The French and American Revolutions
The 19th-Century Move toward Democracy
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 and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 4 Freedom and Justice
Chapter Overview
Constraints on Freedom
Nondemocratic Government
Physical Coercion
Systemic Racism
Physical Incapacity
Rationality
Psychology
Economic Impediments
The Welfare State
Negative and Positive Freedom
Is Freedom Special?
Mill, Utilitarianism, and Freedom
Freedom, Happiness, and Paternalism
Mill and New Liberalism
The Meanings of Justice
Rawls’s Theory of Justice
Critiques of Rawls
Alternative Theories of Justice
Cosmopolitan Theories of Justice
Communitarianism and Justice
Green Political Thought and Justice
Conclusion
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 5 Traditional Western Ideologies
Chapter Overview
What Is an Ideology?
Liberalism
The Historical Development of Liberalism
Liberal Thought
Socialism
Historical Development
Key Socialist Principles
Utopianism and Authoritarianism
Conservatism
Conservative Thought
Social and Cultural Conservatism
Neoconservatism
Nationalism
The Academic Study of Nationalism
History and Further Distinctions
Fascism
Neo-fascism
Anarchism
Is Populism an Ideology?
Conclusion
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 6 Alternative Ideologies
Chapter Overview
Postmodernism
Feminism
Liberal Feminism
Second-Wave Feminism
Socialist Feminism
Third-Wave Feminism and Intersectionality
Feminist Methodologies
Environmentalism
The Economic Realm
Indigeneity and Green Ideals
A Distinct Ideology?
Multiculturalism
Phases of Multiculturalism
Tolerance and the Limits of Multiculturalism
The Limits of Multiculturalism
Religious Fundamentalism
Conclusion
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
List of Key Terms
Part Two Comparative Politics
Introduction
Chapter 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
Colonialism
Spreading the Western Model
The European State System
The Modern State
Internal Functions
External Functions
Resilient States and Fragile States
The Democratic State
Conclusion
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 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 and Asymmetrical Federalism
Conclusion: The Legalization of Political Life
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 9 Legislatures and Legislators
Chapter Overview
The Functions of Legislatures
Representation
Governmental
Presidentialism versus Parliamentarianism
Legislation
Ensuring Accountability
Formation of Public Attitudes
Procedural Functions
Ritualizing Conflict
Ensuring Transparency
Types of Legislatures
The Structure of Legislatures
Bicameral Systems
Committees
Legislators
Conclusion
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 10 Bureaucracies, Policy-Making, and Governance
Chapter Overview
The Public Service
“Embedded Autonomy”
Theories of Bureaucratic Policy-Making
“Agencification”
Governance
Policy Communities, “Iron Triangles,” and Issue Networks
Conclusion: Toward a Network State?
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 11 Voting, Elections, and Political Parties
Chapter Overview
The Voting Paradox
Elections
Political Parties
Emergence of Parties
Functions of Parties
Typologies of Political Parties
Party Systems
Problems Facing Parties
Conclusion
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 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
Promoting Horizontal Communication
Everyone a Blogger, Everyone a Journalist
Electronic Decision-Making
Conclusion
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 13 Political Culture
Chapter Overview
Civic Culture and Political Culture
Challenges to the Concept of Political Culture
1. Identifying a Homogeneous National Political Culture
2. Identifying Causal Linkages between Attitudes and Political Outcomes
3. The State May Shape Political Culture to Its Own Ends
4. The Impact of Globalization
5. Political Culture Is Used to Explain Why Change Cannot Happen
The Significance of Political Culture: A Case Study
The Persisting Significance of Political Culture
Conclusion
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Part Three International Relations
Introduction
Chapter 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 and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Reading
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 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 and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 16 Alternative Approaches to International Relations
Chapter Overview
Socialism
Critical Theory
Constructivism
Feminism and Gender Theory
Postmodernism/Poststructuralism
Postcolonial Theory
Conclusion
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 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
Post–Cold War Conflicts
Security and Insecurity after 9/11
Security and Insecurity during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Alternative Approaches to Security
From State Security to Human Security
Conclusion
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 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
Conclusion
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 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 and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Chapter 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, Growth, and Inequality
Regionalization
Conclusion
Key Questions and Flash Cards
Recommended Resources
Readings
Web Links
List of Key Terms
Conclusion
Chapter Overview
Politics in Context
Globalization
The New Medievalism
The Rise of the Global South
The Study of Politics in a Globalizing World
Recommended Resources
Glossary
References
Introduction
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Conclusion
Index
List of Illustrations
List of Tables